S' Parting ~~~~~~=-=-=:=~~~~~~~Q~~~~~:S~ Page ~ at Galway --- 82 --0-- the Upper Boyne Is Ellsy to Fish - 83 -----0---- I Saw Cork -- 84
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
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 Seen from top of Crogbaun =9. VOL. XVIII. No. 6. ma~ch, 1943. THREEPENCE Cumonn Luer IR ISH TNA [/ I~ L March, 1943. DUBLIN * BANK OF IRELAND N FACILITIES FOR TRAVELLERS AT Bead omce: COLLEGE GREEN,DUBLIIf BKLrAIT .. OORK DERRY tt JVhere North meets South" PHONE: DUBLIN 71371 (6 Lines) .TB.Y D••ORIPTION 01' I'OR.ION .XOHANG. IiU8INlI88 TRA.N8A.OT.D ON ARRIVA.L 01' LIN_U BY DA.Y OR NIGHT AT OOBH (QU.IlN8TOWJf) ReStdent Manager . ......• T. O'Sultwan AND OALWAY DOOQ. Everything to satisfy the most exacting connoisseur is provided. Coal fires in all public rooms; after noon tea, 3-6; liberal table; excel lent cooking aId service; a pleasant and informal atmosphere. Centrally situated, with moderate terms. Visit H's of little us(' having your tables aUra liv('Iy Jaid unless the Restaurant next time you're you have equipmrnt in your kitchens which enables your staft to serve npp<'tising courses rapidly. Your guests asS('Ss your lunching in town. service' by the standard of meals you offer and modern equip ment enables you to maintain a high standard. De!=pitc the difficulties attendinR' dt-liveryof equipment wC" can still supply many items which wiiJ moderni.51.' your kitchen and incrcast' efficiency: Electric ookers; turf and wood-hurn in!: ran!'te.; electric dish washers; CH El' ranges; HA~IMONj) Steam Cookers; aluminium utc:lsiJs in large and small size!'. L~t us advbc you on your problems. Phone 7564 !) H. EVANS & SONS Ifitchen Engineers 152 CAPEL STREET, DUBLIN DUBLIN O'Kee!!e's SUBSCRIPTION : Wbolesale Irom tbe Irlsb Tourist As'OclalloD 5,. PER ANNUM, aDd frolll Post Free. IRISH EasOD & SOD, Ltd. COPIES FREE Retail from TO ALL MEMBERS all NewsageDts a~d OF THE from tbe ASSOCIATION AND Irlsb TourIst Assoclallou OF ITS ASSOCIATE DEPARTMENT. TRAV'El PrIce 3d. Oflicial Organ of the Irish Tourist Association and of the Irish Hotels Federation VOL. XVIII. MARCH, 1943. No. 6 NOTES· AND NEWS Tillage Transforms the Landscape. But obViously we don't criticise a book by its title. The face of Ireland is changing. Tillage is altering Nor a piece of music either; as in the case of E. J. the colour and pl2.n of wide areas. In harvest time last l\Ioeran who a few yeus ago went to live in a "room year the vision of new golden tracts of ripening corn with a view" (his own description of it) in Kenmare made patches of an Australian brightness in former dull and there mostly composed his remarkable symphony green belts. When the forty ye2.[s' plan to reclaim a which W2.S talked about and played from a record in further million acre by arterial drainage will have got a B.B.C. progr2.mme the other night. under way there will be a real" new" Ireland. Electricity V. Petrol. Good News for Limerick Anglers. £300 <>. year is to be save::l on the Waterford cross " The Rivers are looking after themselves," says the river ferry-service by the use of electricity instead of the Secretary of the Limerick Board of Fi'hery Conservators. internal combustion engine. The first electric return It ha been a very succe sful spawning eason and trip took 6~ minutes. The running expenses of the new ~ractically all the salmon rivers hold extra spawning service will be le s than half the cost of the petrol-driven fIsh, e pccially the Nenagh river and the Shannon at boat. Castl connel!. Angling on the Moy. Agha Khan's New Stud Farm. Angling on the River Moy, which opened for rods on The laic Lord Fume s's stud f2.rm at Kilcullen, February 1St, has so far been h2.mpere:l by heavy floods I(ildare, has ~een bought by the Agha Khan. In se\'en and inclement weather. Fishermen are, however, years of Lord Furness's ownership yearlings rai ed there looking forward to a rep at of 12.st year's successful realised almo t £250,000.' The farm covers 625 acres. salmon angling. Many well-known anglers live in high !his is a big addition to the Agha Khan's other studs hopes of this year surpas ing 1r. J. L. Mcl\lonagle's lfi Kildare. record en the Moy. On June 15th, 1941, this noted Ballina angler took 19 salmon from the Ridge Pool. Cork May Lose its "Head." Tot?.l weight w~ Il9 lb. Heaviest fish 14 lbs. The Old Head of Kinsale connected with the mainland by an isthmu 130 yds. wide threatens to fall off and A Different St. Patrick's Day. become an island. The storm and high seas of the winter t. Patrick's Day, 1943, must ce the most uneventful have so d2.m2.ged this and have 0 eaten in e.t the White Irish national festival d".y for a long while. The Irish ~,trand th2.t there is a possibility that Cork will lose its over ea arc, mostly, belligerents, as part of their adopted Head" at last. countries, and there will be few opportunities for those socie.l gatherings at which many people of Irish descent City Flats Versus Suburban Houses. 2.nnually met and renewed their memories of the IrehRd " Workers going to live in suburbs often put them- that they had actually known at fir t hand, or had selves out of reach of the 2.menities of the inner city, !cuned 2.bout at second hand from their parents 0r and are not far enough into the suburbs to have qnick gr:-.nd-p::>.rents. 8c~es to the country." That substantially is the March. Events. ?pmion of lr. J. Carroll, Borough Surveyor, Galway, March events include-3, 4, R.D.S. how and Sale of In a recent address on Tou:n-planning and the layman. Better and chee.per tran port might be the olution of Bulls; 4-6, All-Ireland enior Boxing Championship, t~e dilemma, but th2.t is Cl remote hope in the present Dublin; 6, Racing, aas; 10, Il, RD.. Show an 1 cll Solving situa tiQn. Sale of Bulls; 17, G.A.A. Inter-Prov. Hurling and Football Finals, Dublin; Irish Kennel Club Dog Show, "Kerry Symphony." Ballsbridge; Association Football, League of Ireland "A Room with ? View" was the title of a well-known v. North Regional League; Dublin; 20, Racing, hook a f w y nrs ago. It was 3 pros:Jic ort of title. Leopardstown; 27, Racing, Naa . BI IRISH TRAVEL March, 1943 Call Back the Traveller 9.-LOVERS' PARTING AT GALWAY (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.