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FISHGUARD to CORK Leave Paddington §*5.55 p.m. Every Tues., Thurs. and Sat. (5 July 4th/Sept. 23rd, 6.55 p.m.) ·./ LIVERPOOL to DUBLIN Leave Euston *6.5 p.m. Sail 10.15 p.m. Nightly (Sun. ex.) LIVERPOOL to BELFAST Leave Euston -6.5 p.m. Sail10.15p.m. Nightly (Sun. ex.) GLASGOW to BELFAST Direct. Sail from Glasgow )0 p.m. t Nightly (Sundays ex.) GLASGOW to DUBLIN Direct. Mon. Wed. Sat. 5.15 p.m. via Greenock. Fridays at 1 p.m GLASGOW to DERRY via Greenock. Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday t Saturdays 10.30 p.m. BANK OF IRELAND BSTABLlSHBD t 783 Visitors to Dublin invariably make their way to Clerys-which has gained widespread fame as one FACILITIES FOR TRAVELLERS of the most progressive and beautiful Department Stores in Europe. Here is always to be seen a really AT representatiVP. displa.y:)f Ireland's leading products- Head Omce: COLLEGE GREEN, DUBLIN FINE IRISH LINENS, REAL IRISH LACES, IRISH HOMESPUNS, IRISH POPLINS, BELFAST •. CORK .. DERRY BELLEEK CHINA. IRISH MARBLE SOUVENIR~ AIlD tOO TOWIfS THROUGHOUT IRBLAllD; Large IJrsptay in Irish Pavilion WORLD'S ~FAIR, NEW YORK EVERY DESORIPTION OF FOREIGN EXOHANGE OIC'1l8 pay hiohest .Send for beautiful G1Jide Book BUSINESS TRANSACTED ON ARRIVAL OF LINERS pricefor the Dollar. ;" Seeing .Modern Dublin"-F"e BY DAY OR NIGHT AT OOBH (QUEENSTOWN) AND GALWAY DOOKS. CLERY & CO., Ltd., O'Connell St., DUBLIN Vol. XIV., No. 11. PICTOH.IAL SOl:VE)\IH, 1939 " Pearly are the shies ill the country of my fathers. Purple are thy mountains, home of my heart. Mother of my yearning, love of all my tonging Keep me in remembrance, long leauues apart." [STEPHEN GWYNN: lI'danclJ. 'With pride and pleasure we now present to Headers our third and, we venture to /;ay, (so far) out' . hest Pictoria.l Souvenir ~umber. Its two forf'l'Unners-tbose for 1937 n:nd 1938--met with sHell heartening success anrl with so sincere a welcome that we decirled to mark 19~9 by a ouvenir well up to their ,·tandards. Many new pictures show in the follo'win o' pages a man:", facets of Irish life and landsca}Je. I·'rom Corl,; 10 Donegal, from Dublin to the West, pa, t comely tbatched cottages to the grandeur of Castle am1 rathedral, from great sweeping- mountains to green fields threaded b, clear streams, we have covered in picture several of those scenes whirh the travfller in Ireland finds so ricb, so ,aried, so charming, 1'0 hewilderingly breath-taking. " Whe're'fr I "oa-rn, whatever realms to see, my heart, 1tntrat'ell'cl, fondly ht1'ns to thee," sang Gold, rnith of hi. native Ireland. But on children and strangers alike can the Land of Youth ca. t the ame secret 'pell hinrling them closely and forever t? the ra.iubow magic oC bel' enchantment. Official Organ of the Irish Tourist Association IRISH TOURIST ASSOCIATION PHOTO COMPETITION, 1939. £50 IN PRIZES CONDITIONS OF ENTRY. Each entrant must enclose with his entry, or batch (Turn to page 307 for Entry 0upon) of entries, a signed coupon from ONE of the following issues of IRISH TRAVEL-July, August, September, SOCIATIO~ The IRISH TOURIST A is offering October (1939). £50 in Prizes through the "IRISH TRAVEL" Photo graphic Competition, this surr.mer. The closing date is October 31st, 1939. The prizes will be awarded as follows:- Photos entered may be of any size or taken by any make of camera; it is not necessary to enter FIRST PRIZE £10 (one award). negatives, but all entries are accepted only on SECOND PRIZE .... Four awards of £5 each. condition that the entrants are prepared, in the THIRD PRIZE Twenty awards of £1 each. event of being awarded one of the prizes to, relinquish the complete copyright and negative These twenty-five (25) cash awards will be given to in its stead. the senders of the twenty-five best photographs of Irish Entries will not be returned unless accompanied by interest submitted. The winning entries need not a sufficient fee to cover postage and registration. necessarily be the best from a purely technical point of view, but will be those most suited to the publicity work Address all entries to the General Manager (Photos), of the Irish Tourist Association, depicting characteristic Irish Tourist Association, O'Connell Street, Dublin. aspects of Irish Life-Landscape, Customs, Antiquities Entry Coupon will be found on page 307 of this and kindred scenes. number. CORK " And thus grow fonder, Sweet Cork, cif thee." " The name of this City should Above-In Patrick Street, Corll City. be written in the plural. Cork is one of the most hospitable places in a hospitable island." [LYNN DOYLE : The splendid Cathedral at (obh, T he Spirit of ireland.1 a gateway to Irelalld. rlbove - The New Municipal Above-" Sweet Glandore," aloll. Swimming Pool in Corll City. Cork's coastline. 