... it is a glaring scandal that in the most Irish-speaking city in Ireland presiding officers and personating agents ignorant of the ‘ national language ’ should be put in the booths to question Irish-speaking voters in the language of the Black-and-Tans. ...

... University, Commercial, Civil Service. % PREPARATORY SCHOQL 2 (For Bovs, 9-12), . L where boys will learn to speak Irish and French; to speak, read and write English. The Science of Music taught for half-hour every day. REOPENS 6TH SEPTEMBER, IQ2I. All ...

... go on speaking more and more of the language every day to them until it becomes—as it should in six months —the ordinary medium of conversation in the school. And, of course, in order that they may do that, they, the teachers, must be able to speak the ...

... common-sense verdict must be utterly against it. Whatever might for a period be our limitations, if we became Irish-speaking and non-English-speaking all of a sudden—and both are, of course, impossible—our cultural state generally could not be worse than it is; ...

... OPENS JUNE 29TH IRISH SPEAKING DISTRICT. ing sch poi; ...

... as an Irish-speaking hurling or Gaelic football club. Surely the time is ripe when every G.A.A. football and hurling team should be expected to speak Irish on the field of play. We hope now a lead has been shown that many other Irish-speaking tennis clubs ...

... who can speak no English ** out of our mouths and recognise that the question is not one of accommodating those few poor. people, but of proclaiming boldly that this country is Ireland and that Irish must be the language? ‘‘Send Irish-speaking priests ...

... would not come. (2) Create a Gaedhealtacht in Dublin for Dublin children. This cannot be fully dome without segregating Irish speaking children (which is scarcely practicable at present and which would not be very effective), but I suggest that it can be done ...

... & person may read and write a language and yet continue to think in another, but he cannot speak a language fluently without also thinking in it. Ido not speak on the matter of language without a certain authority. I have learned many languages and taught ...

... the country is English is a task of which we despair. As an Irish-speaking country, we will have our own evils, shortcomings and faults, but it would be hard to imagine our Irish-speaking Ireland feeding every Sunday on such stuff as tens of thousands read ...

... Irish songs music, dance, and the production of Irish drama where possible. Whether in the Irish-speaking, the semi-Irish-speaking, or the English-speaking areas, the Cumainn should interest themselves in historic ruins and other relics of our early c ...

... the percentage of Irish speakers in a district which would warrant its being regarded as (a) ar Irish-speaking district, or (b) a partly Irish-speaking district ; and the present extent and location of such districts. (2) To inquire and make recommendations ...