The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-10-23
A SPEECH IN DUBLIN
BY DR.. DOUGLAS HYDE
The Great Irish Scholar is
Heard From on a Question
which is Dear to the Heart
of Every Irishman Interest
ed in the Revival of Erin's
lmperishable old Lang
uage.--An Address Which
Merits A Careful Perusal.

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| At the recent Gaelic League demon
stration in Dublin, DIR. Douglas HYDE
delivered a magnificent address in ad-
vocacy of Irish as an essential study
i in the new National University, say
ing in part:
| After our gathering today the ex-
cuse would not be put forward here
after by any one that there was no
| mandate from the Irish people for es-
scntial Irish in the new university.
The people of Ireland had given their
mandate.
| Somebody had said they were going
to intinidate the senate. How dare any
person use that impertinent word? No
body of Irishmen could be intmidated,
but they might be persuaded and the
action Of the people that day was per-
fcctly right. proper and fair. They had
come there so that no person on the
senate could have a shadow of doubt
any longer as to what the will of the
l.eople was. He knew OF no better way
OF showing the senate what the will of
the people was.
Twenty councils, $50 Urban councils
and District councils throughout Ire
land, as well as the General council Of
Irish County councils, the Corporations
4 CT Dublin and Of other Catholic cities
l CT Ireland, and the great convention
held In Dublin in February, at',which
were present between two and three
! thousand delegates. Lad declared in
favor of making Irisl. an essential in
the new university. And that great
] meeting was assemble for the deliber-
ate purpose OF solemnly affirming and
ratifying in one another's presence the
resolutions passed separately through
out the various counties and towns of
Ireland. and to bring into one grand
whole the isolated actions of the differ
ent counties, and to pledge themselves
to be true to one another in this mat
ter. and to tell the world that their
primary support to the new university
would be dependent upon the kind of
university that they got. That was
the line of action they would lay down
that day; and in continuation he add
cd: DO you understand that?' hold
ing up penny in his left hand.
They had, he said, in their own hands
the strings of the purse that could
make the university great and proud
success, and the loosening of those
strings was absolutely dependent upon
whether they got a National university
CT a West British one. 1t could not be
a National university if the National
language was not male compulsory. No
Irish language-no loosening of the
}. purse things. That was their mandate
, and motto. An opportunity never came
J. before, and the opportunity would
rever occur again that Ireland had to-
day. Since 1910, after 27O years of
educational martyrdom, the Irish peo-
!, pie had now, for the first time in their
lives, got the opportunity of having
/ the education they desired. About fif-
} teen years ago he was in Canada, and
he met an Irishman there who wat
looking for work, but who was told
, that he could not get ii until the snow
: covered the ground, for in that coun.
try they were without roads, and were
: dependent for transport upon thu
, snow; and not understanding abou,
the falling of the snow, the Irishmar
f. lifted up his eyes to the heavens and
exclaimed: God help me, il is poo,
country if it is up in the skies you are
looking for the making of your roads.
God help us, say l." continued Dr.
, Hyde, evoking great cheering by hi.
remarks, 1T is poor place to go Il
when it is to the frock coated gentle.
. men at Westminster that you are look,
ing for the education of the Irish f;I..
siders: but we are not going to look t,
the frock coated gentlemen Of West
minister. We are looking to the Ir.si
. senate-bone of cur bone and fesl
of our flesh-Irishrien, Catholics ar,
Nationalists, who have the raEring o
p the new university in t;lci. hands
These gentlemen are as independent g
3 Westminster end as indie eps:iJcnt {.
e England as you arc. or as am myself
t "Some people like my friend the hat
Michael Davitt, thought that good
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