The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-08

do, since the weak link in the Radical
chain Is the English Labor Party and
the impending Industrial crisis. And OF
that also the disappearing men at the
Galway Fair spoke. voioing Il again aud
again In their Perhaps"
Their speech IN tho old Oa etc, singu-
iarly appropriate in the setting Of the
strange old town that remains dovr
through all the Irish Sunshine, told
significantly Of tho force that Ia bind.
Ing ireland together IN spite Of varying
IDEAS OF procedure. Tonight In tbs
shamkles barracks their gathering was
Political meeting. Q real Nationalist
rally. and the basis Of II was their use.
quite unoonsciously. Of q speech that
English ministries have long considered
dead. While Galway speaks Gaelic,
there Is little danger Of oasiio dying O..
inanftion.
IL was In Galway one Friday morn
Ing that a shrill cry. rising over Eyre
Square. that locked space that The
municipal government allows its poor
70 look into from over the hiRh erat-
ines. voiced the presence Of an element
more picturesque than the remnants OF
spanish architecture and the stones Of
Norman occupation. The CRY, hish.
cultural. almost like the scream Of .
sea bird. came from the throat of Q
rcd-skfrted. tan-shawied woman, Who
carried on her hcad a nat basket Of
shining silver hsh. II was irish that
she called as she passed down the
street and the cry was French her
ring. and she herself was q woman
from the C1addagh.
Within Galway City. Just over the
bridge to tho westward, but separated
from the town by wider Guif than the
rushing burn. 10 the CladdAGh. Tho
Cladda-gh was not always In tho CITY q
Galway. Possibly II was tho older Of
the two. Certainly II srmained an Irish
town while Galway was In turn Span
ish and Norman. And to-day II IL in
all but geography Is allen from Galway
10 different from Dublin. Irish IL this
language OF tho Claddagh. The Clad
dagh keeps to itself. marrias within It,
self. handing down for Its marrying tho
old gold rings that have for emblem tho
heart and tho ciasped hands. holding
altof rom the world outside itself, shy
An strange
THE cLADpAoH INTERESTED IN
THE LANGUAGE.
FOR the people OF the Claddagh are
fisher folk. The land question Of Ire
land never touched the Claddagh, and
the CaddaEh took no interest in Il.
but within the last five years tho
language question OF ireland has come
home to tho C1addagh.
Until nearly ten years ago there was
no English in tho Claddash. But in
the last decade the use of English as
commercial asset came into moro
general use between the trades people
Of Galway and tho sellers OF fish. The
nshmongers came to believe that their
Ignorance OF English put them Mt q
trade disadvantage, and at the National
School that guards the entrance to the
fishing town the demand for English
among the children revealed the desire
OF the parents to equip tho second
generation for a more successful COM
mercial life.
But to-day at the National School
one Of the young women teachers. gilid-
ing q class OF sturdy. dark, Claddagh
children through tho geography OF Ire
iand-in Ir.sh--stopped 10 speak OF the
school work and incidentally to narrate
the history OF the community's part In
the language revival.