Lovers' Parting ~~~~~~=-=-=:=~~~~~~~Q~~~~~:S~ Page ~ at Galway --- 82 --0-- The Upper Boyne is ellsy to Fish - 83 -----0---- I saw Cork -- 84-
Curiosities Around Ireland --- 85 --0-- Surprising Number of Poems of Irish Places ----- 87 --00 Through the streets ---- 88 -<> Father was _.always lIke That !- -. 91
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(Si~ty years ago Annie Keary wrote most of her best bool~ " Castle Daly" b~fore ever she saw Ireland. he had absorbedfrom her Irishfather in England Cl remarllable lmowledge of the country which she lmew later only through a visit of a cOttple of wee1?s dttring which she tOttrcd Connemara and Galway. Thi slightly condensed story of a flight by night along Lough Corrib is taken from " Castle Daly").
N such an evening the boat voyage down Lough Corrib to Galway would be ea ily managed while O the darkness lasted. If there had been a contrary wind it might have be n impossible to make it in time to reach the yes el before he sailed. A yet all looked Lough Corrib. well; the evening was closing in gently, the shadows crept further and further ,md grew darker in the valleys, wrapping the gr at' oat lames h<>.d thoughtfullv brought and hardly a leaf stirred; the little lakes scatter d for him round Ellen, who shudd r cl with rold. between the hills reddened and whitened again, and lay glimmering coldly like still sheets of frosted silver; the " ~ vcr mind," James said, " it was (l. breath of the sunset glow had faded everywhere but on the tops of Sf':\ tlw.t had met th m; and the neighbourhood of the the highest hills when Ellen reached the boat-house. sea meallt fre'dom amI safety close at hand within 'he was the first to arrive, and had two hours of anxious their gr<'.sp-if, please ,od, no misfortune came at th' waiting. 'ometimes she paced the road nea.r the riv r, last hour to snat h it from them." unable to rest; and then fearing to attract notice she The thougllt n [\'cd them to fresh exertion, wcari{~ll forced herself to sit still in the shadow of the boat-hous. (IS they were. Half an hour oftcrwards th re w<'.s th· No one passed but a girl driving a cow to its pasture and sea-Galway H:>rbour with th Atlantic b yond, c\ivicl 'cl a gossoon with the astle Daly po t bag on his back from them only now by the narrow channelth".t conn cts whistling a gay tune as h ran. He had run ju t s last the lake with the b:1.)", and still the sun Imd only just night, Ellen thought, with the n ws that was worth lifted its head, a fiery r d ball, frol11 the \Vat rs of tlHl onnor" life behind him. But what did th d lay lake stretchd out fa.r behind th 111. They WC'r\. ip lime. mean? Could Jam s Morris pas ibly have ·fail d him? onnor soon pointed out to EJlcn th migrant ship Could they have been stopped on the way? Just as lying b yond the harbour-bar. Other little 1>01ts w re the wonder began to grow into an agony of <'.ppr h nsion, putting Jut to her from the shore '1S they got I ar 0 r the two figures her eye had long been straining to s e Fri<'.r's ut boC'.ts fiU cl with migmnts <'-nd th ir friemb emerged out of the dark distance and rapidly approach el who h<'.el k pt togeth r till the last and w re now in her. frtlntic ha~te to gain th . hip's side; for th . igni'.l had " All right," 'onnor's voice cried when they were et been hoist d that the 1J1chor was under weigh. Iheir yard or two distant, and Ellen noticed that his voi e haste need xcit 110 surpri'. Ell 'n fan i d she would had its old alacrity and cheer in it. Then, a th y cam f el quit happy whC'n once sh ha l s 'cn Connor limb close, he whispered in her ear, "We waited at the th "ide of the v ssel and lose himself in th crowel, that, Hollow till nearly dark; for Morris ha' r ason to think arly" was the hour, rowd 'I h"r cl ks- 1)(' would b that I was seen yesterday; and th..... t the poli are on safe th on. Yet, when they shot under th ship's bOWS. the look-out to get a hold of me; but th dang r is .md confused ri s ~ncl dis orclant noises (!f cl parturc nearly over now; once in the boat, we~ll do." Morris ran'~ in her ~,rs. and 'onnor, putting down his O'tr, h( nt had gone into the boat-house and brought out the littl towards h r and drew her face to his, it WtlS as if the very skiff in which they took their places, Ell n at the helm hitt rn s of d ath had om with tn l1~t mom nt. 1I r an~ Connor and James each taking an oar. h('ad f 11 forward pow rkss on !lis hr ost, and Jam s, , When they had left the channel they struck out and r<'.i~iDg it gently, call cl n onnor to In<>.ke haste and Ellen seemed to breathe more freely as the expan e of g t <'.