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Vol. XIII.-No. 6. MARCH. 1938. Threepence.

An Aran Jarvey, wearing, like all his fellow-islandmen, the Aran homespun costume-the U bawneen," or white woollen coat, the grey-blue rough woollen pants, and the handsome home-made indigo jersey, which the Aran housewives so rou In' Qt IRISH TRAVEL February, 1938 IRELAND for Happy Holidays BEAUTY - SPORT - HISTORY - ROMANCE You may travel by any ot the RESORTS SERVED BY following steamship routes: GREAT SOUTHERN HOLYHEAD - KINGSTO\VN RAILWAYS ACHILL . ARKLOW .AVOCA . ATHLO E LIVERPOOL - DUBLIN BALLI A. BRAY . BANTRY . BALLYBUNION BALLYVAUGHAN . BLARNEY . BUNDORAN FISHGUARD ROSSLARE CASHEL . CARAGH LAKE . CASTLECON ELL CASTLEGREGORY CLO" AKILTY CORK FISHGUARD -WATERFORD COB H COURTMACSHERRY CLIFDEN CONNEMARA . CLONMEL . DUN LAOGHAIRE FISHGUARD - CORK DALKEY . DUNMORE . DUNGARVAN . DINGLE By whichever route you travel you are sure of FOYNES GLENBEIGH (for Rossbeigh Strand) GREYSTO ES GLENDALOUGH a fast, comfortable journey by modern turbine GLENGARRIFF GAL WAY KILLINEY steamers. Luxurious express trains connect the KEN 1\1 ARE KILLARNEY KILLALOE Ports of both HOLYHEAD and FISHGUARD KILKEE LIMERICK LAHI TCH with all the important centres of population and LISDOO VAR A MALLARANNY MULLINGAR· MILTOWN MALBAY industry and the Holiday Resorts of Great PARK ASILLA' ROSSLARE . SCHULL . SLIGO Britain. The trains of the Great Southern TRAMORE V ALE I CIA WESTPORT Railways Company connect with the steamers. WICKLOW • WOODENBRIDGE • YOUGHAL HOTELS OF DISTINCTION Under Great Southern Railwavs' Managetnent These Hotels are replete with every comfort, and are beautifully situated 'midst the gorgeous scenery of the South and West. The Tariffs are moderate. Combined Rail and Hotel Tickets issued. THE RAILWAY CHAIN OF HOTELS KILLARNEY . PARKNASILLA . KENMARE . GALWAY . MALLARANNY • SLIGO

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An Aran Jarvey, wearing, like all his fellow-islandmen, the Aran homespun costume--the 11 bawneen," or white woollen coat, the grey-blue rough woollen pants, and the handsome home-made indigo jersey, which the Aran housewives so roudl knit or IRISH TRAVEL March, 1938 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). GLASGOW to BELFAST-Direct. ~tromGlasgowlO.Op.m.t Nightly (Sundays excepted). via Greenock. Every Monday, Wednes­ GLASGOW to DUBLIN day, Friday and Saturday. via Greenock. Every Monday, Wednes­ GLASGOW to DERRY day, Friday and Saturday.

* Restaurant Boat Express. tSaturdays 10.30 p.m.

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VOL. XIII. MARCH, 1938. No. 6.

What were the Greeks doing In• Kerry?

HE Ogham writing, as it is names in Ireland continue the air an anchorage. . And perhaps that called, is still one of the of mystery-baffled the scholars all story of the Insh gold-worked pin T mysteries of Ireland. Scholars the time. But now they have found found in the ruins of ancient Troy a complete solution. Professor have been passing on from genera­ has not deserved the ridicule poured Macalister, the archreologist, an­ on it as a link-up between East and tion to generation their theories and nounces further that it presents a West? Greece and Ireland-the analyses of it. Like Chinese, the link with an early form of the Greek opposite poles of Europe, the ends Ogham inscriptions found on pagan alphabet, and that this may lead to of a broken axis to-day, but once tombstones of the first five centuries lines of research as yet unexpected. upon such a long time ago having A.D. read backwards or rather from But what were the Greeks and some common revolution? the bottom upwards. It was a sort their alphabet doing in the wild, . True or false, the thought of of morse code notched on the edge remote, and beautiful county of It, as of a hundred other Irish of an undressed stand41g stone. 'An Kerry these thousands of years ago? strangenesses even in this year of example will suffice to deepen the Perhaps, after all, there is more than sO'phis~i~ated grace, keeps Ireland mystery-" Coimagni maqui Vita­ absurdity in the legends of the Fir­ still VIVId on the romantic map of lini," i.e. (stone of) Coigmagnus son bolgs who came thither flying from the world. of Vitalinus. Another example at their overlords, the Greeks, in the D. L. KELLEHER, Maumenorig, Co. Kerry-the place- ages before dates were listed or had in "Coming Events."

Principal Contents MARCH, 1938

PAGE A Pioneer of Tours in Ireland- Principal Irish Events The Grand Canal lI8 Women in Ancient Ireland. March 5. Racing-Naas, Co. Kildare. By Liam S. Gogan, M.A. 120 9. Racing-Navan, Co. Meath. 17. St. Patrick's Day-Ireland's A Day in Laoighis. 1938 1938 National Festival. By Winifred Letts 121 MARCH Hurling and Football Inter­ Elbow Room for Fishing. SUN MON ruES WED THU FRI SAT provincial Finals at Croke By Capt. ]. B. Drought 123 Park, Dublin. Irish Concert Broadcast to Clare-Its Literary and Art ~ Alo.. 1 2 3 4 5 chief European Stations Achievements. from Radio Eireann. By S. G. 0 Ceallaigh 125 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 17-18. Racing-Baldoyle, Dublin. Drogheda's Civic Week. 19. International Hoc k e y­ England v. Ireland at By Eileen M. Burke 127 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Belfast. Angling in Ireland 128-12!l 23-27. Feis Atha Cliath (Dublin Feis). 20 21/22 23 24 25 26 Music, Drama, Dancing, at Radio Eireann 133 Mansion House, Dublin.

A::>.. ~ 31. Racing-Powerstown Park, A Directory of Irish Hotels 135 27282930 31 lonrnel. II7 IRISH TRAVEL March, 1938 SIX ROUTES TO IRELAND

Leave Paddington *5.55 p.m. FISHGUARD to COR K-Direct. Every Tues., Thurs. and Sat. LIVERPOOL to DUBLIN Leave Euston *6.5 p.m. Sail 10.15 p.m. Nightly (Sundays excePted). Leave Euston *6.5 p.m. Sail 10.15. p.m. LIVERPOOL to BELFAST Nightly (Sundays excepted).

G L AS G 0 W to BELFAST-Direct. s~ from Glasgow 10.0 p.m·t Nightly (Sundays excepted).

via Greenock. Every Monday, Wednes­ GLASGOW to DUBLIN day, Friday and Saturday. via Greenock. Every Monday, Wednes­ GLASGOW to DERRY day, Friday and Saturday.

* Restaurant Boat Express. tSaturdays 10.30 p.m.

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VOL. XIII. MARCH, 1938. No. 6,

• What were the Greeks doing In Kerry?

HE Ogham writing, as it is names in Ireland continue the air an anchorage. . And perhaps that of mystery-baffled the scholars all story ~f the In~h gold-worked pin T called, is still one of the the time. But now they have found found In the rUInS of ancient Troy mysteries of Ireland. Scholars a complete solution. Professor has not deserved the ridicule poured have been passing on from genera­ Macalister, the archreologist, an­ on it as a link-up between East and tion to generation their theories and nounces further that it presents a West? Greece and Ireland-the analyses of it. Like Chinese, the link with an early form of the Greek opposite poles of Europe, the ends Ogham inscriptions found on pagan alphabet, and that this may lead to of a broken axis to-day, but once tombstones of the first five centuries lines of research as yet unexpected. upon such a long time ago having A.D. read backwards or rather from But what were the Greeks and some common revolution ? the bottom upwards. It was a sort their alphabet doing in the wild, . True or false, the thought of of morse code notched on the edge remote, and beautiful county of It, as of a hundred other Irish Kerry these thousands of years ago? strangenesses even in this year of of an undressed standi:pg stone. :An sO'phis~i~ated example will suffice to deepen the Perhaps, after all, there is more than grace, keeps Ireland mystery-" Coimagni maqui Vita­ absurdity in the legends of the Fir­ still VIVId on the romantic map of lini," i.e. (stone of) Coigmagnus son bolgs who came thither flying from the world. of Vitalinus. Another example at their overlords, the Greeks, in the D. L. KELLEHER, Maumenorig, Co. Kerry-the place- ages before dates were listed or had in "Coming Events."

Principal Contents MARCH, 1938 PAGE A Pioneer of Tours in Ireland- Principal Irish Events The Grand Canal 118 March 5. Racing-Naas, Co. Kildare. Women in Ancient Ireland. 9. Racing-Navan, Co. Meath. By Liam S. Gogan, M.A. 120 17. St. Patrick's Day-Ireland's A Day in Laoighis. 1938 MARCH' 1938 National Festival. By Winijred Letts 121 Hurling and Football Inter­ provincial Finals at Croke Elbow Room for Fishing. SUN MON ~ES WED TIlU FRI SAT Park, Dublin. By Capt. ]. B. Drought 123 Irish Concert Broadcast to ~ A:>.- chief European Stations Clare-Its Literary and Art I 2 3 .4 5 from Radio Eireann. Achievements. 17-18. Racing-Baldoyle, Dublin. By S. G. 0 Ceallaigh 125 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 19. International Hoc k e y­ Drogheda's Civic Week. England v. Ireland at By Eileen M. Burke 127 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Belfast. 23-27. Feis Atha Cliath (Dublin Feis). Angling in Ireland 128-129 20 24 Musi<:, Drama, Dancing, at 21/22 23 25 26 MansIOn House, Dublin. Radio Eireann 133 31. Racing-Powerstown Park, A Directory of Irish Hotels 135 27282930 31 ~ ~ Clonmel. IRISH TRAVEL March, 1938

Page~ from Travel History A PIONEER Of TOURS IN IRELAND

Canal Company with its own Passenger Boats, Coach Services, and Chain of Hotels

Harcourt Lock, on the Grand Canal (from an old print.)

(Written with acknowledgment to the courtesy of the Grand Canal and of its former Manager, the late Henry Phillips.)

HE history of inland. navigation transport, accommodation, and tours In Gorgeous Array (but Armed). in Ireland goes back to as far to travellers, for 73 years-from The boats were drawn by two T as 164.4, when, in the Vice­ 1780 to 1852. horses, with postilions, who, in Royalty of the Duke of Ormonde, ~802, had hats with gold bands, the question of the "making of The Good Old Times. Jackets, and leather breeches. Later, rivers navigable" was referred to a In 1780 the "fly" or passenger their uniform grew in gorgeousness, Council of Trade. boat service was inaugurated on the but they always carried pistols and But the story of a famous Irish Grand Canal, its first sailing (from blunderbusses, kept loaded, and Canal-the Grand Canal-begins, Dublin to Oberstown) beinR duly proba~ly us~d on many an occasion. properly speaking, in 1772 with the noticed in "Faulkner's Dublin Boardmg pIkes were also provided formation of "The Company of Journal." Previous to this, travel­ for close attacks. Undertakers of the Grand Canal" ling facilities in Ireland were A Frenchman's Views. to take over a scheme into which altogether inadequate, the only for sixteen sorry years previously coaches leaving Dublin for the west The earliest reference in tourist both State and Municipal authorities and south of Ireland being to literature to these fly boats or canal had been pouring fruitless thousands Kilkenny (four days a week), packets is that by M. de Latocnaye of pounds. Limerick and Athlone (twice a in his book, "A Frenchman's Walk Through Ireland in 1796-7." He The interest of Government failure week), and Bin and Banagher (once a week. Travellers to Cork could writes that the boats were very and the final success of private comfortable, and resembled those enterprise is quickened, in the case get a coach only as far as Kilkenny, having to proceed thence by post­ of Holland, but that the fares were of the Grand Canal history, by many high. He prai es the workmanship an unique facet-to wit: it is now chaise. Nor were the roads good, while tolls were high and the accom­ of the Canal, being much impressed the only Canal Company in Great by the aqueducts. He did not Britain or Ireland with its own modation in the coaches was far from pleasant or satisfactory. The like the conversation on board­ carrying fleet; it serves a total of it was too political. some 352 miles, connecting Dublin journey from Galway to Dublin with the Rivers Shannon and Bar­ occupied three days, and up to Week-end to Tullamore. row; part of its course is carried 1789 the coaches had no springs ! Many small items of i.nterest hark high over the central bogs of Ireland Hence, the new service by Canal back to the different years of the between artificial embankments; created no little stir among the " fly" boat history-for instance, in and, until railway competition travelling public. It proved a 1790 an Inspector of Passage Boats became too acute, it was the owner definite success, the numbers of was first appointed; in 1794 tickets of hotels, passenger boats, and boats and passengers steadily in­ were first used, and in 1804 no less coaching arrangements, offering creasing. a personage than Lord Dunboyne II8 March, 1938 IRISH TRAVEL was named Inspector-General of the connection with the packet boats. A Chain of Hotels. Passenger System. \Vhen the In 1840, under this arrangement, In 1785, the year after the Canal extension of the Canal to Tullamore 10,339 passengers were carried on had been extended to Robertstown, was completed, in 1798, the number three of the "through" rates. the Company erected a hotel at of week-end trippers by canal to Sallins. In 1801 the building of the town taxed the Sunday accom­ Dublin-Athy in 7! Hours! a hotel at Robertstown was com­ pleted at a cost of over £7,000, and modation so severely that the Reduction in fares and accelera­ Catholic Church had to be enlarged, one at Tullamore for more than tion of mail and stage coaches, £4,000. In 1806 the hotel at a liberal subscription to this end added to the introduction of cara­ being put up by the Company. Shannon Harbour (from the steps vans and long cars, enticed a number of which Father Mathew later Additional sailings were made to of passengers from canal to road cope with traffic for such purposes administered his pledge) was erected traffic just before 1833, but the at a cost of some £5,000. From as Law Assizes, Quakers' meetings, Canal Company then set ahout fairs, festivals, and cock-fights-the Shannon Harbour terminus many competing, in dead earnest, by thousands of emigrants started for latter being catered for by the building new and lighter boats conveyance of both passengers and their long journey to America, drawn by three horses at an in­ bringing large quantities of oaten game-cocks to the nearest landing creased speed. As a result, the stage. bread for the voyage. Mrs. Wynne numbers of passengers carried were and Mrs. Rigney, far-famed bakers soon doubled, while the journeys of oaten bread at Shannon Harbour, Linking Up the Coach Routes. were effected more quickly. In had a roaring trade in this com­ From 1791 onwards the Company 1837 one could journey by day boat modity. decided to link up by coach services from Dublin to Athy (54 miles) in But the most famous of all the places on the Canal with towns many 7t hours and by night in 12! hours. Canal Hotels was the fine building miles distant. Thus were insti­ These swift, spacious boats were at Portobello (1807), which cost tuted many coach services run in very much appreciated in their day. almost £11,000. Made of stone connection with the boats for the One ]onathan Binns, of Lancaster, from Tullamore, slates from Killaloe, convenience of canal passengers. speaks highly, in 1837, of their and chimney-pieces of Offaly marble, The through fare, Dublin to Ballina, comfort and speed, while, writing this fine hotel was far beyond any­ for example, first cabin and inside in 1844, Dr. James ]ohnson describes thing of its time and place. At of coach, was £2 2s. in 1798. In graphically their swift grace which Portobello, breakfast with eggs was 1836 arrangements were made with he "had never seen equalled in Is. 8d.; dinner, 2s. 2d.; tea and Bianconi to run his long cars in Holland or elsewhere." coffee, Is., and room with one bed, 3s. 3d. Accommodation was less high in the other Canal Hotels. But in 1813 the Company retired from the management of the hotels and let them to hotel- keepers, Portobello being rented at £520 per annum. A View A Pioneer of Tours. Thus, with its linking up of boat, to-day on coach, and hotel over a wide system, the Grand Canal Company may be the Grand truly acclaimed the Pioneer of Tours in Ireland. But a serious rival to long-estab­ Canal- lished and popular Canal Passenger Traffic was at hand with the opening Leeson Street up ancl extension of the Railways, from the 'forties of the nineteenth Bridge is century onwards. Competition waxed acute, fares falling with a discernible rapidity that bespoke final capitu­ lation. In 1851 a Canal-issued in the ticket from Killaloe to Dublin (118 miles) was 4s. 6d., and from Dublin to Shannon Harbour, 6s. 6d. In background 1852 the Canal Company found it no onger profitable to continue running their passenger packets, and the famous fly boats ceased after a glorious spell of seventy­ three years, during which they had "writ history large" in the Book of Transport. IIg IRISH TRAVEL March, 1938

