Blair Collection > Treas leabhar Gaedhilge

SUBSCRIPTIONS AM) THEIR APPLICATION.
The only qualification for Membership is an annual sub*
«cription of at least Ten Shillings, and for Associates Ori
SniLLING.
These subscriptions are intended to aid the Council of the g
Society : —
1. To publish, at a cheap rate, elementary books from which
to learn theLanguage, andlrish books for Irish -speaking districts.
2. To offer competition premiums to classes and individuals,
for composition in Irish, and translation into that Language.*
3. To pay or otherwise reward teachers who will have classes *
of at least ten pupils learning the Language.
4. And if sufficient funds be contributed, to publish a cheap
weekly journal partly in the Irish Language.
If even one person in every three in Ireland, who may fairly
be expected to sympathise wit b this movement, would practi-
cally aid it by- the subscription of One Shilling per annum, the
Society would be in receipt of funds sufficient to enable them to
carry out all their objects.
" Collecting Cards " for the above purposes will be sent, on
application to the Secretary of the Society, to those who are
willing to aid by enrolling members, &c.
The Card and Subscriptions received to be returned to the
Secretary, 6 Molesworth-St. Dublin, wjio, on receipt thereof,
will 6end a certificate of enrolment to each Subscriber. Money
Orders made payable to Charles Dawson and William Dillon,
Treasurers.
" The' Irish Langunge is free from the anomalies, sterility,
and heteroclite i-edundancies, which mark the dialects of bar-
barous nations; it is rich and melodious it is precise and
copious, and affords those elegant conversions which no other
than a thinking and lettered people can use or acquire." —
Yallancey.
"Est quid em lingua hjsc (scil. Hibernica), et elegans cum
primis, et opulenta." — AnciiiEnscopus Ussiier.
• The Council have already received promises of premiums to offer for
íísrpetition— subjects and conditions to be specified hereafter.