The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-05-06
A GROSS LIBEL ON THE IRISH.
That's What Alleged History Of Ire
land in the "Historan's
History of the WorId'' Is.

(Letter to the Irish World.)
Editor Irish World:
A copy of the accompanying letter
was mailed to the Outlook Publishing
company. New York. protesting against
the rank bieotry shown in the treat
ment of Irish history in their "Histo-
rianS History of the World.
They solicited by subscription for the
work and sent volume II. treating of
Irish history. I read 1t through and
found it full of errors. and what ap-
pears to be wilful suppression of we'll
authenticated facts and other historical
data.
1t is not only a special plea for the
ratification of English rule in Ireland,
but it maligns and villifies the Celtic
race at every opportunity. The muir
deress Queen Elizabeth and the mon
ster Cromwell are lauded for thsir
great craftsmanship towards Ireland
Evidently, in the mind of the modern
Anglo-Saxon compiler of the "Histori-
ans History" the butchery of unarmed
and helpless Irishmen, Irish women and
Irish children was good policy; and the
only sorrow, but lily concealed, in the
satanic heart of the scoundrel who
wrote the so-called Irish history for the
Outlook. was that the work inaugu-
rated by his English predecessors was
not more thoroughly carried out by
Cromwell in entirely destroying the
Irish race in Ireland
The campaign of slandsr and degra-
dation against the Irish race is assum-
ing new phase, and is directed prin-
cipally towards influencing the more
highly educated element of the Amer
lean people. 1t is enough to denounce
this typical Anglo-Saxon scoundrelism,
Tric Ii A 1n,.idp Oh ,,cs-t ~,
the only true and effective remedy for
such villiflcation, namely. that Irish
history be taught in all-Catholic schools
and that it should be on an equal
footing with English French or Ger
man history in our public schools.
| often wonder at the lack of inter-
est and especially at the ignorance of
human nature displayed by our Ameri-
can clergy In not utilizing to its fullest
extent the noble and sublime heritage
OF our Irish forefathers in their unpar-
alleled and victorious fight for the
Catholic faith and Celtic motherland
during the long and terrible centuries
of England's accursed and prosecuting
rule in Ireland. Irish history is the
most potent antidote to Professionalism
and infidelity. Where is the American
with even a drop of Irish blood in his
veins who would not feel proud and
most highly honored to claim kinship
with those illustrious and indomtable
Irish saints who spread the light of
Christianity and civilization over pa
gan Europe from the fifth to the tenth
century? The names of Columbia of
Iona. Columbanus of France and Italy,
st. Gall of Switzerland, Adamnan, Fur
sey, Fridolin, Brendan, Virgilus and
hundreds of others who are honored
and immortalized not only in the be-
loved isle of their nativity, but all over
continental Europe.
Anglo-Saxon ideals of plumber, per-
secution and perfidy went down in de-
feat and disgrace before the divine Gel
tic ideals of religious and political
freedom. The example and victory of
the brave and generous Celts over the
cunning and cruel Saxons should be an
and beacon light to all op-
pressed and downtrodden peoples. But
as eternal vigilance is the price of polit-
lcal liberty, so is it also of religious lib
erty and equality. Anglo-Saxon ideals,
driven out of Ireland, are acquiring a
firm foothold ain the United States
These ideals no longer seek the destruc-