• Women ln Ancient Ireland By L. S. GOGAN

AKING it broad and large, it of France and Mediterranean Europe was natural that women should may be said that there is little generally, away over to Mesopo­ occupy a high position of esteem. T in Irish record to show that tamia. The central fiRure of this the status of Irish women in ancient strange cultus was the Great Mother, In 1000 B.O. times was other than highly honour­ actually a personification of the Even in the late bronze age we able. In the main, she enjoyed earth itself, the cultus being, as it find that the earlier regard for most of the privileges enjoyed or were, the concurrent growth of women persisted. The regions claimed by modern women. Per­ agriculture as a mechanism for about the Shannon from 1000 RC. haps the best test of this is the tact producing food, an activity in onward became the centre of an that in so far as the professlOns which women came to have a far intensively organised civilisation. were crystallised out in ancient greater importance than in the The proof of this still rests mainly times, women possessed th.e right more primitive days when hunting on a group of elaborate decorated to practise them; reference IS made only was the chief source of food. gold collars. Most of these are to women druids, women poets, and The most definite evidence is avail­ old finns of extraordinary beauty; women doctors, and there were even able for the existence in Ireland and another, which was discovered women couriers ! In the age of from 2000 RC. onwards of this only lately in West Clare, is ?f the first great mo~a.:>teries. we find interesting cultus, and it has pro­ pale gold and of a fineness m women like St. BngId ruling com­ jected itself into our later literature decoration which even the most munities of both sexes, and women and folklore in no unmistakable famous goldsmiths of Etruria of like St. Ita or Mide creating a school fashion, where we find the earth the same age would find it hard of fine metal work. At one. sta~e, figured as a beautiful young maiden to excel, if at all. On the basis perhaps owing to the dOI?llabon representing the year at the spring of related finds of bronze collars of folks allied to the PlctS, we and undergoing various transfor­ in Denmark it may be accepted actually find women regarded as mations till, as a not very pleasant that they were ornaments of women, the head of the family and men old woman-the winter of the year and that conclusion is supported by dating their ancestry from them and of life itself-she takes on the the relatively small size of the neck­ rather than from a paternal source. character of the goddess of death, opening; their husbands were the often known in her capacity as wielders of the heavy leaf-shaped Four Thousand Years Ago. goddess of war, as the Great Queen. sword of bronze, and I should say This interesting idea, which we We can perhaps trace the trend would be a trifle thick in the neck share with other lands, is preserved for most of these fine ornaments of things back into the unlettered in our oldest literature, where Ireland past, a trifle of four thousand yeCl;rs of gold. I might add as a negative is figured as an ancient crone who point that the disagreeable practice ago. At that time, as the mdis­ at the kiss of the patriot or ~he putable evidence of our archreology of sati was in vogue, in which the hero is transformed into somethmg widow either slays herself or is indicates, Ireland was the m?st new and beautiful. The story is forward country of Western (m­ slain to accompany her spouse in told of Niall of the Nine Hostages, death. The custom was not, how­ cluding Central). Europe: . The whose ships brol;lgh~ des?la~ion to ever, universal. No doubt there chief proof of thIS fact lIes m the many a Roman villa m Bntam; and c~untry were at different epochs other relatively great wealth of the Mr. Yeats has embodied the idea negative situations. For example, in gold, as preserved for us m the in his well-known playlet, under the in Ireland, as elsewhere, the female form of personal ornaments known title of Caitlin ni h Uallachdin. The as ., lunulre" or crescents. These slave or "curnhal" existed, and famous Tailteann Games, which was regarded as a chattel, but under were unmistakably the personal have been revived in recent times, the Christian dispensation this was ornaments of women, and definitely were no other than the Harvest altered, and a fixed number of cows, indicate not only the great wealth celebrations of this female divinity­ which continued to be known as of the people at large,. ~ut especiDUNAMASE. Vay tn• Laoighis

A Tour through a County in the Central Plain

By Vv·. M. LETTS

DUNAMASE ••• U If ever a place is haunted, it should be Dunamase. Its history goes back to the mists of time. Ptolemy knew of it. The Red Branch Knights were here: and the O'Mores, rulers of Laoighis, held it and lost it again and again."

ERY few of the books in praise of Ireland give banked behind the blue ridge of Slieve Bloom, and much heed to the central plain. The middle away and away down to Tipperary. V cOlmties are wrongly dismissed as dull. True, It must have been from the dawn of history they have their history-they are soaked in it; but a wonderful place, blocked out against the sky. you must know it to find the charm of rath and dolmen, Dermod gave it \\-ith the hand of his daughter Eva of standing stone and circle. to Strongbow, the Earl of Pembroke, and from But I have a great love of the quiet places of Laoighis, them it came to their daughters and down in the its woods, its winding road, and its ~istory; and. it female line. was joy to show these less-knO\\'n beau~Ies to an .Enghs.h The great Norman castle must have been a wonderful visitor who had just a day to spend ill explormg thIS sight. Of all Cromwellian destruction I hate the guns part of Ireland. We were staying at a farmhouse of General Hewson, which at last made this haughty near the Barrow where it flows sluggishly from Vicars- majesty of stone come cra<;hing down. town to Athy. ., Now you must picture to yourself what it was when In this part of the country the canalIs much prettIer Dermod feasted in the great hall and Strongbow and than the river, and still the bridge over the Barrow his Irish bride stood on the battlements. In later on the Vicarstown road has beauties that could have years Owen Roe O'Neill was here. The place is soaked charmed John Constable or Corot. in history, and it should be haunted by noble ghosts. Dunamase. Climbing the Slieve Blooms. I must admit that the Chrysler car did not give From Dunamase we went on to Portlaoighise and much leisure for painting. My companion was a keen down to Mountrath, passing by Ballyfinn, one of the photographer, and when he paused it was to use his great old estates of Leix. Zeiss camera. Our first stopping-place was the rock From Mountrath we turned and climbed the castle of Dunamase. Hundreds of tourists must drive Slieve Bloom Mountains. This was an old ambition. by Portlaoighise down to Cork and the south, and I So long I had seen that dim blue line to the wonder how many notice to the right of them a lane west of our farmhouse window; now at last we were which leads up to a great rock crowned by huge blocks climbing its gentle slopes. For the Slieve Bloom of an old castle. It is a thousand times worth while hills are gentle; farms and little white cottages nestle to take that lane and spend half-an-hour at the castle. in the green folds of them. The road is narrow, If ever place should be haunted it is Dunamase. Its but the Chrysler car could manage it perfectly, and history goes back to the mists of old time. Ptolemy we drove up to the rocky passage they call "The knew of it. The Red Branch Knights were here; the Cut." Here we stopped to look down into Offaly. O'Mores, rulers of Leix, held it and lost it again and We ran down to Clonaslee and turned towards again. And that great hoarse-voiced, false-hearted Kinnitty, presently climbing up by a narrow track king, Dermod MacMurrough, stood here and looked which took us into the road from Kinnitty that across the land which he was offering to England's king. passes over another fold of the Slieve Blooms. We I have tried to picture him, a big bull-necked man, came down by the Forestry Department's great staring out across the great plain or watching the clouds plantations. which fill with depths of green the clefts 121 (Continued on page 130.) IRISH TRAVEL March, 1938

Women in A ncient I reland-(Continned from page ]20.) the same code the property rights dynasty from the fifth till the hero, CU Chulainn, whose feats fill of women were safeguarded as far twelfth century, or even longer, and the pages of early epic. It is per­ a possible. the consequent reduction to com­ haps characteristic that she was of parative solidarity of the provincial Germanic stock, and that her Women Warriors. kingdoms. which till then were father was a public hosteller rather It would also appear that at one tending to develop into separate than a full-blooded aristocrat. Then epoch women joined in the battles nations. She takes her place there is the delicate Beatrice-like of their menfolk, ann references naturally beside Boudicca (Boa­ Deirdre, who preferred romantic love occur to women warriors and women dicca) and Cortismandua, other to a throne, and whose suicide is trainers of warriors. The evidence noted Celtic women leaders of the almost the only in..tance of the is scanty and scattered, but we same era. kind in Irish literature. Then we have on record that Anamanus, ~1aeve lived at the beginning of ha,:,~ the passionate, enterprising the biographer of Columba, and this era. An even earlier king­ Gramne, perhaps the most modern a power in the Irish Church in the maker was Meas Buachalla, the type in the scheme. Daughter of era after St. Patrick, promulgated mother of Conaire the Great. He a high-king, and affianced to her a law terminating this practice. owed his greatness and his kingdom father's military chief, she preferred The point, which is obscure, is to her. On the death and defeat the hands?me, .but unwilling, lieu­ intere ting in view of modern of her husband, King Eidirscele, tenant, Dlarmald, and forced him developments, especially in Russia. and seeing that the high kingship ~o carry her off to fugitive haunt I must say that in the wide range was about to pass to an outside 111 the woods. Finally, there is the of my reading of ancient texts I dynasty, she created an army and type of the ingenue, Fearbhlaidh, have no memory of a battle story set her son, while still a youth, daughter of a Gaelic king of Scot­ in which women are represented as in the high king hip, to become a land, who, after driving her father cra~>.' r~fusing playing an important part, unless ruler whose beneficence was long by numerous useful perhaps as instigators, which has, remembered. ometimes the lady pohbcal alltances, died for love of I fear, occasionally happened. Our intervened with les happy results. a young poet. These are, of course, literature represents the Ili h Gormlaith, the wife of the last of figures from popuiar romance, but warrior as treating women with our great rnlers, Brian, plotted with they afford ample evidence that the average chivalry. They had an the Danes of Dublin, Man, and free development of woman's per­ equal part at important banquets. cotland for her husband's down­ sonality was encouraged, and that fall, and wa regrettably successful, the pe.rsonalities so produced were In Tara it would appear that the r~coglllsed mo t pleasant part of the acropolis though the political student might and appreciated by our admire the skill and unremitting highly-developed literary schools. was allocated to the ladies of the In general, however, it would be city. determination with which she laboured to surround him with a found that the marriage of conveni­ wall of national and international ence, the so-called "made match," Women and Politics. enemies. She was, however, only was as common in Ireland as in Quite a number of striking in­ partially Irish. France,. and, in fact, lasts in many stances of women dominating the places 111 Ireland in our own time result~ political situation of her epoch Women in Ancient Irish Literature. giving, it may be said, as good could l;e quoted - themselves all round as any other system. Our evidence of the normally high Literature as much as history l~t~rature is ~uriously free from the status of women in ancient Ireland. furnishes evidence of the social lIaIson and cnme de passion motives Perhaps the most notable is Maeve, values of a people, and Irish although some interesting instance' a queen of \Vestern Ireland, who, literature is full of striking women might be given. The fact, however bv a series of marital adventures types, most of whom were probably is symptomatic of the level-headed' and a war or two, left a very definite historical personages. First there perhaps bourgeois, character of mark on the structure of the e\'olving is the ideal domestic type of affec­ Gaelic as distinct from Celtic Irish State and prepared the way (ionate womanhood, repre ented by civilisation-a generalisation applic­ for the domination of a Connacht Eimhear, the wife of the Ulster able to Anglo-Saxon culture also.

