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AN GAODHAL
For what reason we leave the
reader to surmise, but it is a fact
that Irish-Americans generally
manifest a diffidence in expatiating
on any matter relating to the past
condition of their ancestors ; of
this we have had some experience
from our conduct of THE GAEL, for,
with few patriotic exceptions, our
Irish-American Editors do not no¬
tice it, as if fearful that the evid¬
ence which its existence supplies
of the high order of civilization and
learning which obtained in Ireland
before its pollution by the Gotho-
Saxon brutes who rule to-day, was
a myth ; not even do they bring
the Rev. Professor O’Growney’s
Simple Lessons in Irish to the no¬
tice of their readers, as if fearful,
too, that they would procure them
and learn something of their coun¬
try and its literature How diffe¬
rent they are in their conceptions
regarding passing historical avents
from educated, liberal, Americans.
On Sunday, March 28th, the New
York Sun, the scholarly and, with¬
out qualification, the best AMERI¬
CAN paper published in America,
had this to say, in its editorial col¬
umns, of the Gael. —
“We commend to the attention of scholars an
interesting periodical published in Brooklyn,
printed mainly in Irish, and entitled the Gael.
Irishmen should liberally support this publication,
because it is the first and the only strictly Irish
paper published in North America."
We have received from the Hon
Secretary of the Gaelic League
Belfast, Ireland, Mr E Morrissey. a
handsome programme of an Irish
entertainment which came off in
that city lately. The Gaelic songs
rendered were these :—
Eibhlín a Rúin; Gráinne Mhaol; Páisd-
Fionn, and An Chúilfhionn.
From the general programme
here is no doubt but there was a
tod time. Dr. Boyd is President
of the League.
GERMANO-CELTIC.
We have received a pamphlet en¬
titled Zeitschrift Fur Celtische Phi¬
lologie, by Kuno Meyer, and pub¬
lshed by David Nutt, 270 Strand,
London. It has these papers :
R Thurneysen Meber einige For¬
men der Copula im Irischen
J. Strachan, Some note on the Mil¬
an Glosses
Wh Stokes A Celtic leechbook
W. M. Lindsay, Breton and old
French glosses in Harleian, etc
H. Gaidoz, La cosmologie ciltique.
H. Gaidoz Lnnwn
H. Gaidoz, Quelques mots gallois
d’origne latine
E. Ernault, Sur la mutation faible
de d apres n en breten.
J. Loth, Une forme archiique du
nom de Dieu en breton
P. M C Kermode A Welsh inscrip¬
tion in the Isle of Man (with
plate)
J. Rhys. Note on Guriat.
J. Strachan. A Manx folksong;
Wh. Stokes. Cummin’s poem on
the Saints of Ireland.
H. Zimmer, Beitrage zur Erklar
ung irischer Sagentexte.
K. Meyer. Goire Conaill Chernaig i
Cruachain ocus aided Ailella &
Conaill Chernaig
K. Meyer, Two middle-Irish soems.
R. Henebry, Conach.
L. Chr. Stern. Die irische Hand-
schrift in Stockholm.
L Chr Stern, Ein irisches Leben
der heiligen Margarete.
R Henebry. An unpublished poem
by W. English.
D O’Foharta Cú Bán an t-Sléibhe.
Erschiene Schriften.
This is a very interesting pam¬
phlet of the series. We shall pub¬
lish the poem of Wm English and
Cú Bán an t-Sléibhe. The old readers
of the Gael cannot fail to observe
that the “R Henebry” mentioned
here is the Celtic Professor-elect of
the Catholic University.
