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T.O. GIVES CORK A NEW CHURCH. DOUBLE TRACK DUBLIN-GALWAY. Mr. William Dwyer, T.D.'s gift of a new church The doubling of the present single rail track. for Cork, has the touch of the beau geste of other Dublin-Galway, to be carried out as soon as material years. The new Church of the Annunciation, to will be available. will give back to Galway a traffic replace the old building at Blackpool, will be an status it never should have lost. The inevitable adornment to the district. The work will be carried delays of looping and shunting will be got rid of and out by Mr. Dwyer's own permanent building staff of it will again be a straight run, without holds-up at Sunbeam-Wolsey, Ltd., from the design of Messrs. Sidings, from the national to the provincial capital. O'Flynn and Murphy. A.R.H.A. HOWTH HOLIDAY HOME FOR NURSES. TWO NOTABLE LOUGHREA MEN. Two notable residents of Loughrea have died: "To be run as a comfortable hoteL" a house at Mr. W. J. Duffy. aged 80. one of the survivors of Howth, in 6 acres of grounds, will be a holiday and the Irish parliamentary party, a distinguished and rest home for Irish nurses. After purchase and public-spirited Irishman of great personal charm. and equipment, the balance of a Government grant of Mr. John Farrell. aged 101, Ireland's oldest follower £36.000 prOVides £800 a year for endowmeQt. Miss of coursing. and known in every county in his time. Margaret Maher of Thurles, who has been tra{ned Even past 90. he still actively followed the sport. in the hotel business. is matron. Accommodation will be provided for 20 nurse-guests at 3/6 per day. EFFICIENCY AT CASTLEREA. Central heating and hot running water. with a con­ servatory, tennis courts, etc.. add to the attractive In our issue of August. 1944, we reported a plan story of the new r~st house for those "friends of in hand for a swimming pool at Castlerea. Now. by humanity "-the nurses. the co-operation of the ~inister for Local Govern­ ment and Public Health, the Parliamentary Secre­ tary and government departments concerned, tenders THE BOYS OF WEXFORD. have been received and examined and a contract The "Boys" of Wexford have justified them­ signed within a period of one week. Mr. J. G. selves. When the progressive Wexford County Browne, the County Manager. who has been fore­ Council announced that hundreds of apple trees were most in forwarding the scheme. has. expressed his to be planted along the public roadsides, " Ah. the appreciation of the Council's and engineering staffs. small boys won't leave them there for long," said the He is confident that the contractor, Mr. Michael sceptics. Now. after two years' of growth with a Dolan, Castlerea. will have the pool ready for minimum of interference, the boys of Wexford have opening in July. proved that an Irish county need not be anv different from a Swiss Canton or a French depart~ent in its "CURIOSITIES ROUND IRELAND." respect for communal property. The feature under the above name has been a very popular page each month, and many of the entertaining and often very informative pictures came TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS. to us from amateur photographers, whom we are We are indebted to several correspondents for glad to count amongst our constantreaders. With comments, corrections, and suggestions. The con­ this issue of IRISH TRAVEL the first series of tinuing interest of our readers is greatly appre­ " Curiosities" ends after a run of several years. ciated. and. letters dealing with current travel The book, Irish Curiosities (2/-). published by the interests are welcomed. Contributors are asked to LT.A.. contains a selection of 180 of the most note that articles not exceeding 800-900 words stand interesting of the pictures that have appeared in our the best chance of acceptance. as shortage of space pages. lessens the possibility of using longer matter. CURIOSITIES AROUND :...-_------. DUBLIN TEMPLE NOW GRAIN STORE. IRELAND .I------~

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A "draft" in Co. Wexford for service (of milk) with Indian troops in Europe.

BUACHAILL ROCK, INISHSHARK.

Under the sign "Glory to the only wise God, our Saviour," in Sean MacDennott Street, Dublin"

THREE MEN UNDER A BOAT.

On this, outlines of a sheep's head and curious human Currach "walks" down to the sea. faces can be seen. February, 1945 IRISH TRAVEL 83 ABelfast Painter Rambles in Dublin

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y wife and I took a Canadian friend with us Stephen's Green. This oasis has, on other visits, on our last visit to Dublin. He had ex~ressed many a time saved my tired limbs, M the desire to see the city under my gUIdance, as I had a fair knowledge of places to see and things BLUISH HAZE OVER LIFFEY to do. We hoped to get some drawing and painting There was a bluish haze over the city, although done, too. Many a time I had spoken to him of the weather was very good. It is just this haze that Moore Street and Horseman's Row and the Coombe I have always wanted to paint, It seems part'cularly and the many opportunities for character sketches, a part of the Liffey river, with its Paris~like bridges so now was the time to turn our stay to good and tree~lined parapets. He had heard of the under~ account. The Customs officials were very famous players even in faraway Toronto, so we went standing and did not measure up to Mark's pre~ to the Abbey Theatre that night and saw some good acting, though we did not think much of the play itself. We were no more original than most visitors­ or should I say escapists?-inasmuch as we headed for whipped cream ices immediately after the play. Next morning found us in Moore Street, armed for painting, The same blue haze was there to give the other~world atmosphere that we wanted. Within an hour or two we had gathered enough material 'in the way of sketches to keep us at work for several months. Mark's ears stood continually at attention, catching every syllable uttered at the nearby stalls. In many cases, the stalls were prams! He still, some weeks later, mutters at intervals: "Tuppence each the herrins or whoitin." To a war~rationed Northerner, the sight of all that beautiful food was breathtaking.

IN HORSEMAN'S ROW. Horseman's Row was our next victim. The stall owners, in their funny little hats and white aprons, were just beginning to open shop. Bed clothes and shoes and chairs were scattered on the sidewalk. And still that lovely blue haze over everything. Perhaps the burning of turf has something to do with it. Once again we got in a lot of sketching, then passed on to Henry Street and on to the Capel Street office of the "Capuchin Annual." There Fathers Senan and Gerald showed us their collec~ tion of paintings-Yeats, Henry, McCann, Galbally Dublin Flower Seller. and our own Northern Craig amongst others. conceived ideas in the matter. Drogheda, Balbriggan Perhaps some day, if the Customs disappear, the and Swords passed in qUick succession and finally North will be better represented. the smell of turf greeted us. Whilst on' the subject of painting, I must add that Here was Dublin! The jarveys in Amiens St. Dublin never fails to amaze me with its numerous always tickle my fancy. I think the abrupt change shows. We visited three others after leaVing Capel of accent does the trick. Quite a few of them would Street. One of them, the Living Art Exhibition, look well on canvas. Yes, I will paint them some displayed vigorous paintings well hung. But, again, time. I had preViously found an hotel near the there was the lack of Northern representation. It Nelson Column, at the city centre. After lunch, we is a pity, I thought, that some scheme could not be were all set for a walk, sightseeing. We walked up worked out to help us in the North to get round the Westmoreland Street and Grafton Street into rigmarole of the Customs. (Continued on pai'e 99). The Road to Lough Tay