"Irish Travel "-Cover Pictures "The Aran Jarvey"-was taken October in Ireland. We took a by Mr. John Reilly, of New lork, ten-day trip around your coast road. The much-admired photograph of to whom a prize was awarded in TVe had the happiest and most the Old Lady wearing her hooded our recent Photo Competition. delightflll vacation that W~ ever cloak, which formed the Cover­ spent." piece of February IRISH TR \VFL, A TEN.DAY TRIP. was taken from a prizewinning Writing from Massachusetts, to negative entered in the LT.A. become an " Irish Travel" member Competition hy Rev. J. Hobson, of the LT.A., Mi s Hannah Casey of Cork. says :- This month's (over photograph- "My sister and I spent last 122 March, 1938 IRISH TRAVEL The $outh zn• Early $pring

Elbow Room for Fishing

By CAPT. J. B. DROUGHT. Fishing at Waterville, Co. Kerry. OFTE think that. the adver~isement of angl!ng a few-between Ff'brnary and May than during the centres is none too wf'll desIgned. In eekmg whole remaindf'r of the season. I to attract the well-ta-do there is a tendency to On private beats, perhaps, the unconvinced may ignore the claims of those who cannot run to reserved argue. Mostly I will grant, but here, incidentally, ~ater and hotels de luxe. Yet. in sober truth, the is another point. Taking Irish rivers, by and large, former are in a small minoritv. Their individual good beats are rented very much more cheapIv early outlay may be more spectacular, but actually the on than in late spring or summer. Though- if one country. ide derives incomparably greater benefit from cannot run to private waters, there are plenty of really the cumulative spendings of a vast company of less first-class stretches re erved by various hotels, for which affluent folk. the daily charges earlv in the year are well within the There is another point. " Waters on main touri t compass of men of inelastic means. Moreover, the routes are greatly overfished n. ; uch is the gist, at hotel tariff are still at winter rates, and from a long least, of many a complaint. Well, why? Is it J.lot experience I can testify that, considering the average to a great extent because every attractIve anglmg sport one gets from year to year, one can enjoy a ce~tre caters almost exclusively for the period from remarkably cheap holiday. mid-May to Septemher? It is quite true that we Of course, one's choice of ground, or rather water are intensely conservative of habit. Because we have is somewhat limited, because several districts are not always taken our holidays in July or August, we must entirely open to rod fishing before March. Also almost for ever do so, world without end. It is also true everything depends upon the weather, the water that many people for business reasons cannot chop temperature, and the heights of rivers, with their and change. But many can, and doubtless would, influence on earlv runs of fish. But those are seasonal were there sufficient inducement to do so. The trouble vagaries beyond" the control of any angler! And, is that no one stresses the inducement, and so we all without desiring to institute any invidious comparisons continue in intensive competition during a few weeks I always think one might go further than Cork and in the summer and never consider the advantage of Kerry for an early salmon and fare a great deal worse. other times of year. For not only is hotel accommodation ample and of a standard of comfort above the average, hut also, From February to May. however cold it may be, the angler can console him- For, say what you will, elbow room is a definite self with the reflection that he is likely to be a good advantage whether you fish a river or a lake. While deal warmer than his brethren elsewhere. Spring there is no sport so dependent on variety of circum- comes early to the South, and many a ~larch day stance as salmon fishing, the man who has a mile or borrows the sunshine of early June. two of water to himself stands a better chance of taking something out of it than he who fishes as a unit in a In County Cork. crowd. Not, it will be argued, in the early spring. In the Countv Cork there are half-a-dozen first-class How often have I heard that tale! I will grant that salmon rivers and abOl t twice that number of secondary there are many rivers on which the early fishing is the streams yielding spring fish under conditions of high worst of gambles. But equally there are others which water. The Lee and Blackwater take pride of place, often yield far better sport than later on. I have though the best beats on thf' latter are either owner myself both made and seen better catches on the Lee, fished or let by the season. But there is a good deal the Blackwater, the Slaney, and the Lennan-to name of water on the Lee leased by certain hotels, and from 123 (Please see overleaf.) IRISH TRAVEL March, 1938 personal experience I can testify to the sport on the Macroom beats. It is no far cry to the Sullane river, on which there is a lot of free water, as there is on the Bandon near Dunmanway, and at Innishannon. Then you may follow" the pleasant waters of the Lee "'. to the Inchigeela Lakes, and drop oyer the mountams into Glengarriff, easy of access to the Adrigole, Coom­ hola, and Glengarriff rivers, all of which are good for salmon on a flood. There is some free fishing on the two first-mentioned and a few reserved beats on the latter for hotel guests. In any case, Glengarriff, with a winter temperature approximating to that of Rome, is a delightful spot in which to spend a week or a month if you can spare the time, if only t? enjoy its scenic beauty. ~or dive:s minds there are dlVers pleasures. For botamsts exohc flowers and shrubs and ferns innumerable; palms and Fishing on the Middle Lake, Clonee, Co. Kerry. arbutus flourish in the open. For the adventurous there are glens and hills to climb; for the. inactiye, quiet grassy paths and woodland nooks, ID which before now I have sat coatless in the warmth of a CLONEE, BESIDE KEN MARE February sun. The Ring of Kerry. Abounding in Trout and Salmon And then into the Ring of Kerry by one of the wildest, loveliest mountain roads in all Ireland. Within this By ]. O'LEARY. perimeter of 120 miles lie the chief inland fisheries of the Kingdom. There are no more comfortable ho.tels TO enjoy Kerry's marvellous scenery, the visitor than those at Waterville, Kenmare, Glencar, Glenbelgh, should first come to Clonee, a district situated and Killarney, all of which are well within three hours' eight miles westward on the Healv Pass road run of one another. As to the best early waters, I from Kenmare. It is a land of mountain, woodland, would give my vote to those .around .\Vaterville ~nd and lake, of roaring torrent and murmuring brook­ Glenbeigh. Visitors at Watervllle qualify for exclu.slve in short, a veritable paradise, the Utopia of the fisher­ rights to fish the Watenrille river between the bndge man, as well as of the mountain climber. and the sea. There are also beats on the Cummeragh Of many recreations, Clonee offers more to the keen river, while Lough Currane is free. The Caragh river, fisherman than to anyone else. Here he has bottom about eight miles of which are reserved by the hote.ls lake fishing, which is to be had in but one other lake at Glencar and Glenbeigh, is very often first-class m in Ireland, as well as deep sea fishing at its best; here, March and April when a flood is running dow~- even if he never took a rod or line in hand before, he incidentally I recall landing three salmon averagmg will surprise himself, for it is a thing unknown to go thirteen pounds in one morning here three years ago. fishing in Clonee lakes and return empty-handed. Caragh Lake is free, and within easy reach Lou~h Trout and salmon abound. Cloon and Acoose and the Behy river afford a spice The scenery of the district is unexcelled; a view of variety; all are good brown trout waters, yielding of the lake as the sun throws its setting beams upon also a few salmon and plenty of sea trout when the it would gladden one's heart. Nowhere have I seen latter run in June. a more glorious sight; while deep down in its cool The Maine has lost something of its erstwhile glory, depths salmon and t~out abo~md. Oft~n have I but the Flesk and Laune, on which there is some free watched them, on qUIet evemngs, capermg on its water, still maintain their reputation. And there placid surface; often, too, have I returned to break­ are numerous minor rivers and loughs tucked away fast at the hotel with some prized trout in my bag. in the mountains which yield trout in plenty and They are so plentiful that I have often wondered why often an odd salmon on a spate. Space precludes any it is so many of them make for Clonee lakes. Is It detailed reference to them, but visitors to any of the not the charm of the place that has been wafted on hotels in the area will speedily discover the most the waters? attractive for themselves. And as to expenses: On the sea, as well as on the lake, the hotel boats briefly, hotel tariffs average from 3t to 4! guineas h .. , (though at Kenmare and Killarney th~ visitor .m,:y are always ready fo~ t e vIsitor s use, while gillies and pay a trifle more); a daily salmon fishing perrrut m guides are always a,:ailable. Down here a very I?opul<;tr reserved beats does not exceed 15s., while boats on hobby is rock fishmg. Though seldom practised m the lakes work out at lOs. a day and the boatman's other places, this hobby h~s an attraction all its own. lunch. In short, the angler who is content to vary Just try it once and you will see so for yourself. his salmon fishing with two or three days' free sport A visit to Clonee would repay the visitor a hundred­ after hill trout can spend a very cheap and (weather fold. Remember, when you are deciding on this permitting) delightful holiday. And until I:\lid-May year's holiday, that the fishing season opens on March he will very likely find not more than half-a-dozen of 15th and closes again on October 14th. Remember his kind in any hotel he goes to-an ideal numb~r both ~he glamorous district on the Healy Pass road; visit for companionship and that elbow room afores~.l.ld. It once, and then ... again and again. I24 March, 1938 ll<.ISH TRAVEL

• • • IRISH • COUNTIES

Their Literary and Ad Achievements No. 12-Co. CLARE

BY SEAMUS G. 0 CEALLAIGH

Other items previously published in this series are : No. I-Tipperary; No. 2­ Cavan; No. 3-0ffaly; No. 4­ Laoighis; No. 5-Mayo ; No. 6 -Westmeath; No. 7-Galway; No. 8-Cork; No. 9-Sligo; No. IO-Waterford; No. 11­ Ennistymon. where the Cullenagh River falls over a ledge of rocks in an attractive Kildare. cascade, just below the bridge.

Raising the Banner. Sinn Fein policy-would not succeed. Ever since N Irish history the County with which we are 1918 Clare has continued to elect de Valera as its dealing in this article, Co. Clare, is known as member. It is a strange thing that many Irish leaders I " The Banner County." It got this name at the have gone to Co. Clare for a backing in times of national time of the famous election when Daniel O'Connell crisis. And they always got that backing when they was elected a member of the British Parliament for asked for it. No wonder Clare is known as "The Clare. His election was a blow struck for Catholic Banner County." Even the great Brian Boru depended Emancipation. Clare had raised the "Banner," and on the men of Clare in his struggle against the Danes. ever since has been known as "The Banner County." In 1918 Clare elected Eamonn de Valera a Sinn O'Briens and O'KennedYs. Fein M.P. Again Clare had raised the" Banner." The In olden times Clare was ruled by two Gaelic clans­ election of Mr. de Valera at this period was a direct the O'Briens and the O'Kennedys. These two clans challenge to those who said that the new policy-the are known in Irish history as the Dalcassians. Brian Boru belonged to the O'Brien clan. . The O'Briens ruled mos.t of Munster in these early hmes. They were the Kmgs of Thomond. Li.ke all Gaelic clans, the O'Briens were great church and castle builders. They contributed much to the development of Irish architecture, and the ruins of some of the churches and ca tles for which they were responsible are still to be found all over Clare. At Ennis are to be found the ruins of a Franciscan Abbey, built by Brian, King of Thomond, in the year 1242. This Abbey wa ruined and robbed several times by the different wars which took place in Munster from the coming of the English to the time of the Reformation. The ruins are still to be seen in Ennis. There is also in the town of Ennis a fine monument to Daniel O'Connell, and one to the Manchester Martyrs as wel!, w~ich goe~ to .show that in these modern days Clare IS still contnbutmg to the development of Irish The picturesque Abbey at Ennis. architecture. 125 (Please see overleaf.) IRISH TRAVEL March, 1938

The Abbeys of Clare. as Moneypoint) in 1775. For a while he was a school­ Clare Abbey, about a mile from Ennis, was built for master there, and during that time collected materials the Augustinians by Donal O'Brien, last King of for the publication of a great English-Irish Dictionary. Munster, in the year 1195. Killaloe Abbey, three nfortunately, he had no money to publish this work, miles north-west of Ennis, was built by the same king and after many struggles to have it published the a few years before that. St. John's Holy Well lies scholar was obliged to pawn the MS. at Tralee for a near by, and is a place of pilgrimage each year on June few shillings in order to get food. It was redeemed 24th. Quin Abbey, five miles from Ennis, was built by Eugene O'Curry, and i now catalogued as Manu­ in 1402 by Siota MacNamara, Lord of Clancuilen. It script Egerton 83 in the British Museum. Peter was destroyed by the English at the time of the O'Connell was one of the greatest Gaelic scholars Reformation. The site of this abbey was first a of the seventeenth century. He died at Carne in Norman castle, built in 1280. This castle was later 1826. captured by the MacNamaras, who built the abbey " Brian ~1er~yman, aut~,or of the famous Gaelic poem, within the grounds. The abbey was reopened in The MIdnIght Court, was also from Clare. His 1641, when the Irish rose in arms to defend their poem attracted g~eat attention during the present religion and their homes. Ten years later it was century from CeltIC scholars in the Universities of again suppressed by Oliver Cromwell. From that Germany. Other Gaelic writers from Clare whom time on it was in English hands, and in the year I have only space to mention include Donnacha MacCon­ 1584 it witnessed the brutal execution of Donnacha mara, the poet, who wrote the" Fair Hills of Ireland" Beag O'Brien by Sir John Perrott, the English Lord and other poems. These have been published in book Deputy. form ~y T. G. Flan.nery. Donnacha O'Daly, Tadhg Clare Castle, five miles from Ennis on the north-east, MacDarre, and Maohn MacBruaidach are three other was owned by the O'Briens. It stood on an island writers who are worthy of mention. They also wrote in the bed of the Shannon. The ruins are still to be in the Gaelic tongue. seen, and the O'Briens of Munster to-day point with pride to the services which their ancestors rendered "John Buncle." to the Nation in Ireland's Golden Age. . Turning now from Gaelic literature to Anglo-Irish hterature, we find that Clare has also done well in this Eugene O'Curry. domain. Thomas Amory, the eccentric author of that In literature Clare has a worthy record, its most great book, "John Buncle," came from Clare. He famous writer being Eugene O'Curry, a great Gaelic (Continued on page 130.) scholar. O'Curry was born at Dunaha, Co. Clare, in the year 1796. For a time he was employed on Ordnance Survey work. In 1834 he copied and arranged numbers of Gaelic manuscripts in Dublin, compiled a catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the British Museum, and translated and printed a number of medceival Irish tales. His greatest work is " Manners and Customs of the Irish People" and a translation of the works of the Four Masters. Ireland owes a deep debt of gratitude to O'Curry. He spent his life and his talent preserving for the Nation its ancient literary treasures, many of which would be lost but for him. For a time he was Professor of Irish History in the Catholic University of Dublin. This was about the year 1856, when the great Cardinal Cullen attended his lectures, which were later published in book form. O'Curry died in Dublin in 1862.

