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fir Twenty Ton Cutter Races Jaunting Car - 50 ---~ Dublin Children Discuss Their City ------ 51 Fishing by the Bridge -~-- below the town at I Roved About E.askey, Co. Sligo. the Midlands - 52 --00--- Curiosities Around Ireland -- 53 --~-- Copyright in Architecture? - 55 Calendar of Principal Events, 1943 ------ 56 --~ The lLordly America's Shannon at Romantic Poet Athlone. was Part Irish - 59 VOL. XVIII. No. 4. 'January, 1943. COMPLIMENTARY Cumann Luc'C Cua"~Q No h-~lreonn IRISH TRAVEL January" 1943. DUBLIN BANK OF IRELAND * .TAUdlB.. ITA FACILITIES FOR TRAVELLERS --i-­ AT Bead Omoe: COLLEGE GREEN,DUBLIlt sI .BLPAIT :: OORK .• DERBY 11 Where North meets South" PHONE : 0 DUBLIN 71371 (6 Lines) .TJlIlY DBaORIPTION or rORBION BXOHANGB IlUIIlfJl88 TRAN8AOTJlD ON ARRIVAL or LINBU Resident M allager ..... 0 • • T. O'Suf.twan .... OAT OR NIOHT AT 008H (QUBJlN8TOW)f) AND GALWAY DOOK:8. I Everything to satisfy the most TO ALL CATERERS exacting connoisseur i~ provided. Coal fires in all pUblic rooms; after­ VT<~SPI'l'E tbo difCl~uJties attending tbe delivory noon tea, 3-6j liberal table; excel­ or equipment we arC still in a position to supply many items: Boilors tor bot water tor batbs; lent cookinc and service; a pleasant eloctric tires and boiling rlmrs; turf and wood-burning and informal atmosphere. Centrally ranges; electric disb wasbors, CHEF R ... NGES. situated, with moderate terms. Visit ES~E HAl'tfl\10ND STIGAM COOKER 0 Orders tor the Restaurant next time you're and AGA Cook~rtl will be executed sOtricLly in rotation. Plowe givo us l\ ('all; wo'd be glad to advise YOIl on lunching in town. your problems. ]>1I0NE 75648/0 • KITCHEN ENGINEERS DUBLIN O'Kee/Je's - SUBSCRIPTION : WholeAle from lhe irish Tourist As_lallon 5," PER ANNUM, and fro. Posl Free. IRISH Eason & SO.. Lld. COPIES FREE Retail from TO ALL MEMBERS all Newsagents and OF THE from lhe ASSOCIATION AND Irish Tourlsl Asaoclallon OF ITS ASSOCIATE DEPARTMENT. PrIce 3d. = TRAV'El Official Organ of the Irish Tourist Assoclatton and of the Irish Hotels Federation VOL. XVIII. JAr VARY, 1943. No. 4 _._----------------=------------------------------- NOTES AND NEWS New Waterford Museum .. war economy and is to serve the transport of turf from ONGRATULATIONS to the Waterford City the Clonsast bog. Credit is due to the contractors who Council on their decision to set up a Municipal have done their job in a short time. C Mu eum! The City Manager, Mr. D. A. Hegarty, would like to hear from anyone who can offer an exhibit, Eyesores. especially of the glass for which Waterford was famous. The growth of a public ense of ownership of the land­ There should be many people who will like to identify scape has been late in development in Ireland. But now themselves with this progressive city by lending or that it ha come, we realise it all the quicker. The Dublin donating objects and souvenirs of interest. County Commissioner, Mr. D. J. O'Donovan, is informing owners of " blots on the horizon" of their duty to remove Handball Revival. them. This i another of the many" leads" that Dublin is giving to the country. Wrecks and ruins, without The Roscommon Handball Club has reorganised historical or artistic significance, are only a confession itself under representative auspices. Mr. O'Hanrahan, of cusseJne s or decadence. Away with them! F.R.c.s.I. is President, Chief Supt. Dennehy, Vice­ )resident, and the ~Y Brothers KennCdy and Phelan are Chairman and Trea urer re pectively, with 1 •...sean. Winter Sports Season? ..,........ .:,...He arty~ ecretary. Handball has too long b~en An, inquirer wants to hear of any hotels in favourable allowed to fall out of favour. Every effort to revIve positions where, in case of a sufficient fall of snow, it deserves attention in an Ireland where life without equipment and opportunity for winter sports are organised physical recreation can be extremely dull. available. We shall be glad to hear from ?nyone able to give useful information. It Ain't a-goin' to Rain No More. At Ballinacurra a Cork weather observation station, Greetings from U.S.A. only half an inch ~f rain fell in November, 1942, instead American readers continue to send us pleasant of the average 4 ins. Near-by there was an absolute messages all the more welcome in a distress~d world. drought of 19 days, an unprecedented spell. fOl Wt' ar~ grateful to Miss Mary A. MacDonnt'll, 4160 November. Other counties shared the record-breakmg. Oxford t., Phila. Pa., for her encouraging letter and Water had to be rationed in some of