... What a lot of Members of the Dail never speak; to our mind our old friend of the Ireland that was, but it ig like that in every Assembly. There are Maud Coghlan Briscoe; but Maud had not quite invariably a large number of silent members and, such a l ...

... Dramatic Society. As we have often said, if we will and if we must speak English let it be as far as possible the English of Shakespeare. If we were, as we hope to be in time, a purely Irish-speaking people, those in Ireland who cultivate English as an acquired ...

... friend, an Irish speaker, happening in, they asked his advice before deciding to give up the Irishising exfiriment. ‘‘And did ye speak Irish to the child ?’’ the friend asked. Och; no they didn’t. They didn’t know it sure. On which he smiled, had the child produced ...

... Irish at BALLINGEARY, CO. CORK. to September. A Camp for Young Men and Boys who wish to spend their Holidays in an Irish-speaking District, organised by the Young Men’s Sodality of the Angelic Warfare of St. Thomas Aquinas (An Fhiann Ainglidhe) of St ...

... It seems to me that you want to stop me from going to any of these meetings. You have about one man on the Council who can speak his own tongue. You know all this. Why do you send me such a card ? “ You see,”’ said the Clerk, ‘““ what you have let me ...

... and mechanical. We would like to have statistics as 1o the number of men in grey-green uniforms and the *“ irregulars’’ who speak Irish, who are learning Irish, who think they ought to learn Irish, and who think Irish is all a humbug. At one time men were ...

... lecture on Saturday evening in one of the halls of the Technical Schools, Parnell Square. Mr. O’Daly is a native speaker, and he speaks—or anyway on the occasion of his lecture he spokewith what we may call commendable slowness and precision ; he gave a fair ...

... Convention was not much. The lawyer, Hanna, K.C., a plausible man, was one of the speakers. Why did not the plausible Mr. Hanna speak out against Carson’s bigotry and the throwing of men out of work in Belfast long ago? We suppose that was not in his brief ...

... and ashes would be calculated to do us good. The governance of this country is comparatively a simple proposition. But, speaking generally, the persons at present composing the Dail are not equal to the job; in justice to them, it may be said they were ...

... work on the dead masses. What, then, will be the condition of the masses themselves, of the masses of Irish origin, not to speak of the others? To arouse them to a new campaign for the Irish Republic will evidently not be an easy task for us. And note ...

... America, there is only a small minority of us who take an active interest in Ireland. We do the organising and writing and speaking and propaganda, to arouse the dead masses and to act upon them. I suppose this is so even in Ireland itself. But to do that ...