Some Gaelic Writers: Pawning a Dictionary. Another Gaelic writer was David Comyn, the historian, who was born in 1853. Comyn became a clerk in the National Bank, Dublin, and was appointed first editor of the" Gaelic Journal," a sixpenny monthly founded in 1882. This monthly was the organ of the Gaelic nion, which was the forerunner of the Gaelic League. Whilst editor of this monthly Comyn trans­ lated the first volume of Keating's History of Ireland for the Irish Texts Society. He also published" Iri h Illustrations of Shakespeare." He died in Dublin in 1907, and left all his books to the National Library. Peter O'Connell was another Gaelic writer who hailed Lemanagh Castle, on the road to Corofin, is a fine old from Clare. O'Connell was born at Carne (now known ruin which has witnessed stirring history. ;t~6 March, 1938 IRISH TRAVEL Drogheda's Civic Week MAY" 9th to 16th

By EILEEN M. BURKE

Lucky Drogheda ! ROGHEDA is the ideal centre for seeing Louth, the "Wee" County, with all it charms. D For the antiquarian, especially, the town. and the Boyne Valley will provide a host of at.tractlOns. They have important links with each successIve epoch of our country's story. The record~ exta~t show that the Mayors of Drogheda have fu~ctlOned.m unbroken succe sion since 1285-and the hst provIdes but one name displaced for neglect of duty. ~ucky Drogheda ! Until 1412 there were two. Mayor m Drogheda, but in 1412 Mr. William Simcocks was elected Mayor of St. Laurence's Gate, Drogheda. the United Town. It may be 'Of interest to state that the family name still sUf\'ives in the town. ticularly the rural areas. In this they are facilitated by the Great Northern Railway Company, who are Resurgent Ireland. arranging special road and rail services for the occasion. The growth of the city ha to a great extent been A di play of local industrial produce is to be held con equent on the capacity of its ~ublic .bodies to keep in the Mayoralty House; local arts and handicrafts, abreast of the times. Drogheda IS typIcal of mod~rn together with educational exhibits from the local resurgent Ireland at its best. It has vast new .ho~smg schools, will be on show. The factories will consider schemes, a good water upply, gas an~ .electnc ~Ight, the week an " open week," and visitors will be welcomed. an excellent sewerage-in a word, mUnIcIpal effiCIency Nor wW the recreative and social side be neglected. rarely surpassed. The week will be ushered in by an historic Pageant, Drogheda is provided with excellent travel facilities followed by a Gaelic Football match between two by rail, road, and water. Its health record is good. leading inter-county team. Each day will have its Civic consciousness amongst its citizens is at a high Ceilidhe, Concert, Whist Drive, Pageant, Children's level. The population has jumped from 12,501 in Fancy Dress Ceilidhe, or illustrated lecture. The 1911 to 14,495 in 1936! It is still rising. individual taste is well catered for in the amusement section. "Open Week" in Drogheda. Visit Drogheda for its "Civic Week"; and if you admire the progre sive spirit of its citizens, spare a To convince the purchasing public of the excellence meed of praise for its schools, which have, under varying of Drogheda's manufactures, a " Civic Week" is being ~1any national conditions, turned out young citizens suffi­ organi ed for May 9th to 16th. of these pro­ ciently adaptable to harness the tide. Our younger ducts have already achieved world fame-other will, generation in particul r are grappling. uccessfully with it is hoped, increase their popularity. the rising tide of industrial prosperity-proving the The Committee of the Women's Industrial Develop­ adage:- ment Association, who have ponsored thi venture, aim especially at making known the r sources of the " There is a tide in the affairs of n"en, which, taken town to the people of the surrounding connties, par- at the flood, leads on to fortune." J27 IRISH TRAVEL March, 1938 Jingling tn Ir~land THE RIVERS AND its fishing, as in other attractions, Ireland's special advantage is the remarkable extent and variety which I are condensed into a small space. Take a large scale map of Europe and find anywhere else such a huge acreage of lakes or such a long mileage of angling rivers. Again, with our fish as with our horses, there is no breeding ground elsewhere that can produce the stamina of Ireland's warm limestone country. Big fish, fighting fish-and plenty of them-that, surely, covers the main requirements of the Angler P"radise-bound. Ireland is world-famed for record catches in her waters. Within the last few years several salmon of 45 to 50 Ibs. have been caught in the principal rivers, and brown trout of 18 to 20 lbs. on the chief lake~. The largest pike on register was taken in Lough Conn, whIle Ballycotton and Waterville hold deep-sea records for skate and bass. Salmon What angler in these islands has not heard of the big fighting fish that have been caught in the famous Irish rivers. In recent years salmon weighing 50 Ibs. and over have been taken in the principal rivers, while several fish weighing between 3:'\ and 40 Ibs. were included in other catches recorded. Such big ones, of course, are not caught every day, but fish weighing up to 30 Ibs. are frequently taken every season, and the average would be anywhere between 15 and 20 Ibs. The principal salmon fisheries (and location in counties) are :-

Ballynahinch R. and R. Lee (Cork). Lakes (Galway) Leenane District (Galway). R. Ballysodare (Sligo). R. Lennan (Donegal). R. Bandon (Cork). R. Liffey (Dublin). R. Blackwater (Cork- R. Maigue (Limerick). Waterford). R. Moy (Mayo). . R. Boyne (Meath). Screebe R. and Lakes R. Caragh (Kerry). (Galway). R. Clady (Donegal). Sligo R. (Sligo). R. Corrib (Galway). R. Shannon (Limerick). R. Erne (Donegal). R. Slaney (Wexford). R. Lackagh (Donegal). R. Suir (Tipperary). R. Laune (Kerry). Waterville District (Kerry).

Most of the large lakes mentioned in connection with trout angling also provide good salmon fishing. In addition to these there are innumerable other rivers and lakes which provide capital sport for the angler who would get a thrill in landing a ten or twelve-pounder. As one might expect, the best salmon fisheries are strictly preserved, but stretches, however~ can usually be rented for a period or fished by rods, for whIch tIckets have been issued. The charges, considering the quality of the sport, are so com­ paratively moderate. that sportsmen accu.stomed to conditions in other countries will be agreeably 5urpnsed. On the other hand, certain hotels reserve the fishing in their neighbourhood for the use of guests, while many other rivers and lakes are entIrely free, or p~rmission can eas'ily be secured from the riparian owners. Sea Trout Excellent opportunities for sea trout fishing await the angler in Ireland, particularly along the western seaboard, notably in Connemara, Kerry, and Donegal. Some of the best sea trout fi5heries are Ballynahinch, Costelloe, Furnace, Inver, Carna Lakes, Leenane district (all in Co. Galway);. Waterville district and Caragh R. (Kerry); R. Moy and the nvers and lakes near Mallaranny and Newport (Co. Mayo); and those in Gweedore, Rosapcnna, and Dungloe districts (Co. Donegal). March. 1938 IRISH TRAVEL

AKES OF IRELAND Brown Trout The brown trout angling in Ireland is abundant and varied; and there are unlimited opportunities for sport. Anglers out for big fish will make for the great lakes, such as :- "'L. Corrib (Galway). Killarney Lakes (Kerry). "'L. Mask (Galway). Waterville Lakes (Kerry). "'L. Conn (Mayo). aragh L. (Kerry). 1. Cullen (Mayo). "'1.. Derg (Clare-Tipperary). "'L. Arrow (Sligo). "'L. Sheelin (Cavan-Westmeath). L. Melvin (Leitrim). "'Westmeath Ls. (Westmeath). L. Fern (Donegal). L. Gill (Sligo). L. Keel (Donegal). Cloon L. (Kerry). Glen L. (Donegal). Trout fishing in Ireland may be divided into four categories­ dry-fly fishing, wet-fly fishing, trolling on the lakes, and the most exciting of all-the kind known as .. dapping" during the Mayfly season, which is almost peculiar to Ireland. Favourite grounds for Mayfly fishing are the large lakes indi­ cated with an asterisk above, and these yield heavy fish every Dapping on Loch Corrib, in the West of Ireland. season. Trout from 4 to 6 lbs. are commonly taken from all these lakes, though much heavier fish are caught occasionally. Numerous other lakes of smaller size and the rivers also provide capital trout fishing, and given suitable conditions yield good baskets of fish averaging about 1 lb. or It lbs. In addition to the familiar species, certain lakes hold the varieties known as .. Gillaroo," " Sonaghan," and the" Ferox," which are remarkable for their fighting qualities. These are plentiful in 1. Melvin. Brown trout fishing in Ireland is almost everywhere free, and no licence is required for rods. Angling clubs exist in most districts, and active as they are in the preservation and propa­ gation of fish, the trout angling is every year improving under their care. Visitors would do .well to seek advice from those organisations, the honorary officers of which will, invariably be found willing to facilitate their brother Waltonians in every way possible. Coarse Fish Most of the big Irish lakes hold coarse fish-pike, perch, bream and rudd. Authentic records of coarse fishing in Ireland give pride of place to L. Conn for a pike of 53 lbs. caught in July, 1920, by Mr. Garvin, but several weighing from 35 to 45 lbs. have been taken from all the large lakes. Dace and roach are found only in the R. Blackwater. Fishing the Laune River, near Killarney. Sea-Angling BALLYCOTTON, near Cork, is regarded as one of the best sea­ angling resorts in Europe, and the facilities leave nothing to be desired. Other excellent centres are Valentia Island (Co. Kerry) and Kilmore (Co. Wexford), while elsewhere around the Irish coast good sport is also available. Licences Rod licences are required for salmon and sea trout. In either case the cost is £2 for the season, but a l4-day licence can be purchased for £1. Licences can be obtained from the Fisherv Offices in the defined fishery districts, or usually from Fishing Tackle Agents or Hotels in the principal angling resorts. Angling Information Prospective angling visitors to Ireland can obtain, free of charge, detailed. information concerning rivers and lakes, seasons, local faCilIties, and other matters, by communicating With the:- IRISH TOURIST ASSOCIATION, 14 Upper O'Coooell Street, DUBLIN. Telephone: 44719 and 44710. London Office :-16/17JermynSt., S. W.!. Telephone: Rl'gent093!. On the Clady, near Errigal, in Donegal.