them. So much to Mrs. Mary P. Bruckner, 252 ~ orth Central Avenue, for the melancholy prophets who said that we were to Cannon burg, Pa. "We always look forward to the have the worst autumn and winter for the last 100 year ! coming of Irish Travel," says Mrs. Bruckner. MIllions of Fish. Seeing Ireland from a Tree. Big catche of pollock, cod, herring and oth~r f.ish The lack of imported seeds for trees has forced Ireland are still being taken off the south-east coas~, contmmng to finel her own tree-seeds. In autumn, 1942 a new the abundance of the e2.flier months. At Kl1larney they seasonal profession of tree-climbing came into being are planning ahead for the post-war sport. It is and nimble young men 'at a couple of the forestry announced that more than eight million fry have been stations went 310ft to coll-:ct for the forests of the future. released into the local wat rs in r cent years. Irish Events in 1943. New RaIlway Line. wri~e A li't of Irish t'vents in 1943, in this is ue, is as com­ . It ounds like a fairy tale to of a new rt'.ilway prehensive a selection a po ible at this date. The hne in Ireland at such a time as thIS when one expects do~n. many interests of the varying year are set Out and t? hear only of old lines being cl.osed The new readers are advised to preserve the pages for referenc e hne betw ri Clonsa t and Portarhngton an es out of th 49 IRISH TRAVEL .1anuary, 194.1 CALL BACK THE TRAVELLER • (7)-Twenty Ton Cutter Races Jaunting Car (]ames Anthony Froude, the English historian, on hills. The ascent now became tedious ;-we were climb­ one of his visits to Ireland takes part in an imprompttt ing the broken side of an utterly barren mountain. The race between a jattnting car and a twenty-ton cutter in the distant view was hidden by the darkness, and only a lovely Kenmare district. Here is his account of it from solitary peak shot up black and gloomy-looking into his article, "A Fortnight in Kerry," in "Fraser's the sky. Two miles of walking ground made me Magazine "). impatient to be at my journey's cnd. T was the second week in August. We left London Rounding the Last Bend. at night. In the morning we were in Kingstown I Harbour, and a few hours later I was deposited at We reached the crest at last-rounded a corner of the railway station at Killarney. The house to which rock and were at once in another world. The moon had I was bound was still nearly forty miles distant. The risen, and burst upon us broad and full as we turned train was late but the evening promised well. I put to ascend. Below us was 'a long deep valley losing itself myself in the hands of Spillane, the most accomplished of bugle-players, and the politest of hotel-managers; and, after a hasty dinner, I was soon rattling along beside the lake in a jaunting car, with a promise of being at my journey's end, if not before dark, yet at no unreasonable hour. An exquisite drive of three hours brought me to Kerunare. A smart-looking boatman, after ascertaining who I wa , informed me that my friend had sent up his yacht, a smart cutter of twenty tons, and that if I preferred' a sail" to a longer drive, they were ready to take charge of me. The wind was from the east, light but fair, and they believed that it would not drop till midnight. But we have still seventeen miles to go. I inquired what would happen if it did drop, and as the answer was vague, I determined to stick to my car. to the left in the shadows of the Glengarriff mountains' My driver declined a change of horses. The small o~ning to the ,right in t,he harbo~r of Kilmakilloge: well-bred Irish car-horse does his forty miles a day whIch layout lIke a looking-glass m the midst of the throughout the season with only an occasional rest and hills in which it is land-locked. Across, immediately seems little the worse for it. Away we went again, and before us, was a gorge, bl(:l,ck and narrow, the sides of three minutes brought us to the suspension bridge which, in the imperfect light, appeared to fall precipit­ crossing the head of the fiord. ously two thousand feet. Beyond, at the head of the harbour, was a second. group of mountains shaped in They're Off! still wilder variety, whi~e .the ~ttom of the valley was ~ dlv~ded The cutter was clearing out of the harbour with her traversed by nver mto long shining pools, big g<'.ff topsail set and her balloon jib, and as she slid and broken at mtervals WIth cc.scade , the roa.r of which away the men tauntingly hailed my driver and promised swayed up fitfully in the night air.

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