1 Abo'Je-Hungry Hill, glimpsed from flclow-Luxuriant vegetation 0 Dunboy Castle. Glengarriff. /elow-Blarne')', Castle of Eloquence it holds the Blarney Stone), outside r Cork City. DUBLIN IRELAND'S CAPITAL "Whele those old lovely streets still hold. About them proudly, fold on fold Th3ir ancient purple." [SE.\~l 'S O'SCLLJ \ ..\N] Street scene in the heart of Dublin City, /1 lovely ent1'Gnce to Ireland-Dun SIIO'lCJillg College Green, (( shot" fr0111 the Laoghaire, on the outskirts of the city. Bank of heland. O'Connell's Statue at O'Collllell Bridge. " Oh Dublin City there is no doubtin' Is the finest City beside the say 'Tis there you can see 0'Connell spoutin' And Lady Morgan mak in' tay." AJilitary Jum/,ing at Dublin's famous H01'se The Four Courts, (Courts of Justice) how, held in August each year. [OLD STREET BALLAD] along the rive1'side. Right-The IJf Dublin o'wns sOme three and a ;IQZ/ 1I1iles of Jcrtha(je with If/, [o-dat~' ;loc!?s and ~li the a/,/,cndayes f a real/-\, /,1'0- !J1·C.I'.I'i'vc 1~lOdcrn Port. '. 'l'his Dublin a~riferous now in th~ gold of the s~irit as who that ll.W~lls therein lttllst know." ll). I" 1-':Io:L1.E JII·:R: The Glal//o/tr of Dublin.] " Oh, hills of Donegal to me you ever call In every wind that wanders 0'er a wild and lonely sea." DONEGAL " Dear the sunset's kiss . .lit Bundomll, Donegal's H 01'11 H cad from DUl1fanaghy. Flushing the peak of pallid Errigal. best sea resort. Bclow-H.omantic LOtt.Qh r'eaQh in the Doncaal lliQhXands. r RUSTHO~l;1 " Kerry is all light and water. Every thing is soft, from the rain to the voices of the people .. .. Kerry is agar· dener'a paradise." [PAMELA HINKSON : The Light on Ireland.] THE Ballybunion, a !ar-!al1!(Jd links bNid? th? Atlantic. KINGDOM OF KERRY "Ah, me! there is no place which can compare with Kill arney, and I have seen much of the world." [LORD C.\STLEROSSE] Loch A lIascaul, in the heart Near Brandon Bay, in the north of Kerry. of the Dtngle Penillsula. Below-Reflections on the l'vliddle Lake, Killarn·eJI. It But I feel that my holiday never begins . " GALWAY AND 'Till I'm in Connemara among the Twelve PIns. 1 [PERCY FRE:<cIl CONNEMARA The Twelve Pins of Connemara, from Lough Inagh. " Galway is new and bright-looking with neat shops and painted fronts, as clean as a town d /0 in Somerset or France. But here and there in The old AI'ch~Jay at Athenry, suppose ill the streets a Spanish house, carved and cool, fall down upon the handsomest iI1al~/ will give an illusion of Fuenterrabia or Ireland as soon as he wallls under I. Valladolid.' , [D. L. KELLEHER: Ireland of the Welcomes.] A famous old stone all Inchagoill IslGlld, Lough Corrib. It bears the in scriptioll (the stone of Lugllacdoll, SOil of Lim Cllltch' and is said to (OIllIllClllOralc c. IIcph"il' o[ SI. Palric/(. Lc[I-.'l/'Ullis/1 . Jrch, one 0 [ several old Spallish 1I1CIIlcnfocs in Calwa.\, Cif)'. r:iY/1 I Th c roc/( buund coast o[ /lrall. "Bdr ut. Clew Bay with its hun- ed Isles dressed up in purple ~nd gold and the whole cloudy MAYO l.;st in a flame! Wonderful, l'V onderful 1 " . [TIIACKER.\Y] " Were it not that full of sorrow from my people forth I go, By the blessed sun! 'tis royally I'd sing thy praise, Mayo! II [G.\ELIC EXILE SO~G] Lough Conn, with Mount Nephin. 1'h e Erriff River, near Leenane. [(eem Bay, on Achill Island. Below--A country road in Mayo. n LIMERICK At the SHANNON MOUTH " The first time I stayed in the City of Limerick (when I was young and Victoria was Queen) I set out from it one morning' with a stick ID my hand and a map in my pocket. Some of the best days of my life have been spent on foot in the open air, but there is none, I think, I remember more happily than this." [CICELY HAMILTON: A[oderfl [reland.] Right-The Power House at Ardnacrusha where the mighty Shannon is harnessed to supply electricity to Ireland. Below-At (( Sweet Adare of An Aerial View of Limerick City. sylvan splendour." Below-The Shannon at Castleconne1l. ---... - --- " Limerick is beautiful As everybody knows And by that city of my heart The proud old Shannon flows It sweeps down by the brave old town As pure in de1pth and tone As when Sarsfield swept the enemy From the walls of Garryown." [OLD SONG] TIPPERARY "Oh! 'tis there you'd see more beauty than is on all Irish ground God bless you, my sweet Tip perary, for where could your match be found." [E,'.\ l\hHY KELLV] " Tipperary is one of the most heautiful of the inland coun ties.