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(Lord Macaulay fell in love with the scenery of done. I cannot mend this state of things, and there Killarney at first sight, as these extracts from his is no use in breaking my heart about it. I am com~ Diary and letters show. The third quotation £s in forted by thinking that between the poorest English sharp contrast). peasant and the Irish peasant there is ample room for ten or twelve well-marked degrees of poverty. As " August 24, 1849. Killarney.-A busy day. I to political agitation, it is dead and buried. Never found that I must either forego the finest part of the did I see a society apparently so well satisfied with sight or mount a pony. Ponies are not much in my its rulers. The Queen made a conquest of all hearts." way. However, I· was ashamed to flinch, and rode twelve miles, with a guide, to the head of the Upper Lake, where we met the boat which had been sent forward with four rowers. One of the boatmen When the Great Southern and gloried in having rowed Sir Waiter Scott and Miss Edgeworth twenty~four years ago. It was, he said, Western Railway Began a compensation to him for having missed a hanging that took place that very day. Nothing can exceed (In his' 'Memoir of the G.S. {; W.R.," written in the beauty of the Upper Lake. I got home after a 1846, John D'Alton saw in the foundation of the seven hours' ramble, during which I went twelve railway the coming of a millennium in Ireland). miles on horseback and about twenty by boat. I had not crossed a horse since in June, 1834 I rode ROM this new railway what glorious results with Captain Smith through the Mango Garden may be confidently anticipated! Land hitherto near Arcot in India. I was pleased to find that I F worse than uncultivated shall wave with had a good seat; and my guide, whom I had apprised luxuriant harvests; villas shall rise up, the ornaments of my unskilfulness, professed himself quite an of sites hitherto untracked; the remotest parts of the admirer of the way in which I trotted and cantered. island shall be approximated with a power more His flattery pleased me more than many fine com~ practical and trustworthy than that of the widest­ pliments which have been paid to my History." ranging telescope; provincialism shall cease, petty NEVER SAW ANYTHING SO BEAUTIFUL. jealousies be annihilated, hospitality be better directed, improvidence discountenanced and idleness .. Killarney is worth some trouble. I never in my utterly expatriated; ample scope will be found at life saw anything more beautiful; I might. say, so home for the industry that is now forced to emigrate, beautiful. Imagine a fairer Windermere in that part and in a yet wider range of confident hope the of Devonshire where the myrtle grows wild. The facilities of railway and steam intercourse will make ash-berries are redder, the heath richer, the very the subjects of the sister kingdoms better known to fern more delicately articulated than elsewhere. The each other and associate the hearts of those whose wood is everywhere. The grass is greener than any~ true interest it ever was to be united. thing that I ever saw. There is a positive sensual pleasure in looking at it. No sheep are suffered to .. MAGICAL" GAS. remain more than a few months on any_of the islands of the lakes. I asked why not. I was told that they From the heart of Dublin, from the centre of con~ would die of fat; and, indeed, those that I saw verging streets, the avenues along the river lead to looked like Aldermen who had passed the Chair." the terminus at King's Bridge. Nor could any more suitable site be well imagined. It is in the vicinity BUT LIFE WAS UGLY FOR THE PEOPLE. of the cattle, the hay and the straw sales; the corn, .. .. I was agreeably disappointed with what I saw the vegetable and the fruit markets; the wool and of the condition of the people in Meath and Louth, the butter cranes; with that vicinity facilitated by when I went to the Boyne, and not much shocked by communication on straight and level quays, or by anything that I fell in with in going by railway from water navigation, if desired. It brings the country Dublin to . But from Limerick to Killarney, shopkeeper to the porch of his business, the man of and from Killarney to Cork, I hardly knew whether law to the courts and the offices; nor will it be less to laugh or cry. Hundreds of dwellings in ruins, convenient to the civil and military authorities. The abandoned by the late inmates who have fled to space of ground covered by the terminus exceeds, America; the labouring people dressed literally, not perhaps, that of any other in Great Britain. Seventy~ rhetorically, worse than the scarecrows of England; two cast~iron columns support the roofing. At night, the children of whole villages turning out to beg of when over 150 gas lamps illuminate those magnificent every coach and car that goes by. But I will have arcades, the effect will be magical. 1

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Summer will Come Again

It is very early yet to think about Summer by the sea. Even so, here is a group to choose from. Look out for a choice of Beaches each month. and an identification test.

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(3) (5) February, 1945 IRISH TRAVEL 87 Glimpses of Sweet Auburn

HE attribution of the church at Kilkenny West in wild profusion wherever a seed can find room. to Co. Roscommon has raised a natural The never~failing brook, too, that fed the mill~dam T protest from Co. Westmeath, which is proud is literally choked with cress, sedge, and flowers; of its share of the Goldsmith story and legend. even in the spot, a little higher up the bohereen, where five springs once fed the brook. the loss of the There is no absolute proof, indeed, though the deductive evidence is very strong. that the" Deserted Village" of the poet is entirely identifiable with the famous Goldsmith county, but that sense of complete conviction that alone can satisfy the higher criticism does not so trouble the ordinary man. and the Irish Auburn will always remain in the popular memory as the regional source and inspiration of the great poem. The" Westmeath Independent" has been reprinting in recent issues the impressions of a visitor to the famous region more than 60 years ago, from which we take the following very interesting details:

