... 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 ...

... could never hope to pronounce slender “r” the way they do in Rann na Feirsde. Therefore, it would have been a crime to try to speak ...

... read his Budget speech in a ld:' monotone ; we were present when Mr. de Valera spoke, and we left whilst Mr. O’Connell was speaking. If we were asked when we had left the Dail what was in the Budget, the only definite thing we could have said was that there ...

... starters • wonslertull) tine is promises! fu► Ih,• iris? Tw.. Thousand (Nine** on Wednesday. Nosytotan's Enthalo performances speak for themselves. The Irish bred colt boo)* to get his head in front ton an track, but his performances there have been full ...

... Admiral. Home day when I hare time I must give readers of sport - the beep gerormanees of The Admiral. for his fame was, so to speak, earned by the sweet of his brow or its equine equivalent. Tire Cues-eels )lay more than its ordinary for Temfay marked . ...

... a debate in Gaelic at Stranorlar, Co. Donegal, between two picked teams representing the Ballybofey and Letterkenny Irish-speaking clubs. He claimed that with the revival of the national language there was coming back to them that love for intellectual ...

... and both the speeches and the audience were a remarkable testimony to the extraordinary success achieved, even in English-speaking districts, by the Free State Government’s deliberate policy of fostering the national language in the schools and governmental ...

... Hurling Final of its Ctige in its first year. But that was not all. Those one hundred and twenty lads, including the players, speak, of course, nothing but Irish, and it was the most heartening experience X, personally, have had for a long time to sit amongst ...

... an accident of birth, from using the official organ of the Gaelic League to discourage non-native speakers from trying to speak in the national language. The outlook of this writer is revealed in the last few sentences of this article of his. He writes ...

... for be says if everyone who was there back.l No More the boolunakers must have had an extreu►ely bad race. As ease is, so to speak, sub Mice, no co lit can be offered as to the merits or otherwise of the unique proceeding. but it eau be stated th:►t case ...

... balance of play, the better side! won a poor game. The final on Sundal last was a very poor exhibition, and though, strictly speaking, neither side deserved to win, the team that ffot the only goal of the match ran out winners, Barruckton I7nited had been ...

... means a great one. There were plenty of tOrills and the pace was even faster than on the previous Saturday, but. strictly speaking, the standard of play could have been better. To my way of thinking the team who hold the beet chance iu the competition ...