Erin Go Blah

Headmasters of Dublin schools last week were vexed, mortified, bewildered. Gaelic is taught in all the Irish Free State's schools, but its cinemas are made in the U. S. At the beginning of every holiday the children leave school well-behaved, Gaelic-speaking young ladies and gentlemen. They return with nasal voices, a vast vocabulary of U. S. slang and little regard for discipline. When given an order by a teacher, instead of a polite "Ta go mait," or "Deanfaid me e," they answer: "I gotcha, boss." Skepticism is not expressed by a simple "Ni creidim e," but by a derisive "Oh, yeah?" or "Sez you?" When school is dismissed all the children rise and lustily shout: "Scram!"

Under the leadership of Professor Seamus O'Casey, Dublin schoolmasters last week began a campaign to have all talking pictures made in Gaelic. Said Headmaster O'Casey: "It is bad enough when a boy acknowledges an order with the reply, 'Okay, chief,' but imagine the position of a headmistress who is addressed in a nasal drawl with the words, 'Okay, baby!' "

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