THE OLD INN. .. The old inn was rebuilt about the year 1817~18 on the site of the original inn. We had a long con~ versation with one who was born in this house about the year 1800 and who described it as then large enough to accommodate two families, that of the inn~ keeper in the front range of apartments, a second The Church, Kilkenny West. family in the rere part. This old inhabitant is bright mill work has caused stagnation, and the waters no and gay yet. and must have been as pretty a girl as longer murmur gently or glance merrily in the the village boasted, and many a time she danced of sunlight. an evening beneath that tree before she married, 60 years ago, and went to live at that pretty cottage THE DECENT CHURCH. just up the road, where long may she reign! Well The next visit is to the decent church that tops the she remembers the old hawthorn bush, for her young neighbouring hilL and which we see to the south husband-long in his grave now-brought haws, against the sky and to which we take a pretty road 60 years ago, from the bush and planted them in her across country: This road, rising as we go, soon new home. brings us to the summit of . the neighbouring hill ' Then there are the reliCS of Sweet Auburn to and to Kilkenny West itself. I could not but hope, interest us. The doorstep of the wayside inn is as I walked amongst those scenes, that before very formed of the old millstone from • The Busy Mill.' long some little w9rk will be done by the present The sign~board-the host's own design-represents owner to clear up and beautify, by some simple three very jolly pigeons, indeed, seated at a tavern means, this spot so dear to one whose heart turned table. the chairman, an important fan~taiL laying to these scenes around his early home as to the down the law to two pigeons of a common species, loveliest. because best loved, spots on earth." whose pipes and tankards of ale are on the table. The statement, repeated from a contemporary. that the church at Kilkenny West is to be demolished .. THE BUSY MILL." is contrary to fact. The building shown above on Everyone around Auburn, who points out the the site traditionally associated with the .. decent landmark, says: • Surely you will go down to see church" will continue to stand. .. The Busy Mill " and the .. Never~failing Brook ''1' From the door of the Three Jolly Pigeons we can see where they lie-just in that dip of the land a "NOW IN " couple of fields off, but a pleasant saunter by the Sixteen single page reproductions of paintings and meadows across the rere of the old Vicarage. photographs by the Campbell brothers, Gerard Some of the walls alone of the busy mill are stand~ Dillon, John Luke, J. G. McKay, Colin Middleton, ing now; where the miller came and went as he Dan O'Neill, and L. G. Mitchelburne Symes make tended his wheel; where the plentiful sacks of corn a very interesting .. Gallery" in Now in Ulster made comfortable leaning posts for the farmers who (3/6). The reproductions include many striking gossiped as they waited for their turn; all the space Western and Dublin subjects. Articles, short stories is grass grown, or, rather. nature has made here a and verse by younger Belfast and other writers are veritable flower~knot of her own, for flowers grow included in this attractive Now in Ulster, Rhythm of the Hills

LONG RANGE, KILLARNEY. February, 1945 IRISH TRAVEL 89

CALENDAR OF THE PRINCIPAL IRISH EVENTS, 1945

(The Events hereunder are as accurate as passible, but must be taken as open to revision)

EXPLANATORY NOTES Patron or Pattern-Celebrations, religious and social, on Feis or Aeridheacht-Ga~ic (often open-air) Festival of the Anniversary of local Patron Saint's Day. Singing, Dancing, Storytelling, etc. Racing-Horse Races and Side Shows. Fair-Horse or Cattle Sale, generally having numerous interesting side shows.

