... disappointing to find what a lot of children know a lot of Irish nowadays and vet can’t or won't speak a word of it. Evidently they haven’t been in the habit of speaking it, or of having it spoken to them, in the ordinarv way of business, but only as a task—the ...

... \\‘ { N\ o / MODERN DRESS. Limerick, Feb. 2, 1928 Dear Sir,—That communication of Dudley Fletcher is a nonsensical, not to speak of ungram,. matical produetion.; I am surprised in one sense jt your allowing your valpable space for that flippant serawl ...

... e surprise of their lives. Does anyone serioug] suggest that Irish-speaking boy messengers ay going to have any effect in Gaelicising the ‘\-i\ri(i Service, or that an Irish-speaking new entrang in any capacity is going to have any influence i that direction ...

... which you, sir, took so large a part ; and so the children of 50 years ago in these Irish-speaking districts were discouraged from speaking it, and encouraged to speak the English, which would be of use to them in England and America, the Mecca of their hopes ...

... and speak Irish, whereas the middle-aged use the Beurla. Where the old people know the national language, any good school can bring it back into general use. In ten or fifteen years time Donegal will be once more an overwhelmingly Irish-speaking county ...

... programme of our schools and coileges has had the desired effect in the twenty-six counties. If Cormac’s native speaking friends so desire they can speak and write Irish and help spread its use without hindrance and when his non-native friends can say that they ...

... thickest. It is that type of forward we want if our backs are to get their . fair share of the ball against France. NUNNS. SPEAKING of centre three - qu arters, the idea occurred to a at the interval on Saturday that Nunna might be transferred to the Probables ...

... and the prosperity of Ireland depends upon our going back to the state of being lrish-speaking, Nothing but a vigorous, progressive and intellec. tual Irish-speaking Ireland wil] appeal to the Irish who have emigrated and to thejr descendants. President ...

... THE COMING WAR. When I speak of the coming war, 1 don’t mean t prophesy that war is inevitable. War clouds ofey blow over, either for the time, as in the case of the Agadir incident, or altogether. The present alliance of France and England, the great ...

... question i« to m him another. How does ae explain to a Jot of Ve Sllt schiolars, whose knowledge of English, p_\.‘pr; ng English speaking districts, must be very limu,fil the following varieties of pronunciation :—. A.---Are, ware, tather, and bather L —Ere, here ...

... unimpresisonable among us: True, Mr. Blythe does not challenge competition with the President by employing the same medium, so to speak, but it is none the less the case that there is the same quality of daring and the same airy and hewildering effect produced ...

... so many of our best and most devoted Gaels, learned his Irish in sweat and tears as a full-grown man. He can never hope to speak it with the ease and grace and fluency of a native speaker, and he will often use expressions and turns of speech that will ...