The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1899, Page 18

was little more than a raid. For cen- * after his departure English power icted to a few counties on the thore in the vicinity of Dubiin co w settled by English urers much as our thirteen origi- nal States were colonized,by Euro s The Pale was made up of se counties s limits varfed f time to time. dt it w the English colony Outside the Pale were the “mere Irish,” iaelic nati and between the two the: the great ( has no Irish pa cathedrals are Danish and Nori Parliament House--now the Bank of Ire- land—is bufit In the classic style fashion- able in England a century and a half ago. ieeeee iy, THE. LOUVRE . PARI 3. ’_\’_—_—_/——‘ e 1 know It 1s the custom to apostrophize that Parllament House as if it were the emblem of Irish nationality. When cer tain Irish papers wish to be emphatically patriotic they print its plcture in green in front of a yellow sunburst and flank hus leaders on the per- ctors e s ’ e people withers it with a wolf dog and a round tower. > Yea tiie But that Parliament House repre: oo nothing Irish: that Parll ver an Irish assembly. ament of the Pale, and the lish. The heroes of the Pale. th the t streetear paculiarities t Swift Molyneux, Grattan and Flood, were nd not Irish patriots. of Irish blood in his veins and Swift bad not a drop ated the Lifficy makes its gweet presenca e et Yore only more am. “mere Irish” with all the intensity of his tically. The drainage of city !ntense nature. Flood to the end op- et throaeh e and the recol, Posed Catholic emancipation—that is, champloned the laws by which the Pale strove to crush out or brutalize the Gael. Molyneux and Grattan and the rest of them bad a grievance against England, of Islals Dublincrs vithout this i lon of the odors and the crematory would feel lonely i ;”H“”“’ o "j_:m vBE o ‘d‘ but it w.s a grieyance which began about S B vt R by exert *" bad halfpence and ended In a flasco, Rt A L4 4y ' the atiemoe ta They masqueraded as the Irish nation, the misinee . Thelr Ity o so but they were merely the English nation in Ireland. The real Irish nation did not give a rav for the whole outfit. Tt did dical and bid mmense in! fuir to be successful. sting sewer is build- re } 1o the Fiver. so that i futx not understand all this fuss about the e 8on pnd bl B e uture rrigh Parllament and cared nothing i be preserved from con- ywpan the met of union came to suppress fon Atmilar system lias otie that venal and disreputable assembly. for the ur here ap- % 1o Le no reason why Amma Liffey _ThIS Is the real explanation of the apathy of the Irish of a hundred vears ht not floy ago to movements that we have been as 1 as pure tim fore the Danes hypothecated its in . i) o taught to look upon as inspired by gen- Lfi,?.mf.} "lhlr' {l:':!-l::‘,l“‘*" clty Dup- yine Irish patriotism. Up to the treaty 3 1 g :t' L::d.rkk we had an Irish cause 3 efen in the Irish w. L The Irish name of the town is when weapons. The new nn..“;:':msl'.:".f.'f translated the “City of the Hurdle Ford,"” but Dublin was never an Irish town, It was founded by the Northmen and was afterward the capital of the English Pale, The “conquest” of Ireland by Henry II troduced by the Protestant revolution had thrown many of the leaders of the English Pale on the Irish side. But oll and water cannot mix. The Gaelic or real Irish element was betrayed every rrupted for the dark- ness the editor's harrowed soul breaks representative o was not supposed by the law to exist on Irish soll until the time of O'Connell the Palesmen time. At Limerick the last stand was made. The treaty of Limerick guaran- teed certain r s to the mere “Irish.” As =oon < bad sailed away gotry, and I am of English Pale—English ¥ began to irm the mere Irish and has kept them without arms since. When they were thoroughly helpless the same English of the Pale let loose the penal laws upon them to grind them into the bogs and reduce them below the level of th brute. Nearly all the time that m Parliament was sitting the real the descendant of the Gael, the historic Irish nationality From the treaty of Limerick that Is to say, the English in Ireland-- f education and stole his pdred years of servitude had left him ig it of his country's litera- ture and history. When O'Connell arose, {sh leader since Limerick, the ' between him and the real Ire- ely he mistook his bear- d at Grattan's Parllament Imark. Where he raised the st the Pale and the bigotry the | wealth. A people ag of the Pale he succeeded. His