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"A nation which allows her language to go to ruin, is
parting with the best half of her intellectual independence,
and testifies to her willingness to cease to exist." — ARCH¬
BISHOP TRENCH.
"The Green Isle contained for more centuries than one,
more learning than could have been collected from the rest
of Europe ... It is not thus rash to say that the Irish
possess contemporary histories of their country, written in
the language of the people, from the fifth century. No
other nation of modern Europe is able to make a similar
boast." — SPALDING'S ENGLISH LITERATURE, APPLETON & Co.
NEW YORK.
Who are the Scotch? A tribe of Irish Scots who crossed
over in the 6th century, overcame the natives, and gave
their name to the country. — J. CORNWELL. PH.D., F. R. S.'s
Scotch History.
The Saxons Ruled in England from the 5th century and
were so rude that they had no written language until the
14th, when the Franco-Normans formulated the English. —
SPALDING.
The
Gael.
A monthly Journal devoted to the Cultivation
and Preservation of the Irish Language and
the autonomy of the Irish Nation.
Published at 247 Kosciusko st., Brooklyn, N. Y
M. J. LOGAN, Editor and Proprietor
Terms of Subscription — $1 a year to students, 60
cents to the public, in advance ; $1. in arrears.
Terms of Advertising — 20 cents a line, Agate
Entered at the Brooklyn P. O. as 2nd-class matter
Fourteenth Year of Publication.
VOL 11, No. 3. JULY. 1895.
Remember that the First Irish Book is given free
of charge to every new subscriber.
Subscribers will please remember that subscrip¬
tions are due in advance.
The June number of the Dublin Gaelic Journal
just to hand is, as usual, very interesting. It re¬
ports a general movement in the City and County
of Waterford to put the Irish language on an eff¬
ective footing in the schools and colleges there.
Apropos of the Gaelic Journal and the Irish
people, particularly now on the eve of a general
election when the hustings will resound with pat¬
riotic appeals to elect Nationalists to fight the En¬
glish in the House of Commons. — While the Irish
people are animated (at home and abroad) by the
spirit which leaves their National journal with less
than 1,000 supporters, they will fight the English
in the House of Commons or out of it — when they
reach the end of the circle !
We are pleased to be able to announce that the
Brooklyn Philo-Celtic Society has resumed its li¬
terary studies. It meets in Granada Hall, 120
Myrtle Av., on Sundays, at 3 o'clock. So that all
who call will receive gratuitous instruction in the
Irish language.
The study of Irish was recently introduced for
the first time in six of the National Schools in the
neighborhod of Headford, county Galway. But the
Gael cannot see why it should not be taught in ev¬
ery school in the South and West of Ireland. And
the patriotic press at home and abroad should per¬
sist in demanding of the directors of education in
these provinces why it is not so, remembering that
it is no cost to them, and that the government pays
ten shillings to the Teacher for every pupil of his
school who passes in Irish.
The Gael thanks the Gaelic Journal for its com¬
plimentary remarks in its June issue. The Journal
know the Gael a long time, hence the Gael appre¬
ciates the compliment the more.
The Gael begs to tender its grateful acknowledg¬
ments to the following journals for their kindness
in prominently calling the attention of their read¬
ers to it. — The Portland Weekly Dispatch, Port¬
land, Or.; The Lexington News, Lexington,
Mo.; The Faribault Democrat, Faribault, Minn.
The Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, Ia., and
The Brown County Democrat, De Pere, Wis.
We hope Gaels in these locations will appre¬
ciate this assistance in bringing their movement
prominently before the public.
The Gael records is sympathy for and condoles
with Mr. Patrick Ford of the Irish World on his
great bereavement in the loss of his beloved wife.
Gaels particularly should have a warm regard for
Mr Ford and sympathize with him in his troubles
for it was through his great paper that the Gaelic
Movement was founded — the only movement got¬
ten up by Irishmen for the last 300 years that has
done aught to preserve Irish Nationality.
THOMAS ERLEY
In recording the death of Mr Thomas Erley of
this city, the editor of THE GAEL feels a pang of
sorrow generated only by the loss of a near and
dear old friend.
Mr. Erley was born in the town of Sligo about
sixty-five years ago, and passed away at the resid¬
ence of his sister, Mrs. M. A. Lavin, 1060 3rd
Av., on the 22nd of May last.
A review of Mr. Erley's exertions in the Gaelic
cause necessitates a brief history of the Irish Lan¬
guage Movement from its inception to the present
time, for he was one of its organizers.
In the Spring of 1872 the editor of the Gael
commenced the agitation for the Preservation and
Cultivation of the Irish Language in the columns
of the Irish World under the nom de plume of
"Gael," and suggested the formation of societies
and classes for teaching it as the most effective
means to that end. The agitation was continued
