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Excerpt from Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Vol. 23: 1898-99 The great event of 1901 in the Celtic world was the first pan-celtic Congress held in Dublin for four days in August. Representatives from all the five Celtic-speaking nationalities were there -brittany, Wales, Isle of Man, Scotland, and Ireland. The proceedings throughout were enthusiastic and practical. The most important paper delivered 'was Prof. Kuno Meyer's capable resume of the Present State of Celtic Studies. In it the Professor spoke of Scotland as being behind-hand in language matters compared to the other four nations. The next Congress will be held in Ireland in 1904. Otherwise, in regard to general Celtic literature and studies, we have to record the constant flow of papers in the various foreign and Irish periodicals, but nothing of special popular interest, unless it be Prof. Zimmer's remarkable treatise on the Celtic Church published in a German Cyclopaedia, a translation of which in book form is promised by Mr N utt. The most important point which the Professor makes is that Patrick and Palladins were one and the same person. In the present volume the same point is discussed in the paper on the Culdees. The position of Gaelic under the New Code came a month or two ago under discussion in the House of Commons, when the Lord Advocate pointed out that Is extra was given for bilingual instruction for scholars under 10, a pupil teacher might be employed for such extra to the staff otherwise necessary, and, thirdly, 80 marks extra were allotted to Gaelic at the King's Scholarship Examination. Gaelic-speaking p.t.'s should really try to avail themselves of this last and most substantial privilege. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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