The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-07-07
EVENTS IN IRELAND.
Matters Of Importance Transpiring in
The Old Land.
Mt. Charles. Ireland. June 20. :

Mt. Charles. Ireland. June 20. :
Tomas Ban O'Conceannain. chief
organizer of the Gaelic League in Ire
land and advance agent of Dr. , ,u:-
las Hyde, during the E,ttcr's tour in
the United States. has just returned
home overlooking with praise of
America and the Americans. The
Gaelic tour has been IL tremendous
SucccSs--a success far beyond any
thing we had anticipated. writes
ScumaS MacManus to the Cathoi
Union and Times. The warmth with
which Irelands delegates were re-
crivcd. and the large sums of money
that flowed in to them. to help for
ward the Gaelic cause. was simply
wonderful. OConceannain says that
he believes America, has. for the first
time awakened to Il proper apprccia-
ton OF things Irish. He considers. too,
that Irish America has been stirred
out of Il lethargy by DIR. Hyde's tour.
The divided councils amongst our peo-
Pile in the United States disappeared.
when the great Gaelic scholar and en-
thusiast stood in the midst Of our
Irish eXiles. and pleaded with them to
help restore our nations soul. OCon-
ceannain adds that the good work
done by Hyde in drawing together
upon IL common platform our people ii,
America, and in elevating their ideal
and aim. has lifted from the shoulders
of those who had striven for the. IN
forty years work.
Tomas Ban. after his eight months
very strenuous work in the States,
looks and feels remarkably well. The
people here at home, too. We're glad ~
learn from him that the strain upOl
DR.. Hyde. whom he had always con-
sidered constitutionally weak, had not
proved in any way injurious. as We
had feared it would He has brnugh,
home with him between fifty and six
ty thousand dollars, sum that will
give the work of the League here n
splendid flip. and that will keep our,
organization in atfluence for some
years to come. This splendid con-
tributiOn from Irish America will have
stimulating effect upon our people
at home: it is already squirting them
to greater effort in the great cause,
heart of the exile. Great has been
the work done by the Gaelic League in
the past five years. but it will be
reckoned small in comparison with
the work which, we all know, will be
done in the next five years. The
Gaelic cause is certainly and steadily
going forward to success.
The revival of our language is IDEAL
istic. 1t Is strange how the practical
goes forward with the ideal. hand in
hand. The same men and women who
are doing such remarkable work for
the revival Of nationality through our
language are. at the same time. doing
wonderful work for Irish industrial re-
matchmaking Ireland Il country where
boys and girls may earn Il living wage.
Ireland used to be raising ground,
supplying young men and young
women of brain and Drawn to America
and elsewhere. Our own people were
coming to look upon 1t in this light
Things are rapidly changing now, and
our young people are, after long in
terval, coming to realize it is coun-
try to live ones life in and enjoy it
"a country that can generously sup
ply them with the material good things
of this world as we'll as the ideal. 1t
is significant that the latest quarterly
returns for Ireland show a slight in
crease in population. We pray God
that the tide has turned, and we be-
lieve in our hearts it has.
The Esd of this month of June is the
anniversary of the date when, in 1912