84 



fOlluf ju/t ej;<;on*c fee ;^;ol m-O^vjn ;;^ p;i;0(t)«o;be j:Ojla;me too aea ceub toeucc 

 fflAc le; jjn <i' j-c<xt^u; j Cbaejn <x' m-D/ijotSijn na pfta;nce. — po too cojme);ije toom, 4 

 <fcci;;< pnmr^n, )f mo;i <xn y-olu;^ bo C05 tu to<xm ft^ji puj/teoiD na b-Cj/ieftn. — -cT m;le 

 o;^e«Lto e;lj Be<x;ij:4;n torjc muna. n)-bj<xb jo/i ab ;t5 l;oyxci e. ^'];;i l;o/'t4 l;on)-y<x too 

 be;t <xi e;^toe<xcc ^e too puj jl;K-y-; cojtoce aj caa;«i;^bcil<xto mo toujcce. Ci l;on 

 Cola;yce4ba a n-C^jnto ? — <f b-aon ; *n <f jccljac, too ;i;ne<j,b toe OQ?)<x;n;yb;;i na |Maom 

 ^e b-o/ttoajab Oba;n^jo ja;ne J;^ebeal a^uy jajficea^i a no;y Cola;^e na Z^jvjompfi 

 be ; jjbeab a' n-ajmp;i Cbacojl;ceacca nj ;ia;b u;le acc na b-aen-colaj/te eajna 

 *S"r fojlanoaj a^uy too ma;;t ait)lo;to 50 c;jeacc Loclonoc <i.h f<xn ^-cpjc; o)j\ 

 n; h-]on<xon <y^uf cjijoccjh a;le no. b-Co/iajpe aju;-- n<x. c^a;ne, nj/t mjUeab /teact, 

 bea;r n<x. ceanjab na n3<^o;beal ; ajuy- ;/- pu/ia;^ ^0 bo iuj^yjn, o]fi <ui can bo buaj- 

 beoij namajb a j-cw<^> mjUcea/t eeanjato na fe<yn-fO]nne ji-ja aja^ conjba; j;to yjoy 

 J, )ontiUf 50 m-bicajb a' n-toeafimab ; ; ajjx bea;^nab yo a' n-C/tjnb, 5;^ njjt buajb 

 nama;b;ncj tjjeact Jaojbeal 50 c; jeacc locloiiac, ajuy an ceanjab pn a b;b a;;< 

 b-cuy* aca ;y com^ramajl nac ;to le;jeab a;ft bea;<mab ; : <x^Uf rujUeab a;le, mx 

 leab/ta ;io yc^Jobab fiojm na Loclonacajb bo t; jeacc 50 b-C;i)n, ata;b j:e;n, no n<x mejc 

 leab^ia jiO fcp.johix'b a/"ta, aj;< ma/tcajn a n-b;a : ajuy f a;<;iab fp, cxy dob j^ b;iei j- 

 ba a;lne ;onci cloto txx ^ujc-ejlje. 



bo a;^ p;ianca;c a;;t '^h«^0)he:<iX<s,)h cu;b b'ci n-aoj;r pojlajme too ca^ caca ^e 



over one thousand one hundred students in the city of Caeu in Britanny in France. — Under 

 your tutelage, dear Father, and from your entertaining narration in describing our land I have 

 received niucli information — I could relate more a thousand-fold respecting the transcendant 

 merits of our renowned countrymen, were it not too tedious to enumerate them.— It would 

 never be irksome or tedious to me to hear thy melodious accents describing my native 



country. Pray tell me then, How many colleges are there now in Ireland ? One only, the 



College of Dublin ; the Monastery of All Saints being converted thereto by Queen Elizabeth, and 

 now called " Trinity College :" but in Catholic times all Ireland was one vast College, and remain- 

 ed so until the incursion of the Danes, for it was quite different from all other nations, from its 

 insular situation, not being exposed to the devastation of ruthless invaders, and consequently 

 has not suffered either destruction or adulteration of its laws, morality or language. This can 

 be easily conceived, for it is usual with conquerors to eradicate the vernacular dialect and to keep 

 the inhabitants in subjection to themselves; this was not the case in Ireland, for it was not con- 

 quered from the Milesian invasion to that of the Danes. The language of the aboriginal 

 inhabitants, in all likelihood, has been preserved to our own time, and the literary labours of our 

 ancestors, which were written anterior to the Danish invasion, or transcipts from them, were at 

 that eventful and disastrous period (and many of them still are), in existence. What type or 

 letter more beautiful than that of the Irish ? 



The French nation requested of the Irish to send them some of their learned men for the pur- 