\V<,.v before sh wok from un ns iou n s '. ,'h' water around them widened. All night long the dip o[ did not h,mr th comp..... s iOl11.te rem:Jrk P2S ed round the oars and ripple of the water against the sides of the <>.mong the occupants of th oth r bo ts about the poor boat kept up a questiop and an wer that Ellen see'Il cl young s~rv'1nt lad whose sweetheart had faint d wh n to speak. 'ometimes Connor and J<,mes Morris brok" he wish d h r good-by, and sh missecJ th ~ight of a the opprcssiv monotony by on of tn boating songs fr>.c thm t ov r th hip's sid that flushed with ag r they used to sipg in the old tim s, ancl then Ell n joy as onnor sprang UI th l<'.dder. .h was on cious gathered up a.ll the power she had to an intensity of of nothing m re till nearly half an hour arterwards, listening, that no clear fre h notc of the sw et boyi'h whcn she rai ed her h~ad fnm th bottom of th boat voice-the voice she was never to hear inging again-- where J<'.111 ~ had pIa cd h r, "Dd saw in front "f her et should escapc her e1.rs. As the grey dawn r 'pt Hp thl. track of light 0n th dan ing waves and in th . midst of sky the wind fresh ned a little, an I onnor insist cl on it a ship with sails full s t dropping clown w stwarcl. Hz .Vtlrch, 1943 IRISH TRAVEL THE UPPER BOYNE IS EASY TO FISH· , THE KELLS BLACKWATER N Mee.th tl: cream of the almon fi hing lies in the ~ 13 yne from Navan t the stuary, and in a short By A. W. B I stretch of the Blackwater from a mill weir to e.van; owing to their outst<,.nding exc lIence these parts <'.re Alder or sm<.>.1l Or",nge Grou e will bring them up. Xext ntir Iy pr erve 1 and available only to the more come th May-fly sea on; a Spent Gnat fished dry or fortunat <'.mong us. The remainder is free except for half sunk stand 2. good ch<'.nce of hooking a big one. on or two tr tches where visiting <,.ng! rs abuoel their In ummer the b st flies, with local variations, are privilege, and th loss ndur<,.Ily fe.lIs h e.vie t on th AId r, Grey FI"g, vuious ::c:lges, 'mall Orange Grou e, local. Reel 'pinn rs and pider, Coch-y-bondhu, Quills, and Though the yield from the upper s11mon arc,. is only a mall fmction of that from th lower re<'.ches, app~.rently due in la.rge part to h".c1!y-constructd weirs, 1 p rsev rance will be rewarc , 1 by the capture of fish which, whi! perhC!-ps few in numbers, <'.re large in individu<'.1 weight. Most of tl':em will turn the s 2.1es betwe n 14 and 20 Ibs. with a f~.ir sprinkling of brger up to 40 lbs. E<'.rly in the . <.~son, which Legins on the 12th F bruary, the majority succumb to a spinning bait, a large \'ari ty b ing u .!. tat r the fly is increasingly work '1, and the prawn and worm ar pli d until th angling tC!-ils off in l\1ay or mly June. The Kells Blackwater. The l ppcr Boyn is asy to fish, IJut the K fls Bla kw<:'.ter r quires la :>.1 knowledge in parts. For b st r suits th bait must g ner2.lIy be k pi very close to th bottom whi h ont:1ins sn<'.gs, many I eing tough roots of \\"2.t r plc,nts. The locals almost invariably Us strong fla.· !in s with wir' tra 's owing to the much h Lt r chan 'of r tri 'ving wl. n sn".ggecl . The b2.nks, too, pr sent cIiffi ulti s in ·pinning. In addition t.o . Ig and rush s on long str ·tch s of th dge, thr IS a se ond or fal.e bank which must h used wh n the Mr. A. W. Bowie with his catch, 26} & 29~ lbs. riv 'r is high, 2.nd as tl.e wi Ith hetwe n this "net th salmon, Kells Blackwater true hut submerg I bank v<.~ri s trouhl is bound to arise un! ss pr vious knowl uge and a long rod, usuc.lly Bl<'.ck C;nat; the evening ris i' often very good. The 1I ~ ft. or mor " <~I <:'.ppli cl ".s anlidot s'. . c<'.tch g n.cr<.'