JANUARY. Jan: Feb. 24 Coursing Crohane & Killenaule, Co. Tipp. 10 Association Foothall (Shamrock Rovers Racing (Metropolitan) 24 Coursing Kells and District, Co. Meath. v. helbourne) Milltown, Dublin. Baldoyle, Co. Dublin. 24 Coursing Ballyheigue, Co. Kerry. 11 Association Football (Drumcondra v. 1 Coursing Castlebernard, Bandon, Co. Cork. 24 Coursing \Vestport, Co. Mayo. Bohemians) , Dublin. 1 Coursing 24 Coursing Derry City and County. 11 Association Foothall (Limerick v. Cork Kilmoganny & Rlackbog, Co. Kilkenny. 24 Fencing (\Vomen-Surgeons v. ~farin.e United) , Limerick. 1 Coursing Old Kilcullen, Co. Kildare. HB") RC.S.I.• Dublin. 11 Association Foothall (Dundalk v. 3 Coursing Roscommon United. 25 Coursing \\'aterford. Drideville) , Dundalk. 3 Coursing Rathdowney, Co. Laoil'(his. 26 Fencing (~f("n-Surgeons (lA" v. :Mari.ne 14 Racing (Point·to·Point Meeting) 3 Coursing Fermoy and Grange, Co. Cork. HA") R.C.S.I., Dnblln. Ballylloe, Co. Cork. 3 Fencing (\\'omen-~farine"D" v. Achilles 26 Fencing (Men-Achilles "C" v. Rock) 14 Coursing Roscommon United. "13") Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Rutland High School, 15 Coursing 4 Coursing Trim, Co. Meath. Parnell Sq. • '., Dublin. Charleville & Garrinderk, Co. Cork. 4 Coursing Limerick. 27 Coursing 16 Fencing (Surgeons "A" v. h:larine "A") 4 Horse and Cattle Show Dundalk & Dowdallshill, Co. Louth. RC.S.l., Dublin. Moate, Co. \\'estmeath. 27 Association Football (Shelbourne v. Cork 17 Association Football (Brideville v. 5 Coursing Slanemore and Frewin. United) Shelboume Park, Dublin. Limerick) Tolka Park, Dublin. 5 Fencing (Men-Achilles HC" v. Curragh) 28 Association Foothall (Limerick v. Sham· 17 Racing Leopardstowtl, Co. Dublin. Rutland Hil'(h School, rock R.) ?farkets Field, Limerick. 17 Irish Junior Cross-Country Championship Parnell SQ. N., Dublin. 28 Association Football (Bohemians v. (6 miles) Belfast, Co.•Antrim. 6 Racing Naas. Co. Kildare. Dundalk) DalYl1\ount Park, Dublin. 18 Association Football (Bohemians v. 6 Asso=iation Foothall (Brideville v. Sham· 28 Association Football (Brideville v. hamrock .R) Dalymount Pk., Dublin. rock Rovers) Tolka Park. Dublin. Drumcondra) Tolka Park, Dublin. 18 Association Foothall (Shelbonrne v. 6 Coursing Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick. 29 Coursing Ardbraccan, Co. Meath. Drumcondra) Milltown, Dublin. 6 Coursing Kilmore & Silvermines, Co. Tipp. 29 Coursing (C1arke Cnp) 18 Association Football (Cork United v. 6 Fencing (~fet1-Surgeons "B" v. Curragh) Old Carton. Maynooth, Co. Kildare. Dundalk) Mardyke Grounds, Cork. Curragh, Co. Kildare. 30 Fencing (?\.fcn-Rock v. :Marine UB") 21·22 Cork Spring Show and Sale of Bulls 7 Association Foothall (Drul1\condra v. B1ackrock College, Co. Dublin. Show Grounds, Cork. Limerick) Tolka Park, Dublin. 31 Coursing Doon, Co. Limerick. 21,22,23 Coursing (National Meeting) 7 Association Foothall (Cork United v. 31 Coursing Doherash, Glanworth, Co. Cork. Powerstown Pk., Clonmel, Co. Tipp. Bohemians) Mardyke Grounds, Cork. 31 Coursing C1onakilty, Co. Cork. 22 Racing (Point-to·Point Meeting) 7 Association Foothall (Shelbourne v. 31 Coursing Crohane & Killenaule, lIPP· Croom Harriers, Liskennet, Croom, Dundalk) Milltown, Dublin. 31-Feb. 1 Coursing Seven Houses & District, . Co. Limerick. 10, 11, 12 Coursing () Cnffesgrange, Co. Kilkenny. 23 Fencing (Women-Achilles U A" v. Clounanna, Adare, Co. Limerick. Marine HA") Rutland High School, 12 Fencing (\Vomen-Achilles "A" v. Parnell Sq. N., Dublin. Surgeons) Rutland Hil(h School, 23 Fencing (Sabre-Dublin v. Marine) Parnell SQ. N., Dublin. FEBRUARY. Rutland Hil(h School, 12 Fencing (Sabre-Surgeons v. Marine) Parnell SQ. N., Dubin. RC.S.I., Dublin. Coursing Adare, Co. Limerick. Association Football (Shamrock Rovers 1 H 24 13 Association Football (Brideville v. 2 Fencing (Dublin v. Achilles "B ) v. Brideville) Milltown, Dublin. helbourne) Tolka Park, Dublin. Rutland Hil'(h School, 25 Association Football (Limerick v. 14 Association Foothall (Shamrock Rovers Parnell SQ. N., Dublin. Drumcondra) Markets Field, Limerick. v. Dundalk) Milltown, Dubltn. 3 Racing Naas, Co. Kildare. 25 Association Foothall (Bohemians v. Cork 14 Association Football (Limerick v. 3 A.A.U. Cro3s-Country Junior Champion- United) , Dublin. Bohemians) Ma"ket" I'ield, Lllnerick. ship (6 miles) Finglas, Co. Dublin. 25 Association Foothall (Dundalk v. 14 Association Football (Drumcond,a v. 3 Association Football (Drumcondra v. Shelbourne) Onel Park, Dundalk. Cork Unired) Tolka Park, Dublin. Shamrock R.) Tolka Park, Dublin. 25 N.A.C.A. Junior Cross-Country 15 Coursing Duleek. 4 Association Football (Dundalk v. Championship Belfast. 17 Fencing (Sabre-Marine v. Achilles) Limerick) Oriel Park, Dundalk. 28 Racing (Point· to-Point Meeting) Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. 4 Association Football (Shelbourne v. Bruff Hill, Bruff, Co. Limerick. 17 Coursing Ballymore, Co. \Vestmeath. Bohemians) Milltown, Dublin. 28 to March 1 R.D.S. Show and Sale of Pure­ 17 Coursing Co. arlow. 4 Association Football (COIk United v. hred Bulls (Shorthorn Section) 17·18 Coursing Drishane, Millstreet, Co. Cork. Brideville) Mardyke Grounds, Cork. Ballsbridge, Dublin. 18 Coursing Templetonhy, Co. fipperary. 5 Coursing St. Margaret's, Co. Dublin. 18 Coursing Bessmount, ~Ionaghal1. 7 Fencing (\\'omen-Marin<;, HA" v. Dublin) Dun Laoghall'e, Co. Dublin. 18 Coursing Tuam, Co. Galway. MARCH. 18 Coursing Ballynote, , Co. Clare. 7 Coursing Oldcastle, Co. Meath. . 18 Coursing Bridgetown, Co. \Vexford. 7 National Ploughing Championships 1 Racing Thurles, Co. Tipperary. 18 Coursing Bruff, Co. Limerick. Kingswell, Tipperary. 2 Fencing (Men-Achilles HA" v. Dublin) 18 Coursing Dunlavin and \Vest \Vicklow. 7·8 Coursing (Mayo Utd.) Ballina, Co. Mayo. Rutland Hil(h School, 20 Dog Show Dublin Cocker Club's Show 7-8 Coursing Parnell Sq. N., Dublin. (Members) Dublin. Ardpatnck & Kilfinane, Co. Limerick. 3 Racing aas, Co. Kildare. 20 Association Football (ShelbOlll'ne v. 8 Coursing lloyne Valley, HanlOI13towl1, 3 A.A.U. Senior Cross-Country Champion- Limerick) , Dublin. :"lavan, Co. :Meath. ship (9 miles) Finglas, Co. Dublin. 21 Association Football (Bohemians v. 9 Fencing (\Yomen-Dublin v. Achilles "A") 3·10 Feis Atha Cliath Baile Atha Cliath. Brideville) Dalymount Pk., Dublin. Rutland High School, 3·4 Association Football F.A.I. Challenge 21 Association Foothall (Cork United v. Parnell SQ. N., Dublin. Cup First Round (First Matches).. Shamrock R.) Mardyke Grds., Cork. 10 Racing (Metropolitan) 7 Fencing (WOl11en-~Iarine"A" v. Achilles 23 Coursing Stowlin, Killimor, Co. Galway. Baldoyle, Co. Dublin. "B") Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dnblin. February, 1945 90 IRISH TRAVEL

