The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-24
The Irish Aspect Of Anglo American Relations
By SHANE LESLIE

The great mass of Irish Americans have not always been successful but individuals have been have been comfortable in the mass but have not produced men in the first class Englishnen ought, before they talk of the Irish Hottentot' radi- cally and ngustica11y, count the Irish who have touched the we1kn in America won out in the class of nonoarei In literary journalism, John Boyle O. Reilly; in sculpture, St. Gaudens; in architecture Charles McGunness; in grand opera, John McCor- mack; in the Navy. Barry; in the Army, Sheridan in finance, Thomas Ryan; in copper, John Ryan, I siVer' waisl; m meoielne. MuTpy, m motors of these scotch-1rtsh. Jackson was more Gaelic than seotch He was the first and supreme exam
 One of the that the Irish have ahead the Germans America is that they cardsA their language and became the most vivid writers and mosts@loquent speakers of English Their Gaelic memory bilingual atavism gave them a power the English language which they did not fail to use in the Press, which is American literature and in politics, which Is the American sport The Celtic studies and n est in the whole Gaelic culture has enriched English literature at home, and no Irsh-American has died Irish without becoming a better English lar. Mockery Irish literature and language, a piece of British propagandsm is of little service to an English Speaking Union. Languages like French in Canada, and Irish in Ireland. have their place and respect in any non-Teutonic Empire In the world of the muses Irish literature stands well beside, Servan sculpture Belgian poetry. The Irish in America surrounded by scores of pret- ty cultures, proud and sensitive the of theirs. This the French quick enough see, for they issued some of their propaganda In Irish It may sound paradoxical but the best British pro- freedo~1 in Ireland would have been to have sent Englissl Celtic scholars to lecture in America. The
  and to hail Irish culture as an asset in the Allied world.
 The British propaganda took very different turn. Its conflict with the German was the time honored conflict of knaves versus fools and the fools won. But it never defeated the Irish. The Eng fish American over sufficiently for Amer lea to make her entry into the The Irish double fury at heart. He loosed it upon the German in the field, will quench unless he finds Ireland the freer for his seas It is needless to point out that the Irish rec ord hOt thnr fnero Inc draft that Irish names outnumbered those of any other Sullivan casualty for every day of three months fighting. Other clans collected similar striking facts.
 For a century the Irish have put their spoke into all British machinations in America, directly or indirectly A book would not contain all the in stances, since the Irish helped prevent Rufus King becoming President, because Minister had unfriendly helping exes of '"Ninety-eight' America A book called "A Hidden Phase of American History" shows that the Irish took a larger part in the American Revolution than known. A hidden phase of American conditions would show the considerable part they forming American political thought since. English Speaking Union can afford to pass them over- done for English speech, and the time more to thwart English policies. It trely the work of the American Bishops that hanstrung the German language in the Catholic pulpit and school If there had been such anomalies as Irish Lutherans they would have doubtless made the American Lutheran Churches drop German. They relentless in opposition English elgn policy as they were 10 the Ger1nan language. The has left the Irish sediment chaotic in Ire
 
 in America Men who have tried O he Irish question, either from Ireland England's point of view. have found themselves alternating from the sensation of internal joy-ride O of siesta of despair. and thrown it all up grief Matters have become far too serious for anybody indulge in the luxury of abuse. Irish Question is the Great American Question. sinlmertng way long before the It became furiousy and rampanty during the Since the armistce it has boiled over, and every British visitor who steps outside certain charmed circle burns his feet. Why tell the truth?
 has Century and, indeed, the world at it's feet The Re public and the Empire of common tongues will and dominate the world. The opposition their harmony will be subdued and largely unintelligible, except for certain section within the bounds both which is only duable but the vigorous manipulator English speech has known.