The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-05-25

Palmyra and Baabec would untuored Connaught
of that ought in Mayo Connemara
entirely Celtic they Let take Palmyra exam
pe 1t made of words that exist precisely in the
form in the modern Irish language and P signify
ing palace court and nr, meaning pleasure enjoy
Thus have the palace of pleasure, pleasure court
most appropriate for Palmyra in its pamy days. we
may be certain To home the Gaelic for
Scotland A5ai* formed from the roots alp lump pro-
uberance, but generally meaning mountain and tain
in this without the Immediately
preceded by region country Thus
have fully expressed the characteristic of Scotland
the land of mountains The English acting accordance with
their natural habit of taking what does not belong hem
have appropriated this for their country but Eng
land known by the of Albion the ancents
Britain the only find applied to England by
the Romans by ancient writers of every nationality
We trust that the foregoing remarks will be sufficient to
those had either the
desire study the subject that the old and
say astadng language of Erin is amongst the very Oldest
and amongst the most widely SPREAD tongues of the
earth From the Indus the Shannon it stereoyped for
on HILL river valley 1t than probable for
it certain that who first raised cities the
plains of Asia Minor by the still waters of the Mediterranean
and under the burning of Africa belonged to the Celtic
race spoke the language of the Gael They called
of these cities Carthage Cairo Kar Carnacn of
which the Celtic root Catha pronounced Kar
places in the East find the Celtic root upon which the
is formed and carried back in Imagination prehs
orc times before the many polished languages of antiquity
existed and when great Gaelic mother tongue overpread
regions of the EARTH Many think that this cropping
into the dark unumed regions of the past nothing more
than time that the endeavor decpher the rude le
gend traced the rudr plarstone monoth waste
of labor They tell there is in the smallest steam
engine than all mammoth py amds of the Pharaohs
of porb ;o hut
what mere machines would become if turned
attention solely the things practical We think tn
less rather the more of the wondrous inventions of the
present. when look them side by side with the rude
implements of the past We feel delight in gazing
modern steamship when compare it with the fra
shapey dsenombed from the where had lain
The study of the old and the imperfect does not
necessarily estrange from what modern and complete but
rather makes the thankful for them There is
of practical and too little of the poetic in modern
ife especially in America. People be unsentmenta
as sentimental and may easily fall into the of
thinking little of the past To sustain national aspira
tons only love- but deep for the past is ab
soutey necessary Was it the Greece of antiquity that
gave life the Greece of to-day? Men will know how
many martyrs have the stories of Their
mopya and Marathon. Even in America, young it is
Washington has become the parent of many martyrs We
pity the people that have heroes history Dark and
dreay the history of Ireland has been for centuries of
brightness intervals til because have
loved their light enough that not free to-day The
Ishmn who takes interest in the language Hugh Ne
and Sarsfed feel offended when foreigners call him
Engshman and deride his ideas of distinct nationality
The dmnes the imperfect light about ancient Irish Subjects
has been prime obstacle in the of Irish regeneration This
dmness solely the result of fire and sword The Dane
Norman the Puritan followers of Cromwell loved sack
colleges and burn books They knew like the modern
ouerors India and China that every vesge they left of the
refinement or civilization of their victims would witness
against them all time. Enough however, spared to
testify against them and the people of Ireland be made all
the more patriotic and noble by the study of everything
nected with their country and their
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