.lIy weigh up to I ~ lb., though larger to \\'h 11. spinning, th' bag will <".Imost .11l\'<'l,nahly 5 Ib, m not rar , <'.nd l<'.st y ar one of 10 lb. was taken contain pik ,th I",rger on s som tim s plc.ymg <'.s welt on a spinning minnow in the Boyn near Xavan. cl as th m<"jority of th mord 'ir salmon. The usual For th bottC\m fisher, perch and rudd abound all run is h Lw 11. 3 and 7 lb. but larg r on s up to 20 Il>s, 0\' r th <'.rea wherev r wat r i sufficiently d ep, while are not infr (IU nt. . hr <'.m u very numerou in cert<'.in pots and ten h The Best Flies. u 0 c<.>.sionally caught. The 1<.>. t angling of th y ar Th majority of trout fish rs us elrv fly, tlw fish is th curious" bobbing" for e Is <.>.t night, when no g 11. .rall ' not ri ing w 11 until )11id~r<'.y, wl 11. <.'. lug hook is used but a good stick is necessary! The National Bank Litnited COMPLETE BANKING FACILITIES AFFORDED DUBLIN (Chief Office) : 34 & 35 COLLEGE GREEN 273 Offices: Agents and Corre$pondents throughout the World IRISH TRAVEL March 1943 I SAW CORK
SLOW CLIMBS, AND QUICK ANSWERS r- By PATRICK HOGAN HE hell from which 'ork ity emerged still The Newsboy Won. surrounds it in carelessly. trewn terraces of brown A bus saved me from the:e humiliating thoughts T stone 2.nd green clad hill. These ri e perpen and after ten minutes' driv ~ I alighted to try i sues with dicularly here and there, but in all places they are a newsboy as to the r lative value of a Dublin and a fiercely steep. I climbed one of them, Patrick's Hill, Cork morning paper. and mentally challenged the other to morta.l combat. But there was not any issu{' to be tried as far as the I meant it too, for I was in a climbing mood, but they newsboy was concerned. were as discreetly dumb as any Corkonian can be when "They get the news from the war straight here" discretion or interest counsels silence. I had three he said and ag<:>.in t that assertion argument seemed very good reasons for limbing Patrick's Hill. One puny and helpless. I didn't try it. The newsboy won- was a desire to see from a height the bottom of the but wasn't he ork! . bowl which is Cork city. Another was to find out where Cork has several valuable industries and the buildings I could get to, from the top of the hill. I W2.S c.eter in which some of them are housed add considerably to mined to overGome the very severest test Cork could the beauty and attractions of the city. The workers impose on me and that was the last and strongest from these f<:>.ctories with their colleagues from the rea on. It will always remain a severe test. The climb hops crowd the streets during lunch hour and make was worth the trouble. ~everal steeples, towers, them pleasant with law;hter and the hail of recognition cupolas and chimney tacks poked themselves through to each other as they go p2.St. Even allowing for th ir the blue haze that hung over the city, and gauzelike long drawl on their ultimat syllables I enjoy d poking extended to the ridge of green hills which forms a my way amongst them, and listening to that quaint background. The other buildings lay grey in the dull and inexplicable p culiuity of accent. December light, but one saw clearly the bowl which is Cork and its suburbs. There are others climbing up, Kind and Diplomatic. at least one of these hillsides, for I thought I S?w red A man who showed me the way to the statue from a tiles stretching horizonward through the hazy but maze of side str ets in which I 'had b come involved harp air of this winter morning. p this hill ide (''tme a long way with me to make ure that I wouldn't concrete is replacing grass, and ork hearths and home " get lost again" as h phrased it. He was kind and replacing browsing cattle and verdant landscape. And diplomatic. A we am into the South :\lall I remarked perhaps it is well so. ork people know what is best that ome of the buildings were b autiful and impo ing. in Cork! Anyway the hou' s are growing-up am1 up. To this my guide had not any answer to make. Evid nlly he had not any eye for architecture. The' Green-clad Hills. "I n't that a beautiful frontage to that building I would have climbed onc or