APRIL. May Mar. 19 National Angling Championship 7-8 Show and Sdie of Pure Bred Bulls Feis Sligigh Town Hall, Sligo. .Killarney, Co. Kerry. (Hereford and Aberdeen Angus) Gymkhana Askeaton, Co. Limerick. 19 Racing (Metropolitan) Ballsbridge, Dublin. Cycle Rac~ng (Reddiu Memorial Cup) Baldoyle, Co. Dublin. ~Point-to~Point 8 Racing Meeting- Oghlll, Monasterevan, Co. Kildare_ 19 Golf (Men's Open Fourball) Grange Llmenck HarrIers) Knockea Hill N.A.C.A. Senior Cross·Country Golf Club, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. Ballyneety, Co. Limerick: Championship Dublin 19,20,21 Golf (Whit Open Meeting) 9 Fencing (Men-Surgeons "A" v. 1-2 GoU (Ladies and Gents-Open Competi: Tullamore, Co. Offaly. Achilles "B ") R.C_S.I., Dublin. tlons) Arklow, Co. \Vicklow. 20 Golf (Whit Championships) 9 Fencing (Sabre-Surgeons v. Dubliu) 1-2 Golf (Open Meeting) Waterford. . Lahinch, Co. Clare. R.C..1., Dublin. 1-2 Golf (Easter Competitions) 20 National Fly-Casting Championship 9 Fencing (Women-Dublin v. Surgeons) .. Galway Golf Club, Salthill, Galway. Killarney, Co. Kerry. Rutland High School, 1-8 (lIlcluslve) Louth Drama Festival 20 Annual Pilgrimage St. Gobnait's Well, Parneil Sq. )<., Dublin. Town Hall, Dundalk, Co. Louth. Ballymakera, Ballyvourney, Co. Cork. 10 Racing (Substituted Meeting) 1-3 Golf (Easter Championships) 20 St. Dympna's Pattern Leopardstown, Co. Dublin. Lahinch, Co. Clare. Lav~y, Stradone, Co. Cavan. 10-11 Association Football F.A.I. Challenge 2 Racing (Fairyhouse-Ward Uniou Hunt) 20-21 Golf (Whit Open MeetinK) Cup econd Round Matches. Ballyhack, Ashbourne, Co. Meath. Galway Golf Club, Salthill, Galway. 14 Bull Show 2 Racing Mallow, Co. Cork. 20-21 Golf (Ladies' and Gents'-Open Competi- Carrick.on.ShannoI1, Co. Leitrim. 2 Feis Cooil Gilhooly Hall, Sligo. tIOns) Arklow, Co. \Vicklow. 14 Racing (Point-to-Point Meeting) Rughy (Munster Senior Cup Semi-Final- Scarteen, Co. Cork. 2 20-21 Golf (Open Meeting) Waterford. Northern Section) 21 Racing (Metropolitan) 16 Fencing (Men-Achilles "C" v. , Limerick. Baldoyle, Co. Dubltn. Surgeons "B") Rutland High School, 2 Association Foothall (Inter-League 21 Racing Mallow, o. Cork. Parnell q. N., Dublin. Match- v. North 17 Association Football (Inter-League Match) 21 Racing (Flapper) Regional League) Windsor Pk., Belfast. Feenagh, CharleviIle, Co. Cork. League of Ireland v. 'orth Regional 2 Association Foothall (Junior Representa­ League Dalymount Pk., Dublin. tive Match-F.A.I. Juniors v. I.F.A. 21 Dog Show (Navan Show) Dubhn. 17 Proce6sion and Recital of Rosary Juniors) Dalymount Park, Dublin. 26 Racing Naas, Co. Kildare. St. Patrick's Well, Croghan Hill, 4 Racing (Point·to-Point Meeting) 27 Sports (C1A.A.) Rhode, Co. Offaly. Downing, Kilworth, Co. Cork. Gortnahoe, Thurles, Co. Tipperary. 17 Irish Senior Cross-Country Championship Rachg Leopardstown, Co. Dublin. 30 Racing Downpatrick, Co. Down. (9 miles) Finglas, Co. Dublin. 7 7 Dog Show (Sea Scouts' Show, Limited) 31 Racing Curragh, Co. Kildare. 17 Racing (Metropolitan) Dublin. Baldoyle, Co. Dublin. the month From May 12th: Yachting 11 Racing (Point·to-Point Meeting-Cavan During 17 Racing Limerick. Harriers) Cavan, Co. Cavan. in Duhlin Bay every 17 Dog Show The Irish Kennel Club, Blood- Saturday (3 p.m.) and 12 Racing Powerstown Pk., Clonmel, Co. Tipp. Thursday (6.30 p.m.) at stock Paddock, Ballsbridge, Dubin. 14 Racing (Metropolitan-Substituted Meet· 17 Hurling and Gaelic Football (Inter· ing) Baldoyle, Co. Dublin. Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Provincial Finals) Croke Pk., Dublin. 14 Dog Show (Cocker Spamel Club of 17 Racing (Point-to· Point Meeting) Ireland) Dublin. Cairns, Co. Sligo. 14 Rughy (Munster Senior Cup Final) 17 Racing (Point-to-Point Meeting) Thomond Park, Limerick. Ballinrea, Carrigaline, Co. Cork. 15 Association Foothall (Ireland v. Army) 17 Racing (Point-to-Point Meeting) Dalymount Park, Dublin. Tullycrine, Knock, Co. Clare. 18 Racing Curragh, Co. Kildare. 18-25 (inclusive) Louth Drama Festival 21 Racing Naas, Co. Kildare. c.n.S. Hall, Dundalk, Co. Louth. 21 Racing (Point-to-Point Meeting) 18 Association Football (Dundalk v. Parkgarriffe, Monkstown, Co. Cork. Shamrock R.) Oriel Park, Dundalk. 21 Dog Show (Irish Fox Terrier Association 18 Association Football (Bohemians v. and Irish Fox Terrier Club Show) Limerick) Dalymount Park, Dublin. 1>nl1lin. 18 Association Football (Cork United v. 22 Association Foothall (F.A.I. ChallenKe Drumcondra) Mardyke Grds., Cork. Cup Final) Dalymount Pk., Dublin. 18 Association Football (Shelbourne v. 24-25 Racing (Kildare and National Hunt) Brideville) Milltown, Dublin. Punchestown, Co. Kildare. 19 Racing (Meath Hunt-Point-to·Point 27 Racing (Point-to·Point Meeting) JUNE. Meeting) Annahissa, Mallow, Co. Cork. Phrenix Park, Dublin. Culmullen, Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath. 28 Racing Racing. Phrenix Park, Dublin. 21 Racing Downpatrick, Co. Down. 28 Athletics (10 miles Flat Championship of 2 21 Racing (Point-to-Point Meeting) Ireland) Belfast, Co. Antrim. 2 Golf (Seml·open FourbaIl) Grange Golf Knockanard, Fermoy, Co. Cork. Club, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. 21 Fencing (Men-Marine "A" v. Achilles 2 Sports Meeting (Clonliffe IIarriers) "A") Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. MiIltown, Co. Dublin. 23 Fencing (Women-Achilles "B" v. 7 Racing Limerick Junction, Co. Tipp· Surgeons) Rutland IIiJ'l"h School, 9 Racing Leopardstown, Co. Dnblin. Parnell Sq. N., Dublin. 9 Annual Pattern St. ColumbkiIle's WeIl, 23 Fencing (Sabre-Achilles v. Surgeons) Durrow Abbey, Tullamore. Co. OffalY· Rutland HiJ'l"h School, 9 Athletics (A.A.U. Field and Track Parnell Sq. N., Dublin. Championships) CoIlege Park Dublin. 24 Racing Naas, Co. Kildare. 10 Tinnacarra N.A. & C.A. Sports' 24 Association Football. (Drumcondra v. Abbey Park, Boyle, Co. Roscommon. Dundalk) Tolka Park, Dublin. 10 Golf (Co. Galway Trophy) 25 Association Football (Brideville v. Salthill, Galway. Bohemians) Tolka Park, Dublin. 11 Feis \VaterviIle, Co. Kerr)'. 25 Association Football (Shamrock R. v. 14 Racing Thurles, Co. TipperarY· Cork United) Milltown, Dublin. 16 Golf (Open Fnurball) Castle Golf Club, 25 Association Football (Limerick v. MAY. Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. Shelbourne) Markets Field, Limerick. 16 Racing (Substituted Meetinl'() 27 Racing (Point-to-Point MeetinJ'l") Annual Pattern Phrenix Park, Dublin. Killossera, Dungarvan, Co. \Vaterford. Shrone, Rathmore, Co. Kerry. 16 Sports Meeting (Civil Service-Red Cross) 28 Racing (Point-to-Point Meeting) Annual Pattern and Fair Dublin. Annascaul, Co. Kerry. Farnanes, Crookstown, Co. Cork. 20-21 Cork Summer Show 30 to April 2 Golf Tournament 2 Racing Phcenix Park, Dublin. Show Grounds, Cork. GolI Links, Killarney, Co. Kerry. 2, 3, 4, 5, R.D.S. Spring Show Racing Dundalk, Co. Louth. BaIlsbridge, Dublin. 21 31 Racing Phrenix Park, Dublin. 23 Racing Curragh, Co. Kildare. 3 Racing Limerick Junction, Co. Tipp. 31 to April 2 Fencing (South of Ireland Foil, 23 Athletics (Irish Field and Track Sabre and Epee Championships) 5 Racing Leopardstown, Co. Dublin. Championships) Belfast, Co. Antrim. Kilkeuny. 7-12 Feis Cooil Metropolitan Hall; Abbey 24 Golf (Veterans' Open Meeting) Lecture Hall; Scots Church Hall; Tullamore, Co. Offaly. O'Con:lell Hall, Dublin. 24 Feia na B6inne 10 Racing Droicheadh Atha, Co. Lughbhaidh. Powerstown l'k., Clonmel, Co. 1'ipp. Racing Limerick Junction, Co. Tipp. 12 Racing Curragh, Co. Kildare. 29 29 Racing (Horse and Pony) 13 Golf (Open Day, Midland Counties' Cup Labasheeda, Co. Clare. Birr Golf Club, The Glens, Birr. 29 Regatta Templeronan, DoobaIla Lake, 14 Golf (Golfing Union of Ireland-Junior Sligo. Tournament) Grange Golf Club, Gurteen, Co. Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. 29 Agricultural Show 17 Golf (Ladies' Open Foursomes) Grange llelgooly, Kinsale, Co. Cork. Golf Club, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. 29 Garden Fete Newmarket, Co. Cork. 17 Racing Dundalk, Co. Louth. 29 Annual Pattern 18 Golf (Open Mixed Foursomes) Grange Inch, Annascaul, Co. Kerry. Golf Club, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. 29 Athletic Spo.-ts Ballinalee, Co. Longford. February, 1945 IRISH TRAVEL 91

