... The Minister for Education, Professor O’Sullivan, is quite sound on the Irish language. Speaking at the National Teachers’ Congress he said he thanked the teachers for their efforts to cope with the new situation. If the Government had insisted on the ...

... we were, we Vis off with a friend after a while. We have not thened the D4il very often, but any time we did go he: the Speaking was more or less difficult to «wor Perhaps ¢ is all for the good that Ortory ** has declined since we became. free S 0 ...

... a single charge of drunkenness had to be heard on the following day, the importance of the Day was unprecedented. Roughly speaking, between 70,000 and 80,000 persons in and around Dublin had attended some gathering or other in ideal weather, and for the ...

... 1916. It is quite true that O’Connell was a great figure, but he was an anti- Irish-Irelander to the extent that an Irish-speaking Ireland had no place in his mind; it is true that but for the work of Davitt, Parnell, Tom Sexton, Tim Healy, and so forth ...

... reviva|, T'}l: stoutest fighters in the ranks of Washington’s arm were the Irish-speaking Presbyterians from Antrirg and Down. They fought side' by side with the; Irish-speaking Catholic comrades, and serveqd withr out complaint under Catholic leaders to ...

... to bring a motion before the House to advice the Executive to use its good offices for the release of Mr. de Valera. While speaking to the motion he referred to Mr. de Valera as an American citizen. Thereupon one of his colleagues asked in amazement: ‘“ ...

... non-competitive billiards. This, after all, is just as important as championship matches inasmuch as it is the cradle, so to speak, of future champions. Things in the Billiards line seem to i.e rather quiet, and, as snooker to be more popular in the halls ...

... spirit and minute care which the Gaeltacht Commissioners brought to their work. We, who live in close touch with the Gaelic-speaking districts, fully realise the magnitude of the task which confronted the Commissioners, and we appreciate the manner in which ...

... Banes Reawakening. META PIfORICALLi speaking. Barn of Carrickfergus have been sleeping Octobe . ! last. They have goue through the various competitions with their eyes - osed; otherwise an odd game now and then would have fallen to their share. The Barn ...

... Toipmipc 1 n-&n Lémad pém. PAORAIT U 4 OUINNIN. APRIL 2, 1997 scribe to a loan. Their leading financia] eXpert Mr. Lemass, T.D., speaks vaguely of the Nationg] credit, which rather indicates that he contemplateg —when he is Finance Minister—trying his Prentice ...

... Normans, Elizabethan and Cromwellian settlers, and German Palatines have all become Hibernis hiberniores; and yet, humanly speaking, the odds were always on the side of the sirangers, and that in an ever-increasing ratio as time went on until the eighteenth ...

... suggestions in the matter of Dominion representation were not adopted, appears to have driven Dlr. Baxter to the point of revolt. Speaking at the dinner of the London Society of Rugby Union Referees held some time after the International Board meeting, he is reported ...