The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-04-21

| easy to master. I have no doubt that it 10 q
| semitic language, but am not, OF course
| competeDt judge, and think investiRsuon
would show that it is nearly the same as the
| language spoken in the Basque PROVINCES.
! great many places in Turkey have Irish names
Now, Balaklavs is almost the same az bsiia-
| Kleagh, which is the Irish for Dobiin, signify
| ing the city bnilt In hurdleB! Yeni Sagra, III
! Bulgaria. where the Turks aud Russians were
doug 30 much fighting, is the Irish for Iowa
bic people = and feel certain that IL scholar
were to visit Bulgaria for the purpose. he
| wonld be able to aud many traces OF the Irish
| language in the names of places and 10 the
| tongue spoken by the people.
why, then. is not the language more gen.
| orally taughtP
ance of An acquaintance with it and perhaps
you are not aware that o chair OF Celtic has
been established at Oxfordf The glish tried
their utmost to ex terminate the Language The
Danes came first, and did their dire work, and
the English followed after. 1t was not very
long ago when Is was paid for the head of an
Irish schoolm aster, and Bishop England's own
father was thrown into prison for teaching IT.
II child was heard to speak work OF Irish
in school, he or she was sent home with q
badge of dshonor upon them. England then
tried to stamp out the Irish as Russia did the
Polish language, or as Austria attempted. in
'46 and go, to do with the Bohemian. Bot,
now that the language is dying out, she awak.
| ems TO its Importance, and, In order to pre-
serve it, establishes a chair for it in her most
prominent college,"
Lbs bAo AAlru AohSueB0 SA 'ASP~tsS-S 'N'>'
1T has. Some of the most ancient and valu-
able manuscripts in Europe ere in Trinity
College, Dublin, "a also ut Paris, the Vatican
and Salamanca. Its general literature was
fl ne one, witness the poems Of Ossinn (which,
by the way, some of my parishioners can re-
cite from memory for hours togetherl. Aroh-
bishop MacHale, too, has translated Homer
into Irish hexameters as powerful and musical
as the lines of the blind poet himself"
"Do you know" asked the reverend gentle
ftaA Ii. =. L.,
honored and . knowledge OF the Irish Ian
gnage priced bigblyi Napoleon sent to Ire
land for three of its scholars to deoipher some
ancient writings, and this was certainly an
evidence that be priced their learning. When
Field Marshal Hngent, Of Austria, was visited
by grand nephew of bis, who had come from
Ireland, the Marshal addressed him in the Irish
SO
him that he told him he disowned him, and
| commanded him to go back to his native coun-
try and learn something about ito language.
Cardinal Mezsofanti, along with the many
other languages he knew, could speak the
tongues of Munster and Counaught. DR.. Rus
sell, of Maynooth College, onoe visited him at
Cardinal address him in Irish. His surprise
| soon changed into modification, and when the
Doctor returned to Ireland he began q study of
the language, and afterwards became one of
tho most eminent Of Celtic scholars"
"Do you know" asked Father Henry, "that
! believe Hannibal spoke Irish 1"
"WhRt Hannibal =" the reporter queried.
"Why Hannibal, the Carthagenian. He was
Php oioian, and the Irish are descendants of
the Pn0 0nsciRns."
Father Henry then went en- to say that there
were $780, 600 now annually expended on the
teaching of German, aud why not add another
$1,000 and teach the Irish toof But how
about the ether languagesf He believed they
all ought to be tauRht-Irish. German, Italian,
French, Spanish, Turkish, Russian, Chinese,
Japanese and everything. He would make
| st. Louis po}yglot city, that would be q
Mecca for students all over the world. Thou
sands of scholars would be drawn into its
| Schools and the consequent beneficial result,
ocoasioned by increased commercial and other
lay. If it was intended to make st. Louis the
future great city of the world, nothing would
| 30 much tend to do it than to make it poly
Rlot city ard invite to it people from all parts
of the world, who would settle here for the
sake of having their children educated.
As the reporter was leaving, Father Henry
called his attention to the fact that the pres
ent cutlery against the German language was
not made uutii the subject of Irish in the
public echools was broaohed, and he believed
that the outcry was purposely raised by per-
sons hostile to the Irish language aud the Irish
| race in order to place all the detriment pos
sible in the way of making n knowledge of the
Celtic language accet sibe to the children of
Celtic parents.
| 1T 10 only for want of funde, know" said
Father Henry, by way of parting paragraph,
that they object to Introducing 1t just now,
but hope that before long theit fnnds will be
| in an improved and much better condition"
! PILGRIMAGE TO ST. PATRICKS S GRAVE
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