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Full Title	The Gaelic American - Vol. XI, No. 30, July 25, 1914, Whole Number 567.
Contributor	O'Reilly, Michael.
Date Added	27 February 2014
Format	Newspaper
Language	English Irish
Publish Date	1914-07-25
Publisher	New York [N.Y.] : Gaelic American Pub. Co.
Source	Joseph McGarrity Newspaper Collection
Topic	Irish Americans > Newspapers.
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OCR 8 Che-‘5ciel.lc'Clmemccm. ‘my 25 19% Sir Samuel Ferguson. E‘;i'.r2'l“i‘. A DAY WITH THE SAN LITTLE EEORGE WANTS ’.3i‘r‘;‘.:."lr’.:.-:SrZr.’.‘:“.‘l”r’l..-' r.....l‘..,u the ‘able ...llro.r FRANCISCO VOLUNTEERS. T0‘ BOSS THE JOB. .o..u..5.‘..,i‘?..I‘r.,“::;g“ rt... "Ths lilorning't Hnges," an the any V-.1 rrsssed by it, but to ‘ 5 ‘ Sketch of the Distinguished Irish Poet and Antiquarian. By Alfred Percival Graves. lrmnrned from “The Gaelic Ameri- can" of July 1L.l l-he lrish potato thinlho now inter- rened, Ind drove Ferguson into --eaeva llldighatio" oi‘ Jilvannl at the Govern- ment mismanagement, which had mul< ‘ told. No one knew this better than himself, scretuy to the lrish coun- Engllsh Parliament, was relecled lavisr of futile experimental leglsllslinn in the vr let a n d so torth. Parliament alter Gl’Ittal.l's mod Wuuld have saved the rountry cams a nrpeolcr and one of the poets of Repeal. . The lecturer then quoted Ferguson's poem addressed to England at that lime. . c n o . But. iranidy. I-hils we thank you all who sent . Your aims, so thank we not your Pur- lisrrlent. who, what they gave. lrorn treasures 01 our nun ' care, i! you call it giving, this hull loan, Halt sill from the recipients to them- selves Oi their own millions, be they tens or tn'ellr'es: our own as well as your . our Irish > ows T Had su-esred tor them: though 'yhur Commons‘ Halls - Forgetting your four hundred millions delrt. - - when iirst ifpartnershlh our nations mt‘, Against our llrentystour (you than two- Thellloorer People). Elli them British 50 No: for these drafu on our United Banks '2 one no gratitude, and give no thanks! More than )'Bu'd give to us. it Dorset- shire Or York a like assistance should re- qlt re. Or than you gave us when, to compon- tzte ' Tour rlnveovmers. you common slain Twice the amount: on, hut as rather re charged uur l Dust runes. and will give them wnrle we re, To that pernicious hlind concert Ind P It “‘hei'ewith tha aids we sslredyou mle applied. - .> . s-ire, tor our wretched country's vari- lous ll we've got. a man would think. enough or hills.- Ellis to make puupers, hills to teed then. made: . Bills to make sure that. PIupel's' hllll are naid. Ellis in each phrase or economic slang: Bills to transport the men they dare not hang. ll mean no want or courllge physical, "fie Conscience doth make Collards oi us all!) Sour I will live ynu one of Fergu- lon's Pnemi. "The Burial of King Col‘- rpn price or the Dlulils cursed hlnl, nndhe As he was an s e and lh in nnlsperi g, and ruggr-sting that burial ground, and he slid that he was i is Christian burial E rs and power 01 literary invectlve aguinst Ireland rllest met on . im appeared Ferguson's "Lay: or the western Gael." a sridtifyins a liner worlr than Their point or depnrture in thus well descrihed hy ilr. A. M. Wliilunl. the 'Arnerlcah critic: ' --The ‘Lays or the Western Gael’ nre In Celtic istory. and any chronicles Ind poems They ore original in (arm suhetanoe. the onl- lad tom and lnsasurn hel unlrnown ndauurn like the Voice or one of the na- elent herds chantin ' at n he had let achieved. ' and they l.re clothed with the mist: oi n in sncholy age. They inclu suhiects Is ‘The Trip Quest.’ the search at the hard tor the lost lay of tho greot clttls ml 2 en la- nnught, no its recovery. hy invoutlon. from the roles or its dead Iulhor, who rises in misty form shows his grave. ‘The Hehiing or Cnuhll crarnurh: a story or vio n 2 r. :2‘ hr ilr. svvlnourn or modern hnllnds. telling o rnulcL,lnilicted uvon the members at 3 Welsh colony and its vengeance; and othor incidents in early Irish history. e as amongst tho hneat t a cruel l h Poems. rather than in Mhciiherv son's '0ssian' or in the literal transla- tlcns, Iii log to the inlelllgencn of to-day in their cwti lanes, without lolre Change and dilution. or tile conluslon and dimneds or an ancient language, or the longer loys thus tar published. mils Aird, the line scolllsh Duet, author or "The Devil's Dream on liount Aizgheck." "In all respects ‘The rain Quest‘ is interest or the Quest ltseli by introdilo in; in the most natural and unencum- hurlng Vl y do many at the h-.st points or the ‘Great csttie Fl2ra)‘,' the suojert matter or the ‘Thin’ long heen grand in poem you no e made it. grander. The refusal or Fergus to stir in the force of private sympathy. but his instantaneous recogn the patriotic necessity nf song, is a just and noble conception. - ’ ower or the Eard over the rude last or entrance, and the closing in diction hy the iisiden, ere all very no- latiie towards the consummation al et- (err As lor the kissing at the chard- pi us in the pause: or the right, i know or nothing e la uwever admirably ex- pressed, the last stanza is an error in s surely you spoil the grand close, and the whole piece by appending your own person ity or intelfelTnL‘2 as a anti-penultimate stanza. This tendency to act at time: la n i lomnmntator on his own work and present it at others in a too ously Latlnized iornl are, with the less, not to say hlutl, disregard for ver- hnl delicacies-into which he now and h aln lapses. the only -pl-at-livities to which exception can be taken in Fergu- son's technique. For his method is Ilni: i ormi)’ min i , Ind occlslanal perl ds at malestic inspiration tween all minul critical ohjectl 8 be them. an the blast from his iirlanannalfs mantle wept the chieltai and his bound into the valley like leave! before the wind '2 have taken Fergusnn to our hearts as we take our best brother, lov- iwnderoslties hnd chrless- ol his great- nesa, It We love the kindred qualities in Samuel Johnson-for the sake 0! the men and the zentlenlnn. ‘ in 1:72 appeared "Cangal," which Fer gusan describes in a letter to Father -eduiree u great subject. and he Irhn writes it must have vision and G E . lo Th; terrible shuns Ind Celtic lupu- ltillonl-Lhe Crllni‘. Walker, the Washer 01 the Far -loom monsizouiiy betare us as he thin; and he marshals the contending host: It Mayra with I in hidden: relliazh 0 which We ‘know no modern pnrnllel. i Hi: sllbiecl is I STEM. old-world tale on ".‘ Celtic Pasnnism mine: the Irish Cham- plan: at the rods. But great though much at “Col:gal" undoubtedly is. Ferguson‘: genius old torsoctan moo mi.l159"'j'r g Add male! 1925 O... l rt-.rfH;nx .V,eru at a rellrionl. philosoph- J. con- nry" he reached his lullest height as a poet, and the best that has heen said or could well d nbout them comes tram wlllian-l Alllnghnm and Auhr-ev de Vere-the two lrisilmen his time wiloso opinion should interest, it not in- uence, us mos Allinghhm wrote on receipt or urrlo; "unny thoughts or rn swarmed shout the pages as i turned them. like bees in n lime-tree. in your style high culture is reconciled with simplicity, directness, and prlginuliry; and nothing can ha halllzler than irhur znrichuient or English speerh with Irish orma without the least violence. All this Irish poems are very remarkable. tut ‘Deirdre’ l count the chiei triumph. its peculiar rornl oi unity is ilerfecll)’ arlaged, while in general eflect it re- mils nothing so much as a Greelr play.“ izr. Auhrey do Vera and Mr.. Tents, and perhaps the larger proportion oi the other leading Irish critliz, ureter "Canary" to “Deirdre.” “it would he dilllcult." writes De Vere. “to mid, amid our recent literature. a poem which at once aim h an 'conary‘ and as ndeuuately iulills its niru. - - - Novel m English road- en as is such a poetic theme, and em- barrassing as n rn the vol- y awn . i. has caught thoroughly that eplz: character so re- miirliabie in those laordic L g which were transmitted orally through ages when Homer must have need a name unknown in lreland." ugh at times "over- 5' N n 5: Ho er occasionally nod, aminped to the little oeiiconscioua ones you i to no so And scentv ening beast, where perspective is lost and will paralyzed, and pnsslan rials llrlresrruined. No! What sir. w. E Yeats lluely Wrote of him in 1886 is still true today: ‘ uthor at these Kreatest poet lrel rhuse the mo t nosing is the e may bring a truly great and national and its morning in these three volumes t o o was ma 2 y the purltylng name or national gentlmrnt tho one man ‘me who wrote heroic poetry-< one who. among the somewhat syodritln singers of his day s like corn se males-tho savor oi the sea about him sun is strength." 