The sun., 1904-06-26
IRELAND'S NATIONAL REVIVAL
NEW LIFE INSPIRED BY THE
GAELIC LEAGUE.

NEW LITE 1NSIAHED DA III
GAELIC LEAGUE.
Some 7OO, 900 Persons OF All Ages studying
tho Gaelic TOngue-The Policing Of
Ireland-Bulls by an English NOblemar
The Old Irish Game OF Handball
It Is popularly believed that only ar
Irishman can turn bull loose with success
How Is this, then, for an English noble, q
member OF the House Of Lords:
.The noble and learned Earl on the WOOL
sack he said, shakes his head. and am
sorry to hear it"
An Irishman who had served his appren-
ticeship to bull-making could hardly do
better than that. As the Marquis Of Lon
donderry derives his title from Ireland,
the charitable world will probably overlook
an inoongruity in this remark. In dis
cussing in Parliament certain clause
in the recent Irish Land bill, he grew ex-
cited and said with vehemence:
sThis, my Lords, is the keystone OF the
bill Are you going to kill it?'
'Tis true, 'twould not be easy to beat
the famous Sir Boyle Roche, but the Mar
ouis of Londonderry is showing earnest
signs that he means to make a spoon or
spoil a horn, anyhow. In the course OF
subsequent discussion upon the Irish Land
bill he passionately informed the amazed
peers that This is the reason why you
have failed to settlethe Irish land question
in the future, as you have acne In the past.
And he startled them at another time
by the audacious announcement:
my Lords, I'd even go 30 far as to ven-
ture to think!'
This man would introduce the habits
Of the vulgar into the aristocratio assembly
ef the Lords.
Each day brings more startling evidence
OF the progress the Gaelic League is making.
Government returns just made out show
that whereas only sls pupils Of the primary
schools were learning Irish three years ago,
2Sls children Of the national schools OF
the country were studying their own Ian
euage on Dec. 81 last. which signifies that
upward Of 1000 900 children Of the national
schools of the country alone are learning
It to-day.
It Is concluded that another 100, 900 are
being taught Irish in the evening schools,
intermediate schools, Christian brothers
schools, and Gaelic League classes. En-
thusiasm for their Ian guage among the youth
OF the whole country Is unbounded and In
fictitious.
Since the restoration Of their language
to the Welsh and the Bohemians there has
not been In Europe any parallel for this
magnificent Gaelic revival. 1t IL astound-
ing none more than the wise heads among
ourselves, the eminently practical ones,
who pooh-poohed the Gaelic revival at its
start, and who for years obstinately refused
to see that 1t was year by year taking firm
hold upon tho hearts and the souls Of the
people, and whose eyes are nowadays being
forcibly opened, making them see how
silly after all it Is to be too wise.
It In pathetic now to see the struggles
OF some OF these men with the profound
mysteries Of Ia, an. Ia, to, in the Gaelic
primer.
Six years ago in the County OF Kilkenny
ono Of the gentlemen Of the Royal Irish
Constabulary. Timothy Carmichael, owed
q debt to a shopkeeper named ONeill.
O'Neill oame to the police barraok one day
to collect the debt and Constable Car
mlchael, having invented for himself new
way Of paying old debts, gave 1t to O'Neill
in bucllshot.
The law Of England says the King can do
no crime. English law. as It runs In Ireland,
says tho oonstabulary can hardly do any
crime.
Very much against the will OF the authori-
ties. Constable Carmichael was tried for
the wflf,l murder OF O,Neill, found guilty,
and sentenced to be hanged. The Lord
Lieutenant forthwith gave quite an effective
reprimand to Judge, and jury, and counsel
oy committing the sentence to imprisonment
:or life.
A few weeks ago, the jail gates were
opened, and Mr.. Carmichael was invited to
como out and look for moro shopkeepers.
It is confidently expected that he will give
a good account OF himself.
During the last quarter OF q century
several poor men, whose innocence was
unquestioned. were hanged in ireland,
despite pathetic appeals to the Lord Lieu
tenant for their reprieve. Poor Myles
Joyce, whose Innocent life was sworn away
by bribed perjurers and whose complete
Innocence was testified to by the guilty
men who died beside him, was swung into
eternity with heartrending protestations
OF innocence upon his lips.
It's trle, Justice h blind-very blind In
Ireland. Some say that her eyes have
bssn pioked out.
! suppose thsre Ia no country in the world
% thoroughly polioed - b Ireland. Tbs
most frequsnt features Of the country arc
IT. pdlios barracks.
You observe one OF these institutions
every three miles on any road you travel.
You observe half dozen lasy, big fellows
holding Up ths walls Of It; you Observe them