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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.
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.
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Entered at the Brooklyn P. O. as 2nd-class matter
Fifteenth Year of Publication.
VOL 11, No. 5. NOVEMBER 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.
FIFTEENTH YEAR
With this issue THE GAEL enters
on its fifteenth year, and it avails it¬
self of the occasion to thank all those
Gaels who have helped to keep it a¬
float, and, also, the sympathising press
for its kind references to it from time
to time. The Gael solicits a contin¬
uance of these friendly relations in
the interest of the object in view —
the preservation of the language of
Ireland and the renaissance of her au¬
tonomy,
Gaels will be pleased to learn that Father O'¬
Growney's health has considerably improved late¬
ly.
Father O'Growney is now engaged writing the
Fourth Book of his series of Simple Lessons In
Irish, and which he desires to publish in the Gael,
afterwards they will be published in book form.
We have received the copy for the first two chap¬
ters and shall commence their publication in our
next issue.
The Irish National Alliance lately organized
in Chicago is the first really Irish step taken in
the proper direction. As all Irish movements
should, the Alliance has placed the language on
the top of its banner. — Men of the Alliance, no
chickenheartedness — copy the warfare tactics of
the enemy. — Let croaking hirelings, in whatsoev¬
er guise, be made hold their peace. — The longed
for opportunity is in sight. —
Go g-duiridh Dia an t-ádh air an gConn¬
radh Tíreamhuil!
We hope the Dublin Gaelic League will apply
its most serious exertions to urging the clergy in
the Irish speaking districts to preach their Sun¬
day sermons in Irish, though it is paradoxical
that they should require it. We have heard many
sermons in English for the last forty years — they
made no impression on us, and we could not re¬
member one word of them. But, forty-five years
ago, we heard a sermon delivered by the parish
priest of Milltown, the late Father Tom Flannery,
and it contained a passage that we never can for¬
get. —
"Is fusa go chámhull," a deir sé,"
"dhul thré chnó snáthaide ná do 'n fhear
saibhir, santach a dhul go flaitheas."
GAELIC CLASSES.
Gaelic classes exist or have existed in the fol¬
lowing cities and town in the United States since
the Gaelic movement was organized, and it is rea¬
sonable to assume that the germ is still alive,
though dormant, in all of them. In several of
these cities and town it may be difficult for the
organizers to maintain their classes in an organi¬
zed form, but, surely, they could do something
to disseminate Gaelic literature, a matter which
is not second in importance to the organization of
classes. Through the instrumentality of the Gael
thousands have attained a literary knowledge of
Irish; and this to-be-desired-for state of things
will extend in the ratio of its circulation. These
are facts that require no extraordinary intelligence
to grasp. Hence, we would urge on all those pa¬
triotic Irishmen who made a commencement in
their several towns and cities to follow it up by
re-organizing and by circulating the Dublin Gae¬
lic Journal and the Gael.
