... disuse. Thirty years ago the priests as well as the peopleY of our parish were Irish-speaking. To-day the peopie are still Irish-speaking, but the supply of Iriah.! speaking priests in the diocese at large has nearly : failed and the parish has suffered as ...

... our teachers should not merely be feeling their way after a language while teaching ; but should be able to think in it and speak it, not as foreigners, but in a certain sense, as natives, That principle is being carried out with very great carc in the ...

... 1 am certain that if it had been allowed to continue, it would have brought about a big silent revolution in the county I speak of. A small prize of five pounds is equivalent to a hundred pounds in the eyes of a farmer, because it is a prize. They lose ...

... Gunboat Smith's Defeat. MMB.DARBY BILNLET. who accom. ponied Gunboat Is Cork. speaks higkly of tb hasOtality extended gifts of the capital. Cork the Saturday sight.** party were escorted to a hotel. sad visited place.' of the following day which Included ...

... WHICH LEAD NOWHERE VERILY the ways of selectors aro obscure, and their methods incomprehensible. Selectors are, generally speaking, a painstaking body of men who do their work conscientiously, and in most cases well. Theirs is at best a thankless kob, ...

... similarity in style which possibly might upset our own men, who might get rattled at being met upon their own ground, so to speak. This is most unlikely, however, and it is far more probable that our ataying power will win the day. The sustained forward ...

... man named Walsh, oho lived in a small cottage where Curragh View now stands. Mountjoy Lodge is steeped in Turf history. Te speak of the suceesses achieved by its present owner we do not intend, as they are too well known. but. it can be said with safety ...

... and there were those who affirmed that he had got rid of all his old eccentricities, that the Stewart we knew had. so to speak, changed his spoto and developed into a staid, orthodox full back. We saw nothing at Lansdowne Road last Saturday to persuade ...

... subject. Every decision you give is questioned, he explained. This business is going too far. When a senior umpire has to speak thus there seems ti be something wrong with the behaviour of players on the field. A rule had been developed amongst clubs ...

... [ i interesting to note how he would deal with (], people in public life who speak contemptuonsly of the language. In the DAil and Seanad and in’ the Press he says they speak and wrote and reflect on the Gaels. Some of those people try to be funpy, but ...

... to “Ca Uladh and men like him, the change was wholly due. “ e 1 Uladh ™ is by no means a pup, but T have never heard him speak with more youthful vigour. The lecture was ideal in delivery, in matter, in tone, in geography In geography I say, for Aengus ...

... different with the new generation. They are all Jeaving school with a fair smattering of Irish, and so Irish and an Irish-speaking community have not the same terrors for them as was the case with their fathers. They will, therefore, not have the ignorant ...