all of these green-clad opposite?" I ventured. " Isn't it a bank? " hills a,cross the city but I didn't know how to reach " Yes 'tis a bank, I oeli vc" he answered, "but 1 , them' for it is as easy to lose oneself in Cork city as it don't know what bank. I haven't much intercourse is to get involved in the intricacies of the orkonian with banks. I know more about th Labour Exchang . . mind. Once I took what seemed to me to be a direct I've studied its front for the past eighteen months an' routetowards the centre of the city, but, alas for my s nse I was just coming from it when you asked m the way of direction, I found myself leaving the city behind mc, here. That's 1'ath r Matthew over th re now. II and travelling beside the lordly Lee evidently facing wouldn't be bu'y if he was here to-day; that's with towards the heart of the country. And here th L e people like us anyway-but sure times might chang certainly does make a deep impression. It is wid , They might." lIe moved into th crowd of p..ssers-by deep and powerful. It is laconically powerful, powerfully and wa soon 10 t to my view. majestic, majestically calm! e\'eral wans drew a narrow thread of ripple on its otherwi e unbroken I lingered near the bridge wat hing the crowd pass surfa A Garden wall at Dalkey with its effigy of the old Tar. Ornamental Gate, near Tara, Co. Meath. LADY'S FINGER AND MAIDEN TOWER WILLING PRISONE~S At Mornington, Co. Meath. In the stocks at st. Multose Church, Kinsale. IRISH TRAVEL March, 1943 Phone 45340 Terms Moderate BELVEDERE HOTEL I North Great George's Street Onc of KingHton'H extra smart styles this' \Vild fowl' hat iH 1111.r1e from DUBLIN rain-rf'Histing fur which has a roug-h sports finish PYopyielO1' -E. HACKETT KINGSTONS O'COIl\wll St., and C('orgl"s St., Duhlin. Central Position, 2 Minutes from O'Connell street ,------Insurance COUNTY HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS Wc can sccur' for vou an xclusive polic\' C vcring 1I(,tpls, H('stmllilntH, ;·.r.d .•tering establishmenb. Onc j)o!icv, onc premium :1.1:0 onc r"n 'Wit! insures the h01d 'r ag,'in~t ('very insurabL risl{, including Fire, Exp10si n, Storm, Burglar\', Th ft, HOTEL Employers' LiaIJilily, Third Party, Phone: 51527 Plate Glass, etc, HARCOURT STREET DUBLIN Write for full details to:- ---.~--- n. & C. all BedroomR Central Heating •'piral Mattresses J~e 86 March, 1943 IRISH TRAVEL SURPRISING NUMBER OF POEMS OF IRISH PLACES APPEAL OF HOME AND TOWNLAND ~~~N>,..;'- By AUSTIN CLARKE ,) ~/ I T i a curious f2.ct th2.t mo t of our popul?r song, Many of the poems which Yeat wrote as a young man good 2.nd b2.d, are 2.S oci?ted with definite pl2.Ces in London are full of tiny, lovely glimpses of places in I and counties. Killarney, Tipperary, the Mountains Sligo. Even when he is writing of fairies he does not of Mourne are known to countless people 2.broad who forget the landscape. He notes the moonlight glossing have perh2.ps never seen an Irish lake or hill. Every the S2.nds at Ro es, the mountain ca cades- county in Jr land has, of cour e, its own tr2.ditional folk ongs and ball2.ds. But very few people realise how Where the wandering 'waler gushes many poems written by modern Irish poets are 2.ctually From the hills above Glen-Car, poems of pI2.ce·. What is the rc?son of this f?et ? In pools among the rushes Love of home and townland arc as old as the race That scarce could bathe a slar. and the clan system it elf. In r~mote ages t'he bards, 2.S part of their official duties, had to compose topo The cairn of Queen 1?eve on Knocknarea, which gr2phical poem. In tanza after stanza they set down domim.tes the town of Sligo, has more meaning for the minutely the hi tory of every hill, ridge and cairn in visitor who knows YeC'.ts's description of a stormy their locality. \Vh n they went on tax-collecting My in the wc t. expedition. with their royal master, they took note of every hist rical wood and mound they passed. The The wind had bUlldled liP Ihe clouds high over f.mou m dia val poem which de cribes how Murtough Knoclmarea, of th Leath r Cloaks ma.rched all round Ire1 I leil! ariSl' IIlld go JI01CJ, for always lliKhI 1I11d day 1\ surprising ?mount. of fin po ms about Irish places 1 hNtr la/~e I '(Iler IIlPpill{!. with Iow SOU lids by Ihe shore; has he n written in recent years, and it is unfortunate While 1 stalld 011 tht' roadway, or 011 tllt' p(/1·emCllI.