The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-12-18
CROWD CHEERS
IRISH SPEAKER
President Of Gaelic League In
Ireland Cordially Received.
OPENED HIS ADDRESS IN GAEL IC
Speaker Told Good Sized Audience Of
LesSusS Successful Work In The
Emerald Isle.
OPENED HIS ADDRESS IN GAELIC

Providence opera House was packed
last night with "A big contingent which
came out TO attend the grand reception
60 Douglas Hyde. IL. D., president OF
the Gaelic League In ireland The only
empty seats were IA the upper gallery
and the greater part of the seats there
were occupied The reception was held
under the auspices Of the Providence
branch OF the Gaelic League and was
complete success. The meeting was called
10 order shortly after O'Clock by Thorn
as f. Cooncy. chairman of the comitttee,
who introduced Very Rev. Thomas r. Do
ran. v c.. as chairman OF the meeting
lie delivered a brief address I'm which he
said that Dr Hyde had come here 10
speak OF ireland among his friends. "AnS
We are friends OF his said the speaker.
while We come here to do him honor we
also come to learn OF the new movement
in Ireland ! refer 10 the work OF the Gae-
lie League. 1t is rcviylng the Irish lam
guagc and IL Is doing moro 10 revive
Irish industry.
at has doubled and trebled tho industry
OF Ireland since Il was started. II is also
beginning TO keep at home the Irish
young men and women who are the back.
bone OF ireland. II is also doing much
work For Sobrlety" Tho speaker then in
troduccd Or. Hyde who was received
with a prolonged burst Of applause that
amounted 10 an ovation He spoke at first
IN tho Gaelic tongue That there were
some IN the audience who could under
stand and appreciate what he said I'm that
language was evidenced by a voice i'm
the gallery, which shouted out a response
10 one Of his remarks i'm the same lam
guage.
After speaking I'm Gaelic few minutes
DR. Hyde addressed his audience In Eng
lish. He is a fluent talker and his words
which were laden with a strong appeal
Tor rejuvenatcd Ireland were listened
"a with close attention and frequently an
plauded He said I'm part:
II have talked 10 you few minutes I'm
Gaelic, but you need not he alarmed
am going to tell you the rest Of what 7
have 20 say i'm English that you may all
understand me. IL would be a disgrace n
did not az least open an address To Irish
people in the Irish language. and say
Few words TO them ina the mother tongue
i am not eXaggcrating when / say the
best asset ! could take with me to Ire
land would DE the hearty moral support
of you here IN America. There is not a
man. woman or child I'm Ireland who has
not from one 10 dozen relatives in Amer
tca. Ireland is now engaged in the last
struggle she can ever make To preserve
not only her language. but her national
tty. The movement we are engaged I'm
is not one Of faddists II has long since
gone beyond that. II is a movement which
Is above mere partisan or denominationaI
feeling IL takes IN and embraces all
parties and crecds.
There is nothing in our movement Of
which either Protestant or Catholic need
b. ashamed. We are not a factional
party. but we are a party of all factions
We offend nobody except the anti-Irish-
man. We stand today on the bedrock
nTinpiDle az tfppalftN Il.
understood by the people Of every nation
in Europe today.
I'VE stand for self-suficient aud
self-sustaining Ireland, with it's own
language. its own laws, it's own lltera-
ture, its own traditions and its own
everything that goes to mako up a ma
tion. our movement is founded not on
hatred OF England, but on love of ireland
No movement that IL founded on hatred
can live or last long, but one based on
love, especially Of native country cannot
fail TO endure.
The Gaelic league is founded on that
truth that no nation can compete with
some oth-r nation I'm something which is
natural for the other nation, but il can
excel an that which is natural 10 itself
When We can beat all Europe at some
things is IL not foolish for us to throw
away that which we can do to attempt
something that we cannot do? II Is the
work of our leagu To turn Ireland back
upon herself The characteristics of the
English people are perseverance. business
ability and the power of accumulating
money. The Irish race has been dazzlcd
by the prosperity to which Il is tied
The suicidal madness for everythinc
that is English Is not because OF the good
there is In IL. but because it is English
rms has been very bad for Ireland as a
nation. If We can change all that by
turning lreland's eyes back TO herself and
not have her twisting her neck 10 look
at England as fashion plate We shall
nave taken n long step in the right direc-
uon
ireland was once one OF the most cul-
uvatcd nations OF Europe, and now II
is one OF the least so. / want 10 show
you that the failure of ireland to ac-
compltsh anything is because she has
ceased To be- Irish without becoming Eng
llsh. Men cmigrate from Ireland because
they have ceased to feel that ID is their
country In Englishlzing themselves Irish
men have thrown away the only thing
they could do To preserve their ma
pr Hyde spoke for two hours on the
rejuvcnation OF Ireland. talking OF the
work which has been accomplished by the
league and It's effect on conditions in Ire
land which have been very materially inn
proved i'm the last dozen years. both along
educational and industrial lines.
Dr. Hyde was entertained yesterday n
tcrnoOn by Thomas 4 O'Gorman at his
residence on Doyle avenue. Among those
present at dinner were Rev. Thomas r.
poran, vicar general Rev. J. &. Walsh
Michael Dooley. James Hanley. Or 10.
scph +. Hawkins. r. i. Gilbane, r. p
Cooney Thomas f. Monahan, NJ. s.
Dwycr and Col. +. ~. Quinn.
John r. Mullen. at the conclusion Of Dr
IIyde's address. sang THE Wearing Of
the Green" John Mccarthy. president OF
the local branch OF the Gaelic league
presented Dr. Hyde with an address I'm
Gaelic to which he made fitting re-
sponse in that tongue, The evening con-
cuded with the rcqdine ~ a poem I'm
Gaelic by Rev. J. +. Sullivan