...advantage to mankind if all the inhabitants of the earth spoke the same language. Therefore, although the Irish language is connected with many recollections...I can witness without a sigh the gradual disuse of the Irish." The statf' of Repeal agitators who acquired so much public notoriety in ] 842-3, and whom...

...advantage to mankind if all the inhabitants of the earth spoke the same language. Therefore, although the Irish language is connected with many recollections...I can witness without a sigh the gradual disuse of the Irish." He said that in 1828 he had made a speech in Irish at a Catholic meeting in the county...

...advantage to mankind if all the inhabitants of the earth spoke the same language. Therefore, although the Irish language is connected with many recollections...I can witness without a sigh the gradual disuse of the Irish." He said that in 1828 he had made a speech in Irish at a Catholic meeting in the county...

...advantage to mankind if all the inhabitants of the earth spoke the same language. Therefore, although the Irish language is connected with many recollections...I can witness without a sigh the gradual disuse of the Irish." O'Connell used to call himself the best abused man in the world ; and he had some claim...

...advantage to mankind if all the inhabitants of the earth spoke the same language. Therefore, although the Irish language is connected with many recollections...I can witness without a sigh the gradual disuse of the Irish." He said that in 1828 he had made a speech in Irish at a Catholic meeting in the county...

...difference of languages, he was accustomed to say, was first introduced into the world as a punishment, and the superior utility of the English tongue as the medium of all modern communication was so great that he saw without regret the gradual disuse of Irish.1 He spoke warmly of Davis, whose...

...archaeology, and no sympathy at all with the project of reviving the Irish language. He recognized the superior utility of the English tongue as the medium of all modern communication, and saw without regret the gradual disuse of Erse. Fancy jind sentiment may prevail among a literary...

...language.^ Therefore, though the Irish language is connected with many recollections that twine round the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of...I can witness without a sigh the gradual disuse of the Irish." a O'Connell was from his childhood a studious boy. It is told of him that, at the age of...

...advantage to mankind if all the inhabitants of the earth spoke the same language. Therefore, although the Irish language is connected with many recollections...superior utility of the English tongue, as the medium of modern communication, is so great, that I can witness without a sigh the gradual disuse of the Irish....

...the most part native speakers of English; one bilingual nationalist observed in 1833 that, in view of "the superior utility of the English tongue, as the medium of all modern communication," he could "witness without a sigh the gradual disuse of Irish." But they had no intention of giving...