The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-06-06
Gaelic League Has Had Wenderful
Influence Upon Irish Industrial
and Literary Revival.

mead shall flow 5. q.
What day you rise. in all mems eyes
"a Queen.
Mo Chraoibhim Cno!
The silver speech our fathers know
shall once again be heard;
The hre-lit story. grooming song.
sweeter than Tilt Of bird; L
Your quicken-tree shall break In
flower. its ruddy fruit shall glow.
And the Gentle People dance be-
meath its shade ...e Su..
Mo Chraoibhin Cno!
We shall take the liberty to add
to this . single stanza from the hand
Of Mr.. MacManus himself:
My life is then my Queens. to leave.
To order. or to ask it.
This good right arm to fend or.
strike.
This brain, is hers. to task 1t.
This hand that waits. this heart that
sss /;
Are hers when she shall need 'snl,s
And my secret soul Is burning for III
Her trumpet-call to Freedom s?5
Kathleen, sss ~
o sound the call to Freedom!
And Immediately there arises to
ones lips the exclamation: But
this is SO different from the other
poetry Of the Irish Revival or
course! People have been too long
in error. The Irish evival is not. MI
Mr.. Yeates' reputation might seem
to imply. an event Of a decade: its
began seventy odd years ago with
the re-possession Of education. The
success in 1929 of Daniel O'Connell,S
agitation against the Penal Laws
and the establishment In 1888 OF the
National School System, marked the
breaking away from the dread legacy
Of past years. Not in the work Of
Mr.. Yeates. not in the work OF the
Abbey Street Theater. not even In
the work Of those other Irish writer's
of English verse more truly. Irish
and less French than he, lies the
source Of the real Irish revival:
that source must be traced to the;
spread Of the teaching and knov-s
ledge Of the Gaelic Language Iii
seventeen years its study has
claimed from thirty to three hundred
thousand pupils-and to the remark
able industrial revival Of the past
decade. And this is the work Of the
Gaelic League. They, the true Irish
revivalists. do not dream in sorrows
Of the past: they look to hope to the
future. They are practical idealists:i
they labor for social and economic,
as the basis Of political freedom. To
them the impending Home Rule BILL
or any Home Rule Bill, is only aS
step: they look to day Of freedom
for ireland when her splendid sun
shall ride the skies again. /" and shsS
shall raise in all mems eyes
Queen!" .5 5s If ssSs ssSs
. VT
Mr.. Paul Elmer More. in one III
the early shslburn Essays, said that
the movement Of which Mr.. YaatsaS
is the leader is. in its last analysts.6
defeat. As such. and Nj. Mors.as
criticism IL true. It is essentially un-ss
representative Of Ireland o-day. Tlsa
Yeatsian haunting music Of sMeek u
sorrow" is far removed from 81
actuality and the ideality of friSs
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