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Irish Independent 7 October 1957 A SECOND and bigger Soviet earth satellite is ready to be blasted into space. It will carry animals and instruments to test their reaction to space flight. Two Soviet scientists in widely separated parts of the world announced this. Dr A Blagonrarov, a rocket expert in Washington to attend an international science meeting, said that when he left the Soviet Union there were two satellites ready for launching. The first is now whirling around the earth 560 miles out at 18,000 miles an hour. It should stay there for three weeks, Dr Blagonrarov said. The signals from the Russian satellite have been picked up in a number of places in Ireland. Mr James J Malone, a radio engineer, received them at his home in Mount Prospect Ave, Clontarf, early yesterday. With him at the time was Mr Thomas Green, another well-known radio amateur and head of the Independent Newspapers wire-photo department. Mr Green, who had also tuned his own receiving apparatus to receive the signals, had been conferring with Mr Malone and checking data since they first located the waves from the satellite on Saturday evening. The 'bleep bleep' from the baby 'moon' as it sped across space lasted over ten minutes, and in that time it had travelled about 3,000 miles. Mr Malone reported last night that on 40 mcs he had received extra strong signal from the satellite at 10.48pm. He was using a TV antenna (Band 1 type) which he found superior to the conventional aerial. A team of scientists at Cambridge University reported having picked up the satellite at 10.49pm. The satellite was due to pass Cambridge again at about 12.25am and then at intervals of just over 90 minutes during the night A recording of signals heard by Mr Kieran Williams, an amateur radio enthusiast, at his home at Churchtown, Co Dublin, was broadcast during the evening news bulletins from Radio Eireann yesterday. At Dunsink Observatory an Irish Independent reporter was told that the chances of seeing the satellite from Ireland would be slim. Made of steel, it would be but a pinpoint of light travelling at great speed. Dawn and sunset would be the best times to search for it, when its shape would be caught by the rays of the sun.
The Peasant 5 October 1907 THE Rev Lorcan O Ciarain in presence of an intellectual assembly of pronounced Irish Irelanders delivered a lucid and practical address in Belfast, on September 23rd, on the Irish Language Movement, and the work which confronts the Gaelic League in future. The men of Belfast, surrounded with influences which largely retarded the progress of Language workers, have done well. The small class set up in Queen Street many years ago, has extended itself all over the city , as demonstrated by the splendid attendance at St Mary's Hall, on September 23rd. The splendid muster, the patriotic fervour, and practical earnestness of the men of Ulster cheered the heart of the good Sagart. "If a nation is to live and be healthy there is an absolute necessity for guarding the language. The National language is a richer asset then land or wealth. It is the richest asset of any people.
"Nations have sinned against the rights of their own language and sinned against the rights of the language of other people.
The Romans succeeded in imposing their language on many nations of the world, but where were they now?
There was not a mother in the known world that spoke to her child in Latin now."
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