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Technological University Dublin ARROW@TU Dublin Journals and Periodicals Irish Tourism Archive 1937 Irish Travel, Vol 13 (1937-38) Irish Tourist Association Follow this and additional works at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/irtourjap Part of the Cultural History Commons, European History Commons, Geography Commons, Tourism Commons, and the Tourism and Travel Commons Recommended Citation Irish Tourist Association, "Irish Travel, Vol 13 (1937-38)" (1937). Journals and Periodicals. 16. https://arrow.tudublin.ie/irtourjap/16 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Irish Tourism Archive at ARROW@TU Dublin. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journals and Periodicals by an authorized administrator of ARROW@TU Dublin. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License Official Organ of the Irish Tourist Association Vol. XIII.-No. 1. OCTOBER, 1957. Threepence. IRISH TRAVEL October, 1937 SIX ROUTES TO IRELAND FISHGUARD to COR K-Direct. Leave Paddington *5.55 p.m. Every Tues., Thurs. and Sat. LIVERPOOL to DUBLIN Leave Euston *6.5 p.m. Sail 10.15 p.m. Nightly (Sundays excepted). LIVERPOOL to BELFAST Leave Euston *6.5 p.m. Sail 10.15. p.m. Nightly (Sundays excepted). GL AS G 0 W to BELFAST-Direct Saillrom Glasgow 10.0p.m·t • Nightly (Sundays excepted). GLASGOW to DUBLIN via Greenock. Every Monday, Wednes day, Friday and Saturday. GLASGOW to DERRY via Greenock. Every Monday, Wednes day, Friday and Saturday. * Restaurant Boat Express. tSaturdays 10.30 p.m. ARDEN LOVERS visiting Ire 1and Donegal G should make a Handwoven point of seeing Lissadell Tweeds and Gardens, where a very Handknitted large collection of Alpines StockingS, and other Hardy Plants Jumpers, etc., can be seen growing in also fine Rock Gardens, Moraines, Handmade Retaining Walls, etc. Lingerie and Hand BANK OF IRELAND SEEDS A SPECIALITY. embroidered ESTABLISHED 1783. Goods, always in FACILITIES FOR TRAVELLERS LISSADELL IS SITUATED stock. AT ABOUT FOUR MILES WEST Head Office: COLLEGE GREEN, DUBLIN. OF THE SLIGO - BUNDORAN BELFAST .• CORK •. DERRY ROAD. AND 100 TOWNS" THROUGHOUT IRELAND. MANAGER, LISSADELL, EVERY DESCRIPTION OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE BUSINESS TRANSACTED ON ARRIVAL OF LINERS SLIGO BY DAY OR, NIGHT AT COBH (QUEENSTOWN) AND GALWAY DOCKS. IRISH FREE STATE. October, 1937 IRISH TRAVEL SUBSCRIPTION: Wholesale tram the 5/- PER ANNUM, Irish Tourist '!Isocialion Post Free. and from Eason & Son, Ltd. COPIES FREE TO ALL MEMBERS InlSH Retail from OF THE all Newsagenls and ASSOCIATION AND from the OF ITS ASSOCIATE Irish Tourist Association. DEPARTMENT. Price 3d. ~1~ TRAVEL ·'\~.~iY OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE IRISH TOURIST ASSOCIATION, DUBLIN • .~. VOL. XIII. OCTOBER, 1937. No. 1, Was He BU'ried ,n• WELCOME TO V.S. SENATOR. Killarney? F all the big lies were taken out of the literature of the I world thE're would, indeed, be little left except the bare bones of the alphabet. In a sense, of course, literature is all lies or invention, except that part of it called history, which is intended to be at least a version of the truth. Mr. H. G. "VeIl, will havE'. it that history even is in large part a poor fiction, badly co-ordinated. He would abolish most of it in the same way as an old graveyard in our crowded. cities is often abolished and converted into a park with flowers and swings, so that life rejoices literally in the place of the dead. But this desire to get the past out of the way is a piece of sentimentalism, as if man was made only for hanging gardens and ~wings, rather than for a fall oft them into the waste spaces. It would be more logical perhaps if our Senator Ryan Duffy (with camera) and Mrs. Duffy photographed histories were written by rogues, so that the rogueries of with a friend at Castleblayney, Monaghan, from which Senator the past should be analysed by an expert rather than by Duffy's ancestors emigrated over a century ago. an honest idealist incapable of understanding the great A very cordial welcome was given Senator Ryan Duffy by rackets on which so much of acquisitive civilisation has been Castleblaney town on his visit towards the end of the summer built. season. Flags were flown from the Town Hall, where addresses .. Herr Raspe, who was a rogue," says Viscount Castleros~e of welcome were presented both to the Senator and to the new D.S. Minister to the Saorstat-Mr. John Cudahy. Mr. in the Sunday Express, .. wrote the life of Baron Munchausen." Duffy then inspected