... beat i. Dublin. They ar. free to ladies. who the Frftman hate the right to attend for week. •'SPEAKS FOR of and the increasing for Hornim ! Tea s speaks for itself. owint delicious flavour. 2a > Tea —Dublin-Ban. 94 Wexford street; Grant, Poat-offloe ...

... In 1881 the Irish- speaking population numbered close on 900,000; in 1891 the number had dwindled to less than 700,000. The intervening de- cade was the period of greatest activity in the movement to preserve Irish. Roundly speaking, therefore, this ' ...

... rapidly dying out, and ?? few sof the rising generation speak it, though it sf1l1 lingers amid the remoter recesses of Kerry, in the far south, and Donegal in the north- west. The largest Irish-speaking district in the whole island-the province of Connaght ...

... honour of inviting me to speak to the toast, and that I had, though I felt my unworthi- best, accepted it. When the toast was being proposedI exchanged seats with my friend The O'Conor Don, that I might have a better position to speak from Your readers will ...

... answered. The Welsh-speaking population numbers about 900,000. The Irish-speaking popular tion is returned in the Census of 1891 as close on 700,000. In each of three Irish countie; Galway, Cork, and Al.ayo, over 100,00M people speak Irish. When the Welsh ...

... language. Hje makes it a canse of punish-, ment to speak lrish in the school, and has instituted a sort of police amongsit their parents to see that in their intercourse with one another at home the children speak nothing but English. 'rhis very intelliggeut ...

... permission I would be gladto elicit-some practical suggestions from my f-iend amog the teachers, especially in the Irish-speaking counties of the South and West, on 3some few Points inl connection --with. the ?? of the Wish language in the schools. The ...

... and translating bgot's, a course which may lead to a fa-ilit) in translation, but not to speaking ; therefore, in order to learn to speak, we must oegin by speaking and not by translating Hitherto this simple reflexion appears to have escaped all the System ...

... beyond personal considerations. When I speak, Whieh I do this Week, I usti speak my mind, and speak it without refference to party. Under these circumstances it is best for myself and the party that I should speak, notas a leader but as a free man. I conse- ...

... CViitia! K\eeuiive sent copies of pouter and htndbill which have l«een widely distributed that jiatiict, exhorting the people speak Irish all occasions, and reminding them that the language tlie one mar* nationality that remains to us. The Kiltuihil Branch ...

... excitement prevailed for some time after the declaration of the poll. Mr Reekitt proceeded to his committee rooms where, speaking from the window, he said that his side had done their best to fight fairly on political lines. As to the fature he could ...

... of it in the columns of a news. paper would be either interesting or instructive to the public. In Ireland, where public speaking is so generally practiced by all classes, the study of elocution should be peculiarly interesting; and the very crowded state ...