1 [THE EXD.] IRISH LANGUAGE FUND. New Rochelle, N. ‘L. ' July 20, 1914. Martin J. Keogh. National Treasurer at the Gaelic League tor Amer 1, is received the roliowlng contrioutlnns to the Fund in aid oi: the Gaelic Lelgue or ireiandz r From Portland, M3 on u Rev. P. carroli. slvi: F. w. cunnlngnnno, slo; captain Hugh‘ 1‘, ilcoonough, 35; Will In H. ulliver, :5; E. E. osrien, :5. ceneral J J. Lynch. irhsrd J en, $5; C. A. and . Houllhan, 55: i enter Edw F. Flaherty, $5; lilirs Mary lllcrernan, :3; Miss saran ulilua, :5; Thomas I‘. Carey. 31. Per Mrs. E, G. xeelty,“ Brooklyn. cards no and 176, 323.50; per Michael Powers. So. Boston. Mass, on :2 9, $17.50;, per '1' J. Kenlinsi New York. mrtl 1151. per M. n. lritzgeraid, New York. card 931, :5. Foul Providence, R. Jane A, Gormley. Card 1 , Bliss Bridget Garrick, card 1037, so, pe .loh J. coiteyr card 105:, 5 Der Donal Lynch. card 1025, 2 : pe James whoiey,‘ card 1066. $5. smaller card collections, 33.55. , Per Miss Helena M. coughlin, Bos- ton, Mass,. card 2462. :5; her Jam lay:-no,’ Yark, curd 753, $4: per Patrick J. Dace)’. Hsverhill. 355. card 24si.‘s3; per mgr Margaret Kane, Phllulelvhin. l>a.. card 2905, 5:; per men J. stewart. New York. card 419. per John ilodlahon. New York, curd tan. :2. From Ansonlu, conn -Per Patrick .1 E Luddir, cud ins, 86; per John W. cougnlin. Lard llsz, $5: per Michael sexton. rard 1194, $4. per Patrick lr. Gilded, card 1190. 33: per P. J. Noonhn, card 1151, 33; smaller hard collections 327, Joeellh MCEVOY. Detroit. Mich., 515 Thomas J. Zilccoruick. Knlghu Lnndiutr CIL. H; John )lcCabe. VVntIl(on Juno- Seumas O'Brien Wondered at ‘How Readily They Marshall, Halted and Ate, and at the Able-Bodied “Molafoosterln" They Gave the Football. y sruuse D'Eilt:.V. y on the slopes or the restless Iith nu elrneslriesx thll. (‘hunc- terizes real and not I'D m wa are. “'he:l the Chplain said "illuruh" they lvai , Ind said ‘Eat’ lhev ale. so well were they disciplined, and they were no regularsol iers eith 2 but members of the lrish Volunteers or sun Fraut-isc . And what a any they rhoose ior their outing. the 12th or July; that (lay of might leel proud or and it is called --The lsoys oi Wexford," and you should he in hr-oil’ Milihrae when the lrish vol unteers ware dismissed lrorn the man oeuvres and watched the exp:-esslonson Ih ic .faces ihe vmld brought the‘ strains of that inspiring tune (mm the edge at the wood where in Here. indeed. rnusir mos power it exercised on those sus- ceptible to its iniiuenr‘e. Na won er that Emmet felt he could conlzller the world with an Irish rnelody and twenty thou hnd men, and no wonder that men like Reclfern .vlasnu will write the st or lrelnnd and her music and set t e world thinking with a hook like “The song Love of lrcland," At storyv song or play, on or or: the hattleilelil or at any worthy achievement ancient lrelund has st sum rlormer prestige, yet- she has all the potentialities or great ness ’ in whether we study the movements or the volunteers in irelnnd, America or d taut New Zeainnli, evidence or lreland's irrdivicluzlity and Power to gov rn her- sell conlronte us everywhere 2- u i t e teeth or rate the trish- gh, out it you wont to en- There are nlsny things which one Eiislly tor. sets. but f‘The Knights of the Re Branch" at playls something not easily r. . 3 o story teller and n a or "Brian Boy heard some one Ciirbery!" and on other said, “Nearly all our singers are gone. t thank God we have their songs." nd many or them were run or the glaring sunlight lit up the liltlr [crest inestre. But we hud music lrorn the violin and ents, too, and r er .