The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-12-29
IRELAND FOR
IRISH TEOPlE
Dr. Douglas Hyde Explains
ct st. Peters Hall the OBJ
iec.s and Accomplishments
cfthe Gaelic League
GREAT ORATORICAL EFFORT
SPLENDID AUDIENCE OF DIS
TINGUIsHED CITIZENS LISTEN
TO THE PLEA FOR THE PRES
ERyATIoN OF IRELAND's Ian
GUAGE, LITERATURE AND IN
DUSTRIES.

DIR. Douglass Hyde, President of the
Gaelic League of Ireland. delivered
most interesting lecture at st. Peters
Hall last night under the auspices of
the United Irish Societies of Hudson
County. Quite number of prominent
Irish Americans and citizens from vari-
Gus sections of the county making good
sized audience of mes and wsaAen, en-
joyed the lecture. The Rev. William
Mclaughlin, of ST. Augustine Church,
Union Hill, presided. Among tlrose who
occupied seat son the stage were Mgr.
John A. Sheppard. Rev. Father james
Kelly, Rev. Father John Boylan, Rev.
Father Charles Kelly. of Our Lady of
Grace Church, Eoboken; former Mayor
Edward Hoos, Dennis Gallagher, James
AIcNulty, Patrick O'AIara, President
Patrick O'Mara, of the United Irish So
cieties of Hudson County; Vice-Presi-
dent James L. Brennan, Secretary John
@. Lark:ns, Treasurer Dominick Jen-
nings, james J. Ferris, Edward j. Ken
nedy, John English and State Senator
James +. NIinturn.
Michael B. Holmes occupied front
seat in the auditorium.
The Gaelic League Quartette, of which
Senator Minturn is member, sang eft
in the Silly Night and Let Erin Re
member the Days of DID," and Mr. NJ.
J. Nolan sang Killarney" and other
Irish songs.
President Walterr 0'saaras Of the ieeal
United Societies, introduced Rev. Father
Mclaughlin as chairman. Both masa@
short addresses describing the progress
of TIE work in which the Gaelic League
is making towards making ireland a
home for the Irish. Father Mclaughlin
introduced DR.. Hyde as zone of the most
illustrious Irishmen of the past century"
DR.. Hyde is a fluent talker and grace
full orator. He is Irish to the backbone
and possesses to great degree the char
acteristic wit of the Irish people. There
were times during his lecture when he
had the audience spell-bound by flashes
Of eloquence and times when he had his
hearers roaring with laughter.
The Doctor said in part: I'VE are en-
gagged in this last grand struggle not
merely to preserve the Irish language.
but to keep the identity of the Irish as
nation. Be not deceived. Anglicizing
is only another name for national extinc-
ton, the destruction Of Ireland's lam
guage, her music. her poetry, her songs
and her games. We want to preserve
these for Irish heritage. The Gaelic
League is wiping all bitterness out of
tho country and inviting Irishmen on a
common basis. We are beyond all par
ties and factions.
I'VE want to see all our people sing
| ing Ireland's old songs and reading its
own literature, etc. The Gaelic League
| is not founded on hatred of England,
but it is founded ON a love for ireland.
You cannot build anything up on hatred,
| but love will move mountains. We have
moved mountains. While the Irish peo-
pie, it would seem, had almost ceased
lish. The Irishman realizes that he has
| no country. Ireland lost its language
and its customs. We must restore these
! before we build up nation that will be
recognized throughout Europe 1t doesn't
make any difference whether the Irish
man be Yor:kshireman a Somerset
shireanan, call upon him to stop imitat-
ing nation that &c cannot stomach.
/ We must be IN Ireland one thing or the
other. 1t is impossible to put up with
the hybrid imitation of the English.
The Murphys, the lSulliyans, the Ken
nys are getting back some Of their Irish
soil. 1t is well for the Irish to say tc
England: . i was a nation when you were
sayages' But ireland is rot threatened
with national extinction if the Gaelic
League succeeds in restoring its language
and custons.''
! The speaker here told a story Of .
man he encountered and spoke to il
Gaelic and who admitted that while HI
never heard anything but that Language
spoken at koule he refused to speak it.
Il could not help it, !" said The speaker
.'but ] hit the fellow who wouldn't speal
Irish when t Was Sxusht lin It home