Sept. June. Aug. Racing Phrenix Park, Dublin. 30 6.11 (inclusive) Tramore Lawn Tennis Club 8 Racing (Metropolitan) (Open Tournament Week) 8 Annual Pattern Ballyhelgue, Co. Kerry. Baldoyle, Co. Dublin. Tramore, Co. \Vaterford. 9 Annual Pilgrimage, CJonmacn01se, DUring the month Yachting in Dublin Bay 6.12 Golf (Augnst Championships) Shannonbridge, Athlone, Co. Westmeath. every Saturday (3 p.m.) Lahinch, Co. Clare. 13 Racing Curragh, Co. Kildare. and Thursday (6.30 p.m.) 8 Racing Phrenix Park, Dnblin. 15 Racing (Metropolitan) 9 10 11 R.D.S. Jumping Competitions, Flower Baldoyle, Co. Dublin. at Dun Laoghaire, Co. Golf (Garda Open Meeting) Duhlin. " Show, etc. Ballsbridge, Dublin. 16 10 11 12 Puck Fair Killorglin, Co. Kerry. Tnllamore, Co. Offaly. i 1 ' Racing Phcenix Park, Dublin. 18 Agricultural Show Kilmaine, Co. Mayo. 12 North Cork Game Protection Association 19 Bartlemy Fair Shoot Nadd, Banteer, Co. Cork. Bartlemy, Fermoy Co. Cork. 13 14 15 16 Racing Tramore, Co. \Vaterford. 22 Racing Curragh, Co. Kildare. 13.16 c:,lf (South of Ireland Championships) 23 All-Irdand Football Championship Final Lahinch, Co. Clare. Croke Park, Dublin. 25, 26, 27 Racing Listowel, Co. Kerry. 14 Pilgrimage (midnight) Holy Well, Ladywell Terrace, Dundalk, Co. Louth. '29 Racing Phrenix Park, Dublin. 30 Annual Pilgrimage St. Finbarr's Shrine, 15 Co. Clare Agricultural Show Show Grounds, Ennis, Co. Clare. Gougane Barra, Ballingeary, Co. Cork. 15 North Tipperary Agricultural Show During the month Up to Sept. 15th: Yacht­ Show Grds., Nenagh, Co., Tipperary. ing in Dublin Bay every 15 Agricultural Show Show Grds., Sligo. Saturday (3 p.m.) and 15 Gymkhana, Horse and Pony Races Thursday (6.30 p.m.) at Dromahair, Co. Leitrim. Dun Laoghaire, C o. Annual Horse Races (Flapper) Dublin. 15 Ballineen, Co. Cork. Athletic Sports and Horse Races (Flapper) 15 Allihies, Co. Cork. 15 Regatta and Horse Races (Flapper) JULY. Rosscarbery, Co. Cork. 15 Regatta Cobh, Co. Cork. 2 Golf (Lumsden Memorial Cup) 15 Annual Pattern Castlegregory, Co. Kerry. Hermitage, Lucan, Co. Dublin. 15 Annual Pattern Ballybunion, Co. Kerry. 4 Or 11 Annual Agricultural, Horticultural and 15 Annual Pattern Knocknagoshel, Co. J'erry. Industrial Show 15 Horse and Pony Races Marsh Fann, Show Grounds, C1onakilty.l. Co. Cork. Mooretown, Castlebellingham, Co. Louth. 5 Racing Curragh, Co. Kildare. 15 Pattern Hi1l·of·Slane, Slane, Co. Meath. 7 Racing Phrenix Park, Dublin. 15 Horticultural Show 7 Golf (Open Mixed Foursomes) Grange Silver Beach, Gormanstown, Co. Meath. Golf Club, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. 16.19 Golf (Open Meeting) Salthill, Galway. 7 Athletics (Inter·Association Athletic 18 Racing (Metropolitan) Contest) College Park, Dublin. Baldoyle, Co. Dublin. .- 7,8 Annual Pattern 19 Golf (Special Stroke Competitions, Pro· Kilmackillogue, Lauragh, Co. Kerry. fessional and Amateur) 8 Sports Meeting Kenmare, Co. Kerry. Hermitage, Lucan, Co. Dublin. 8 Annual Sports Murrisk, Co. Mayo. 19 Horse Races (Flapper) Knocknagree, Co. Cork. 8 City and Suburban Sports Dublin. OCTOBER. 11 Race Meeting (Flapper) 19 20 23 Golf (Scratch Foursomes, Amateur Carrowmore, Louishurgh, Co. Mayo. " and Professional) Agricultural and Horse Show 11·12 Racing Ki1larney, Co. Kerry. Hermitage, Lucan, Co. Dublin. 23 Racing Limerick Junction, Co. Tipp. Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. 14 Racing Leopardstown, Co. Dublin. 4 Racing 15 Athletic Sports Newmarket, Co. Cork. 23 Horticulture Show Town Hall, Killarney. Powerstown Pk., Clonmel, Co. Tipp. 15-21 Golf (Galway Golf Club Open Week) 25 Racing Phrenix Park, Dublin. 25 Agricultural Show Ballina, Co. Mayo. 4 Annual Pattern Annascaul, Co. Kerry. Salthill, Galway. 6 Racing Curragh, Co. Kildare. 19 Racing 27-Sept.9 Tramore Golf Club Annual Open 8·28 Taisbeantas Ealadhain an Oireachtais Powerstown Pk., Clonmel, Co. Tipp. Meeting Colaiste Naisiunta Ealadhan, Sraid 19 Pilgrimage 28 Agricultural Show (Provisional) Longford Park, Longford. Cille Dara, Ath Cliath. Holywdl, Tubernault, Co. Sligo. 11 Racing Dundalk, Co. Louth. 21 Racing (Metropolitan) 28.29 Pattern Mhichil 13 Racing Leopardstown, Co. Dublin. Baldoyle, Co. Dublin. Ballinaskelligs, Co. Kerry. 29 Agricultural Show Mohill, Co. Leitrim. 14 Dog Show (Insh Dachshund Club Show) 22 Annual Pattern Cullen, Co. Cork. Dublin. 22 Annual Pattern St. Declan's \Vell, 29.30 Limerick Agricultural and Dog Show Greenpark, Limerick. 18 Racing Limerick. Ardmore, Co. \Vaterford. 20 Racing Curragh, Co. Kildare 22 Annual Pattern St. Mullins, Co. Carlow. 30 Connemara Pony Show Carna, Co. Galway. 20-27 Feile an Oireachtais, Baile Atha Cliath' 25 Regatta River Shannon, Limerick. 27 Racing Phrenix Park, Dublin: 25 Pilgrimage . During the month Yachting in Dublin Bay James' Well, Greenore, Co. Louth. every Saturday (3 p.m.) 28 Racing Curragh, C., Kildare. and Thursday (6.30 p.m.) 28 Pattern at Dun Laoghaire, Co. NOVEMBER. Brideswell, Athlone, Co. Roscommon. Dublin. 29 Annual Pattern Cloghane, Co. Kerry. 1 Racing Naas, Co. Kildare. 29 Annual Pattern Caherdanid, (.n. Kerry. 3 Racing Curragb, Co. Kildare. 29 Garland Sunday, St. l1rigid's Pattern 10 Racing Leopardstown, Co. Dublin. Lahinch, Co. Clare. 10·Dec.2 Feis Cbaoimhghin Archbishop 29 Pilgrimage Croaghpatrick, Co. 1I1.yo. Byrne Hall, Harrington St., . Dublin. During the month Yachting in Du!>lin Bay 17 Racmg Naas Co. Kildare. every Saturday (3 p.m.) Coursing (Provisional-Tipp~rary Cup) and Tbursday (6.30 p.m.) 21-22 Pa~t~~~glaSheen, Kilsheelan, Co. Tipp. at Dun Laoghaire, Co. 25 Dublin. St. Fanahan's, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork.