~ gre.v, th,.t so manv of them should not be known as w 11 as J hear it ill Ihe deep heart's core. (Continued on page 92) 7 3 * 4 2 5 (1) Main Street, Naas. (2) St. Patrick Street and Hill, Cork. (3) Earl Street, Dundalk. (4) West Gate, Clonmel. HE * 7 (5) The Avenue, Gorey. (6) Market Day, Galway. (7) High Street, Kilkenny. IRISH TRAVEL 1Ifarch, 1943 BERNARD SHAW LIVED AT DALKEY EORGE Bernard Shaw lived for some years at Torca ottage, Torca Hill, Dalkey. In a G letter (quoted in the Dublin Historical Record) he writes:- "I think the shortest way to find the seaside home of my boyhood is to ask the postman where Torca Cott2.ge is. Dalkey faces Dublin and Howth one way, and Bray Head and the Sugar L02.f the other. The back garden commanded Dublin Bay, the front Killiney Bay. It was, and is, more than h2.lf-way up the hill from the sea to the little castle (the Telegr2.ph) on the top of the hill north of Killiney Hill. It and the group of houses (in my time three) to which it belonged were the highest in Dalkey. To the left of the pectator facing them, at a little distance which may now be filled up with new buildings, W2.S a conspicuous house called Mount Henry. The nearest landm2.rk at that elevation is the Provost's Pump, a square castellated tower, presumably containing a pump. In my time the heath in front of the cottage and the hill down to the MADE BY P. KAVANAGH & SONS, SUNSHINE WORKS, CRUMLIN ROAD, DUBLIN STEELE & CO., LTD. NEW ROSS • AIREDALE HEAVY DUTY CAST ALUMINIUM Bernard Shaw's House in Childhood, Dalkey. HOLLOWARE IS BEST FOR HOTELS. road and railway W2.S unfenced and unbuilt on; what it is now I do not know. From the railway-station you J. J. •• DE WITT" Turf Burning followed the line to the second bridge, turned to the HEAT STORAGE COOKERS right, toilei up the steep road past Khyber Pass and for Hotels and Restaurants other romantically named places, turned to the left <,.t the top, and w2.lkei panting on the welcome le~el, O'Hara • Will cook for 200 people daily on 1 Ton of Turf p3r month. until you were stopped at Mount Henry after passmg & CO., .Hay tee semi yalt eletails. the three, of which Torca Cottage was the third." . LT·D. LINCOLN PLACE, DUBLIN The "Mount Henry" referred to by ~1r. Shaw IS now called" Ard Mhuire." The heath mentioned was until recently a common, but has now been purchased by another resident on the Hill,. and fenced in. MORE PRIVACY FOR VISITORS. Four houses have sinc been erected on the space which Shaw describe::l as "a little distance" between The curmore Hotel, Enniscrone, Co. ligo, proposes Torca Cott2.ge and :\Iount Henry. Torca Hill is situa~ cl to combine, under cover of a neat postal wrapper at high above the Vico Road and commands ver~ extensIve printed paper rate, confirmation of reservation, printed vil'ws of Dublin's southern C02-stline. There IS 2. house, on insice of wrapper, as well as luggage labels, &c. for " The Crag," now on a few feet higher level than the the trr.vcller. This should ensure privacy for those group which Mr. haw describes in his letter as the pc.trons who may not wish to have their destin2.tion highest. The pre. ent oc upant_of the Shaw cottag disc!o ed through the medium of the open carel. i Mr. R. Mc~eill. .1frrrch, 11)-1-3 IRISH TRAVEL, Father Was Always Like That • HE WOULDN'~ GE;r ;rIME ATHER w:>.s always like that. "I am looking By FRED MACCARTHY forw:>.rd to the 25th," he would keep on sa.ying. F "I enjoy th".t fir t day by the se2. every ye2.r wIth There was p:>.ndemonium while we 2.rgued out who had ) e. It always does me good." Sometimes, when we whose boot-12.ces, where wa this one's C2.p 2.nd that weren't thinking, we'd take him seriously for the one's bathing pants and 2.n the rest of it. Father's mOment .md forget th".t he was only "at it again." excitement mounted <1.11 the time. We would be late -r:here W2.S omething exhilarating in it :>.t the same f0r bei that night, of couu', and there would be the tIme; it sort of bucked u up to hear the date mentioned. added anxiety for pa-" Why don't ye go to bed. Ye'll J~".St ycu it was the 30th. This time we were to st2.