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IRISH eau NTI ES-(Continuedjrom page 126.) was born at Bunratty in 16!H, and died in London in Many Journalists. 1788. His only outstanding work is the one ju t So many writers have come from Clare that it would mentioned. be impossible to give a detailed account of them all. Another writer of outstanding merit was Frances Nevertheless, we .feel bound to mention them and give Marcella, better known by her own name, Addie O'Brien. some necessary, If meagre, details. Benjamin Kidd, Under the name Frances :Ylarcella she wrote several author of sever~l philosophical works, was a Clare man, short stories, articles, and poems. Born near Ennis as was also Mlchael taunton, the famous journalist in 184-0, she suffered from ill-health all her life. Most and author of many political pamphlets. His most of her stories appeared in the "Irish Monthly" and famous pamphlet is " Lessons for the Lamb." Stephen other religious periodicals. Her death took place in Joseph Meany, the well-known Fenian journalist, was also from Clare, and so was Marcus Kane author of 1883. Her namesake, Charlotte Grace O'Brien, was a~d also a writer of distinction. She was the daughter a well-known book entitled " The Towers Temples of the great Smith O'Brien, the '48 leader. She was of A~cient I~elan~.': Professor John Wardell, Professor born at Cahirmoyle in 1845, three years before the of HIstory m Tnmty College, Dublin, also came from rising of '48 took place. Most of her childhood was Clare, as did Lucas White King, the great Arabic spent abroad with her father, who was banished from scholar; Edward O'Brien, author of "The Lawyer," Ireland after the rising. She is the author of a volume a very thoug~tful. book; and Rev. Sylvester Malone, of lyrics and a clever novel entitled "Light and the Church hlstonan. Two other outstanding women Shade." This novel was published in 1878. Miss writers fr?m Clare are Miss Florence Stackpoole and O'Brien wrote much on the question of emigration, and Lady Colm Campbell. These two ladies have won suggested many beneficial schemes which would keep distinction for themselves in the field of journalism. the Irish peasantry at home. She took an active part Amongst Clare poets we have Thomas Dermody and in the promotion of the Gaelic League in the early \ Villiam :vra~ amar~. Will~an: Macl. amara was a poet days of the present century. She died in 1909. o~ outstand.mg ment, and It lS a thousand pities that hIS poetry 1 not better known. Dr. Michael Clancy Memoir of her and selection of her poems were th~ published by her nephew, tephen Gwynn, the same the historian, and John Jackson, who wrote under "-r:e~ry year. pen-name of l?riscoll/' are of Clare origin. Jackson was a bnlhant Journahst and humorist. His humorous account of local happenings in Clare are Historian Barry O'Brien. still spoken of, though he is dead for over half a century. Yet another O'Brien writer comes from Clare. He is In Modern Art. Richard Barry O'Brien, political writer and historian. . In Modern Art Clare ha a good record. John He wrote the "Life of harles Stewart Parnell," of SlI~gleto~ Copley, R.A., the famous Anglo-American "Lord Russell of Killowen," "Fifty Years' Concessions pamter, IS saId to be of lare extraction. Two other to Ireland," and many other books of a similar nature. famous artists fro~ the same county are William Richard Barry O'Brien was a lawyer as well as an Mulrea.dy, R.A., a pamter of world-wide repute, and Sir author. He was born at Kilrush in 1847-the year Fredenck W. Burton, the famous water-colourist. of the Famine. Educated at the Catholic University, No doubt, the County of the Dalcassians has much Dublin, he received the degree of LL.D. For a time to be proud of. In all walks of life its sons and he edited the" Irish Speaker," and later founded the daughters have shed lustre upon themselves and upon Irish Literary Society of London. He was President their native county. Ireland has no need to be any­ of this Society from the year 1906 to 1911. He also thing but proud of Clare. edited and puhlished "The Autobiography of Wolfe But those of you who would wish to know more of Tone." His death took place in London in 1918, ~ this famous "Banner County" must visit it your­ few weeks before the famous General Election in rreland selves. The lordly Shannon awaits you. The summer that year. is approaching; holiday-time is at hand, and where Richard Ash King, the novelist, also came from could a holiday be better spent than in the "Banner Clare; his most notable novel being the "Wearing County," where the shades of great men and women, of the Green." He was even more brilliant as a great patriots, great scholars and courageous soldier , lecturer and wit than a a novelist, and it i a great will inspire you and give you a sense of greatness, pity that his peeches have not been collected and knowledge, and quiet enjoyment that you will not find published. elsewhere.

A DAY IN LAOIGHIS-(Colltilllled from p"i!e 121.) bogs are like. And, after all, there is nothing more of the ~illside. .The. day was.a grey ~ne, but my . fa cinating than a bog, with its vast stretches, its cut compamon found mfimte charm m the Insh sky with and bog-holes, its wealth of heather and sweetgale. all it" dove-like clouds. .and the rare emphasis of a tree on the great kyline. I believe I should miss the bogs of Ireland more than The Bog. her mountains. Before he left us I brought hlin to the bog, far I And so, as all good days end, twilight fell, and the find that many English people scarcely know what lights of Dublin came into sight once more,

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y far the most striking feature of the March looked forward to, for he has proved himself a splendid programmes i~ the actiyity displayed by t~e microphone-dramatist. B radio dramatIsts. RadIO drama IS as yet m its infancy, and this activity is to be welcomed. F~r Miscellaneous. it is only by widesprea~ experiment that the ,potentI­ Lord Dunsany occupies a prominent position in the alities of this new medIUm may be fully realIsed and March programmes. He will read his own poems on exploited. Radio scr,ipt-writers will gradually free the 9th, and will also speak in the series "I Liked the microphone from ItS present dependenc~ on the this Book" (25th). Other speakers in this very technique of the legitimate stage. They WIll evolve interesting feature are :-Lady Longford (4th), Rev. a new art at the behest of a new medium. Stephen Brown, S.l (11th), and A. E. Malone (18th). The problem of procuring goo~ talks mus~ be a Anglers will be interested in the timely feature continual nightmare to an~ deVIser of ,radIO 'pro­ entitled "Fishermen Talking." Laurie Gaffey and grammes. With the exceptIOn of the se~Ies entIt~ed Dr. Falvey will discuss Lake Fishing and River Fishing "I Liked this Book," the talks to be gIVe!! d~~mg (7th), and E. W. Carrette will discuss with C. W. the month from Radio Eireann are rather unmsprrmg. Gibson the respective merits of Trout and Salmon Indeed this problem seems universal--except in Fishing (21st). Americ~, where a 15-minute "straight" talk would Another discussion of more than ordinary interest be unheard of. is that on "Economic Forestry," between Mr. John Mackay and Professor Stockley (29th). Mr. Mackay, St. Patrick's Day. a well-known expert on Forestry. will also be heard in a talk on " Shade Trees and the Irish Roadside Tree The programme for the National Feast Day is, Association" (14th). On March 15th Kathleen Mackay quite rightly, an ambitious one. The day opens will give another of her excellent talks on bird life. with a relay of High Mass from the Cathedral, Tuam; Among the regular features from Radio Athlone, a Children's Choir of 200 voices will be heard. At Eric Boden's "Radio Diary" has established itself 3. p,m. will be heard a commentary from Croke Park Mat~hes. as a popular favourite. This cleverly-conceived on the Hurling and Football . At 8 p.m. journal in sound will be heard during the month on listeners will hear a representative Insh Concert feat~ring ~adio two occasions (5th and 19th). Programme, the Irish. Orchestra, the Attractive special features during the month are :­ Dublin Metropohtan Garda CeilIdhe, and a Vocal A St. David's Day programme (1st), Esperanto Talk Quartette composed of Violet Pearson (soprano), on the Literature of Ireland (6th), and an E.S.B. Robert McCullagh (tenor), Mairin Fenning (con~raIto), w~ll. programme entitled" Where Your Light Comes From" Sam Mooney (baritone). This Concert be (15th). relayed by B.B.C. Regional ~nd by ~ll the pnnclpal European Stations. An TaOlseach will speak to the Outside broadcasts will include :-A commentary on the Ireland-Wales Rugby Match (12th), a com­ Irish abroad at 9 p.m. mentary on the England-Scotland Match (19th), a commentary on the Grand National, and the first Music. commentary yet done in Eire on an International For music-lovers the most attractive item is Table-Tennis game-Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria undoubtedly the Symphony Concert (22nd), with and Ireland (March 24th). E. WaIton O'Donnell conducting and Violet Pearson as soloist. Of equal interest will be the relay from Entertainment. Cork of the Public Concert conducted by Aloys The Irish Radio Orchestra, with various voralists, Fleischmann (9th). Other outstanding musical items gives a good number of light musical programmes. are :-A Ravel programme, with Irish Radio Orchestra In addition, a number of entertainers will be heard, and Rhona Marshall (7th); a Lionel Monckton Hour including :-The Thunder Brothers (3rd and 30th), (26th), and a Hardebeck programme (28th). Ken O'Dea and . O'c. Redmond (10th), Dan Byrne and Joseph Duffy (13th), Thornton and Earls (16th). Drama. A Variety Concert will be relayed from the Mount Among the Radio-plays to be given this month Street Club on 31st. are :-" The Grandmother Clock," by Philip Callan (1st); "The Hawk and the Dove," by Ben Madi~an (3rd); "A Light at the Window," by Lochlmn McClynn (8th); two Radio-plays by Lord I?UI},sany (20th), and "When Handel Came ~o Dublm,. by Olive Meyler (23rd). 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134 March, 1938 IRISH TRAVEL DIRECTORY OF IRISH HOTELS A Abbret,idWns: B-nulllber of bedrooTTll. Fr.-From. NOTE I t· 11 11 llses the prices quoted in this li~t are either .. all the year round" or .. seMon" rates. In many cases lIotels .- n prah~'i:' i~cl~de~ quote .. off season" charges lower than those published-lor example, Hotels In Seaside Resorts. BALLINAMORE (Leitrim). MVNSTEP.; B. 9; Day 12/6; Week 70/-. ABBEYFEALE (Limerick). Week RAILWAY: B. 14; Day 10/-: Week 50/·. NORMA 'DY (Private); H. 14; Day 10/6; LEEN'S, Main St.; B. 12; Day 10/-; BALLINASLOE (Galway) Week 70/-. 70/-. HAYDEX'S; B. 30; Day 12 6; Week 70/-. RATHCLAREN HOUSE (KilIarney Rd.); R ABBEYLEIX (Laoighla). Week O'CARROLL' -; B. 12. 12; Day 12!-; Week fr. 52/6. DE VESm ARMS; B. 10; Day 10/6; BALLINEEN (Cork). ST. ,TUDE'S GUHST HOUSE (Quillsboro' 60/-. HI!RJ,lW'S; B.12; Day 10/-; "·eek60.'-. Rd.); B.12: Day 7/6; Week 42'-. ACHILL ISLAND ceo. Mayo). Day 10/-', BALLINROBE (Mayo). ~T. JOHN'S (Meath Rd.): Week 42/- to 50 i-. ACHII.L HEAD, Keel; B. 22; RAILWAY: n. 20; Day 12'6; Week 8·1i-. 8YDENHA,M (Putland Road); B. 10: Day Week 50/- to 60/-. , BALLINSKELLIGS (Kerry) 10/-: "eek 55/- to 63/-. AMETHYST, Keel: B. 12; Day 10/-; "eek SlGERSON ARMS; :Ho 8; Day 9/-; Week YERONA (Martello Terrace): Week 45/- to 63/- BJ~KE'S fi5/-. WAVE CltEST HOUSE (Dockery's); j~. ;; (Private), Dugort; B. 5; Day 10/-; BALLYBUNIOlI (Kerry). Day 10//\: Week 63/-. CL~~Vk ]~1~' CASTLE' 13.46: Week lr. 105/-. WAVE CUEST HOTEL (Graham's); n. 8; HOUSE, Dooagh; B. 6; nay CENTRAl,' n.28; Day 14/6; Week 84/-. Day 10/-: Week 63/-. 9/-; WeekfiO/-. r GRAY'S DUllort': B.8; Dayl0/-; Week 50/-. STRAND; 'B. 16; Day 9/- to 10/6; Week WHYDAH (11 s. McTighe): l\. 10; Dn)' 7/6; MCDOWEJ_L'S, Dngort; 13. 14; Day 10/-: 60/- to 70/-. Week 50,/-. Week 63/-. BALLYBOFEY (Donegal), BRITTAS BAY (Wicklow), MOUNTAIN VIEW, Dugort; B. 11; Day MAGER'S: B. 10: Day 10/-; Week 42/-. ROCKE'IELD; H. 11: Day 12,-· Week 63/- 10/6: Week 50/- to 60,-. _ BALLYCOTTON (Cork) to 'M/- ' STRAND, DUl:ort; 16; Day 10/-; Week BAYVIEW; 13. 45' Day 14/-; Week 84/-. BUNBEG (Donegal). n. CO GRESS IPrivate): B 10; Day 101-: Week BRESLIN'S; B. 16; Day 10/-; Week 63/-. 60/-. D 9' r ATTEN'S (rrlvate), Keem; B 5; ay " 55/- to 63/-. W k 80/ ]<'RJEL'S (Seaview). Private; 11. 9; Day 8/-' Week 50/-. FAWCETT'S: B. 33; Day 13/6; ee' -. \\eek 4;;'-. ' RICHVIEW,Keel; B.7; Day9/-; Week 55/,. BALLYFERRITER (Kerry). BUNCRANA (Donegal) ADARE (Limerick). GRANVILLE'S; B. 19; Day 10/6; Week BAY VIEW; H. lR'; Day 15/-; Week 63/-. DUNIlAVEN ARMS; B. 32: Day 18/-; Week BALi'ViiEIGUE (Kerry), LAKE 0]<' ~HADOWS: B. 16; Day 10,-; 126/-. LAKEVIEW. Week 63/ ... . AHERLOW (Tipperary). Day 10/- to BALLYLIFFIN (Donegal). LOUGH SWILLY, n. 40, Day 14/-, Week RIVERSDALE HOUSE; n. 10; 12/-; Week 55/- to 63/-. McFAUL'S; B. 20; Day 10/-; Week 50/- SJ~~YSIDE' B. 8' Day 6/-' Week 35 '_ to ANASCAUL (Kerry). to 60/-. 40/- " ,, BALLYNACALLY C~are). BUNDORAN (Donegal) O'DONNELL'S; B. 6; Day /-; Week 45/-. 1 ARAN ISLANDS (Galway) p~~tmSE VIE\\; B. 4; Day 8 ; Week ATLANTIC' B.21;'Day12/-; Week fr. 73;6. GANLEY'S (Kilronan); B. 12; Day 10/·; BALLYSHANNON (Donegal). A~~~:;'G~~_~ (Private); B. 18; Day 14 /- ; Week 63/-. BA Y VIEW (KUronan); B. 9; Day 7/6; R~ilL; Mam St ; ll. 14; Day 10/- Week CENTltA~': B. .57; Day 17/-; Week 105/-. Week 50/-. BALLYSODARE (Sligo). CONWA\'S (Pnvate); B. 12; Day 11/- to CONNEELY'S (KUmurvey); B. 6; Day 7/­ ,. O' D 7·6t 8·" '" ,"°5/ 12/-; Wcek70-t077/-. S'I;i:li:l ;/_ B. 1, ay , 0 6, "ee.. ~ - GREAT NORTHERN' B. 70; Week 129/6. to 9/-; Week 42'- to 50/-. 40 ST. KEVIN'S (KUronan); B. 12; Day 7/-; BALLYVAUGHAN (Clare). HAMILTON.; B. 34.; Day 20/6; Week 1~5/-. Week 42/·. BR,\Y'S(Prlvate)· B 4' Day8/6' Woek50/- IMPERTAI" B. 14, Day 9/-; Week 60,-. ARDARA (Donegal). -, ,. ,, . MARATHON; B. 20; Day 10/- to 12/- ~ NESBITT ARMS; B. 18; Day lO/G to 15/-: BALTIMORE (Cork). Week 63/- to 77/-. Week 70/- to 105/-. CASTLE HOUS~; 11. 6; Day 8/- to 9 I- ; 1mS. E. DALY (Private), Tourist House; ARDEE (Louth). Week 50/, to !'>O/-. B. 5; Day 9/-' Week 60/-. . BROPHY' ; B. 10: Day 9/6; Week 63./-. BALTINGLASS (Wleklow). MRS. KENNE])y' (Private). 1 Bay View Tee.. RUXTON ARMS; B. 12; Day 10 '-; Week HARBOUR~E'SBRIDGE;B.S; Da}'fr.7/6: B. 14; Day 10/6; Week 63/-. ' 63/-. Week 42/-. O'GOR~lAN'S' B 25' Day 12/6' Week 70'- ARDMORE (Waterford). BANAGHER (Offaly). PAl,ACE; B.'30; Day 13/- to '14/-' Week MELROSE; B. 10; Day fr. 13/6 i.. Week 'Sol/-. SHANNON; n. 12; Day 10/-; Week 50/-. 73/6 to 84/-. ' O'KELLY'S CLmF HOUSE; Jj, 18; Day BANDON (Cork). SHENE HOUSE; B. 14; Day 12/-; Week 77/-. 10/6; Week 63/-. MUNSTER ARM : B. 18; Day 10/6 to 13/·; CAHIR (Tipperary). ARKLOW (Wicklow). Week 63/- to 70/-. KENNEDY'S; B. 10; Day 10/-; Week 63/-, BONNE BOUCHE; B. 7; Day 7/6; Week BANTRY (Cork). CAHIRCIVEEN (Kerry), fr. 42/-. OUVANE,5-/ Rcendesert; B.I0; Day 9/-; Week HARP'' B.,14' Day 9/6',.Week 56/- HOYNES: B. 15: Day 10/-; Week 63[-. O'C?N~ELL'S ASHFORD (Wicklow). VICDK-E' RY'S',.,B 20' Day 15/-',"m eek 84'-,. "eek 70/-. RAILWAY; B.19; Day 12/-; BEL-AIR; B.H; Day 14/6 to 1716; Week BELMULLET (Mayo). CARAGH LAKE (Kerry) fr. 84/-. HEALION'S; B. 10; Day 12/6; Week 84/-. SOUTHERN; n. 33;' Day fr. 12/6' Week ATHENRY (Galway). BETTYSTOWl! (Meat~). .,. r 70/- to 94/6. ' HANBERRY'S; R 11; Day 10/,; Week 60/-. NEPTUNE, B. 16, Day .2,6, "eek 84/-. CARLOW (Carlow) ATHLONE (Westmeath). NORTHLANDS; B, 11; Day 12/6; Week ROYAL Dublin' Street· B 40 Day 15/6', CENTRAL; n. 12; Day 9/-; "" eek 63/-. fr 73/6 " . IMPERIAL i.. B. 15; 1)ay 10/-; Week 60/-. BIRR . (Offaly). Week 94/6. PRINCE Oll' WALES; B. 16; Bed and DOOLEY'S; B. 14; Day 14/·: Weelt 90/-. CARNA (G~!w~y),. . r ' Breakfast fr. 8/6. EGAN'S' B 14' Day 12/-' Week 00'_ MONGAN S. B. 31, Day 18/-, "eek 112,-. ROYAJ,: Bed and Breakfast 6/6. BLACKROCK (Louth) ,' ,. KNOCKBOY HOUSE (Mrs. Betts); 13. 6; ATHY (Kildare). BLACKROCK; B.'80; Day 6/6; Week 45/-. Day 12/- to 15/-; Week 70/- to 84/-. LEINSTER ARMS; B. 12; Day 10/- Week CLAREMOUNT' B 10' Dav 6/6' Week 45/-, CARNDONAGH (Donegal), 70/-. GAELIC; B. 6;' Day 6'/-; \\'eek '42/-. O'DOHERTY'S; .B. 12; Day 13'6; Week AUGHRIM (Wicklow). BLARNEY (Cork). 70/-. ARDEE; B. 9; Day 6.'-; Week 501-. BLARNEY CA TLE' B 10' Week 42/- CARRICK (Donegal). RH_L'S GUEST HOUSE: B. 18; DllY 8/6; BOYLE (Roscommon).' ., . SLIEVE LEAGUE; B. 12; Day 10/-; Week \Yeek fr. 50/-, ROYAL.; B. 31; Day 14/-; Week 80/-. CAR6RIOC'-K' ON SHANNON (L 't . J,AWLESS': B. 18; Day 12/6; Week 63/­ BRAY (Wicklow), -- el rim). AVOCA (Wicklow), ADELPHI (Private); B. 8' Day 8,-' Week BU IT; 11. 20; Da}' fr. 12/-; Week 84'-. VALE VIEW••The Meetlnga; D. 10; Day 10/6 50 /- "CARRIGART (Donegal). to 12/6; 'iveek 50/- to 63/-. BELLA VISTA; B. 10: Day 8/6; Week 55/.. CARRIGART (Maguire's); B. 40; Day fr. AVOCA; B. 10; Day 10;-; Week 63/-. BELMONT; B. 7; Day 9/-; Week fr. 60/-. 12/6; ~eek fr. 73/6. TOURIST; B. 7; Day 6/-; Week 35/-. BRAY HAVEN' B 12' Day 8/-' Week 49/- CASHEL (Tipperary). BALLA (Mayo). BRAY HEAD';.:S. 60.; bay ~7 /6;' W~e~ 105/-: R~rS CENTRAL; B.14; Day 10/-; Week MOELLIN'S; B. 11; Day 13/-; Week 63/-. BALLINA (Mayo). D_M'~:O:~J7.~lvate), B.12, Day 10,-, Week CORCORAN'S; n. 10; Day 10/-; Week 50/-. COmffiRCIAL; B. 12; Day 10 /6; Week DUNALAN;' B. 11; Day 9/- to 10/·' Week CASBEL (Gleneolumbcille. Donegal). 63/-. 63/- to 70/-. 'McNELlS; B. 6; Day 8/-; Week 48/-. HURST'S; Francls St.; B. 25; Day 14/-; ELDRIDGE'S; n. 8; Day 7/6 to 8/6. CASTLEBAR (Mayo). Week 84/-. ENNEL; B. 8; Da}' 8/-. IMPERIAL; B. 20; Day 14/-; Week 84/-. IMPERIAL; B. 30; Day fr. 14/-; Week fr. E PLANADE; B. 40; Day 15/-; Week 84/-. CASTLECOVE, (Kerry)' 84/-. JIlAGLE' B. 17; Day 12/6; Week 63/-. STAIGUE EORT; B. 21; Day l1/-.i.Week 70/-. CAPT. ALDRlDGE'S GUE T HOUSE, Mount F1TZWlLLJAM; B, 13; Day 10/6' Week WESTCOYE; R. 15; Day 9/-; week 56/,. Falcon; Week 84/-. 63/- to 70/- 'CASTLEGREGORY (Kerry), BALLINACLASH (Wicklow). GLENARM; B. 10; Day 10/6; Week 63/-. FITZGERALD'S; B.6; Day 10/·; Week 42/- AVONBEG; B. 16; IJay 12I', HOLYROOD; B. 22; Day 14/·; Week 84/-. to 68/-. BALLINAFAD (Roscommon). KINVARRA; B. 14; Day 10/6; Week 70/-. O'CONNOR'S; B. 6; Day 10/-; Week 60/-. HOJ,LYBROOK; B. 15; Day 13/6; Week MARINE; B. 20; Day 9/- to 10/·; Week fr. CASTLEHILL (Loch Conn, Mayo), 84/- 50/6. ER REW; B. 15; Day 12/-; Week 84/-. 135 IRISH TRAVEL March, 1938

