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THE GAELIC JOURNAL.
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PRESERVATION AND CULTIVATION OF THE
IRISH LANGUAGE.
REPORTS OF PROCEEDINGS.
business having been also transacted, the
meeting broke up at 6.30 p.m. The next
general meeting of the Gaelic Union will
take place on the first Saturday in May.
Recent Meetings of Council.
The ordinary meeting of the Gaelic
Union took place at 4 Gardiner's-placc,
at 4 p.m. on Saturday, 21st April.
The following notice of motion was
given by Mr. Fleming : — .
" That at the next general meeting of
Council Dr. John Casey, F.R.U.I., F.R.S.,
&c., shall be proposed for election to
council."
The following answer of the Lord Lieu-
tenant to the letter forwarded to him by
the Gaelic Union was laid on the table —
" Dublin Castle,
"3rd April, 1883.
" Sir, — I am directed by the Lord Lieu-
tenant to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 29th ultimo, conveying the
recommendation of the Council of the Gaelic
Union with regard to the manuscripts in
the Irish language contained in the Ash-
burnham Collection, and to say that his
Excellency will submit the same to the
Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury.
" I am. Sir,
" Your obedient servant,
"W. S. B. Kaye."
A discussion was initiated by Mr. Fleming
on a passage in Keating's " Three Darts of
Death," in which the comfortable life and
want of hospitality of the English of his
time are described, and an anecdote related
connected therewith of an Irish " kerne."
The discussion was taken part in by the
Rev. Mr. O'Carroll, the Rev. Mr Nolan,
and Messrs. Fleming, Comyn, Morris,
O'Mulrenin, and Cusack ; no English bein:
allowed to be spoken. Some routine
The ordinary meeting of the Gaelic
Union took place on Saturday, 28th April,
at 4 Gardiner's-place.
There were present— The Rev. Messrs.
O'Carroll and Nolan, Messrs. Fleming,
Cusack, Comyn, O'Mulrenin, and Morris.
The Parliamentary proceedings with refer-
ence to the Ashburnham manuscripts,
occasioned by the action of the Gaelic
Union, having been discussed, the extracts
from Keating's " Tri bir-ghaoithe an bhais "
were considered, as also the best Irish
expressions for technical terms used at
meetings. Other routine business having
been transacted, and it having been
announced that the printing of the sixth
number of the Gaelic Journal was com-
pleted, the meeting adjourned to next
Saturday.
The Council of the Gaelic Union met on
Saturday, 5th May, for transaction of the
ordinary business of the Society, at No. 4
Gardiner's-place, at 3.30 p.m.
John O'Duffy, L.D.S., R.C.S.I., occupied
the Chair.
The following members of Council were
also present— Rev. Maxwell H. Close, M.A.,
M.R.I.A. ; Rev. J. J. O'Carroll, S.J.; Rev.
John E. Nolan, O.D.C.; Michael Cusack,
David Comyn, John Morrin, T. Morris,
Duglas Hyde, R. J. O'Mulrenin, John
Fleming.
Minutes of last general meeting were
read and signed.
Mr. Fleming moved, Rev. Mr. Close
seconded, and it was unanimously resolved,
"That John Casey, LLD., F.R.S., F.R.
U.I., be elected a member of the Council of
the Gaelic Union."
Mr. Comyn gave notice that at next
meeting he would propose that the Rev.
Edmond Hogan, S.J. of Miltown-park,
Dublin, be elected a member of this Council.
Dr. Hugo Schuchardt, Professor of
Romance Philology, University of Gratz,
Styria, Austria, was unanimously elected a