the Duffy family records in Monaghan That is a simple and a moving phra~e, for, of course,Munchausen anc1. met many relatives, with whom he chatted, before his return is the classic pictorial" liar," and what better than that a to Dublin en route for New York. rogue should embalm him. Viscount Castlerosse, who never visits his native Killarney without adding an epigram to it, reminds us that Herr Raspe is buried in that delightful place, CONTENTS and that .. a deputation of serious Germans has come over to Irish Legends-A Love that outlasted Life PAGE discover his grave." It looks like the old rhyme having a By Seamus MacCaU 2 List of Irish Hunts, Masters, Secretaries, Sub justification at last! :- scriptions, etc., etc. 3-6 Did Bonnie Prince Charlie Seek Safety in Donegal? Some say the devil is dead, the devil is dead, the devil By Philip Rooney 7 is dead .. Irish Glass is Treasured all over the Globe Some say the dellit is dead and buried in !(illamey 1 By Nancie O'Dare 8 The Ring of Kerry, with Donkeys By WiUiam 0'Shea 10 Though, of course, to avoid international complications, Rural Ireland, in Photography 12-13 the devil here must be used only figuratively, as we should .. ThE' Face of Ireland" 14 Radio Athlone 15 say a .. merry devil." Of Interest to Hotels 17 A Directory of Hotels in the Irish Free State ..... 19-24 D. L. KELLEHER, in .. Coming Events," I IRISH TRAVEL October, 1937 IRISH LEGENDS By SEAMUS MacCALL No. 8.--A Love that Outlasted Life The Love of Aillinn, of Leinster, and Baile, Prince of Ulster, is among the most famous of Celtic Romances ILLINN, daughter of King Lughaidh of Afterwards there grew up a yew tree out of the grave A Leinster, was in love with Baile Mac Buain, mound of Baile Mac Buain, which, in course of time, the righ damhna (or heir-apparent) of Ulster. shaped its leaves and branches into a likeness of Baile's It was agreed between them that they should meet head. at Ros na Righ, on the southern bank of the Boyne, Similarly in Leinster there grew up an apple tree out and there make known their bethrothal. of the grave mound of Aillinn, which, "at the end of Baile accordingly set out for the trysting place, and seven years," became a great tree that took upon itself did not halt until he reached Carlingford Lough. the likeness of Aillinn. Ulster poets of a later generation cut down the yew While his servants were unyoking the chariots and tree and made it into writing tablets on which to record making a camp for the night, they saw coming towards " the visions and the espousals and the loves and court them from the South a ghostly figure of " horrible and ships of Ulster." Among those stories was the story awesome appearance." of Baile Mac Buain. The stranger was stopped and asked for his news. In like manner the apple tree of Aillinn's grave was "I have no news," he answered, " save that Aillinn, made into writing tablets on which the poets of Leinster the daughter of Lughaidh, is dead. She had fallen wrote the loves and courtships and vision stories of in love with a certain Baile Mac Buain, and was coming Leinster. And among these was the story of Aillinn. to meet him, but when the young chieflings of Leinster Then came a day when the poets and professors of heard of her tryst with a man of Ulster they detained every branch of learning in Erin came together at Tara her, and the detaining of her against her will was a for a great banquet given by Art the Lonely. And they cause of death to her." brought with them their tablets and poets' staves on Then the stranger disappeared like a blast of wind, which were inscribed their stories and precepts of and the heart of Baile broke within him, and he died. wisdom. From these tablets was told the story of After that the ghostly messenger returned into Baile by a poet of Ulster, and the story of Aillinn Leinster and appeared before Aillinn. by a poet of Leinster. And when the poets had finished, " Whence comes this man we do not know ~ " asked King Art asked to be shown the two tablets. They Aillinn of her maids. were given to him, one in each hand, and as he held "From the North," said the stranger. them-with the face of one turned to the face of the " Have you news ~ " asked Aillinn. other-the tablets sprang together against the King's "I have no news," replied the stranger, "save that will, and they clung to each other, " even as the wild at Tuagh Inbher I saw the men of Ulster raising a honeysuckle clings to the green branch of a tree," so grave mound and an ogham stone-to Baile Mac Buain, that it was not possible to separate them.