It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
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In order to de-Anglicize ourselves, we must at once arrest the decay of the language. We must teach ourselves not to be ashamed of ourselves.
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Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literary records to remain in obscurity.
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We must put pressure upon our politicians not to snuff out by their tacit discouragement merely because they do not happen to understand it.
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What we want in Ireland is a National University which will bring students together and educate them upon national lines.
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I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.
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