KILLARY BAY SHANGANAGH CASTLE CONNEMARA Hotel and:: :: Leenane Hotel

I.T.A. A.A. R.I.A.C. Restaurant The Hotel overlooks Killary Bay and is in the centre of the finest FIRST-CLASS CATERING. fULLY LICENSED Connemara Scenery. Garages. Motors for Hire. Excellent Batbroom SUites, Garage, Moderate Tariff Salmon and Sea Trout Fishing on the Kylemore Castle Waters ON MAIN BUS ROUTE (rights on three lakes, the Dublin. 10 miles. Bray. 2 miles Dawros River and famous Rock Pool: also on Loughs Fee, Muck SEA BATHING, GOLF. THREE TENNIS COURTS and Culfin River). FREE BROWN TROUT FISHING. GOOD CENTRE A number of attractive Chalets will FOR MAYFLY ON LOUGHS CORRIB AND MASK. PIKE FISmNG. SEA FISHING. be available for letting in June Telegrams: Pbone: McKEOWN. LEENANE. LEENANE 1. TELEPHONE: SHANKILL 81

DUBLIN Hotel Carlisle I The DUN LAOGHAIRE (Kingstown) Gresham Hotel Established Entir~I~::built 1817 IRELAND'S :: Select Hotel and :: NEWEST and MOST BEAUTI FU L Private Board Residence HOTEL: EVERY MODERN LUXURY

Winter Garden Central Heating Situated over Ballroom Telephone and EAST PIER and DUN LAOGHAIRE (Kingstown) Suites with Hot and Cold Running Water HARBOUR Private Bathrooms in every Bedroom Restaurant. Grill Room and Tea Lounge Two Minutes from Spacious Reading Room MAIL STEAMERS, BATHS, CHURCHES, MODERATE CHARGES TRAINS, Etc.

Telephone: Telegrams: For particulars apply: Dublin 71371 (6 lines) Gresham. Dublin PROPRIETRESS. IRISH TRAVEL March. 1938

DUBLIN CITY. DUNDALK (Lonth). (See also Mount Pleasant.) CASTLETOWNSHEND (Cork). ABBOTSFORD (Private). Harcourt St.; B. IMPERIAL; B. 26; Day 11/6; Week 70/-. CASTLETOWNSHEND GUEST HOUSE; B. 30; Day 9/-; Week 63/-. WILLL

IRISH TRAVEL March, 1938

SOME RECENT ADDITIONS to the number of Hotels and Restaurants in Eire that have installed All-Electric Kitchens:- Capitol Restaurant, Dublin. Eimear Restaurant, Clanbrassit Street. International Hotel, Greystones. Co. Dundalk. Inchydoney Hotel. Clonakilty. Wicklow. The Corkbeg Hydro. Cobh. Co. Cork. Milk Bars. Ltd., Patrick Street, Cork. The Cahir House Hotel. Cahir.

Additions to their electrical equipment have been made by:- Victoria Hotel, Cork. Shanganagh Castle Hotel. Shankill. Co. Lydon's Cafe, Galway. Dublin. Swiss Chalet Cafe, Merrion Row, Dublin. Westenra Arms Hotel. Monaghan. Imperial Hotel, Dundalk. Royal Hotel. Roscommon. The Square Restaurant. Dundalk. Warwick Hotel. Salthill. Galway. Egan's Restaurant and Cafe. Portlaoighise. Imperial Hotel. Castlebar. Breen's Bridge Hotel. Waterford. Moylett's Restaurant. Ballina. McConnon's Gaelic Hotel, Blackrock. Central Hotel. Roscrea. Dundalk. Oriel Hotel. Monaghan. Eglinton Hotel. Salthill. Galway. Elite Cafe. O'Connell Street. Dublin. Colburn Cafe. Marlboro' Street. Dublin. Glynn's Commercial Hotel. Gort. The Country Tea Shop, Waterford. Muckross Hotel, Killarney. O'Donovan's Commercial Hotel. Clona- Hayes' Hotel. Thurles. kitty, Co. Cork. Munster Hotel, Cork. Grand Hotel. Sligo. Kinvara Hotel. Bray.