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If LIVE on the small island of Inishtrahull, off the nest on nearby islets and nowhere else in Ireland. lL coast of DonegaL the haunt of many kinds of Sometimes skeins of barnacle-geese fly high over­ birds. Some remain with us during the winter; head in V Or double chevron formation, pass and certain gulls (and there are fifty different kinds of repass, and when they deem it safe drop into one of them), shags, cormorants, eider-duck, curlew, oyster­ the island fields to feed, their quiet gagglings falling catchers, etc. on the air like the tinklings of a fairy waterfall. Turnstone, knot, redshank, dunlin, sanderling and Of the gulls, the grey-winged herring-gulls are waders of other species pack the shore searching the the more numerous. In summer they follow the margin of the tide for food. coastal-herring shoals, but at this time of the year when the herring has migrated to deeper water, they On dark and stormy nights many of the birds are live chiefly on barnachs, small crabs and other maimed or killed by striking against the telephone inshore crustaceans. Another gull common to the wires stretching across the island. Corks are spaced island is the Great Black-backed. Nature has pro­ at intervals along the wires to help in preventing this Vided him with a very strong bill, and woe betide the massacre, but they seem to be of little use in foggy weakly rabbit that has the misfortune to come his weather. As I write these lines the" chick-chack " way at meal times. notes of a Wheatear fill the air, bringing joy to the Perched precariously on the outlying'rocks are the heart. For this bird is the first of the spring migrants cormorants and shags. The shag is distinguished to reach our shores. And merrily he seems to be from the large vulture-like cormorant (there is about calling: .. Winter's over ... wInter's over ... 36 inches of him from beak to tail), not only by its winter's over!" smaller size, but by its pencil-like recurved crest which is only worn during the first six months of the year when the birds are mating. Ages ago, in the Shannon, cormorants were trained to fish for their owners and are so used in China even to the present "HOTELS day. representative THE CURLEW IN GETHSEMANE. The handsome red-billed, black and white coated please " oyster-catcher is essentially a bird of the shore. There is an Irish legend about the oyster-catcher. How it covered Christ with seaweed when He was being pursued by His enemies, and because of this The installation of new equipment can good deed was placed under the protection of Saint improve your hotel immeasurably. Work Bride. In the Mullet the oyster-catcher is known in the kitchen, for instance, can be made by its legendary name, .. Bride's SeJ:vant." more efficient with steel stock pots, fat fryers, and the numerous other devices Another bird of legend which makes its winter which diminish labour of staff and ensure home with us is the curlew. My grandfather used a more rapid service. Table can be made more ornamental with bright cutlery rooms to say that when Our Lord was in the Garden of mor~ Gethsemane a curlew watched and whistled a warn­ comfortable. with artistic and 'durable furmture. Get In touch with our special ing to Him of the approach of Judas and the HO,tels represcntativ:e, 11r. Richard T. Evans. searching soldiery. Our Lord blessed the bird, and He d be glad to gIve you his experienced since that day it is impossible for an enemy to advice. Phone 21374/5. approach a flock of curlew without being discovered. They always set a sentinel who never feeds or relaxes its attitude of watchfulness. HODGES THE EIDERDOWN DUCK IS EXCLUSIVE. and Sons, Ltd. Large flocks of eider-duck are often seen. These 19, 20, 21 ASTON QUAY, DUBLIN are the birds from which the down is taken and used in the making of quilts, pillows, cushions, etc. They The Liffey's Pleasant Way

