Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-07-18

knew New York; they knew all the
hopes Of the Dublin ~revivalists:
knowing all these. they made their TAX
vivid that no n OF those VINO
listened to them remembered New YORK
until they called attention to how the
Gaelic revival was spreading its in
f1uence to the United States. not only
through the orators of h Gaelic
league, but also through the importa-
ton of Irish art n goods OF irish
manufacture. They mentioned the WIN
dow of Celtic crosses at Louis Tinanys
up on Madison avenue and the Irish
poplins at Walpole's; they called at
tention to the waxing popularity OF the
beautiful Donegal rug and they told
of what this meant to the workers IN
Ireland, the chance to stay home.
growing wistful as they spoke Of it:
had attained extraordinary success IN
the land they had come to. So real
was their Ireland that the spell OF
their speech came all the way across
the ocean with one who heard them.
Where r. r. Breaks In.
The other scene vas one of intense
activity. the private office of Theodore
Roosevelt IN the roOms OF the Outlook
Magazine. The screws of tension were
tightening as every quarter-hour
brought kilograms, delegations. new
pIOJIGIIIS vi IOllIlSdl
gers, secretaries. campaign managers.
rubbed against each other in scurrying
haste. And in the midst of it all
Roosevelt, h directing force. sat
calmly talking of the Gaelic revival,
praising h spirit of it's renaissance.
quoting from some OF the songs whose
beauty was lost to the world until
the Gaelic league found them, urging
hat an effort be made for the pur-
pose of raising funds to endow chairs
in American universities for the study
of Celtic literature. and planning a
citation. an institution of American
statesmen. scholars n publicists. OF
which he is to be the honorary presi-
dent.
The realization of the sweeping power
of the Irish revival came with that
hour, for Theodore Roosevelt and the
men with him spoke of the movement.
not as if their speech of it We're an
excursion from the Immediate business
of their work. but as If they had APP
preciated its value as one of the vital
izirg influences of the world today.
And the memory of its estimated value
there returned to me with the knowl-
edge that the liner was bearing back
to Ireland more than two hundred men
n women returning from the States,
drawn back by the news that has gone
around the globe that the island that
OlLCI SIC Io OAAS WIN
ing to her old glories.
II the second cabin one of the home
Corners was planning his return. Tim
going on to Meath" he was saying,
.'to the singing. and the dancing, and
the piping, and the fairs. and h talk
ing"
"Faith it's talking in Irish you'll
have to be, Mr.. Sullivan. If You'll wish
to make yourself understood" a
woman said.
THANK God for that said MIR. Sulli-
van.
He and the others were thanking God
for it as the tender slid through the
dawn up between the holy hills" to
the Queenstown quay. For right there.
under the lights OF a gray. grim battle-
ship of England. rang out to them the
cry. "Cead Mile Failte.' followed by
other Welcoming words in the tongue
so long suppressed that even there it's
renewal seems miraculous.