[t ne\'er be up in time for that nine o'clock train in the ftve clays e2.rlier. It made the holidays look five days mornin.g." longcr, though, of coursc, they weren't. The fu,t was But Where's Father? that wc were going for four weeks to that cottagc at the The 25th came-the great hour struck.' As mml we sea SURPRISING NUMBER OF POEMS " SPRING" to the OF IRISH PLACES (Contiulled from page 7) thcy dc er\'c. Onc of the best pocm written about Killuney is by the Belfast poet, James ousins, now GOLF LINKS HOTEL living in India. I read it many years ago in the Irislt Re,'ieul, edited by Joseph Plunkett and Thomas MGcDonagh. I re-discovered it for myself in a coli tion of ousins' poems publi heel in Am rica. The poem is TELEPHONE 9 GLENGARRIFF full of exact and unexpected little word picture. Here is a de cription of Tomies reflected in the lak waters I will wall, by tlie shore of I,och Leilt when the midday spell TRUnTY STREBT Lies flat on tlte lookillg-r;lass where tlie purple peal, MOIRA HOT E L, DUBLIN Slands slill on its head, litw a clown at a fair: and the RESTAURANT OPEIt SUNDAYS. cackle and shriel~ GRILL ROOM. AUTAURANT. BAR BUFFET. OYSTER BAR Ofthe blacllbird in nesting-time is echoed from elm to ash. SMOKB LOUNGE. A la Carle aad Table d'Uole M..I. Tcltpbone 64658. The poet tells how he walkecl- OWlled and Managed by JURY'S HOTEL, LTD. Uy the woody side where fhe earliest flame 0/ the s1Iuliglil brolle 1>~:;£~i:~::~~ On the soft y01ttlg larches 1C'hose heads go up in a smol~e. Dublin. NORTH STAR HOTEL, Anyon who h THE GRAND HOTEL Phone: 69 for Comfort T R A LE E LINKS HOTEL J.~t~.c. GOLF A.A. )i SLIEVE LEAGUE HOTEL ~ (Ewing's) ROSSES POINT. SLIGO .~ Carrick, CO. Donegal Fully Licensed. Opposite Gol! Club. Championship Course. South-Wesl '-, aspect. B~autltul Scenery. Bathing and Fishing. Ample Accommodallon. For PIS H 1 X (; HI[(ING First Class Cuisine. Aga Cooker Installed. Terms Moderate. Garage Fre•. " HOA TING CLI .UU LVG Phone : Rosses Polnl 4. Telegrams: " Ewlnr. Roms Point." BUS TO DOOR Appl1 J. MALONEY March, 1943 IRISH TRAVEL A DIRECTORY OF IRISH HOTELS (B.-Number of B?drooms: H.C. il1dicat~s Bedrooms with hot and cold water available.) ABBEYFEALE (Limerick). BALLYCOTTON (Cork). CARAGH LAKE (Co. Kerry'. COURTMACSHERRY (Cork). LEE:\'S, ~Iam St.; D. I" R\Y VIEW B. ~;,. SOUI'llERN : B. 3a; H.C. ESPLAN AlE; D. 20. FAWCETT'S; n. I.:;. ABBEYLEIX (Laol~hl$). CARLOW (Co. Carlow). COURTOWN HARBOUR (Wexlord). DE VESCI ARMS; D. 10. BALLYGAR (Galway). ROYAL; B. 10; H.C. BAY VIEW: B. 10. WALL'S; B. 12. BOLGER'S )IARINE; B. 2~. ACHILL ISLAND (Co. Mayo). BALLYLICKEY (Cork). CARNA (Co. Galway). )lONG \N' ; B. 3;'; ILC. COURTOWN; B. H. AMETlIYST, Kcel; D. 22; H.C. OUVANE; B. 10; II.C. LEVUKA GUEST HOUSE; B. ll. CLEW BAY, Dooagh; B. 11. KEEL nAY, Keel; B. 7. BALLYLIFFlN (Donegal) CARNDONAGH (Co. Donegal) O'IJOHERTY'S; B. 12; ILL. CREESLOUGH (Donegal) MINAUN, Ked; B. . BALLYLIFFIN; B. U. O'IJO:O;NELL'S; B. 11. PA'ITEN'S (Private), Keem; B. 5. BALLYMONEY (Wexlord). CARRICK (Co. Donegal), RICH VIEW, Keel; n. 8. 'LIEVE LEAGUE; B. 10. CROSSHAVEN (Cork). MR. MOWAT"T, Kilclcrmol; B. 16 CHURCH BAY; B. 10. ADARE (Limerick). CARRICK-ON-SHANNON (Co. LeitrIm), DUNRAVEN ARMS; B. 40; H.C BALLYSHANNON (Donegal\. gIPERIAL' B. 11 BU '11; B. ~o; H.e. DALKEY (Dublin). AHERLOW. GLEN OF (Tipperary). ROYAL ~IILLSTONE; B. 12; H.C. CARRIGART (Co. Donegal). CLIFF CA I'Ll'; B. 30: H.C. GLEN OF AHERLOW; B. H; H.C SWEENEY'S; B. 12; H.C. ~6. " LUCKINGTON" GUE ''I' HOUSE, CARRIGART; B. L:h-crton Rd.; B. 9; H.C. ARAN ISLANDS (Galway). BANTRY (Cork). CASHEL (Co, Tipperary), GANLY'S, Kilrnnan: D. 12. I March, 1943 IRISH TRAVEL E.~ST\\'OOD, 91J92 Lr. Leeson St. DUNMORE EAST (Waterford). GREENCASTLE (Donegal). LIMERICK (Limerick). B.2::!. STRAND; B. 16. CARRICK-A-~IAN; B. 20. liDEN\'.