Letter from Patrick Langford Beazley to Piaras Béaslaí, 17 February 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Patrick Langford Beazley

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This is a letter from Patrick Langford Beazley (1855-1924) to his son Piaras Béaslaí (1881-1965). Patrick discusses Piaras submitting an article under a pseudonym on the Irish language for the St. Patrick's day edition of an unnamed newspaper. He suggests that Piaras should mention the fact that Irish was the language St. Patrick used.Piaras Béaslaí (born Percy Frederick Beazley) was an English born writer, revolutionary, politician, language revivalist, journalist and a member of the IRB. In February of 1916 he published the Fàinne, a publication to organise Gaelic speakers. He soon abandoned it and became involved in politics and would later fight in the Easter Rising. He wrote twenty plays between 1913 and 1939.

 National Library of Ireland Piaras Béaslaí Papers, Collection List 44, MS 33,972 / 11 https://letters1916.ie/item/654 English Patrick Langford Beazley 1916-02-17 Cheshire, England Piaras Béaslaí Male Culture and the Arts

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 'GLENGARIFF' RUDGRAVE SQUARE, EGREMONT, CHESHIRE. 17th Feb., 1916. My dearest Pierce, I just lost the post inwriting this letter. I find Icannot now catch the 8 o'clockpost, which would bring thisletter to you in the morning,but you ought to have itto—morrow evening. Aboutthat article, which you sug—gested for next week. I can—not take one for next weekbecause I have one, and hadit when I got your letter inhand for next week, andI have received for consider—ation two others or so to which I am more or less committed. The position, as I explained to you, is rather delicate and diffi—cult for me. You would have to use a pseudonym be—cause it would not do to let people think I was writ—ing the articles myself or favoring my son by giving prominence to his writings — one or other of which that they would be sure to think if you wrote under your name. But with a good pseudonym — the name, as it were, of some living person — I might be able to get in an occas—ional article. They would have to be good and appropriate so that no obligation could be raised on that score, and not more than about a column in length, that is, about fourteen or fifteen hundred words. I would suggest that you should send me by Monday, March 2 — nothing can be done for next week as I have indicated — an article for the issue of March 10, in preparation for St. Patrick's Day, showing how desirable it is that with Englishthe Irish peo—ple should grip the languageas well as St. Patrick used as well as the faith he preached so successfully in Ireland. It seems to me that the subject is a charming one and might be made a great deal of by pointing out some of the beautiful re—ligious expressions in the old tongue (giving only the English translation, except in two or three particular cases, per—haps, to give impart a tone to the article), explaining how the old tongue was associated with the most flourishing periods of the faith in Ireland, how it is, as it were, turned round the old ruin s — the ruins of chapels and wells — towers whose bring it to mind, and dwelling on the con—trast between the cold secular spirit indicated by the language of ordinary social life in English speaking lands and the brotherly, Christian warmth conveyed in Irish in the language of social inter—course. Make your sentences fairly crisp and let yourself go. If you throw in some strengthening figures in the middle or so, so much the better. I have an article on St. Patrick (to which I am committed) for the issue of March 17, but it does not touch on this. Don't forget to choose a name. If you think of a good heading so much the better. You will have had mother's letter. Don't forget to write very soon again if you want another such letter. We are well thank God. I dont know yet what affect the shortening of paper supplies will have on the C.T. With fond love form mother, Ever affectionately Father. 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