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OIREACHTAS, 1910. The following subscripti ons to thi� fund !1ave been received and are acknowledged with best thank�. Remittances should be sent to the Treasurer, Gaelic League, 25 Rutland Square, Dublin £ s. d. Edward Martyn, Tullvra Castle, Co. Galway 5 0 0 E. R. ::\IacC. Dix, Dnblin ... ._ .. 2 0 0 . J. S. Green, Lieut.-Col. ; R.Q.l\I.C., Air Hill Glanworth Co. Cork .. . .. · .. · 1 0 0 Seoirse Mac' Xiocaill, Market Bosworth, ... . 0 10 0 England . ... Una Xie Fhnalain, Aramn ·.. . 0 5 0
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IRISH PHONETICS. Is caol le caol a childish fancy? Master Irish Phonetics by Rev. M. O'Flanagan.
An oLA1DeAti1 sotuis JULY 9, 1910. I �------------------�! · ·
A GREATER GAELIC LEAGUE.
The effects of the two years' struggle for Essential Irish will be felt in many quarters outside the University. The decision of the Senate will affect all grades of education, and people whose school life is left behind them have been so influenced by the controversy that their attitude towards the Gaelic League and its aims has completely changed, with the result that for every friend and helper we had two years ago we now count ten. Our aims and work are now known and favoured in quarters where formerly they were unknown or regarded with indifference. The gospel of the League has been grasped by the nation at large, and, if now when who have a thought for Ireland, or a .h�nd to lend in restoring her to her own, are willing to assist us, we seize the opportunity offered us of setting every man and woman to ,�ork, in whatever wav they are able and best suited for, for our cause the safety �f the Irish language will be assured, and all our people will have found .a common platform on which �o work fo� their country. Speaking at the K1lkenn_y Feis last week, Mr. J. J. Horgan, o.f Cork, said i-v,, One of the most hopeful results of the recent controversy is the universal national support given to the Gaeli.c. League by a large body o.f cultured opinion throughout Ireland. This was a body of support that I, for one, had never dreamt of; I did not think it existed. Then we have the magnificent support of the people arn:1 the people's representatives. Our duty is to bring that body of opinion, .to bring tho�e friends of ours permanently mto the Gaelic League. We want to bring them in, not for Lots ?f them .are to-day, but for all time. men old in years, men past their energies. Many of the� can't take up the study of the lanrruaae with any prospect of success, ••and b b of them have not the opportumhes. many We have got to bring them in to support the language movement. We have got to open the great gates of the Gaelic League and _make these men not onlv friends but comrades m the battle. We were.often told in the past that it was our dutv to die for Ireland. I venture to say to-day that we are not called upon. for anv heroic sacrifice, but we a·re certamly called upon to make a sacrifi.ce, if I might call it a sacrifice, of living decent, strenuous and efficient lives for Ireland's sake, and that is what all in the Gaelic League can do. You remember the great saying that used to be on the lips of every Roman �itize� in the _olden days-' I am a Roman Citizen. I consider I a� sufficiently an idealist to look fonvard to the day when it will be the ho:iourable boast of every Irishman to say, not m the se:1se of domination in which the Romans used it, but in the intellectual and greater sense-' I a� an Irishman.' It depends upon the Gaelic League and the wO'rk they are doing how soon that day is to be reached. We _can teach the people that it is the small thmgs that count; that the badly-kept farm, untidy shop and badly managed affairs O'enerally are all injurious to Ireland and Ireland's name, and all these things are the things which we can put our hands to remedy."
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m an English or American nation. This divorce between the schools and the nation has not served the Irish character. The terrible pursuit of individual interests, hitherto characteristic of secondary and higher education in Ireland, has made men indifferent to patriotism and to other things not less prec10us. The education of the future must give us good citizens, men who will think on the lines Mr. Horgan's speech at Kilkenny indicates. The first duty of Irish education should be to fit us for life m Ireland, and the spirit of our schools should be such as would centre our thoughts in this land, and awaken in us ambition to live in · and work for it. The Gaelic League will, we believe, find it advisable to indicate for the guidance of its constituent bodies an educational programme such as we outlined a few weeks ago. The teaching of Irish outside of the schools served more than anything else to promote the teaching of Irish in the schools. The adoption by the branches .and evening schools of an educational programme including Irish, Irish history and literature, national economics and music, should enable us very soon to force a similar programme into the schools. We want to make education the lever of national progress. "We f.oughf for the introduction of Irish into education because without it we could have no proper Irish education . .,. We must now, since it is our country's welfare that has prompted all our actions, see that those subjects the study of which is most likely to promote our country'� affairs shall predominate in Irish education. The programme we desire to see adopted is a short and simple one, and no one well informed or trained in any one subject of it could fail to be a better and more useful citizen. The past fortnight has been a period marked by wonderful Gaelic League aotivity. Following upon the decision of the Senate ·came ten feiseanna at which great numbers of people gathered to listen to the gospel of the Reviv�l, and witness the processions, plays, and competitions in language, music and dancing which characterised almost every one of them. The success of these events prove how anxious the people are to join in our work and benefit by it. We should immediately invite those not already in the League to join it, and use our influence, with as little criticism as may be, to bring all our schools into line with our ideals. Our branches should be strengthened and multiplied, and the League constitution should be more liberally interpreted. Hitherto most League bodies have been content to conduct classes m Irish and help the Coiste Gnotha financiallv. We must not be content with � mmimum results. The language must still remain our first care, but there are a score of ways in which we mighf set sympathisers who cannot be students of Irish to work in directions in which they might help many Irish interests while helping our own cause. We do not expect that busy and elderly men and women will take up the study of , Irish, but they may help in the general educational movement, they may see that their children are taught their native language and the history of their country; they may all join in the support of ot1r industries, and m the building-up of new ones j they may set their faces against the drink and emigration habits, and endeavour by industry, frugality and patriotic endeavour to become what Mir. Horgan pointed out they may become, good citizens. Doing this they will be fulfilling their duty to Ireland and working successfully for her advancement.
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It is now assured that our language wi!l, within a short period, be given its proper place m all our school systems. Having secured so muc� ,Ye must turn to make education the means of nat10nal progre�. We must abolish the d�\'OTCe b�tween our educational systems and the nat10n .. H1the_rto they have been concerned la:gely 1:1 fittmg people for life, not in an Insh nat10n, but
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SUAS LEIS AN nGAEDHILG.
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One of the means employed by England to crush out the Irish language was socially to ostracise it. It was at first forbidden by laws, and when the process of politically " perfecting " Ireland reached an ach'anced stage it hecame a studied custom among those pretending to any social attainments or ambitions to sneer at evervthing native, to smother in their hearts the truth about the beauty of the language and of its literature. One centurv of such dissimulation was sufficient to creatE" ·the belief that Irish "·as the language of an unlettered and unenterprising people. When that belief gained a footing a native attempt to destroy the language followed. • Schools in which it was an offence to teach Irish were almost universally accepted, and ignorance of the language ,vas regarded as the first sign of social superiority. A large hut rlecreasing number
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