The Gettysburg Address In Gaelic (irish)

Book Description

President Abraham Lincoln delivered his memorable Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. AM. 2pg. 8" x 12 ½". Nov 12, 1929. Athlone, Ireland. A copy of Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address written in Gaelic in 1929. It is written on two sheets of paper, and there is a notation "Compliments of Mr & Mrs PF Killelea Atlone Ireland" at the conclusion in green ink. The English text would read: "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." The document is in very fine shape with some short fold separations, and shows the affection of people around the world for Lincoln's famous speech

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