\LE, I Harconrt St.; B. 11 ; J)RI'~IAWEIR; ARDHU HOUSE, N.C.R.; B. 8; H.c. B. 16. H.C. DUNQUIN (Dingre, Kerry). THE FORT; B. 27. CENTRAL, Bakcr Plae," B. 10. LLLIOTT, !lareol1rt St. ~[AUIHCE KA\'ANAGH; B. O. ELVA, 66 Parnell St.; B. 12; H.C. CRlIlSE'S, O'Connell St.: B. 46; 1'I1\'1\"S, 1 '2 South Lein.ter St.; B. 9. GREENORE (Louth). H.C. EASKEY 'Sligo), LREENORE; B. 30. DJ;S~IOND, Catherine 51.; B. 20; FITZPATRICK'S, 38 ,,"e'tland Row; SEAFIELD ; 13. 14; II.C. 11, 12' H.C. . H.C. G.\L\\'Ay Alms, 54155 Parnell Sq.' GREYSTONES .(Wleklow), GEORGE IRo)'a!), O'Connel1 St.; n. ENNIS (Clare). :1:1; H'C, B. 17; !l.C. CAIOIOOY'S, Abuey St.; B. _5; CENTRAL, Trafalgar R".; B. :)0 GROO~IE'S, . Cawndi.h Row; B.12. C;RAND; B. 50; H.C. GLE:>iT\\'ORTH, Clent\\'orth t.: B. H.C. 61)' H.C. I\'A. 'HOE, lIarcourt St.; B. 46; OLD (;HOUloiD; D. 30; II.C. R..\lLWAY; B. 16. H.C, HANI~ArrY'S. Glentll'orth St.; n.20. QUEEN'S, Aubey St.; B. 36; H.C. NATIONAL Baker Place; B. 24; Lmx. Cardiner's Row; B. 15. GWEEDORE (Donegal). LENEIIAN, 24:25 Harcourt St.; H'C, 2~; ENNISCORTHY (Wexford). GWEEOORE; B. 20; H.C. RAILWAY; B. 2~; H.C. B. H.C, RAILWAY; H. 20; H.C. DOOGAN'S (~[eenrierr)'gamph). B.12. MA cDEIUI01T, 32;33 Barcourt St.. ~lcCARTHY'S HOTEL & RES- B. ~6; II.C. TAURANT; B. 6. ENNISCRONE (Balllna, Sligo). HEADFORD (Galway). MARIS, 20 Lr, Fit7william St.: B. 1~; SeUR~[ORE; H.C. 11. 36; H.C. ~lcCOR~IACJ('S; B. 9. LIMERICK JUNCTION (Tipperary). ~IONT RYAN'S; B. 20; H.e. LARE, Clare St.; B. 10. ENNISKERRY (WIcklow). MURRAY'S, Marlboro St.; B. 10; HOWTH (Dublin). POWERSCOURT ARMS; B. 12. LISDOONVARNA (Clare). 11.. SUMMERlULL; B. 1:1. CLAREMONT; B. 32; lI.e. NOONAN'S, 14 Upr. Ormond Quav; ROYAL; B. 16; H.C. IHLLYNALACKEN CASTLE; n.IO. ~IHS. HARIErm WIl\'DSOR, Way DIPERIAL; B. 60; H.C. B. 12. side Cafe; H. 6. ST. LAWRENCE; B. 20; If.C O'BRlEN'S,80J 1 Pamell St.; B. 20 ; DALRIADA; B. 12. LYNCH'S; B. 39; H.C. II.C. SILVER VALE; B. 12. ROYAL SPA; B. 30' H.e. ORAN, 42 Lr. Bag-Itol St.; B. 9; H.C. FERMOY (Cork). INCH (Anna$caul, Kerry), LISMORE (Waterford). PAHKSIDE, Nth. Circular Rd.; B. 20 ; STRAND B. 11. II.C. GRAND; H. 20. AI 155 F. H. JACOB, Rath. 1 Ill!. 1'ELLETlER, 21J22 Harcourt St.; Lislnorc. FINEA (Streete, Westmeath). INCHIGEELA (Marroom, Cork). B. 20' H.C. O'CONNOR'S: B. 12. LISTOWEL (Kerry). 1'IIOENIX PARK, Parkgate St.; CREEDON'S; B. 10. LAKE; B. JO. LISTOIVEL AIOIS, The Square; B. 10; H.C. FOUNTAINSTOWN (Crosshaven, Cork). B. 20. REGENT. l)'OHer St.; B. 32; H.C. FOUNTAINSTO\\,N HOUSE; B. 10. HOYAL EXCHANGE, G,'7 Parliament INCHYDONEY (Corlt). LOUISBURGH (Mayo). St.; B. 2t. FOYNES (Limerick). INCHYDONEY; B. :ll; II.C. OLD HEAD; B. 10; If.C. ST. GEORGE, Parnell Sq.; B. 22; CREVEEN; n. RC. o. LUCAN (Dublin). STAND.\RD, Uareol1rt St.; B. fi7; INVER (Donegal). NATIONAL SPA .\ND lIYDIW; H.C. GALWAY (Galway) • Dl{WIBEC; ll. 28; 1I.C. .UI ERICA , Eyre 5".; B. Ill. H. 17; H'C, SWISS. 31 Filz\\'illiam Sq.; B. 1. : H.\ILEY'S, Eyre Sq.; n. I~; 11.(. H.C. KELLS (Meath). MAAM CROSS (Galway). I~. CASTLE, I.r. Aubcl'l(oIte St.; n. 2:;. \\'ESTBROOK, Parnell S'luare: n. END..\, Duminiek St.; 13. I~, DREWSTOWN GUJsr 1I0lJ"L; I'I-:,\CO . K'S: H. lJ. \rES1 ERN. 22 Nth. Fredwck St.; (,!BLlN'S, Evre 'q.; B. 10. n. O. r. J. I.YO. 'S, Tullabcy 1Iuu'e; H.t<. n. 11: II.C. C;)lEAT SOI)'~'HE){N, El're S'I.; MACROOM (Cork), Private Accommodation. B. 70; /J.e. KENMARE (Kerry). DII'ERI.\L, Eyre Sq.' B. 2.;: Il.C. (,RE.\'! SOUTIILRN; H. 10. IWN\N'S; H. I~; II.C. \! RS. BEIlAN. 21 Lr. Hatl'h St.: n. 7, ROYAl.. Er-re Sq.; B. fin; 1I.e. L\1\'SDO\\'NE. .\1015, ~1"1Il St, \·ICTORI.-\· B. 11. llPRLlNC;TON, 34J:15 Upr. Lel'>on SKEFJlNe; IO. AIOIS, Eyre 5'1.; H. :10; JI.C. 5t.: B. 12. B. 12; ILL. MALINMORE IGlencolmcille, Donegan. IWBLlN SER\'lCE FLATS. 2S Upr. JOSEPH O'nOYLE, ~Ia""lllore; Il. Pembroke St.; B. 06; H.C. KILCORAN (Cahir, Tipperaryl. Unlicensed. KJLLOR:\N LODC;E: B. I~. ~IRS. R. FITZGIBBON, G2 Ppr. MALLARANNY (Mayo), Lee'on St.· 1I. H. C'[lE.\T SOUTHER:>i; n. 12. I'OX'S, 11 Lr. Leeson St., B. JIJ; \I L.\I\ 1.\, II J)omillitk St.; n. IlL hDINBl'RC,Il, R William St.; H. 1'. KILKEE (Clarel. ~IOR\N'S; H. 10. II.C. ROYAL ~IARI1\'E: n. HO. ~I ~IOR ~I ISS .\ I ~ldl\\\'ER, 1 Call1uridge I. J\FLEHAN. Nellcastle·ReI.; H. H. RS. Josm \:\', .