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lnw in English, and a D.C. has Irish. 2 C.D.B. officials 011e has I1·isl1 The nrilitary and �111d one not. 11aval forces, as represented by 10 R.I.C. men and 10 Coastguards, are ,ritl1out Irish. The Pe11sio11 Officer '"'110 lives at Killybcgs has lea1·11ecl and uses Irish.
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500 Iamilies all Irish speakers, (There are neither police nor coastcuards in the parish, thanks be to God.) 1�11e P .P. has Irish, and a� 1 will be seen is a stal wart Gael. T,\ 0 7 curates are said to k1101., a little Iris 11. Fourteen teachers in 9 schools, of which 5 are bilingual, All the teachers know Irish and teach it i11 school. No resident doctor. Two nurses speak Irish. Postmaster and 3 postmen speak Irish. T\vo J.P.'s speak Irish. Pension Officer as in preceding par ish. N" o clerk of Petty Sessions. Now note what a Parish Priest, who is in earnest, can do to save the language. 1�he P .P. (Father O'Do11nell) has meetings of young mothers every month, and gets them to promise to speak Irish alone to their children. 1�11e young unmarried people are also hrought together once a month and urged to speak their own language ; and the old people are similarly brought together and exhorted f ro111 time to time. Xeedless to say, Father O'Do1111e11 uses Irish himself 011 all occasions. He also visits t he schools regularly, and sees the work that is being done there. It is hardly necessary to add that Irish sl10,\'S 110 signs of decay i11 Kilcar parish. .. . The report before me of the •
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is . rather defective , but. shows very .. 1111xed conditions. Most of the teachers appear to have Irish, while 111a11,, of the other officials have not. ! l1a-ve seen 110 report from the parishes of Doe and Du11fanaghy. 'l'l1e1·e are some statistics of the I1111isl10,,·e11 parishes which show a del)lo1�able state of things in that J)e111n�ula. There is still a good deal of Irish spoken in Innishowen, but unless the people wake up, and soo11, the language will be lost, and l{o)·al ·.t\ileacl1. ,,·ill look upon a race
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of bellowing slaves \,·110 will shame their bra ve ancestors. A11d so stands (jaelic Donegal. Our Timthire is enth usiastic about the state of the language, and is 1 v\ so. 1-Ie says, justly l1at. is
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viouslv true, that there is stil l enough Irish in Tirchouaill to restore the Ianguagc throughout I1·eland. The present healthy state of affairs i11 the Donegal Caedhcaltacht is to some extent clue to the working of C1·a11n Eit1111e, which was devised by Bishop O'Do1111ell, and i-:; organised by Father Mac Ateer, for the Bishop. The Gaelic League has been discouraged i11 the coun tv, and as alreadv stated the ...�ot111t,, • Council is anti-Irish.
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