Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-09-01 | Page 17 | English Ban Songs in Gaelic; Ireland Roused and Puzzled

ENGLISH E BAN SONGS IN liV GAELIC IRELAND ROUSED AND Alvn PUZZLED fly Ily P S Dublin Aug 31 31 Surprise Is expressed ex expressed ex- ex pressed nt at the action of at tho police pollee and ami military authorities In preventing preventing prevent pre ing tho the singing of at sonS songs in Irish at nt atthe atthe the Gaelic league tell tats at coda County Count Cork and functions functions tunc- tunc In tlc several other places At Bull when the police In Interfered In- In d the chairman asked If It any anyone anyone anyone one could sin sing a it song In French or oran an any but Iut ones one's native nall tongue A gentlemen rendered ll t t o 0 French son songs song without t any official interruption The Freemans Freeman's Journal commenting on the tho Incident says sas Neither nor Castlereagh Castle Castle- reagh forbade the tho Irish people under throat threat of or arm armed d force fOIe to use their native tong that that It poem h has hai been reserved for tor a n Welsh speaking prime prime- minister whose favorite ta boast is his his' Celtic Collio blood Now No tho mho crime In the tho premiers premier's eves Is that Irishmen should daro dare to tn n speak their native tongue Lloyd George slugs sings hymns hymens In la Welsh elsh in Ban Ban- chapels and nil all Britain thrill with emotion emoting Let t Irishmen speak spank l ln in Gaelic to l Irish people on Irish s soil oll The secretary of tho the Gaelic league loague when Interviewed stated that tho the ac ac- tion of tho the authorities will v make people poo- poo peo people pic in study and cultivate ntO Irish more than over r and bring thousands thou thou- sands Into t the o lan language ua e who ho were hitherto indifferent to ItI ItI It I noticed not you being subjected to toof on of or monologues monolog yesterday In a else case like that I 1 dont don't suppose you have e to hold mold up your ou end of ot the tho con corn I t Oh no When hen Is the talking anybody olio elso who vho ho happens happen happens happens' to bo I in his Vicinity Is b strictly a r 2 vessel 1 h t