The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-20
The OIREACHTAS IN DUBLIN
RESULTS or GAELIC REVIVAL
~ MANY FIELDS SHOWN.
AeU Spirit In Ireland Exhibited at the
National Festival-The Movement
Industrial rs Well as Intellectual
Women Active In the WORK.

o SniEtt In Ireland Exhibited nj the
National Festiyal-The Movement
Industrial rs Well rs Intellectual
Women Active In the WORK
DUBLIN. Sept. THE O~ireachtas OF
national Gaelic festival given hero re-
Gently is the chief annual event OF The
Gaelic movement which at present is
stimulating all Ireland and reaching out
III influence TO every land wherein the
exiled Gael has settled
Founded by seven mon in 1882. the
Gaelic League set itself to carry on. G.
task which to many seemed hopeless.
-the preservation Of Irish as the national
language of Ireland and the extension
OF It's use as a spoken tongue; aleo the
preservation Of existing Irish literature
and the production OF. a modern literature
In Irish A second clause declares it
non-political and non-sectarian.
This latter fact is of extreme signi6-
canoe in a country where for generations
the people have been divided into dis
tinct groups OF politics or creed without
common ground for meeting or commu-
MON. In the Gaelic League all party has
been swept aside, and for tho first time
in many centuries the IONS and daughters
OF Erin have found themselves united
by q common thought, a common ideal,
q common bond of brotherhood.
In the Gaelic League all Ireland is ap-
pealed to. and every type Of citizen has
rallied to the support Of the national
language. the restitution Of native Gull
h,re. Here are banded together rich and
poor. high and low, merchant and me-
chanic. lawgiver and country gentleman.
II includes Catholic. Protestant and
Diesanter; Unionist. Nationalist and Par
Humanitarian; M~ilesian, Gael and Crom-
wellian planter.
Even the barriers Of sex have besn
demolished. for men and women alike
vote at Its councils. debate In its parlia-
meut and hold Office under it's cohstih,-
don, while In the work Of propaganda
the league points with pride to the achieve
ments Of such women as Miss Agnes
O'Farrelly, M. A.. head of the Gaelic
Industrial School at ~Clochanesy. and Of
the Misses Gleeson and Yoaty. whose in
dustrial guilds at Dundrum have given
O new impetus TO the higher forms Of
craftsmanship and who are employing
dozens Of girls to whom they have taught
rug and tapestry weaving, printing. en-
broidery and 80 forth.
II is this industrial phase Of the leagues
work that is OF special interest and i'm
port to the outside world. It matters
little to people OF America whether the
Donegal farmer and the Dublin shop
keeper salute each other in Gaelic or in
English; 1t matters much that in the
family OF nations n more land is awaken
ing to a sense Of national self-conscious-
ness and is reaching out toward the things
which make for national and as a direct
outcome international prosperity.
Remote as may appear to be the con-
nection between language and industries
In Ireland. IL has been demonstrated to
be direct and vital. The spirit Of a nation
lies imbedded in it's tongue and its ira
ditions. Revive that tongue. that spirit.
call out the national pride which hangs
upon national traditions. and q new racial
vitality inevitably ensues
A true Gaelic Lacquer not only speaks
Irish but thinks Irish. feels Irish. ex-
ploits all that is Irish. Every member
of the Gaelic League is pledged to give
preference to Irish manufactures 30 far
as is reasonably possible, and this action
has materially assisted and may even
be said to have largely contributed to
the great industrial revival that is at
present going on In Ireland.
The cry everywhere Is -Irish manu-
features for the Irish consumer and It Is
due to the efforts OF the league that there
has recently come into being an Irish
trademark which bears the Gaelic legend
sDeanta In Eirinn' (made in Ireland).
This increased demand for Irish products
bids fair to realize the dream of the
instigators that q 6ourishing commerce
may soon be reared In Ireland. while
already existing plants are finding them
solves taxed to their utmost to All the