The sun., 1905-11-19
IRELAND IS BEING AWAKENED.
DR, hyde TELLS OF THE GAELIC
LEAGUES GREAT WORK.
Revival OF the Ancient Language but
Small Part OF the WOrk--Industries
Take a Zig Leap Upward-To Check
Emigration Chances for Investment.

EmIGration-C Chances for Inyestm ent.
DIR. Douglas Hyde, president Of the Gaelic
league in Ireland, who has come over to
America TO tell us what Ia doing in old Erin,
told a reporter for THE Sun yesterday
that Irish Americans don't know anything
about Ireland and that he didn't even
know there was Prince Louis OF Batten-
berg until he came to the United States.
"The Gaelic League" he said, SIS purely
an intellectual revival and in no way a
political move. We will try to educate the
peorle and-trust to time and the new
old Irish for the rest. Ireland has been
n poor imitation county Of the English ma
ton. She is race, nation, people OF
her own, and the Gaelic League is rapidly
forcing q recognition Of this fact upon the
peorle. We are awakening individuality
and self-reliance. a
aWe have witnessed In the last three
years a striking intellectual revolution.
Ireland Is come to be Ireland, and not
a poor imitation Of a county Of nearby
State, Irish is spoken in many homes; it
is taught in more then 5000 schools; school
masters receive premiums for every child
who passes in Gaelic; more than half
million books and pamphlets were issued
by the Gaelic League last year alone. and
men and women who would without the
encouragement we have given them have
remained inert all their lives have come
to the front and are spending their lives
in the revival OF our ancient and beautiful
language.
we have more than forty recognized
writer's in Gaelic now, novelists, play
wrights, philosophers and compilers OF
text books. number of women have
come to the front in Gaelic scholarship.
Una O'Farrelly, Ma O'Byrne and Mollie
O'Kennedy are among those who have
won renown by their Gaelic writings. One
OF the most highly interesting novels Of
this generation and which one translators in
English, German and French have deemed
worthy their notice is 'shaadna,' written
by Father Peter O'Leary, rector Of Castle
Lyon in County Cork"
One of the chief aims OF the league, DR..
Hyde Gays, is to check emigration. Our
people leave our shores because they don't
know our country he went on; because
they have no interest in the hist ory, the
races, classes and traditions of the country,
but, most Of all, because there is no industry
there to interest them. Through our WORK
the industries have also taken q big leap.
Not very long ago only thosS thhg5
bearing ioreign hali marx couiu De SOLO
PEOPLE, that is, all affiliated with the Irish
Gaelic League, P9y nothing except what Is
lnaoe IN lreiano; Dr. Hyae himssH wore
SUIT oil IRISH homespun, anu where MS
trousers were turned up nome khl1 Drown
Wool % spens were dlspayea, ... 1o,
Dr. hyde expressed the nope that IRISH
American hnanoiers would go 70 ireland
10 invest their money. ne oeheVeo u
womd prlhg lorth Neritaoie insurance
HGTts, .,
o, ne naeno league IS oniy Ten years olu,
ana only seven years nave we worked @ out
IN the pubic nght, ne continued we
,aEe Appealed 70 OLD irish People-to the
hc :, ana ihe os, 70 the lrlsh masses VINO
Nsa ne yer been appeaIed 10 since tne battie
Ei t,ie boyhe-and ior the tllst tme IN TWO
i,. nuitured years the olo irish spirit mas peeh
evoked and mas become power In Irish