I move that the Report be adopted. We had three things to consider. One was the printing of facsimiles and the protection of the old manuscripts. That is a matter upon which there is a great deal of knowledge. There was a long discussion, with practically no difference of opinion. A report of what should be done would, I think, be unanimously accepted. The second point is one of more difficulty. It concerns modern documents from about the 16th century on. These are very numerous, and have not been fully examined. There are a certain number of excellent scholars familiar with that period. That is the most important side of the business, perhaps the most controversial in details. However, if we can, as we certainly can, establish really expert and skilled scholars to break the path through an unknown wilderness we shall be able to find out by degrees the relative value of the various manuscripts, where they can be placed, and what use can be made of them. The work is one of immense importance. The third question is how it is possible to find machinery and collect finances to carry all this out. That must be done evidently in the most economical and in the most efficient way. It has been plain that in the crisis we have been going through, and the state of transition in which everything is, that it would be fruitless to attempt to go into a definite plan for that. On that ground we desire to defer presenting a report. Meanwhile we have seen a great number of scholars. I think all the leading scholars, both of the older manuscripts and the more modern ones, have come to conclusions upon all the points except the question of finance. I would point out the importance of the modern documents, which are not perhaps sufficiently appreciated. There is practically no history, in the proper sense of the word, of any period of Ireland. Histories have been drawn up, such as we possess, with great labour and industry, based on the State Papers of the English Government here, but there has been no reference whatever to the State Papers of the Irish people, and until we get at these and examine what their written tradition was we shall be quite unable to make any history, acceptable at all or of any value. It would surprise Senators here who are well accustomed to the words "clan,""sept" and "tribe," and the "tribal holding of common land" and the like, generally used as opprobious epithets, to know, although there may have been tribes 2,000 years ago, that in recorded history there never was a tribe or sept or holding of land in common. Therefore one sees at once that the whole balance has changed and that we have no true knowledge of what was the conflict between the Irish people and the English Government. I think that is one very grave reason why we should endeavour to get at the whole of these documents and have them ably set out by real scholars in their proper order. I think we might cherish a pride in the tradition of Irish literature. It is one that has no parallel in Europe. The first written literature began about 650 and was carried on to 1850 without a break. The famine perhaps put considerable difficulties in the way. This tradition is in the great volumes we possess of the old Irish scribes. At a later time, when the Universities were broken up in the 17th century, these great scholars who played such a part and were, in fact, the nobility of Irish story, were degraded, scattered and impoverished. They became herds and gardeners, and even door keepers of the Protestant churches, soldiers and sailors. They lived on the charity of the poor, but always and everywhere they wrote, wrote, wrote. They still preserved the tradition. It was maintained, as we see, by those great scholars, O'Donovan and O'Curry, who made a new era in Irish history. It is possible for us, with the scholars we now possess, to make such an era as they made. They were given opportunity and encouragement. Our work is now to give opportunity and encouragement to those who now live, so that the whole of Irish history may be dignified, both by the character of the tradition and the fact of length of the tradition. Lastly, I would say it is a great honour to the Seanad to have inaugurated this work. It will be to the pride and credit of all Senators, and I earnestly hope we may see the fruits and results of it in the building up of a nation by common pride and common history.