The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-07-16
IRISH LANGUAGE.
Will Again be Spoken Throughout
the Length and Breadth Of
Ireland.
So Think Such Authorities as Canon
O'Leary and DR.. Douglas ~
Hyde. - '',,'

Speaking in the House of Commons
on July I, in support of proposal
to provide a column in the census re-
turns for Great Britain which would
show the number of speakers of
Welsh, Irish, and Gaelic in Great Brit
ain, Mr.. Boland, M. p, predicted that
forty years hence Ireland would be
inhabited by an Irish speaking peo-
pie from sea to sea. Very Rev. Canon
O'Leary, P. p, the great Gaelic writ
err, made similar prediction in the
course of conversations which he had
with a representative Of the Evening
Telegraph on Saturday.
Canon O'Leary declared that he was
highly delighted with the decision of
the Senate Of the National University
of their meeting on Thursday last.
"The people asked for compulsory
Irish," said he. They have got 1t.
They have not got it In the exact form
in which they asked for it, but they
have got 1t In such a form that they
can take a part in building up this
National University. In our National
University the position of the Irish
language should be such as to lift up
and maintain and strengthen the liv-
ing Irish speech. The Colleges of this
University should be rallying centers
for that living Irish speech. The peo-
pie can make them so. We want to
make Ireland an Irish speaking coun-
try. and see what a help it would be
to us to have in Dublin, in Cork, and
in Maynooth also, College in which
every student would be an Irish speak,
er, and in which Irish would be the
unofficial language, If it would not be
the language of the Senate House and
the lecture hall. I see no reason why
Irish should not be the language of
the Gaelic lecture halls at once. 1t
is so in Liverpool. What Father An
drew Kelleher does in Liverpool ought
to be possible in Dublin, Cork, CAL
way, and Maynooth. With these four
Gaelic centers influencing the entire
life Of the nation, as they would, Irish
would be spoken throughout the length
and breadth of the country in gen.
Grafton or two"
Or. Douslas Hyde's View.
DR.. Douglas Hyde, President of the
Gaelic League, speaking at Gaelic
League aeridheacht on Sunday, said
the passing of the resolution making
Irish essential at matriculation was
the greatest victory for education that
the Irish people had ever won since
the battle of Kinsale, and which he
attributed to the Colleges of Irish
which the people themselves, through
the Gaelic League, had started and
supported, and in connection with
which he named Ballingeary Parity,
Cloughaneely. Ring, and the Belfast
and Leinster Colleges. The University
had now become-thanks to the action
of the Senate-a National University
in reality. That being so, all Irish
Irelanders would set to work to make
the University great national sue
cess. They had in their National Uni
versity some men as distinguished and
brilliant as were to be found in any
institution in Great Britain-men who
would, no doubt, do their work in such
a way as would leave an impress upon
the minds and, he would say, the
prosperity of the country. They re-
quired an institution which should
have the good will of the people of
Ireland. This they had got; and he
looked forward to the future with the
utmost confidence. He called upon
all with whom his words could have
any effect once and for all to bury the
Ratchet: to forget everything else that
had gone before. and to join with them
in making the University what he had
every belief and confidence 1t would
be-a great national benefit to the
country.
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