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§I'IItlltllllll"IIIIIIIHltltllllltlllllllllllllllllllll111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111'1111111' SPEND CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR AT THE Wr~s~am 11·(ot~l j!)ubtin whue fhe /o/lol£ing Special A rrangemcnls "aoe b~cn made for your En le r 1a i n men 1 SATURDAY, 23rd DECEMBER-Dancing 8 p.m. to 12 o'clock. SUNDAY, 24th DECEMBER-Orchestra in the Lounge. BANK OF IRELAND CHRISTMAS DAY, 25th DECEMBER - Orchestral Entertainment in the Lounge. Yuletide Dinner p ESTABLISHED 1783 7 p.m. Entertainment to (ollow. ST. STEPHEN'S DAY, 26th DECEMBER-Following Leopardstown Races. Galo. Supper Dance and Entertainment 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. FACILITIES FOR TRAVELLERS FRIDAY, 29th DECEMBER-Ward Union Hunt Ball 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. AT SUNDAY, 31st DECEMBER-New Year's Eve Grand Gala Supper Dance and Entertainment. Dancing 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. i Head Office: COLLEGE GREEN, DUBLIN Dancing to THE GRESHAM HOTEL ORCHESTRA BELFAST CORK .. DERRY conducted by Jimmie Masson. Evening Dress essential at all Dances. AND 100 TOWNS THROUGHOUT IRELAND Terms: inclusive 0/ all Meals. Dances and FeslilJities (excepting Ward Union Hunl Ball and New Year's Eve Donce), for slay 0/ not I le" than four (4) dog,. From 351- DailJl EVERY DESCRIPTION OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE Visitors are requested to make their reservations early BUSINESS TRANSACTED to avoid disappointment. PHONE 71371-6. ~'IIIIIIIIIItIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'IIIIIIIIIII'1111111111 111111111111111111111111111111111111'1111111111111'1111I111I11 I "You can always depend on GOOD FOOD here" Unrivalled for Cuisine and Service For the majority of g'uests g-ood food is synonymous with a good hotel or restaurant, and once you acquire a nam,:: for g'ood food service, Superb Cuisine makes the Clarence menus your establishment will be filled to capacity. Up-ta-date Kitchen unrivalled and appetisine,. The service, too, equipment enables you to prepare food rapidly and serve it hot and properly cooked. \Vhen in need of kitchen equipment or utensils, send which is prompt and courteous. will please the us your enquiries. Ple;lse note our new address, to which we have most exacting patrons. 'Phone 76178 transferred our Kitchen Equipment Department from Capel Street. NEW KITCHEN SHOW. 7he CLARENCE HOTEL Dublin ROOMS: 5/ DAWSON EVANS LTD. STREET. DUBLIN _O·Keeffe·s••••••••••••••••••••• ---. IRISH TRAV'El Official Organ of t~~ "]ris~ 'Gourlst Association an~ of t~~ "]rls~ '1'fotds '7~~~ration VOL. XX. DECEMBER. 1944 No. 3 NOTES AND NEWS (!:~rlstmas. t 944 LAND .AND SCENERY. For too many millions of people now in other A correspondent t::B us- if, usually, the scenic countries Christmas has been regions in Ireland re also the best agriculturally. for five years in eclipse and That is a question for experts, but we do not always celebrations and festivities associate scenic values with land values in terms of few and scant. All the more agriculture. Perhaps a study of land sales will give rea son, therefore. to be the best clues. Meanwhile, we are not likely to find grateful for the continuing anywhere in Ireland seven farm acres like those in good fortune that attends us the Lincolnshire loam country which sold for £430 here and allows us to" in an acre the other day. dulge in the joys of the season. So to all our readers DANIEL O'CONNELL ON THE STAGE. and contributors we say: 110'Otd15 r~ Ri-Bonds 'OiD. The most argued-about figure in the Irish history of the last 100 years has, curiously enough, been the least dramatised. Nor has the aspect of Daniel MR. de VALERA, MOUNTAINEER. O'Connell as a great traveller within Ireland been Mr. de Valera, who was a strong footballer and stressed. So" King Dan," a play by Aodh de athlete in the days before destiny called him to larger Blacam, with Archbishop Murray, Thomas Davis, issues, resumed for a few hours recently his former the Duke of Wellington, amongst the celebrated role. Taking advantage of an engagement at Sligo, names portrayed, will be an event of the month at he climbed to the top of Knocknarea for that grand the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. View which takes in the Donegal coast and mountains as well as Nephin and even Croagh Patrick in Mayo. CARAVAN CLUB (IRISH CENTRE). Only a couple of hundred feet higher than Bray Head, and with good going all the way, it is The Irish Centre of the Caravan Club of Great surprising that so few visitors to Sligo make the easy Britain and Ireland is a paradox. Founded here in climb of Knocknarea. 