The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-04-27

ireland every year to buy stained glass
windows for Irish churches and chan
els and | mean some of that to stick
in lrcland,' and so she had started
her stained glass. factory. | may add.
for it has its significance in Ireland.
be seen-that this lady was Protests
ant.
Among the guests was my old friend.
Lady Gregory. Lady Gregory is a. yerv
curious type Of what modern Ireland
is producing. She is a Persse by birth;
and all men who. like myself know
the old County of Galway, know that
the Persses represent. all that has been
for generations-nay renturies--land-
lord. Protestant. and English in their
sympathies. Her husband was a me1n-
her Of parliament for many years;
once fought Daniel O'Connelr for the
representation of Dublin; became gov.y
ernor OF Ceylon: WAS knighted; and
died in all the odor of official and anti.
w,
ter of the house of Persse and widow
f, of government official. is now one
fof the moving spirits Of the Gaelic
revival; is an even more important
figure i'm the Irish National Theater
movement for the preservation of a.
native Irish drama on native Irish
lines and conducted and acted by ma.
tive Irish actors: and she has con-
tributed more than ono piece-and
very excellent pieces. too--to the rep
ertoire Of this playhouse
| There is something new every hour:
the whole island is full of strange
noises such as those which bewildered
Caliban in Prosperos enchanted land,
The truth is that you see at this mo-
ment Il new nation rising. being born
under your very eyes. Later on. when
people have got the right perspective,
they will realize all this mighty trans
formation. this revolution and this re-
naissancc. as Lady Gregory called it;
realize tho fact that for seven CEN
turtles there has been a continual, a.
bloody. IL desperate war in Ireland,
between two races: and that the prize
for which they fought--was the land.
Tho Lalld!--tl1e Land!--the I.and!-.
there is the bait e cry that has brought
has drawn them from icy or torrid
deserts into cultivated plains,-has
been the secret and sinister motive
of all the invasions. all the crash and
the creation of empires in the history
Of the world,--and has therefore been
in Ireland 81 battle cry big enough,
worthy enough, vital enough, to make
one understand why two races should
think II worth while to fight under it
for even So long a period as seven
hundred years.
And now at last before our own
eyes, in this generat ton Of men to
which we belong. this secular struggle
is at an end; tho battle has been
fought and has been won: the land
1 DelOnSS again 10 Inc ancient CelIlC
race from which it was stolen cen.
turies ago; and the garrison. which
had behind it. all England and all
, England's power, is counting the sill
yer which it has received for surren-
dering it's territory and it's power.
Everybody in America knows as we'll
as We do in England that the act Of
Mr.. Wyndham has given to this prob.
lem of the reconquest of Ireland a
tremendous impulse; that now prac-
tically any man who holds d farm can
buy his land with the assistance Of
state money if the landlord and he
can agree to the terms; and that all
ready nearly half the soil of Ireland
has thus changed hands. and that the
second half will be transferred at a
much accelerated speed.
Everybody in America knows this