Show faavi HA Avi t t THE I 1 ancient Latigo language age 4 of oH reland i T by PATRICK OSHEA 4 44 4 copyright 1414 1914 by american press asso elation clation I 1 i the saxons and olier ol ier B eilbes bad had effected a lei manent settlement in ang land the ancestors of the irish nation were en enjoying enjo joyin yino the bless nga of a Chilst lin civilization A few cen beffie the engli it 1 even la in the crudest form a R as boolen gaelic had blob homed into poetry and eloquence haelle 11 Is 1 admitted by I 1 to beat a closer me we to the inal hial language of the rae race than any of the other celtic dialects dialects that it has remained unchanged in some sortie re aspects during more than 2000 2 years Is evident from the face fac among others that place names extending from the strait of dardanelles Darda nelles to the western co of eurol mein in t aelic what they meant to the ancient celts it N 1 now generally admitted imon linguists th thit it the celtic languages langua gei stand in a much closer relationship to lat n than any other group the feit lies that differentiate the dialects comprising welsh baeton and loral it h frair the aali dia dialects lets irish 1 S offish gaelic and manx are sippo s ippo pd ed to have hae first at ap pe paired ired after the ro ins in hid left brit sin in the year at the I 1 eg luning inning of the chri tian era the differences be tween the two gro aps were A ere probably but slight of the gaelic gael dialects to old irish in be the pi pt arity as both 1 S otti it G tell at aid d man can be tra ed pd b t k to thit original so lice even now the es between tb gaelic spot en by the ibish ind inh the scottish gaels aie ate s q ir ely than those local vir latious wit ch dis ting the lang langi langhage age as p ken in munter connaught and ulster e has been a cor tin flat ious gaelic liter itne from the seventh century nearly all of it p od ed in ire belind ind tho agh son e man mail is ril o 0 ts its written it d that lan langelage langi glage age bv by irish ni n 1 s on irles and s colars during tb thit it and su u eed ing centuries are tire t be fund in varl ois is cirwein Ciro Eiro lein ein albi iries it was as the lang langi langhage age N hi it st I 1 atrich it ed with such s it r crisli g ind hentzi ent pile it ali 11 c the an lent hish fi it to christianity christie niev tell v v is pr babli it fu fit ill r spee it t him even 4 to ti antu a tu e ird yn ru sauci si set ei t in lie ind th t t I 1 dt at rl it v n s N i a th i jh h ad na ter of tn th I 1 i e P might t e li it fe red fr m the s re lit t f his li at H t I 1 la ars t rs TI e ell elk of st I 1 itri 1 q time was 1 t the r 1 it 11 it ei s 41 ae h of sava b it 1 i ait I 1 it 1 level jenel jet el expo nent rient f tb th i ht I 1 reel feelis i A c isible of espres ing in al at tr t n tl na is wel lati 4 immite I 1 t ta tie e I 1 ily of life lire loc the wei iv ill aji I 1 intellectual activity fl 11 I 1 I 1 livel ivel in let nd in a period not I 1 aig i ien e n aed pd fr rr i the day of st t I 1 atibel seen to be only ex pit able poll the us as matl n thit men tal activity and in a certain sense scholarship not exotics in ire land even at the time when st pat rick labored there during the past three decades the irish have become keenly all alive ve to the importance of pre erving crying their geneia ble I 1 from complete extinction gaelic 14 now tau taught lit in miny of the n niti nal aid at d parish abo lt Is and an dipped to lit h r itri ti it in in its be half halt has not been in vain aln G elic pro fee fes or worships ship have teen estal dished in trinity tair ity college 11 D blin in the college of st PItt lel at M and had in 11 tie e university of or r lint birgh while in oxford the of paris nd ird other I 1 remit ei t seats f ae iming aiming pro fessor ships of the celtic hive leen teen estille bed in the united states aielt cl irs exist in juniver alty in the catholic university of america at W hinton and in notre dame university of indiana |