1940, it has everything except the caravans, or, rather, the power to move them. The Annual General Meeting, to be held in the Central Hotel. SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Dublin, on December 2nd, will show, however, that The return of the road-signs is a pointer towards prospects are good and only await the relaxation of better times ahead, though it won't be .. all clear" at restrictions for a real advance by the Irish Centre in once on the roads or any other way when the war is • me?1be~~hip and"activity. The Hon. Sec. is Mr. J. over. It's an easier world for the traveller since the Irvme, Kenore, Fortfield Road, Terenure, Dublin. Cyclists' Touring Club put up their hill-warnings as a first step. The A.A. followed with their road signs just before 1914 and made a good job of it here, as the fine marking for 260 miles from Cork to Belfast proved. THE LORD MAYOR OF CORK. In our report of the LT.A. Annual General Meet ing in November issue, the name of the Lord Mayor of Cork, Alderman Sean Cronin, was, inadvertently, omitted from the list of those present. Curiosities around Ireland THE "JUMPING CHURCH." KILKENNY CARVING. One of many curious figures in Franciscan Abbey, End wall of this church at Millextown, Kilkenny. near Ardee, in 1715, split and swung inwards thus .. expelling" the grave of an excommunicated person interred .. PILLAR OF SALT." within the church. T A well-known South Coast Beacon. - --- ~ -- -- December. 1944 IRISH TRAVEL 43 I[~}"'II'I'''IItI'II'I'''''111CAL·L' .... '·~~~i ..·" ..~~E ..·'....~~~VEi'LE'~ ..'....(..2~·) ..·'..~ mlll'III'I'III'III""""""II"'IIII""IIIII"I'"1111111'1111""11111'11'11"111111""1"111"111'1'11II,.t"'III""IIIIIII'I"'IIIII'I"""III."."II""II" ••, ••I"IIIII'lllll'llllllllllllllllllllllllllll11111111111111111111111,8 Arthur Young's Stormy Crossing A County Wexford Landscape 1776, October 17th. From Waterford to Passage, If you ask what is the distinctive mark of an Irish and got my chaise and horses aboard the Countess landscape, where the country has no particular ?f Tyrone pacquet, in full expectation of sailing feature of mountain, valley, or wood, I must reply, Immediately, as the wind was fair, but I soon found that it consists chiefly in a gradual easy swell of the difference of these private vessels and the post~ ground, from the road upwards, divided into portions o~ce pacquets at Holyhead and Dublin. When the much smaller than we usually see in England, wmd was fair, the tide was foul; and when the tide fenced by very low boundaries of a few stones, or a Was with them, the wind would not do, so I had the bank of earth, but rarely displaying a qUick~set hedge agreeableness of waiting with my horses in the hold, or row of trees. This method of laying out the by way of rest, after a journey of 1,500 miles ground gives you a full view of each separate patch; (through Ireland). and these again, being variously cultivated, present ~ctober 18th. After a beastly night passed on a picture altogether dissimilar from English scenery. shIpboard, and finding no signs of departure, walked The background, in this part of Ireland, is almost to Ballycanvan, the seat of Cornelius Bolton, Esq.: invariably a fine mountain peak, or chain of gigantic rode with Mr. Bolton, Jr., to Faithleghill, which hills rearing their dark summits against the sky. Add commands one of the finest views I have seen in to this the frequent glimpse obtained, now of some Ireland. There is a rock on the top of a hill. which venerable ruin, standing alone in its little sanctuary has a very bold view on every side down on a great of grass and shrubs; then, perhaps, a light playful extent of country, much of which is grass inclosures stream murmuring over the bright pebbles; and, anon, a noble plantation, holding in its bosom the of a good verdure. This hill is the centre of a circle of about ten miles diameter, beyond which higher family mansion, the glebe house, and often the lands rise, which, C!fter spreading to a great extent, village church. have on every side a background of mountain. THE FLOWERY COUNTRYSIDE. At this season you may fill up the canvas with BLOWN BACK TO ARKLOW. every variety of rich and glowing tint the whole October 19th. The wind being fair, took my leave family of wild flowers can supply. Although quite of Mr. Bolton and went back to the ship; met with the end of June, we were regaled with the choicest a fresh scene of provoking delays, so that it was the beauties of spring, mingled with those of midsummer. next morning, October 20th, at 8 o'clock, before we ~hrubs and trees of the hawthorn, presenting, sailed; and then it was not wind, but a cargo of lIterally, one mass of rich and fragrant blossoms, passengers, that spread our sails. Twelve or fourteen adorned the roadside; and these, as we advanced hours are not an uncommon passage, but such was farther into Wexford, were richly interspersed with Our luck, that after being in sight of the lights on tall bushes of furze, not yet entirely stripped of their the Smalls, we were, by contrary winds, blown golden buds.