The Language Movement

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 19, 7 May 1903, Page 9

The Language Movement

The rate at which the Gaelic revival is progressing is shown by some official figures published at Dublin Two yeais ago the Gaelic League administered funds amounting to about £1200. The total of its receipts in the cut rent financial year is expected to be £10,000. Two years ago there were scarcely 200 branches of the League ; now there are 500 In the same period the number of national schools giving tuition >n Gaelic has increased from 113 to about 3000. The latter total is being added to almost daily. Last year the League sold 213 000 copies of books in Irish, and issued 40,000 pamphlets, and many books put on the market by the ordinal \ publishing houses obtained a large circulation. The League claims that the woikers in the Gaelic cause, who are now_ i ecruited irom all political and religious camps in Ireland, ' have pi cached most effectively aoainst treating, di inkintr, Gambling, against immorality and vulgarity in the theatre, music hall, and concert hall, and against inanity and vulgarity in literature.'