Bards and Saints (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Bards and Saints Whatever be thought of the literary and philological claims of the Irish language, it cannot be denied that the "Language Movement" brings into prominence an aspect of Irish nationality of which a good many Irishmen have hitherto been content to ignore the existence. Dragged from obscurity in the hovels of the West, like the forgotten representative of some old dynasty restored by a sudden revolution, the ancient language of this country hears itself saluted as "Our own Tongue, " "The Irish Language, " even in the presence of that rival who has supplanted it, and who is now so securely established as the language of the country that it can afford to wink at these pretensions and even to extend municipal hospitalities to Gaelic in the decayed but still haughty capital of the Ascendancy. "Irish" Language is indeed only a title of courtesy: the ancient language of the Celt is no longer the language of Irish nationality. And in fact it never was. A visitor commissioned to describe this country in the style and spirit of Caesar would perhaps report that all Ireland is divided into three parts, of which the Anglo-Irish form one, the Scotch-Irish another, while the third is formed of what we may call, borrowing the phrase from Mr. H. G. Wells, the peasant hinterland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.