\\'ull OUGHTERARD (Galway). ROSSNOWLAGH (Donegal). SlIERlIHN'S; Il. (;,: ILl'. TULLAMORE (Offaly). CORRIB; B. 20; H.C. COOUIORE HOUSE; B. 8. ~llSS ROWLE'lTE, Rowletlc's Guest lJOLGER'S; B. 21. LAKE (Late Mdlahon'<); D. 10; Hou e, Wine SI.; B. 7. HAYES'; B. 25. H.C. ROUNDSTONE (Galway~. l(INTO 'S; B. O. SNEEM (Kerry). TULLOW (Carlow). PARKNASILLA (Kerry). O'DOWD'S; D. 7. SNEE~I HOTEL; B. 12. GREAT SOUTHERN; B. 60; H.C. SLANEY; B. n. SHA~IROCK; B. 10; 11.C. ~llSS PEG O'CO,'. 0 R, Th" "rc"n F. LPGI (:lMil,'s from OARNA, OONNEMARA, CO. GALWAY MOY GARDENS ElIldscron<') COMPLETE SELECTION of GARDEN PLANTS. INTERESTING VARIETIES 01 ROCK PLANTS. CHOICEST CUT FLOWERS. Write lor pring & Autumn Lisls. MONGAN'S HOTEL Flrst-elals FlsblDg aDd Sboollng. TbooUDdl of Acrel of ROOgD Also MOYNE ABBEY KENNELS ~;~a~~~nfr'~~ Sboollng. MooDlalD, RIver, Lake, sea. Garage. Full P(l1'liculars from ;- Terriers J. W. MONGAN, Proprietor. I MRS. BERYL JOIINSTON, CASTLECONNOR, II.\LLl t\'t\, Co. ~IAYO. O'DOHERTY'S TARAVIE HOTEL Cross Roads Hotel, MALIN HEAD COURTOWN, co. WEXFORD Everything the Modern Traveller Dem:mds. ]~(':\utifuHy sitl.lated 01 S a Front - Fully Licl:!lSCc! Phone : BALLYGORMAN 3 Lounge B'lr • Electric Light Sqnrate T:\l.>1 (LICENSED) PHONE; 14 D,\ Y [NG AD TENNIS .. THE LOl'(:EST ROYAL ESTABLiSHED HOTEL IN CO RTOWN H.EI)~10.rD II HOTEL GARAGE. Apply-P. J. ARKLOW SPECIAL TERMS FOR APRIL, MAY and JUNE FOR SHORT OR LONG STAY HOTEL LENEHAN (MISS LIIlBBAH, Proprl.treal) HOTEL PELLETIER 24-25 HARCOURT STREET •• DUBLIN 21-22 HARCOURT STREET, DUBLIN. Hoted for Mod.ralt TtrDII aDd Good CaterlDg. nRY CUTRAL P08ITIOI. OARAO•• TERIIS MOD.RATI CeDtrally situated; conveDlent to all place. of lotereot Meall ..rved to Non·ReoidenU. But lerv,ce to and from door to all BOT AID COLD WAnl .1 ROO". • UCTRJO FlRa ltatiODl aDd placel of Interut• PhODe 61UOl .dJ)Jl/1I 10 IM Pf'OJJrl«,."" HOT AND COLD WATBR IN BkDROOYS• T.I,,1I0.' 10. U06I- OARAO. March, 1943. IRISH TRAVEL ~ WHEN IN DUBLIN STAY AT SHANGANAGH CASTLE FOUR COURTS HOTEL Hotel and Bed, Breakfast - 8'6 Restaurant Luncheon 2 6 FIRST-CLASS CATERING. FULLY LICENSED Afternoon Tea - 1,6 or Bathroom Suites, Garage, Moderate Tariff 1\ L\ C.\RTE o ;\rAI~ BU. ROUTE • Dublin, 10 miles. Bray, 2 mile / MODERN ~ SEA BATHING, GOLF, Three Tennis Courts IIIJI LOUNGE BAR • Reception', Garden and Dinner cml PLETELY RE-(m.G.\~ISEDu.-DER THE PERSO. '.\L: PER\TIO._F Partie and Dance Catered for :'IIR. B. J. TE. T. Al TT, :'IIanager FOUR COURTS HOTEL LTD. '!'ELEPHONE: SIIA KIIILL 81 Phones: 73543 73075 INNS QUAY, DUBLIN Telephone: DUBLIN 22241-44 erved by*a regular S 'bus service passing lhe prIncipal railway statlo!!<. the CLARENCE Is within easy reach 01 shoppIng, commercial and amusement cenlres. Cen trally healed throughout, whh coal Ilres In all public rooms, It provides JURYS' comlort and luxury at a moderale price. The ballroom, w!th a noor COMFORT sprung on the lalest principles, ~ccommodales CUISINE 300 dancers. Telephones In the bedrooms and a SERVICE garage adjoining the h~tel HOTEL .re additionAl :uxurles. Phone*76178 DUBLIN CLflREnCe Telegrams: JURY'S DUBLIN ~hotel· DUBLIN O'KerfJ/'~ 1 R 1 S HTN /J VEL, '(', March , 1,943 , Phone 35 , Phone 5 Phone 7' Phone: 2 All within short distance from Railway Stations. Trains met. Golf, Tennis, Free Fishing, Boating, Swimming, Billiards, etc. Bring)your Bicycle to Kerry. and Stay at this chain of Hotels which offer a system ~ of interchangeable accommodation and meals. Hotels are situated within a radius of 20 miles of each other. Phone: CONG 3 THE PRIVATE GROUNDS INCLUDE 25 MILES OF AVENUES AND WALKS, A GOLF COURSE, CROQUET LAWN, PUTTING GREEN, SET AMIDST THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SURROUNDINGS IN EIRE. Bicycles, Jaunting Cars, Horses and Pleasure Boats available. Free Fishing on Lough Corl'ib. Tennis, Billiards, I:Ito. ALL ABOVE HOTELS FULLY LICENSED Published bv tbe Proprietors, IRISH TOURIST ASSOCIATION, 15 Upper O'ConneIl Street, Dublin, and pClnted by [THE JUVERNA PRESS, LTD., 12 Upper Lifley Street, Dublin. Other om of the \ssociatiol1 :-BELFAST: ~S Howard Strep!. CORK: 0;; Patriek Street. PRINTED IN DUBLIN.