Excerpt from Lectures on the Irish Language Movement: Delivered Under the Auspices of Various Branches of the Gaelic League The Irish Language Revival movement is attracting a good deal of attention of late. The main plank in the platform of the movement is the Irish language in some form or other, but with the cultivation of the language there is associated an effort to revive Irish games and pastimes, Irish manners and customs, as well as Irish industries. The language is the root on which all the other elements are ...
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Excerpt from Lectures on the Irish Language Movement: Delivered Under the Auspices of Various Branches of the Gaelic League The Irish Language Revival movement is attracting a good deal of attention of late. The main plank in the platform of the movement is the Irish language in some form or other, but with the cultivation of the language there is associated an effort to revive Irish games and pastimes, Irish manners and customs, as well as Irish industries. The language is the root on which all the other elements are grafted, and it is the language in its living state, and not the language as found in books and manuscripts, that is the true basis of this general national revival. If the Irish. Language were to be come extinct as a living speech, as, say, Cornish is extinct, even though it should be studied in every school in Ireland, it could not be taken as the basis of a national regeneration. It is the living word, and the living word alone, that pos sesses the spell that is powerful enough to call back the nation as a whole from the degrading life of foreign imitation, and give it strength and nerve to develop a native civilization. For this object, it is not necessary that the language should be vernacular throughout the entire country. It is sufficient that it exist in a flourishing condition as a real vernacular, that it have every facility for growth and extension, and that it be studied everywhere, and be held in high esteem in the schools and councils of the land. It is impossible, however, for the language to exist and thrive at the present time with out growth and extension. It must be made the vehicle of education, it must be used for all the purposes of civilized life, it must be cultivated to the point of spontaneous literary expression, it must produce a literature that will be able to hold its own against contemporary English literature. To produce such a literature, an audience of Irish readers must be created sufficient to ensure a reasonable circulation for Irish books and newspapers and magazines, and the Irish reading public must be of sufficiently wide range to insure a healthy diversity to the literary output. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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