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Old Time Picture of the Strawberry Beds t:each, below Phoenix Park, Dublin February, 1945 IRISH TRA VEL 97 FROM AYRSHIRE TO ROSMUC By MARGARET CARRUTHERS HERE was a great deal to get used to on pleasure the hours spent over Literature, Folklore; that holiday. To begin with, I had always and at Singing. Before the end of the Course I had T. to keep in mind that rule which binds all who reached a point where I was able to read such attend Gaelteacht Colleges: "Only Irish spoken authors as Padraic O'Conaire and Micheiil Breat~ here!" And I. as a Scottish Lowlander, possessing nach, and had assimilated Irish translations of " The o~ly a slight knowledge of Scottish Gaelic, had Gift pf the Magi," "The Bet," and" The Country dIfficulty at flrst with names like Se{m, Buadhach, of the Blind." I listened eagerly to legends of Saint Proinnsias, Aine, Miiire, and Eibhlin; and in Patrick, of Columcille, of Cormac MacArt, High ~emembering that my own name had been Irished King of Ireland. I was happy when I learned to Into Mairead. sing in Irish " The Men of the West," " The Green My native county of Ayrshire is given over to Hills of Ireland," " The Boatman," and" A Soldier's meadows grazed by sleek Ayrshire cattle to thronged Song" and studied with enthusiasm the knowledge~ golf~courses and busy pleasure beaches. Here in able proverbs and pawky sayings of the Gael; as, for Rosmuc, on the shore of Camus Bay, I found instance: "It's often a man's tongue has broken his unrolled roads through the bogs, lonely stretches of nose," and" It's a day for the cobbler's knives." moorland, and a view of the Beanna Beola, dim and blue in the distance. THE DAILY PROGRAMME. Yes, looking back, I must say it was a holiday of GOOD FOOD, BUT NO FRILLS. strenuous endeavour, since the daily programme There were no frills to the life of the white~ included an afternoon bathe, time spent listening to washed house, where I shared a room with two girl the Seanachie's tales, wound up with a ceilidhe, students, previously unknown to me. An oil lamp where students and natives danced together. illumined our sitting~room at night, and we lighted I have just been glancing through a bundle of ourselves to bed with a candle. By the end of the snapshots taken during that holiday-cloud shadows month we proved very good advertisements for on the hills, Lough Aroolagh, a flock of geese breakfasts of porridge, bacon and eggs, and soda~ wandering down the road, the wild swans on Camus bread, and midday dinners of roast mutton and Bay. How they conjure up recollections and hopes cabbage and potatoes in their "jackets," and of a return to Erin in the not too distant future. rhubarb and custard. And we had learned to look forward to chicken and fruit-jelly as a special treat on Sundays. HOTEL BOUGHT On days of rain and mist a turf~flre glowed comfortingly on the open hearth; and in sunny Mr. Alfred Clancy and Mr. C. J. Holohan, weather there was the delight of a garden where, proprietors of " The Purty Kitchen," Dun Laoghaire, under rose and fuchsia bushes, mignonette and have purchased Moore's Hotel, Kilkee, which will be stocks, and asters, pansies, poppies, cinnamon pinks modernised and opened in time for the coming and lillies grew in clumps, and bloomed in fragrant season. confusion. A very few minutes down the white road brought one to the rocky shore of Lough Aroolagh, with Padraic Pearse's Cottage standing half-way up "SUMMER WILL COME AGAIN" the heathery slope rising steeply beyond. (See Pictures on Page 86). (1) Ladies' Bathing Place, Salthill; (2) Intrinsic Bay "PAWKY SAYINGS." Kilkee; (3) The Strand, EllJliscrone; (4) Buncrana Beach: Of the work of the College, I remember with most (5) Portmarnock Strand. '

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1J N Donnybrook Churchyard, a place of frequent 11 burials in the days of the celeorated Fair, but long since closed, there is one grave, plainly to be seen from outside. in a setting of cypress trees, personally brought by him whose bones moulder beneath from the first grave of Napoleon at St. Helena. Traced by his own desire on the stone are the words: "Here lie the remains of a man who loved his country." Seldom. if ever. has epitaph been so justified. for this is the last resting-place of Richard Robert Madden, author of The Lives of the United Irishmen, and of many other works: religious, poetical, historical and medical; champion of the many movements of his time, having for their object the freedom of his native land. Madden, however, was notab'ly a friend of freedom for freedom's sake. Traveller in many lands, he was everywhere pro­ minent as advocate of the oppressed-in Egypt, on behalf of the persecuted Hebrews; in Jamaica. of the plantation slaves; in Australia. of the Aborigines; in Plans and West Africa, of the barbarously misgoverned natives. It was because of his uncompromising stand that he was, at length, appointed as one of the magistrates plans! for the administration of the Statute, which ultimately abolished the evil in Jamaica. THERE ARE many ways of doing a job. Some of these will be good, some fair, and RISKED LIFE FOR SLAVES. others, frankly, very bad. Among the There his life became so endangered from the attitude of the hostile planters that he was, in 1834, good ones will be one or two which are obliged to resign and hurriedly return to England. very good and among these will be one Thereafter. he became actively associated with Samuel Wilberforce. Lady Hester Stanhope, Buxton plan which is best of all. In planning and Clarkson, in the successful agitation for the hotel furnishings and equipment, Arnott's abolition and penalisation of human slavery in the Hotel Service will help you find the best British Dominions, having some time earlier toured America in the same noble cause, sowing' many of the way of achieving the very best results at seeds of the crusade that fructified three decades lowest cost. This service is well worth later under the guidance of Abraham Lincoln. investigating - get in touch with Mr. Madden. born at Wormwood Gate. Bridge St., Dublin, in 1798, was the son of a silk manufacturer Chambers, Arnott's Hotel Organiser, now. who had suffered many disabilities for his attach­ ment to the ideals of national freedom. He was educated at a school at Coldblow Lane. portion of !llftstrated is a view of the lIew Bar Lounge at the Oyster Tavern, Cork, the site of which is now occupied by the Jesuit filted out by Arllott's Hotel Service Novitiate. Milltown Park. He studied medicine in Dublin. and subsequently at Paris. Naples and London, and. despite his rather nomadic life. rose to professional eminence on both sides of the Irish Sea. In 1828, he married Harriet, daughter of James Elmsley, of Jamaica, "the willing helpmate," as he has testified" in the work of his life." He died at Booterstown. Dublin, his home for many years, on ARNOTTS February 5th. 1886, the fact being noted on3 slab, extolling his life and virtues, in the Parish Church Hotel Service of the Assumption at that place. ARNOTTS______HENRY STREET DUBLINJa..rts _ -Po F. CAREY. February, 1945 IRISH TRAVEL 99

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