The Irish standard., 1905-12-02
And Has Furnished to the Returned Exile 4
Position and Home Where He Can
Live Out His Days.
Dr. Douglas Hyde, Well Received Everywhere
iu This Country, is Invited to Dine
With the President.

The following letter from James *.
Mcguire, ex-Mayor Of Syracuse, APP
peared in the last issue of the Catholic
Sun of that city,:
If there ever was an Irishman who
deserved a warm welcome from the
sons and daughters Of the Cclts and
the Gaels OIL this side OF the Atlantic
Ocean that man is DR.. Douglas Hyde,
president of the Gaelic League In Ire
land, who is visiting our more or less
hospitable shores. 10 this persistent
scholar and indefatigablc leader in the
Gaelic restoration movement, more
than all other individuals combined,
saving the national spirit OF the race
is due the greatest intellectual revival
dead, that the world has known. we
may say that the genius OF this man,
among many other successful efforts in
the same direction, inspired the move
ment which led to the Ancient Order OF
HibernianS of America giving S5O.00O
for the endowment fund of Il Gaelic
Chair in the Catholic University at
Washington. l hope that Seumas Nc
Manus, the best gcninely Irish legend
writer and folklore story teller since
the days of Croker. who is coming
over this winter will be as we'll re-
| ceived as DIR. Hyde.
il race is to remain n race in the
real sense, the language of the race
must be preserved. The Irish ana the
| Scotch have their racial characteristics
| I'm every other respect save and except
| ing in their language. Their tongue Is
the tongue of tn Saxon and the old
Irish language Is as different from The
English tongue as the French language
varies from the German or the Rus
sian The ablcst linguists and author
tiles on language not necessarily Irish
have stated that the Gaelic language
| and tongue is the purcst spoken. An(
ii is fact that the best English. Gu
riously enough, is spoken in the me-
tropois Of Ireland.
Thanks to the marvellous work O.
Dir. Douglas Hyde and his intellectual
compatriots, the spirit Of reviving tho
Irish language has permeatcd all Ire
land and has spread beyond its shores
to America, to Canada. and to Austria.
| T,fo i,,,en
| lives. Let DR.. Hyde tell the story o.
the wonderful achievements Of thu
Gallo League in his own words, ant
! visitors from the old land and Irisl
| periodicals tell us that he is over.
modest in his narrative of intellectual
Ireland:
I'VE have witnessed in the last three
years striking intellectual revolution
Ireland is come to be Ireland, and no
II poor imitation of q county of near.
by state. Irish is spoken in many
| homes; 1t is taught in more than 5000
miums for every child who passes ii
| Gaelic; more than half million book:
| and pamphlets were issued by the
Gaelic League last year alone, and mer
and women who would without the ell.
| cOuragemcnt we have given them hav.
remained inert all their lives have come
| to the front and are spending theil
| lives in the revival Of our ancient ant
beautiful language.
| 1--WE have more than forty recognized
writer's in Gaelic now, novelists, play.
wrights, philosophers and compilers O.
text books. A number of women hav.
come to the front in Gaelic scholarship
Una O'Farrelly, Ma O'Bryne and Mol.
lie O'kennedy are among those who
have won renown by their Gaelic writ.
ings. One of the most highly inter.
esting novels Of this generation ant
one which translators in English, Ger.
man and French have deemed worthy
their notice is 'Sheadna,' written b,
Father Peter O'Leary, rector of Castle
Lyon in County Cork"
One of the chief aims of the league
DR.. Hyde says, is to check emigration
"Our people leave our shores because
they don't know our country" he went