... FACTS SPEAK. deposited in 1923—100,000 Deposits this year at the rate year. Nearly 3,000 New in first week of 1924. TIME. AN ACCOUNT TO-DAY E AN ...

... IRISH-SPEAKING FRIENDS. An Té avei 5o brewoparde SA¢ 4on Carad 4 DA 54 na nJaevedl cputur§eann an dmprcent nuao 1o rln T& paiL 45 na poitipidteoini 5o Sceannoard sac ‘est Even the non-Irish speaker who takes an inter-420 - -print han i dsom! boun and ...

... in the schools. The proposal is to ask Aire an Oideachais to establish wholly Irish-speaking schools in the city for the benefit of the number of children now speaking that language as their mother tongue. Incidentally, such sehools would be models for ...

... present D4il to act in the matter. People who don’t speak the language will scarcely compel themselves to learn and speak it. iz To me there seems only one practical way of not only making an Irish-speaking D4il but completely revolutionising the whole I ...

... IRISH-SPEAKING PILGRIMS AND LOURDES. In August, 1927, the first Irish-speaking Pilgrimage set out from Dublin to Lourdes. ‘‘ Cu Chulainn ” told the readers of the LEADER a month or so afterwards that the pilgrimage had made a wonderful impression abroad ...

... DO YOU SPEAK IRISH ? Don’t say you do if you don’t. Think the question over. For English is a funny language. Do you speak Irish? should mean, Do you usually speak it? Instead of that, it is taken to mean can you speak it? And that is why so many people ...

... wish to learn to speak Irish as fluently as a native and if the ability to speak Irish depends on a ~ certain kind of practice, which is the thing which - I must practice towards this end ? . If 1 gather together the grammars of the - language, the d ...

... “LEAC LOGHA.” IRISH-SPEAKING OFFICIALS, Dear LEADER, 1 am glad that Lughaidh Breathnach agrees with me in the main about the question of Irish-speaking officials in the Gaedhealtacht. His only reservation is ‘* the scandal and the unfairness of asking ...

... AN IRISH-SPEAKING DISTRICT IN COUNTY WEXFORD. The enthusiasm for the Irish language of a delicate girl (Miss Peg Cuffe) has succeeded in turning her native district of Cromogue, near Newtownbarry, Co. Wexford, into what one could truly call an Irish-speaking ...

... 296 districts are, a place where the people could speak Irish if they liked but usually speak English, and almest invariably to their children, yet the importance of an Irish-speaking medical officer in such a district is*obvious. The voting, though mostly ...

... WL L AMERICA AND AN IRISH-SPEAKING IRELAND. In the issue of March 12th the Editor asks, ‘“ As & matter of speculation what will be the attitude of thegreat English-speaking North America of the future: to the Irish-s akiniblrelmd of the future?’’ I do ...

... the priests. I hear complaints now and then about them not preaching in lrish to the Irish-speaking people. That would be all right 1f they came of Irish-speaking people themselves, but few of them do. As it is, they are only learning Irish, and I think ...