AN GAODHAL.
33
bhur, your; a, their, cause eclipsis; a,
her, prefixes h to vowels ; as, a h-obair.
The preposition in, in, eclipses.
120 Tobar na bhfíon. Lá Samhna
(November Day). Béidhmíd annso go
(until) lár na bliadhna. An bhfuil eolas
agat ar chanamhain ar dtíre féin (our
own country)? Atá blas an fhíona ar
an uisge. Atá gealach an fhoghmhair (o'-
wir) ins an spéir. "Do bhí fiacla ag an
eun mór so," ars an sgeuluidhe. Do
bhidheas im (= in mo chomhnuidhe i m¬
baile (mwal'-ĕ) na Carraige ins an
am sin.
Words beginning with s are never
eclipsed ; words beginning with sb sc,
sd, sg, sm, sp cannot be aspirated, be¬
cause aspirated s (=h) could not be
pronounced before b, m, p, c or g.
121. Lár, middle; deireadh (der'-oo)
end; tosach (thŭs'-ăCH) or tús, begin¬
ning.
From year to year (ó bhliadhain go
bliadhain). In (the) beginning of the
year, the weather is (bidheann) cold
and) wet. In the end of the autumn
(i ndeireadh) the fields are bare — there
is no grass on them. In the middle of
summer, there is the music of the birds
in the trees. The water of the (na)
Boyne.
(To be continued)
Philo-Celts.
(Continued from page 25.)
Sagsanach rádh gur leis féin sinn. Tá
súil le Dia aguinn nach m-beith an sgeul
mar sin go deó ; acht gomairfig an
teanga Ghaodhailge go brách & choidhche; —
Go bhfeicimid le greann
Go luath an t-am,
Agus san ann ár d-tír féin —
'Nuair mhúinfig an cléir dúinn le fonn,
An teanga mhilis bhinn sin
Is dual do Ghaodhal.
The Hon. J Grattan McMahon next delivered
a very able address in English, for which he was
repeatedly applauded.
The remaining programme included songs in
Irish and English — J Cromien, The Rising of the
Moon (Irish), Mr. J. A. Donahey, Kathleen Mo
Vourneen (English), Miss Mary A Condon, song
(Irish), Miss Kathleen M Hanbury, The Meeting
of the Waters (Irish), Mr Bernard Martin recited
several extracts from Irish patriotic authors.
The musical talent was supplied by the New
York Philo-Celtic Society, each one of whom was
repeatedly encored.
AN ITALIAN ON THE IRISH.
An Italian gentleman, a physician, and a real-
estate speculator who has called to our office fre¬
quently for the last ten years, a few days ago, du¬
ring one of his calls — the conversation having
turned on the Irish Fair being held in New York,
laughingly but seriously — at the same time vigor¬
ously gesticulating in real Italian style — said. —
"Friend Logan, I think you are all wind-bags,
you talk of Irish Independence and autonomy,
you will never get them till you fight for them.
You say that Ireland is too near to England. —
You have 20,000,000 of your race in America, you
have across the border an English possession —
Canada — three thousand miles away from her,
with less than one million of English sympathis¬
ers — If your twenty millions Irishmen in the Uni¬
ted States organized Canada, get up a rebellion
in Ireland, and declare her independence — the
men in Canada to take the field at the same time,
you would have the active sympathy of the Uni¬
ted States, and you would have the prestige of an
actual war, and could raze the cities of England
with the material which Nature supplies and all
nations use; hang all English and Irish spies to
the nearest lamppost and then there would not be
many of them.”
So delivering himself, our medical friend took
his hat and politely bid us “Good day.”
We regret to have to record the
death of Mrs. McCormick, the be¬
loved wife of Mr. Dillon J. McCor¬
mick of Wheeling, W. Va, which
event occurred on the 18th, of pneu¬
monia, after 38 hours' sickness.
Mrs McCormick died fortified with
the rites of the Church, and the re¬
mains were followed to the grave
by the largest funeral procession
that ever entered Mount Calvary
cemetery.
We regret, also, that four of the
Gael's Wheeling subscribers have
died recently, namely, P. McCabe,
J Leavy, D O’Keeffe and M Donly
May their souls rest in peace.
