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| No. 48.—Vol. IV.] | DUBLIN, FEBRUARY 1st, 1894. | [Price 6d., post free. |
THE GAELIC JOURNAL.
All communications to be addressed to Rev E. O’Growney, Maynooth College, Ireland. Postal Orders to be made payable at Maynooth. The annual subscription, for some time past, has been 2s. 6d., but as will be seen from the following article, a change is proposed. If we secure the requisite number of new subscribers, an announcement to that effect will be made in No. 49. In the meantime our friends can best help us by sending for extra copies of this issue, price 6d. each, post free, to give to their friends.
All the back numbers of the Journal, except No. 4, can still be had, price 6d. each, post free.
TO OUR READERS.
A very wide-spread demand on the part of that ever-increasing section of the public who take an active interest in the Irish language calls continually for the publication of this Journal under conditions that would bring it more within the reach of the many, and make it more popular with them. While we recognise gratefully the evidence of the general sense of the good work the Gaelic Journal has done, and is capable of doing, we confess that the prospect of meeting the demand causes us no small anxiety. As the only way possible of realizing this prospect, we propose making a covenant with our supporters. The terms we suggest are as follows:—
The supporters of the Journal, by personal canvass or otherwise, to extend the circulation of the Journal to at least 1,000 copies.
In return therefor, the Journal to be published monthly, with certain improvements which will tend to make it still more pupular, and at the lowest price which cost of publication will allow.
A little effort on the part of our present supporters will achieve all that is desired. Let each one introduce the Journal to one or two others who do not at present read it, and the thing is done. Those who undertake to extend our circulation in this way, would do well to collect personally the subscriptions of their friends, and to forward them in the usual way, with the names and addresses of the subscribers. We are not at present in a position to make any reduction in the subscription, but when our in creased circulation enables such a reduction be made, we shall continue to send the Journal to subscribers at the reduced rate until their subscriptions are exhausted.
The Journal will contain the following features, new and old:—
1°. A complete series of Lessons in Irish for beginners. These lessons will be prepared with the greatest care, so as to make them as simple and as generally intelligible as possible. In short, they will form a full course of Irish Self-Taught, covering grammar, composition, idiom and pronunciation in an easily graduated system.
2°. A series of Easy Readings in Irish.
3°. Folk-lore in prose and verse. The prose specimens will present to the student examples of the Irish language in common vernacular use from all the Irish-speaking parts of Ireland.
4°. Studies in the older periods of Irish. The student who wishes to understand the structure and genius of the Irish language must necessarily fall back on its older litera-
