The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-07-18
OLD EMERALD ISLE
STRUCK BY REVIVAL
New Spirit Pervades Ireland
and Nation Is Finding
Itself Through Memory.
IRISH LOVE RINGS TRUE
From Every Corner of the World Sons
of Erin Are Drawn Back to
Childhood Scenes = States
Send Many.
IRISH LOVE RINGS TRUE
BY MARY SYNON.

low gray line of hills rising from the
sea almost before the lookout in the
crows nest gave the signal. The dusk
was drifting seward, and for a long
time the old man gazed tensely across
the whipping waves of the Atlantic,
misted coast. Then he turned to a
group Of his fellow-travelers, a cosmo-
po1tan eddy of men and women, an
Australian actress, a Greek broker, an
Engllshman who had been game hunt
ing in the Canadian Northwest, a Turk
ism consul. an American physician and
two American girls, three generations
removed from their Irish ancestry,
.Ihere's Ireland" he told them, and
there were tears in his voice as he went
on, i left her AZ years ago, and I've
always said that I'd never come home
till Ireland was a nation once more.
But I'm coming back" his tone rose
from its sorrow like the sun rising over
again."
1t was the Greek who broke the
silence that followed the old mans out
burst. You mean the Irish revival?"
ne asked. Tell me, how can a purely
literary movement like h revitalizing
OF a half-dead language make over a
n%ation?" =
All Know of Revival.
IF you hadn't kept YOU W down
49, ~ Va az "iiSll
90 you think would be ruling your
country now?" the old man demande
The Greek smiled slyly at the rotund
turkish consul: You'd probably be
viceroy to him." he said.
n American physician frowned
over a problem he had to present. IT
Know that there is an Irish revival" he |
SAID and I know 1t has been produc-
i've or a new romantic movement in |
English literature. but what is it doing |
fnr Trnfnr I 7 pfy
You've seen but the shadow" said
the lr1shnan. That's all Pve seen.
TOO, perhaps. But I've known those
WhoVe seen the u arising, and they
tell me of an ireland where the children |
speak Gaelic, where the boys and girls
not emigrating: where the old music
and the old dancing and the old stories
are heard, n where a nation is find
ing her future by remembering her
past. That's what I'm coming to see.
My father. and his father. and his
fathers father died for Ireland. IT'S
age now, n tbs not likely to
be coming to me-" he smiled whimsical-
~, but tits Irish of the Irish ri be
TINS day fortnight. when I find myself
in an Irish Ireland"
Poetry of Memories.
Ihen he was silent again, for the
coastline rose more grimly. And tbe
others near him were silent, too, as all
the beauty. the poetry, the memories
or that land flashed with the Fastnet
light. Far over them came with the
mist some idea of the great movement
the limelight of the panorama of ma
IONS. TO all of them the Irish re-
VlVal was a word, at least, of intellec-
interest. To a few OF them IT
meant more, for the sense Of race is
strong. One Of the American girls
voiced 1t as a vhftn-tr -
coated young Englishman passed her
the deck. will you tell me" she
asked the Greek, how a nation thai
mas made me feel its call tonight
.hroug three forgotten generations,
let itself be o~verpowered by a nation
That is represented by him?" She nod
ded derisively after the retreatine
figure.
The Greek laughed. There's ALWAYS
q palance, he said. but it is strange
brary just now he dignihed president
the Hudson River Transportation
ines rebuked a young woman wbo
sneered at Ireland. He's taking his
FAMILY TO see the place where he was J.,
born. And he's talked for hours of his
of finding Ireland n~ationalized nv
mis- language restoration"
All about the ship as she swung from
fastnet to The Bulls Head light
mere was talk of Ireland, past. present
Aa.onS Inc Thrill of 1T, Of the
misted hills in the violet twilight NJ
Inc low Hgats on the shores, Of the
stars. recalled to me tuyo
genes out Of New York just before INV
NY
Love For Native Heath.
one OF them, set In the dining room
an oId nous overlooking Gramercy
parK. under the blaze of the M~etronl. :
tower. was as far from Ireland In !
settins as It was near in thought. For ,
there IN the candlelight among the |
sympathetic and Under :
81 tandrng, a man and woman had talked
their native Ireland. The man is q I
great electrical engineer, famous on I
two continents. The woman is a New ]
york surgeon as famed for her real ]
phiianthropy as for her wonderful {
shlli. potn OF them have worldwide in
eerests. Both of them are in the fore :
ground of important movements. Both
OF them have spoken with authority ON :
more apparent in general inter- !
esq 10 those who We're there. But their I
AK rel upon Ireland and they spoke I
from the heart. not of the Ireland OF
yesterday. but of the Ireland Of to- !
day. In their crowded lives thew hal !
round time to keep in touch with ali /:
tides of Irish life. They knew i
= ouglas Hyde, who Is president of the ]
the revival, and Father Michael |
O~.Flanagan. who, as American envoy !
the league. has acquainted the !
United States with Irish industries: {
lney knew DR.. Sigerson. and Prof. /,
kuno Meyer, and de Joubainville. and
other continental European schol- ,
ars who a aided in the restoration I
Of Gaelic; they knew the twists and
turns Of Irish politics as well as they ,
knew New York; they knew all the !
hopes of the Dublin revivalfsts; and !
knowing all these, they made their talk !
SO vivid that no one Of those who ,
listened to them remembered New York !
until they called attention to how the /
Gaelic revival was spreading its In !
fiuence to the United States. not only I
through the orators of the Gaelic
League, but also through the importa-
ton Of Irish art and goods of Irish !
manufacture. They mentioned the vim .
dow OF Celtic crosses at Louis Tiffany's !
on Madison avenue and the Irish ,
poplins at .Walpole's; they called at
to the waxing popularity 81 the /
Donegal rugs; and they told
OF what this meant to the workers mi,