The All-Electric Kitchen is p~culiarly suitable in hotels and restaurants. Electrical equipment is designed to m~et, with th~ gr~atest economy of fuel, the fluctuating demand that is insepar­ able from catering for the public. Exact temperature control ensures uniform cooking results. The cleanliness and convenience of electrical equipment reduce work and expenses. Actual fuel costs are very low and incidental economies are appreciable. The standard of cooking is very high, since electric cooking preserves food values and enhances the flavour and appearance of cooked food. OUR EXPERTS have a wide experience of hotel and restaurant installations. They will be happy to give advice and assistance free of charge or obligation. ELECTRICITY SUPPLY BOARD CONSUMERS' DEPARTMENT, 37 MERRION SQUARE, DUBLIN. Phone 62791

- March. 1938 IRISH TRAVEL

O'NEILL'S; B. 24; Day 9/-' Week 50/-. LANSDOWNE ARMS; B. 32; Day 10/6; GLENTWORTH, Glentworth St.: B. 40: Day ROYAL, Eyre Square; B. 60; Day 16/-; Week Week 60/-. 14/6; Week 90/-. 84/-. RANDLE'S (Private); B. 16; Day 7/6; Week HANRATTY'S, Glentworth St.: B. 20; Day WESTERN! Prospect Hill; B. 16; Day 8/-; 50/-. 10/- to 11/6: Week 70/-. Week 42 - to 66/-. O'SULLIVAN'S; B. 13; Day fr. 7/6; Week IJI1PERIAI,; B. 12: Day 10/6; Week 63/-. GARRETSTOWN STRAND (Cork). fr. 50/-. MCCARTHY'S, CecU St.; B. 10; Dr.y 9/-: ATLA TIC: B. H; Day 10/-; Week 60/-. KILBEGGAN (Westmeath). Week 63/-. O'NEILL'S; B. 24; Day 12/6; Week 63/-. VOLUNTEER (Buckley's); B. 12; Day 10/-; NATIONAL, O'ConneD St.: B. 12; Day 10/6: Week 42/-. Week 63/-. GLANDORE (Cork). KILDARE (Kildare). RAILWAY, Parnell St.; B. 25; Day 12/-: KILFINNAN CASTLE; B. 12; Week 73/6 RAILWAY; B. 16; Day 12/6. Week 70/-. to 106/-. KILDYSART (Clare). FITZPATRICK'S (Private). MARINE; B. 10; Day 9/-; Week 60/-. MoMAHON'S; B. 8; Day 8/6; Week 50/-. LIMERICK JUNCTION (Tipperary). TRAVER'S; B.9; Day 12/6; Week 63/- to KILGARVAN (Kerry), RYAN'S; B. 16. 70/-. CLO TOOHOUSE; Day 10/-; Wk. 45/-to 50/-. LISDOONVARNA (Clare). GLENEALY (Wicklow). KILKEE (Clare). IMPERIAL; B. 60; Day 16/6: Week 94/6. JOLLEY'S; B. 16; Week fr. 63/-. BURCRETT'S, Westellfl'.i R. 10; Day 10/6 to LYNCH'S; B.37; Day 10/-; Week 63/-to70/-. GLEN 0' THE DOWNS (Wicklow). 12/6' Week 63/- to 7u/-. SPA: B. 40; Day 14/-; Week 84/-. GI,EN VIEW; B. 10; Day fr. 12/-: Week ROYAt MARINE; B. 60; Day 10/- to 16/-: LISTOWEL (Keny). fr. 72/6. Week 63/- to 90/-. LISTOWEL ARMS,' 13.20; Day 12/6 to 15/-; SILVER SPRINGS; B. 11; Day 20/-; Week PURTILL'S; B. 12; Day 8/6 to 10/-; Week Week 84/· to 90 -. 84/-. 45/- to 60:-. CENTRAL (Galvin's); B. 8; Day9/6; Wk.42/-. GLENBEIGH (Keny). STELT,A MARIS; B. 20; Day 11/-; Week LOUISBURGH (Mayc). EVANS': R. 18; Day 10/6; Week 63/-. fr. 70/-. MoDERMOTT'S; B. 13; Day 8/6; Week THE HOTEL (Fitzl(erald's); B. 24; Day fr. WEST END; B. 30; Day 10/- to 12/-; Week 50/- to 63/-. 11/6; Week fr. 73/6. 42/- to 80/-. OLD HEAD: B. 12: Day 16/6: Week 105/-. ROSS VIEW; B. 20; Day 9/-: Week 66/-. KILKENNY (Kilkenuy). LOUGHREA (Galway). GLENCAR (Kerry). YETROPOLE: B. 18: Bed and Breakfast 6/6. CENTRAL; B. 11; Week 35/- to 42/-. GLRNCAR; D.16: Day 10/6; Week70f-, CLUB HOUSE HOTEL; B. 20; Bed and COMMERCIAL; B. 10; Day 9/-; Week 50/-. J,lCKEEN HOUSE: B. 7: Day 10/6: Wk 70/-. Breakfast 7/-. LUCAN (Dublin). GLENDALOUGH (Wicklow), KILLALOE (Clare).! I NATIONAL SPA AND HYDRO: B. 64; Day ROYAl,: R. 26; Week 63/-_ LAKESIDE ; B. 8; Day 12,- to 15/-; Week fr. 15/-; Week fr. 105/·. GLENGARRIFF (Cork). 70/- to 84/-. MAAM CROSS (Galway). CASEY'S; B. 16; Day 10/-: Week 63/-. KILLARNEY (Keny). PEACOCK'S; B.1I; Day 12/·: Week 84/ JJ:CCLES'; B.60.1 Day 20/-: Week fr. 106/-. ALEXANDRA' B. 10; Day 10/-: Week 42/-. TULI,AROY HOUSE; R. 7; Week 63f", GOI,Y LINKS: 1>. 20; Week 80/-. ARBUTUS, Cohege St.; B. 28; Day 12/6; MACROOM (Cork). MOUNTAIN VIEW HOUSE; B. 6; Day 7i- Week 75/-. VICTO RIA; B. 10. to 8/-; Week 42/- to 50/-. COUNTRY' CLl:B HOTEL; B. 10; Day MALIN HEAD (Donegal). PERRIN (private Hotel); B. 10; Day 9/-; 21/-; Week 105/- to 147/-. CROSS ROAD; B. 13; Day 14/·; Week 63/·. Week 50/-. DUNLOE, College Square; B. 15: Day 10/-: MALLARANNY (Mayo). POUI,GORM (Harvey's); B. 18: Day 10/-; Week 63:-. GREAT SOUTHERN: B. 44: Day fr. 20/-; Week 60/-. OI,EBE; B. 5~ Day 15/-; Week 1$4/-. Week 126/-. nOCHE'S' B. 46; Day fr. 16/-. GREAT SOUTJ:lERN; B. 79; Day fr. 21/-; MORAN'S; B.H; Day O,-to 10/-; Week 60/., GLENMALURE . 15; Day 8/6; Week 50/-. ROYAL: B. 16; Day 12/6; Week 63/- to LARAGH (Annamoe, icklow). MULLINGAR (Westmeath). 73/6. LARAGH ROUSE; 13. 27; Day fr.' 16/-; CENTRAL' B.12; Day 9/-; Week 63/·. ST. LAWltENCE; B. 40; Day fr. 12/6; Week Week 94/6. GREVILLE ARMS; B.14; Day 14/-; WeckS4/· 84/- to 94/6. LAYTOWN (Meath). MULLAGBMORE (Cliffoney, Co. Sligo). WAVERLEY (SummIt); B. 28; Week 65/­ A~r~~NO ROUSE; B. 15; Day 12/6; Week HANNON'S; B. 27; Day 12/6; Week 70;­ to 75/-. MURRISK (Westport). INCB (AnaacauJ, Keny). LEAP (Cork). CROAGH PATRICK (~furrlsk); B. 9; Day S05~7.Ht~~~i_.B. 10; Day 8/- to 11/-; Week SHEAHAN'S; B.9; Day 9/-; Week 50:-. 8/6 to 10/-; Week 50/- to 60/-. LEENANE (Galway). NAAS (Kildare). STRAND; B. 11; Day 9/-; Week 60/-. LEENANE; B. 40; Day 17/-; Week 94/6. NAS-NA·RIOG; B. 8; Day 13,1-. INCWGEELA (Cork). LETTERFRACK (Galway). TIM1tUNS; B. 6; Day 12/-; Week 50/-. LAKE; B. 8; Week fr. 50/-. O'GRADY'S; R. 14; Week 63/-. NAVAN (Meath). INNISCRONE (Sligo). See ENNISCRONE. LETTERKENNY (Donegal). OENTRAL; B. 14; Day 9/6. INVER (Donegal). CENTRAL B. 12; Day 10/-; Week 63/-. NE AGH (Tipperary) DRUMBEIl; n. 24; Day 14/-; Week 73/6 GALLAGHER'S (Temperance); B. 12; Day CARMEL: B. 14; Day 10/-; Weel<, 63/-. to 84/-. 10/-; Week fr. 50/-. HIBERNIAN; B. 15; Day 10/-; Week 70/­ KEALKIL (Bantry). McCARRY'S; B. 10; Day 12/-; Week 63/-. to 84/-. RURI,EY'~ B. 12; Day 8/-; Week 66/-. LIMERICK (Limerick). O'YEARA'S: B. 24; Day 11 /6. KENMARE (.Il.eny). CRUISE'S, O'Connell St.; B. 50; Day 18/-; NEWCASTLEWEST (Limerick). DUNKERRON CASTLE (Guest House); B. 9 : Week 105/-. CENTRAL; B. 10: Day 10/-; Week 60/-. Week 84/- to 100/-. DESMOND: B. 20' Day 12/6' Week 80/-. NEWTOWNMOUNTKENNEDY (Co Wicklow). GREAT SOUTHERN: B. 26: Day fr. 16/-: GEORGE (ROYAL~ O'Conncn St.: B. e3; BALLYRONAN HOUSE; B. 6; Day 7/ft: Week 105/-. Day 16/6; Week 154/- to 105/-. Week 42/-. 139 IRISH TRAVEL March, 1938