- -‘av wrench it from the other I Ind wondered how such lnpdnles i said they w the toothnll came Whale article might he devoted to this interesting contest, had I the time had since, For Hi Altar o ‘E vs S‘. t lites the p strained rl when the cupisln asked tor three beers tor tho victors this ml-lo irad moved but six inches. when a loud blast of a trumpet rang cut we knew the day‘; programme was ended. at At the recent iinni examination for Solicitors‘ Apprentices Mr, M. P. slo- toolr ilith place, as well xing . special certincate ior dis- tinguished anrwerlng. e intends prac- tising with his rather, Mr. John lilornn, in Listowel. Mossf, Bslnncs in the Mutual Trust Com- nsny, Wedtchester county. July 1. tan s2.iss.14. Subscriptions received sinos that tlnze. $113.46. Total to date. 33.‘ 216.54. V lion. Town. 51; John, Ridge, E. Boston, 35. M. A. 0 Connor, No would 9. e ayo (0ow!liIu8d Ifom Page I.) me l or 4 he Sun‘: despatch de "irmneu" he "Trill resisting “further conces- or Parliament in London last night, at which. iLls understood, Joseph Devi o comes from a used the piuines titer conceulinil. . DEl’Llx‘rl‘l's ms Ll'l'l’LZ To: pmvx. on that phase of the suhject the As- ‘I soclated Press ‘ to Tuesday‘: Faliers said. - i "No authoritative account is avallshls Armagn to pullot en bloc instead or hy counties on n st turtller "s raid, refuse to or Tyrone nr Ferrnalmglt from vision or the Bill." , The brazen nudeclty with which the rdnrlssion is now Party" has agreed to the did men: or lrolnnd, hut in haggling the size at the plate to he cut on shows the extent to Vi‘ ized Ireland. niitted his consent to surh a monstrous proposition twenty year: be driven from public lire , nnonoxo SAYS lmrnilvo rwouewl-tr. After lilr. Asquith nounc rnent oi’ the conierence on Mon- .) hn Redmond said: all f .5 t lanxllase concession an ' pnnsldur the exclusion or called upon to express an opinion as to whether to and from the King and tioo t e dl ms, .55. votes some I I - "The couierenre lrish and Oppositi King George in it from C, P" mail a S S -.1 e anv statelre Sun min, is reported in have been re - aiiirnled i n elleln nt anner a one Km I private meeting of tho lr h hlemhers “M, “I m: "”““' Eel s t constituency, against Mr- .. =2 e. i exclusion. ssihl Party tion, as it sh Kins Georges - v the Nationalist we o s the Dro- lnade that the “Irish ember. ‘bout report relating to icn they have demora- any min Dublicli ad- ago he would had made the Inn rtske no d I in not t to I fall Available e result will Drove use- in the for farm s sue we at once Oh!) The use it Lawreuc Giunel, h ihde- the cost or ilvln the increased ndent member, interiecteli win: the prices while the iorooer is get g r rorrespm-ldetlts,ca1l“a note into his produce have been mainly illslrli In otherwise peacefl interlutis" by mental >il:l ringing about inrreasai asking it the e w s may vecedent ror Wage The wages, laowever, are u the Premier advising the King to “place very low. , vromnlly rams to hi; on Turstiay r altering . r or on ienviur. nd halt. me, ther conlerees rem; . .nl l. at - h ;:::":d the arrival and depart‘ >' srrrml M, W At the very heginu] , King George openly ng " M“ h u soon eonvllisivt-ly ohm ymlzathlrs are. MIGRATORY LABOEERS. The Department ol Agriculture. in . lrish agricultural la borers. states that there has men s rm o t tie. and the !mPiO)‘nlEl’il. rent lahor on roads. “'3. is e .31 R, V at nld 9 5’’''’‘rr , xslrlt tin: Governing”. calls, h’ .rr oi ll, ll . .nun-lhers nl lalloren worlr in consequent: or elnlgrstion to other oountrluv. mign ‘465 Pearl 939 Sixth Avenue, Between 53rd and Shh Sta. F. M. MORAN <31. CO. Sign Makers LETTERING St.,N.Y. clothes. Let me make qulc y. look that Leading lrlsh Tailor. Phone 3399 Worth. GOOD CLOTHES ARE HALF- THE BATTLE a other fellow, and it ‘is easy lo’ you to choose, the right kind 0 ;lhe beautiful materials I have on Tliere’s an astonishing dig‘? ence between- tnlior-made In Tailor-mades have the finished goes with all exam work, and succes man who looks pro5i7"0“5‘ PATRICK J. HOEY, New York. Tel. Col. 1759- 4;?‘ s suit in Y0“? of one oi he mu! this WW 5 comes to Ill‘ General Job Ffrinter. ’ IS NOW LOCATED AT 52' DUANE STREET. Phone. Will: or Call -NEW YORK CITY. lm porters of . - H. IRISH Hams. Bacon, Pigs’ ‘Heads and F69‘ :.LLj..... A TREAT AT ALL TIMES 785 9th Ave..’ at 53rd St. Telephone. coiumhu sou Denny's Limerick HARBURGER & SON - hill mind nlssllloludltlg :-.r-,. .-,...e M D tt ll ii to in in la la is

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