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An animated controversy is developing regarding the Free State Government's policy of Intensified
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MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1926.
IRISH CONTROVERSY. founders of the Gaelle League, compulsion, is put forward by more than thirty years ago and Miss Agnes O'Farrelly, one of the "still", holds the chair of ancient lecturers in Trish in the National Irish history in the National University of Ireland, who for a University of Ireland.
quarter contury has been one of the most enthusiastle of the re "I am told," he said, "that I amvivalists Asserting that the wasting time and public money on people, tired to death of compul- the teaching of Irish. It was the slon in every walk of life, were Irish language, feeble as it was, fast, rising in revolt against which brought us out of the land forced methods of education, she of Egypt and out of the house of.
declared: bondage." And now, because per- hapa wa may have to wander for: "To start teaching other sub. a fow years in the desert, we have jects, through the medium of an certain people who want us to imperfectly known language is the turn our backs on our principles negation of all education, and I and on our ideals and to go back for one, deny the advantage to be to the flesh-pots of Egypt. Well, gained by the Irish language by I am not going to do it, and if such methods. The Irish will not vik want a representative to stand being bullied, for they are represent you in that way I wili weary of forco. willingly make way for anothor man."
Opposition steadily grows more vocul as those who previously hesitated to express themselves And that their views are muth more widely held than they thought. Parents are raising their voices in increasing numbers gainal their children, who have but a scamy knowledge of Irish, being taught ordinary school subjects through the mydlum of that language by touchers who themselves kndw, it imperfectly;. members of public bodies are objecting to the expenditure of money
Continuation on Irish classes, while a third complaint is that the schools are closed for uni hecessarily long periods while the eachers are compelled to improve their knowledge of Irish at special college' courses.
Admittedly many of the critics ire hostile to any revival of the language whatsoever, believing it n be of no practical value, either o the nation or to the individual;
but by far the greater number protest that they are in full agree- ment with the ideals of
the (uthorities and differ from them. only on the compulsory, methods employed.
With the opening of another school your the discussion has
"In spite of the now programme, it is to be feured that the Irish Dr. McNeill said they were told language was never so unpopular. that they ought to provide an in Ireland aa at the present day. education that would give a biliet I do not remember such genuine here and there to every little Tom, hostility as that now aroused. Dick and Harry.. If that was the Before it was indifference, but we aim of the wiseacres, he said, it have passed the apathy to a dying was not his aim. Most of the language and it can no longer be youngsters who had got that kind said that Irish men and womon of education, he thought, were rat are heedless to the passing of the going to live in Clave or in Ire-ancestral speech. We have reach- land, but elsewhere-in Great
ed the stage when, the language Britain or America.
must be saved from its friends as well us from its enemics. Unwise enthusiasm is playing havoc with the hnguage. A hatred is being generated by the enemies of Irish and, unfortunately, an excuse has methods of force and by many been put into their mouths by individual cases of hardship."..
"We have to get rid of the dden that our business is to educate young men und women for America, Great Britain or any other country," he said. "I wf not stand it and I will not take it from anybody, 1 do not any
that those who intend to leave Iroland should be neglected, but.
While controversy thus proceeds
I say that the people who are regarding the methods of the
developed not a little heat, and
irat attention and first place. 1ment, the attitude of the average vehement pronouncements arv
want moncy very badly forthcoming which indicate that
foreftizon toward the language and various educational purposes and its champlons is somewhat un- both sides are prepared to coi am told every day that my busi-pleasantly expressed in the results tinue it with vigour. One or two Ministers are said to sympathize for America.
nese is to educate young people of the Senate election... Four can- with the critics of compulsion, but America ought to pay for it.
If that is 80, didates prominently identified with the revival movement sub- the general attitude of the Govern- ment is one of complete firmness,
going to stay in Ireland should get Government education depart-
and it is evident that it is pre pared to stand or fall by its policy in any trial of strength that may arise.
Its attitude has been, reaffirmed
"I do not propose to make any mitted themselves to the electors change in the educational policy all four were hopelessly of the Government. That policy of them, Dr. Hyde. has been besten.. The most distinguished was approved by the Dail Eireann placed no higher than fifty-fourth in a list of seventy-six candidates, while Dr. McEnri, the prevent
when we were at war with the British Government.
Was approved by Arthur Griffith and with uncompromising bluntness Michael Collins, and I am not Education, in an address to his going to turn my back upon it." constituents of County Clare. f The view of the critics friendly Dr. McNeill was one of the to the langunge, but opposed lujrespectively.
by Dr. Eoin McNeill, Minister of
president of the Caelic League, is two places lower, and the other two revivalist candidates are sixty-sixth and seventy-first
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