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An GAODHAL
amháin na ceudta & na mílte duine a
moladh Dé ach fós mar tá d'a dheunadh
ins an Iobairt uathbhásach sin — Naomh
Iobairt an Aifrinn.
Dá mbeidheadh sé ndán 's nach dtairg¬
fuidhe suas an t-Aifrionn in aon teach
pobuil nó teampull eile 'sa domhan ach
an séipeul seo, & faoi 'n íobairt sin a
dheunadh ach aon uair amháin, thiucfadh
daoine a triall ar an áit seo as gach
ceárda & as gach tír & gach náisiún a
deunamh iongantuis de, & phógfaidís na
cloca atá 'sa teampull mar gheall air
an Rí óirdheirc úd — Críost A ceusadh
Thusa, an t-athair Ieo, a chuir an séi¬
peul seo ar bun, le úghdaras & beann¬
acht an Easboig mhaith. Ach ní rabh an t¬
Easbog sásta le n-a bheannacht amháin,
óir d' fhosgail sé suas a sparán amach
& chuir sé go fial farsing as cuid mhór
d'a rabh ann — mar is cleatach leis a
dheunadh air gach ócáide go 'n t-sórt
seo — leis an obair Chriostamhuil a chuir
chum cinn. Suas réir sampla 'n Eas¬
boig & thré n-a beannacht rinne cruinn¬
iughadh mór do 'n t sagart Paráiste a
bhus 's tháll. 'Na dhiagh sis & a lig, tá
déiláil airgid a taistáil fós chum tros¬
gán a chur 'san teach pobuil ró-dheas seo,
& le séipeul Rosmuc a mheudughadh ion¬
nus go mbéidh sé taithneamhach dhe réir
mar a tá gach nidh deuntar an-taithnea¬
mhach os cómhair Dé.
Tiubhraidh muintir an pharáiste seo
go farsaing uatha in a m-bochthanacht,
mar tá siad a dheunadh, & mar fheuchann
siad le dheunadh a g-comhnuidhe ar óc¬
áide de 'n t-sórt seo, ach taréis a n¬
dithchill ní fheudfadh siad an cúngnamh a
tá riachtanach leis an obair bheannuighthe
atá d'a dheunadh in seo a críochnughadh;
air an ádhbhar sin, gheabhfaidh siad cúng¬
namh go fialmhar ó Chaitiliceacha grádh¬
amhuil, ní shé amháin uatha seo atá láth¬
air indiu, ach o dhaoinibh ins gach ceárda
nuair a throigheas an fógradh seo iad
Ámén!
The Kansas Catholic is publish¬
ed now at Kan. City, Mo. It gives
the Catholic news of world — we
don't know how it collects it.
MISS GONNE.
On Dec. 27 Miss Maud Gonne finished her tour
through the States, with an enthusiatic final re¬
ception in N. Y. Miss Kathleen M. Hanbury (who
is no stranger to Gael readers), on behalf of the
Ladies' Auxiliary Committee, read an address,
first in Irish, and then in English, to Miss Gonne,
In replying to the address, Miss Gonne — un¬
doubtedly embarrassed, in a painful tone of voice,
expressed her regret at her inability to acknow¬
ledge it in the language of her country — the lan¬
guage in which it had been made by her youthful
and accomplished Irish-American sister. There is
no doubt that Miss Gonne's expressions of regret
were sincere, and we, in a manner, are sorry that
the address had been made in Irish, as it must
have been extremely painful to a noble, patriotic
young lady of Miss Gonne's sensitive nature to
be forced to acknowledge her inability to reply in
her native language — the language of her native
land — that land to promote whose freedom she
had undertaken a journey of 20,000 miles in an
inclement American Winter's atmosphere!
Possibly, Miss Gonne's vehement appeal to the
audience to cultivate and maintain the language
of Erin, at home and abroad, was entensified by
her own painful, personal experience, then and
there. A person of common, ordinary impulses
would over the above incident, or “jolly” it
off — that could never be done by a person of refi¬
ned, exalted patriotism like Miss Gonne.
She grasped the anomalous position, and made
the amende honorable.
The Irish Pennsylvaian has no¬
ted the Gael’s reference to the A.
O H’s Gaelic Chair in the Catholic
University. The Gael hopes that
there will be no cavil about the ob¬
ject for which the money was giv¬
en — a specific purpose — the found¬
ing of a Celtic Chair We hope sin¬
ister influences will not divert the
donation to an opposite purpose to
that for which it was contributed
by hard working, patriotic Irish¬
men. We shall keep track of that
money.
The Northwestern Chronicle of
St. Paul handles the A.P.A frater¬
nity without gloves aye, and clas¬
sically, too,
