The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-08
F1abbergast.

Ireland in Mikla-Great Ireland Why they called it
great Ireland instead of great Norseland or great any
thing ee has puzzled historians from that day to this
The Norsemen were as much at home in Ireland
they in their country for centuries and it must
have been something in the appearance OF this country
or in the natives that suggested to the Scandinavian
sea rovers the idea of another Ireland but greater
Now there is tradition in Ireland, that long before
the Norsemen skinned along the rugged shores of New
England Brendan had left Ireland and sailing into the
setting sun never returned There also tradition in
Wales, that Prince Madoch of that country sailed to
the West and founded colony in some great and dis
tant continent.
1t has been proved by all historians that all national
traditions and legends based facts. Of course
time and lively imaginatons, have colored the
original facts, and so coated them with felton, as
to give skepticsm chance to shake her unbeieving
head at anything handed down orally from generation
to generation. We must not forget that all ancient
history is based on tradition legend That Greece
has to go back to the siege of Troy, and Rome to
VOLTS den
WHY not take the tradition of Brendan and the
Prince of Wales-not the heir apparent-and give
them equal credit with the siege of Troy and the VOLTS
den !? Because Homer was not Irish any of the
Roman historians Welshmen. What we want to get at
is that Brendan and the Welsh prince did reach America
and founded colonies. That they had not become
absorbed in the red race of America when the Morse
men visited their country, and that Brendan and his
Irish colony received their old friends for the North
men and the Irish did always regard each other
enemies but ntermarried with each other and often
lived on the most friendly terms.
Now, this would give plausible reason why the
Mortimer should call America Ireland in Mika.
That there is some affinity between the Indian chiefs
and the Irish chiefs is capable of proof. We have
spoken with an Irshman who informed that during
recent visit to ST. Paul he went out hunting
petition and falling in with tribe up there could
verse with them He in Irish, they in Indian. More
of this at another time when the gentleman himself
will give us his ideas on the matter.
We were led to this depression by reading the ex-
perence of the New York correspondent Of the Dublin
h,Aanan d. Id. He landed recently in New York,
and but for the absence of red and union jacks
would have imagined himself in ireland the little
instead of Ireland the big He heard the " conductor
of an omnibus speak with "a lazy Cork brogue and
gigantic policeman Baldwin the Irish giant, probably
with long coat and fiat cap and fiat buttons talking
to an old apple woman with fat brogue What they
were talking about is not down. Probably the police
man was using the Irish brogue to seduce the modern
Eve out of apple for nothing Ho! no! No won
der the skalds of Scandinavia called America the big
Ireland thousand years ago, when an Irish policeman
with fat brogue speaking to an Irish apple woman
on the corner When the =" conductor of an omnibus
uses lazy Cork brogue, and the women walk out in
New York with shawls thrown their heads as they
do in Garryowen IF asked what influence the police
men and apple of to-day could have on the skads
of thousand years ago, answer in the language of
Dean Swift
"Solomon wise man,
| Absalom was a handsome man,