work was emancipation. Where he ‘took the Pale and the ideals of the Pale as the pro- for the Irish people he failed, and sad has been his faflure. gramo and great v, nnell’s ‘repeal agita- The result of C tion was to break down the barriers that up to t had hedged the English nation in Ireland and confized its influence to the walls of Dublin. The Englishry who in olden Jays had gone among the Irish were soon absorbed and became more Irish than the Irish th Ives. O’Connell re- versed the process. The tide of Anglici- zation poured out over the whole land. That pale and spotted reflection of the Assembly at Westminster, known as Grat- tan's Parllament, became the day-star of the Irish people. The patriots of the Pale became their models. English ideas, Eng- lish customs, the English speech slightly tinged with local color were advanced as genulne Irish products. The only real Irish ideas, the ideas that ccme to us from our Celtic ancestry, the only gen- ulne Irish customs, the customs that an- tedate the Saxon In Britain, the only gen- uine Irish speech, the soft sweet speech of the Gael—all these wers branded as vulgar and unprogressive and youug Irishmen were taught to model themselves on the shabby coples of English shoddy- ism that posed in Dublin as the true and only exponents of Irish patriotism The result of it all the stranger sees to- day in the streets, in the stores, in the hotels, In the homes of the metropo. The inhabitants of Dublin are no 1 Danes or Normans or English. Dur century every vear has sent up the yo! men and women settle In the city. epirit of the Pale has absorbed them Their newspapers are English, mouth much, some of them, about Irish nation- ality, but modeled on English papers, served by jcurnalists of English trainiug, stuffed with clippings from English pa- pers. The Freeman's Journal, whichposes and has posed as far back as I remember as the great national paper, is perhaps the chief cffender. A year ago it frothad from Gaelic Ireland to But the Pale and the 1. Boul.EvAaRD bE LA MADELEINE. PARIS - r& p P — v at the mouth on one pag on the oth miled into o rison G s news from racks In ireland, picture tary celebrities, paragraphs of achievements in war. we have the Dub Mr. Do 1 SAINTE MONIQUE ET SAINT AUGUSTIN... Ing against a people rightly second step then is to Introdu 18 to be free? guage Into the primary grades of t a is the capital of the Pale and tional school a 1 throug iad e Aistricts h have Pale now comprehends almost all tagion has spread far and ational ols them. Their p could be ured In California, in in Cape Colony—they are s the be the system was nd Protestant speeking. As the Irish le English in fifty them half that time tongue. The Gael Inglish have no I triotisn n, the I might of Protestant d th nd, and In spite of six centu of con- TFemain s by s fiscation an e characteristics " within the re 18 now disappea fore a false and rted publie done to death t chil in its immemoria A ¥ ¥ era are evidences that it will not z be 1 to perish without a struggle The t pe. Fatl o ey who died o the other N geles, still a young man, is f 4 of the ca He, Dr. - . Father Hickey. Dr. Hen - Nell and sc of « w and wor ve se its ¢ Irfsh nationality and ¢ G . if the Irigh nation | : shall do so knowing Vi They banded t is surprising how re pta e ideas find In t During r 1 was 1e about six vy have public conscience succeede ask condition of the na They s as their starting | shmen 1, and Americans ' baip and ¢ having g what t} kin ality renchman speaks F SOt Thaie Gern aks German, an It politiclans who bel It should not ar w ive in this e . speak f n life, and that Is t tribute The a logical . th put to th I LY their duty them they League m whe eal ¢ meetings W gnize giving uncils ¢ thelr sca ten years te prejudice against the the prejudice that made pa & ke nothing but Irish punis en for speaking the m eir new leagu v are men in San Franc al nothing b whip | at home and at ¢ clubs. The lisped naturally in the rents spoke. jrst concern of the Gaelic to stop the he background in the districts th t terest has shifted Wes srbed by the Pale. It | the Irish towns o Gaell e estimate to take the pec would make the people forget such a place as W made them forge 14 be nearer In n was right. Ir 1 thing from England except by k or understand Irish at a » population. If those who speak it w teach it to their children and if those w rstand It will begin to use it a spler dtd beginning will have been made. The MUSEE DU.LOUVRE .