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Show y . What Gaelic League Has Done. What the Gaelic League has already done for "the revival of the Irish hnguage is thus seated bv Mr. Seumas MacManus in the World's Work: "It has fought and overcome the hostile national board of education, with the result that 3,000 of the national na-tional schools are teaching the language today to 95,000 pupils, as against a few schools that taught it to 313 pupils thirteen years ago. In addition to litis, Gaelic is taught to. 100,000 others in the remaining re-maining primary schools and colleges." Mr. MacManus Mac-Manus cites, as another illustration of the extraordinary extra-ordinary development of national spirit in Ireland that'last St. Patrick's day the Protestant church-of. church-of. St. Kevin in Dublin had its service "conducted wholly in Irish." |