ibh indiu, d'agair Tóruidhe Shasanaigh
Biosmarc, is mar seo do labhair a d¬
Timere (the London Times) :— 'O! a
Bhiosmarc mór-chumhachtamhuil, is agatsa
'mháin atá cúmhachta an Eoirp do chos¬
aint; is tú amháin atá ábulta Chríosd¬
amhlacht & síbhialtas na h-Eoirpe do shá¬
bháil abair an focal & fillfidh na Ruis¬
ínidhe air 'n-ais."
Cluiseamh an impighe ar feadh 'n domh¬
ain, acht bhí ciall ag Biosmarc & níor
thug sé áird air 'n mbúirfeadh, bhí fhios
aige gur b'é gaimbín Bhriotain do bhí ag
caint.
Dubhairt páipeur eile i Londuin 'san
am ceudna go gcaithfeadh Sasanaigh
seasadh suas & cúmhacht 'n Mhuscuibhite
do thiomáint trasna na Steppes & ord¬
ughadh thabhairt dhó gan dearca n-a dhiaigh
— Níor thoisidh 'n tomáint go fóil; acht
is breágh mór do lagadh goaithighe páip¬
éiribh Londuin ó 'n am sinn. Anois dá
n-iarrfadh an Tsár an ghealach dhéarfadh
h-uile Thóruigh i Sasanaigh, "Tabhair dhó í"
Timchioll bliadhain ó shoin, bhí Sasanach
(canfuir) ag caint air 'n ngaol leis na
Státaibh, dubhairt sé —
"Tár linn 'san gcatha & criothnócha¬
muid an Eoirp go h-uile, ag cosaint
Críosdaidh & ag smachtugh' Turcuigh óg"
Bhí 'n cuire chómh fealltach, mar
"Siúbhal i steach in mo phárlús," ars
an dubhánalla leis 'n gcuileóig"
Eist! i gcluineann sibh
Tóruighe Shasanaigh guidhe,
Is sé an Turcach tá teacht,
Cathadh a scáile roimhe.
[This is Brother Lally’s first ess¬
ay in Gaelic prose. He hits the
"bull"'s eye square As he point¬
edly asks, Where and what is our
civilization to-day? We hope Bro¬
ther Lally will give us more on
the same subject — Ed G.]
England dreads Emperor Will¬
iam; she is fortifying her coast
and laying dynamite bombs along
the German Ocean.
PHILO-CELTS.
On April 25th the Brooklyn Phi¬
lo-Celtic Society had an entertain¬
ment for the purpose or raising
funds to help the Gaelic League
Oireachtas. The affair was a com¬
plete success, the only drawback
being that, about 9 o'clock, fully
one third of the audience had but
standing room.
A few minutes after 8 o’clock
President McDwyer called for or¬
der and in highly complimentary
terms introduced the editor of the
GAEL as chairman of the evening.
Opening the proceeding of the e¬
vening, the chairman said. —
We have assembled here this evening in the
interest of the Irish language — the language of
our native land, which many of us lisped at our
mother's knee — that language, as the poet has
sung,
“Whose youthhood saw the Tyrian on our Irish
coasts a guest,
Ere the Saxon or the Roman —
Ere the Norman or the Dane,
Had first set foot in Britain, or the Visigoth in
Spain,"
it is meet that I, on behalf of this Society, should
greet you in the mellifluous accents of its Nation¬
al salutation —
Ceud Míle Fáilte!
(great applause) and also to explain to you the
immediate purpose of this entertainment.
Our friends of the Dublin Gaelic League have
instituted an Oireachtas or Irish literary festival
with the object of holding annual meetings in
the principal towns and cities in Ireland in rota¬
tion, and offering prizes for competition in Irish
composition, in prose and poetry, and for Irish
oratory.
This will have the effect of bringing together
in friendly literary rivalry the educated men and
women of the Irish Nation. — It will be a renais¬
sance of that literary rivalry which obtained in
Ireland when she was known all over Christen¬
dom as
Oileán na Naomh agus na n-Ollamh —
the island of saints and scholars — and a telling
rebuke to the enemies of Irish autonomy who, af¬
ter prohibiting education in Ireland, would tax
the people with being too ignorant to govern
themselves (applause).
