Ireland's crown of thorns and roses; or, The best of her history by the best of her writers, a series of historical narratives that read as entertainingly as a novel .. . great and wide-spread-ing. We have five or six newspapers already printing arti-cles in Gaelic. We have several Irish music clubs, and per-haps even better experts on the bagpipe and violin than ex-ist to-day in Ireland. Gaelic chairs have been instituted intwo or three of the principal educational establishments, fromCalifornia to Washington, D. C. What is yet possible forus to accomplish by missionary work and agitation in
Ireland's crown of thorns and roses; or, The best of her history by the best of her writers, a series of historical narratives that read as entertainingly as a novel .. . great and wide-spread-ing. We have five or six newspapers already printing arti-cles in Gaelic. We have several Irish music clubs, and per-haps even better experts on the bagpipe and violin than ex-ist to-day in Ireland. Gaelic chairs have been instituted intwo or three of the principal educational establishments, fromCalifornia to Washington, D. C. What is yet possible forus to accomplish by missionary work and agitation in thepress and from the platform is evident in the recent action The Gaelic League 723 of tlio Boston City Connoil in dirocting tlint Oaolic be taughtin the liigh schools of that city. In the following pages the leaders of the Gaelic move-ment in Ireland liave set forth the necessity as well as thedesirability of de-Anglicising Ireland; they have shown thevalue and intrinsic worth of the things that are peculiarlyIrish, and the advanced position their readoption and per-petuation will secure for the Irish people in the eyes of allother nations. Chicago, Nov., Composed from the Book of Kells. CHAPTER I. OUR LANGUAGE OUR NOBLEST INHERITANCE. By Right Rev. Patrick ODonnell, Bishop of Raplioe. If the work of the Gaelic League is worth doing at all, itis worth doing well and now. It is now or never with theIrish language. We have the men, we have the motives, andwe can have the means for a revival of the Gaelic speechin every region where our race has found a home. But letthe Irish-speaking districts in the old country be contractedduring the next quarter of a century, as during the last; letthe brilliant young scholars, priests and laymen who havepledged their life-work to the cause of our ancient languagebe upset in this campaign; let the evidences disappear whichliving men possess of the marvelous beauty of our Celticspeech on the lips of the old men of our mountain glens, a
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