NEWPORT (Mayo). ROSSNOWLAGH (Donegal). DE LTlXE; B. 12; Day 12/-; Week fr. 70/-. DEVINE'S i..B. 5; Day 10/-; Week 70/-. COOLMORE HOUSE; B.8;Dayl0/6; Wk.55/- MAJESTIC; B. 24; Day fr. 15/-; Week fr. NEW ROSS (weJ:ford). ROUNDSTONE (Galway). 84/-. ROYAL; R. 18; Day 16/-; Week 100/- to KlNTON'S; B. 7; 16/-; Week 70/-. MURPHY'S ATLANTIO; B. 25; Day 10/-; 1l0/-. O'DOWD'S; D9.Y 10.1-; Week 70/-. Week 70/-. GLOBE; D. 10; Day 7/6; Week 50 f-. SHAMROCK; B. 10; Day 10/-; Week 60,-. SHALLOE'S ATLANTIC; B. 18; Day fr. 10/6; OMEATH (Louth). ROUND WOOD (Wicklow). Week fr. 60/-. GRAND CENTRAL; B. 14; Day 10/6; Week KEENAN'S; B. 7; Day 7/6; Week 42/-. WESTCLlFF GUEST HOUSE; R. 11; Day 70/-. SALTHlLL (Galway). 9/6 to 10/6' Week 42/- to 63/-. STRAND; B. 14; Day 8/-; Week 50/-. EGLINTON: B. 52; Day 16/-; Week 94,6. OUGHTERARD (Galway). CLARENCE (Private); .8.14; Week fr. 50/-. lUNCORA; R16; Day 10/-; Week 63/-t070/-. TRIM (Meath). ANGLERS'; B. 15; Day ]2/- to U/-; Week ~TELLA MARIS; B. 21; Day 10/- to ]2/-; 84/-. Week 63/- to 70/-. CENTRAJ,; B. 12; Day 9!-; Week 50/-. CORRlB (late Railway); B. 20; Day 12/- to BANDA (Miss Geraghty's); B. 22; Day 10/· to RAILWAY; B. ll; Day 8/-; Week fr. 35/­ 18/-; Week 84/- to 126/-. 14/-; Week 60/- to 70/-. TUAM (Galway). LOUGH CORRlB; B. 10; Day 12/-; Week ROCKLAND; B. 20; Day 15/- to 17/6; Week CORA: Day 12/-; Week fr. 70/-. 70/- to 84/-. fr. 84,-. TULLAMORE (Offaly). OUGHTERARD HOUSE; B. 8; Day 14/- to RElLLY'S. BOLGER'S; B. 18; Day 8/6 to 10/-; Week ]6'-' Week 84/- to 105/-. SUMMER-SET; D. 13; Day 10/- to 12 j- ; 50/- to 63 I-. PORTAcARRON LODGE (Guest House); OIl. Week 60/- to 70/-. HAYES'; B. 21; Day 9/- to 12/-; Week 63/­ 9; Day 13/6' Week 73/6. TOURISTS'; B. 16; Day 10/- to 12/-; Week to 84/-. PARKNASILLA (keny). 50/- to 60/-. TULLOW (Carlow). GREAT SOUTHERN; D. 70; Day fr. 21/-. WARWICK; B. 32; Day 15/-; Week fr. 84/-. PETTIGO (Donegal). SLANEY; B. 9; Day 10/-: Week 60/-. WARD'S (Private); B. 18; Day fr. 8/6; URLINGFORD (KIlkenny). FLOOD'S; B. ll; Day fr. 9/-. Week 00/- to 70/-. PORTARLINGTON (Lacighis). HARRINGTON'S; B. 9; Day 8/6; Week SHANKILL (Co. Dublin). 42/-. O'CONNOR'S i. B. 9; Day 10/-; Week 50/·. CASTLE; B. 12; Day 17/6; Week 84/-. PORTLAOIGBlSJ!J (LaOlgbls). SKERRIES (Dublin). VALENTIA ISLAND (Kerry). AIRD'S CENTRAL; B. 25; Day 12/-; Week GRAND i.. B. IS; Day fr. 12/-; Week fr. 75/-. ROYAL; B. 32; Day 12/-; Week 70/-. fr. 70,-. ROCKVILLE HOUSE; R. 7; Day 10/6; WATERFORD (Waterford). HlBERNIAN (Kelly's); B. 17; Day 12/- ; Week 63/-. ADELPHI; B. 25; Day 12/6 ; Week 68/-. Week 70/-. MARINE; R.12: Day 10/6; Week fr. 63/-. BANDORA HOUSE; B. 8; Day 6/-; Week PORTMARNOCK (Dublin). VAN AALST'S GUEST HOUSE; B. 12; Day 32/-. PORTMARNOCK; B. 20; Day 15/-; Week 84/­ 10/-: Week 50/-. GRANVIJ.LE i.... B. 68; Day 14/-: Week 94/8. PORTNOO (Donegal). SXIBBEREE~ (Cork). IMPERIAL; li. 40; Bed and Breakfast 7/6; THE PORTNOO; B. 20; Day 14/-; Week fr. ELDON; :B. 15; Day 12/6: Week 80/-. Week fr. 94/6. 70/- to 84/-. SLANE (Meath). METROPOLE; B. 16; Day 10/6; Week 63/-. PORTSALON (Donegal). CONYNGHAM ARMS; B. 10; Day 9/6; WATERVlLLE (Kerry). PORTSALON; B. 70; Day 18/-; Week 126/-. Week 42/-. PORTUlIIlNA (Galway). RAYVIEW; B. 87 i.... Day 12/6; Week 70/-. SLIGO (Sligo). B UTLER ARM~.i li. 63; Day 12/6 to 15/-; CI,ONWYN; B. 17; Day 12/6; Week 73/6. GRAND' B. 34; Day 14/6' Week 95/-. Week 70/- to 00/-. THE HYDRO; B. 6; Day 9!6; Week 55/-. GREAT SOUTHERN b' B. 46/. Day fr. 17/6. FOLErS; B. 17; Day 9/-; Week 56/-. RAllIELTON (Donegal). iMPERIAL; :B. 25; ay 18 6; Week 94;8. SOUTHERN LAKE; B. 83: Day 12/6; Week STEWAR'IAR?tl8; B.12; DayI5/-; Week 84/-. RAMSAY'S; B. 12; Day 11/-. 70/- 84/·. RATHDRUM (Wicklow). to SNEEM (Kerry). WESTPORT (Mayo). BARRY'S; B. 18; Day fr. 8,-; Week 55;-. THE HOTEL; B. 12; Day 10/-; Week 50/-. BRIDGE HOL"SE; B. 5; Day 7/6: Week 42/-. BATH (Roman Island); R. 9; Day 8/6 to 0/6; SPA.(Tralee). Week 52/6 to 58/-. RATHMULLAN (Donegal). KENT LODGE; B. -I.; Day 9/-; Week 50/-. PIER; :B. 12; Day 12/-; Week 70/-. CLEW BAY; n. 9; Day 10/-; Week fr. 50/-. SPANISH POINT (Clare). RAILWAY; B. 30: Day 15/-; Week 90/-. RATHNEW (Wicklow). THE BILLOWS; B. 10; Day 10/-; Week NEWRATH BRIDGE (Hunter'e); B. 15; Day 50/-. WEXFORD (Wexford). 12/6; Week 75/-. STRANDHlLL (Sligo). CLANCY'S; B. 14 i.... Day 10/- i..Week 63/-. RENVYLE (Connemara). STAR OF THE SEA; B. 25; Day 9/-; Week TALBOT; B. 30; Hay 10/-; week 63/-. RENVYLE HOUSE; B. 42; Day fr. 2] /- ; 45/-. WHITE'S; B. 60; Week fr. 84/-. Week 147/-. ST. PATRICK'S; B. 14; Day 9/-; Week 45/-. WBlTEGATE (Cork). ROSAPENNA (Donegal). STRANORLAR (Donegal). CORKBEG HOTEL HYDRO; B. 12; Day ROSAPENNA; B. 84; Day fr. 20/-. KEE'S; B. 12; Day 10/-; Week 45/-. ]5/-; Week 105/-. ROSBEG (Donegal). WICKLOW. DAWROSBAY; B.20; Day 1./t!, Week68/-. SWINFORD (Mayo). O'CONNOR'S; B. 19; Day 10/-; Week 55/-. MARINE; B. 18; Day 7/6; Week 40/-. ROSCOMMON (Roscommon). WOODENBRIDGE (Wicklow). GREALY'S; B.17; Day 15/-; Week 45/- to 70/­ TEMPLEMORE (Tipperary). WOODEN13RIDGE; B. 14; Day 14/-; Week ROYAL; B. 23; Day 14/-; Week 75/-. mCKEY'S; B. 14; Day 10f-; Week 49/-. 84/-. ROSCREA (Tipperary). THOMASTOWN. VALLEY; B. 14; Day 9/-; Week 63/-. CENTRAL: B. 14; Day 11/6; Week 70/-. NORE VIEW; B. ; Day ; Week PORTARLINGTON ARMS; B. ll; Day 10/6; YOUGHAL (Cork). Week 60/-. THURLES (Tipperary). ATLANTIC i... B. 20; Day 13/6i Week 84/·. ROSLEA (Easkey). HAYES': ]3.45; Day 14/-; Week 84/-. DEVONSHI.ltE ARMS; B. Ill; Day 13/-; KENNY'S .. Hotel Seafteld"; B. 14; Day TINAHELY (Wicklow). Week 84/-. ]0/-: -Week 42/-. MURPHY'S; B. 7; Day 8/0; Week 40/·. ESPJ,ANADE k'B. 16; Day 12/6; Week 78/8. ROSSBEIGH (Kerry). TIPPERARY (Tipperary). GREEN PAR ; B. 45; Day 14/-; Week SLIEVE CORRIG; B. 9; Day 7/6 to 0/-; DOBBYN'S. Bank Place; B. 20; Day 12/6 to 84/-. Week 52/6 to 63/-. ]4/-' Week 70/-. MONATREA; B. 20; Day 12/-' Week 84/-. ROSSES POINT (Sligo). ROYAt, Bridge Street; B. 19; Day 16 f6; PAf'H'IC; B. W; Day fr. 10/6; 'Veek fr. 70/-. GOLF LINKS; B. 1~ Day 14/-; Week 84/­ Wrek 841-. ROSSLARE STRAND (weJ:ford). TRALEE (Kerry). Private Hoter.. CEDARS (Private); B.16; Day 9/-; Week 50/·. BENNER'S; B. 40; Day 16/6' Week 84/-. AVONMORE.; Day 9/-; Week 50/- to 631-. ETCHINGHAM'S; D.13; Day 9/-; Wcek42/­ GRAND; D. 40; Day 15/-; Week 90 le. HARBOUR viEW; :8. 12; Day 9/-; Week to 60/-. IMPERIAL; B. 15' Day 9/-; Week 50/-. 60/-. GOLF; B. 80' Day 11/-; Week 70/-. MEADOWLANDS iNN (Mrs. Peet); B. 12; PARK VIEW; B. 18; Day 10/-; Week 63/-. HARBOUR VIEW; B.8; DayO/-; Week40.'· Day 10/6; Week 63/-. STELLA MAUlS; B. 12; Day 9/-; Week fr. to 50/-. TRAMORE (Waterford). 50 '-. STRAND; B. 40: Day fr. 13/6; Week fr. 84/-. GRAND; B. 55' Week 84/- to 126/-. SUNMOUNT; B. 26. ROSSLARE HARBOUR (WeJ:ford). IDBERNIAN; B. 20; Day fr. 9/-; Week fr. UMMERFlELD; B. 10; Week 55/-. PIER i B. 10; Day 12/6; ,>\" eek 63/-. 60/- AVONDHU HOUSE', B 8

TRINITY STREET, MOIRA HOTEL, DUBLIN. ABBOTSFORD HOTEL, RESTAURANT OPEN SUNDAYS. 72 HARCOURT STREET, DUBLIN. GRILL ROOM. RESTAURANT. BAR BUFFET. OYSTER BAR. Centrally situated, convenient to all places of Interest. Good SMOKE LOUNGE. A la Carte and Table d'Hole Meall. catering. Bedroom&, large, bright and airy, with hot and cold BED AND TABLE D'HOTE BREAKFAST, 7/6. running water In each bedroom. Telephone 44559. BED AND BREAKFAST. 8/- PULL WEEKLY TARIn', 83/-. Owned and MAnaged by JURY'S HOTEL, LTD. Resident Proprietress. Garage.

Dublin. NORTH STAR HOTEL, A~::a~eS;af.:.T, TerminDJ. HOTEL PELLETIER, Fu11J Licensed. 60 Bedrooms. Most Central Position. 21-22 HARCOURT STREET, DUBLIN. I OOMFORT. RESTAURANT. Telephone LEANLlNESS. COFFEE ROOM. 45343. VERY CENTRAL POSITION. GARAGE. TERMS MODERATE IVlLlTY. SMOKING LOUNGE. HOT AND COLD WATER Ilf ROOMS. ELECTRIO FIRES A la Carte and Table d'Hote MeaIJ. Realaurant Open on Snndayll. For TarI1J apply Manaller. Telegram,: .. NORSTAR, DUBLIN," Phone 61520. ..d3'p11l to tM p,opriarell. 14° March, ]938 IRISH TRAVEL IRELAND'S ~ · lJ~ares PRINCIPAL HEALTH and PLEASURE 0~CllrSIO 10 RESORTS; G 0 L FIN G, ANGLING, BOATING, etc., DISTRICTS - ARE REACHED BY- U.s. A~ Canada ALLOWING SINGLE FARE & HALF THE GREAT NORTHERN 2i TO 28 DAYS' STAY from £27 return Enjoy the thrill of a 6,000 miles trip RAILWAY to the New World ... the ocean voyage in a giant liner will be a (IRELAND) refreshing and exhilarating change ..• wonderfnl new tours from 13 days for the complete trip •.. excursion fares by all types BUNDORAN- of Cunard White StAr liners ... Including 'Britaln's masterpiece, CO. Donegal, lapped by the blue waters of the R.M.S. .. QUEEN MARY" ... Atlantic. Famous as a Health and Pleasure April 11 to 24, June 13 to July 10 inclusive ... tourjs~ or third Resort.------class.

ROSAPENNA & PORTSALON- U'rite for falde" to your local agent, or Donegal HigWands, situated amidst scenery Cu"ard While Slar, Lld., Dttbli", Cobh, Liver~ool. of unsurpassed beauty. WARRENPOINT, ROSTREVOR & Cuoard While Slar NEWCASTLE - THE MOURNE DISTRICT. Mountain, Lough, Woodland, and Sea. Particularly interesting to the geologist, botanist, and nature lover.------DROGHEDA- THIS YEAR'S RESOLVE! For the picturesque Boyne Valley, so inti­ mately associated with the early history of Ireland. ENNISKILLEN - For Lough Erne-" The Killamey of the North." PORTRUSH & PORTSTEWART- Invigorating Health-Giant's Causeway­ Dunluce-The country of the MacDonnells. Become a registered reader of "Irish Travel." When you have finished with your copy, send HOTELS it to a friend abroad. .. He will love it. MANAGED BY THE COMPANY AT BUNDORAN, GREENORE Subscription :-5/- per annum and ROSTREVOR Post Free to any part of the world Guides, etc., can be obtained from the Traffic Manager, Belfast; District Superintendent, Forward your 5/-, to begin in any month, to Amiens Street Station, Dublin, or Principal Tourist Agencies. The Irish Tou rist Association J. B. STEPHENS, Gtmeral Manager. O'CONNELL STREET, DUBLIN - --~---

IRISH TRAVEL March, 1938 IRELAND for Happy Holidays BEAUTY - SPORT - HISTORY - ROMANCE

You may travel by any ot the RESORTS SERVED BY following steamship routes: GREAT SOUTHERN HOLYHEAD - KINGSTOWN RAILWAYS ACHILL . ARKLOW . AVOCA . ATHLO E

LIVERPOOL - DUBLIN BALLINA· BRAY, BANTRY . BALLYBUNIO T BALLYVAUGHAN . BLARNEY . BUNDORAN FISHGUARD ROSSLARE CASHEL . CARAGH LAKE . CASTLECON ELL CASTLEGREGORY . CLONAKILTY CORK FISHGUARD - WATERFORD COB H COURTMACSHERRY CLIFDEN FISHGUARD - CORK CON. EMARA . CLO MEL . DUN LAOGHAIRE DALKEY . DU MORE, DUNGARVAN . DINGLE By whichever route you travel you are sure of FOYNES GLENBEIGH (for Rossbeigh Strand) GREYSTONES GLENDALOUGH a fast, comfortable journey by modern turbine GLENGARRIFF GAL WAY KILLI EY steamers. Luxurious express trains connect the KEN ~ ARE KILLARNEY KILLALOE Ports of both HOLYHEAD and FISHGUARD KILKEE LIMERICK LAHI CH with all the important centres of population and LISDOONVAR-NA MALLARANNY industry and the Holiday Resorts of Great MULLINGAR· MILTOWN MALBAY PARKNASILLA' ROSSLARE . SCHULL . SLIGO Britain. The trains of the Great Southern TRAMORE V ALE CIA WESTrORT Railways Company connect with the steamers. WICKLOW . WOODJj: BR~DGE . YOUGHAL HOTELS OF DISTINCTION Under Great Southern Railways' Management These Hotels are replete with every comfort, and are beautifully situated 'midst the gorgeous scenery of the South and West. The Tariffs are moderate. Combined Rail and Hotel Tickets issued. THE RAILWAY CHAIN OF HOTELS KILLARNEY . PARKNASILLA . KENMARE . GALWAY . MALLARANNY • SLIGO

IUustraled Guid.. to Holuu.y Ruortl, ProgramTM of Tou" and Information ...puling pa"enqer ,eroicu can ~ had on appliJ:alion tu: Abm. Altham, Ltd. Burnley . The American Express Company's Offices . J. Barter & Sons, Cork . Thos. Cook & Son's Offices. Dean & Dawson's bffices . Fmmes' Offices. . Great Southern Railways Information Bureau, 33 Baehelor's Walk, Dublin . Great Wpstern Railway, Paddington, London . G. Heffernan 21 South Mall, Cork . Hewett's Office, D'Olier Street Dublin . Irish Tourist Association, O'ConneIl Street, Dublin . Tbe Irish Travel Agency, 8 D'Oller Street, Dublin . M. K. KendaIl, Ltd., 14 Eldon Street London, E.C. . General Traffic Manager, Associated British and Irish Railways,)nc., 9 RocketeIler Plaza, 14 West 49th Street, New York . London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Euston, London . Wm. tt. Muller & Coy. (London), Ltd. Greener House 66·68 Haymarket, London, S.W.I. . Picktords', Ltd.• Offices . The Polytechnic Touring Association, 309 Regent Street, London,.N.W.l. L. R. Stanton, Olrlham . Travellers, Limited, 46 Cro88 Street Manchester, and 41 Temple Row. Birmingham . Traffic manager, Kingsbri

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