The two men agreed that an effort should be made to preserve the physical strength of our race. These two men were singularily alike in temperament, in their hatred of iniquity, in their passionate love of Ireland, and in their implicit faith in the ultimate triumph of Ireland. The younger of the two was more passionate and hurried in manner and methods than his more matured friend, whose scorn and hatred flashed more through his laughter than his tears. The younger went to jail and died in Mountjoy convict prison in November, 1891. The elder dreamt along and largely helped to found the GAA, on the first of November, 1884.
History is too much neglected in Ireland.
This is a deplorable fact. The men who have done untold services are too often forgotten soon after the clay is shovelled over them. Men whose money and brains and lives are always forthcoming to serve their fellow-men are too often rewarded with a funeral, a few wreaths and perhaps a pile of stones with their names written in the language of the race they hated. Their teaching is too often forgotten. I here desire to inform the friends of PW Nally in Connaught that he did more to encourage and strengthen and sustain his friend, whose feeble hand and uncertain pen trace these lines, than any layman that agreed to found the Gaelic Athletic Association for the preservation and cultivation of the National Pastimes of Ireland.