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Seventy Years of Irish Life SEVENTY TEAES OF IEISH LIFE SEVENTY TEAKS or IRISH LIFE BEING ANECDOTES AND KEMINISCENCES. BY W. R. LE FANU. LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD, 37, BEDFORD STREET, STRAND, W.C. to 1I)C iniJtn Offirr, 1893. (All rightt reterved.) LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. TO HER WHOSE LOVE AND GOODNESS HAVE MADE MY LIFE THE HAPPY ONE IT HAS BEEN, TO MY WIFE, WITH GRATEFUL HEART, I DEDICATE THIS BOOK. PEEFACE. IT requires no ordinary amount of courage, even in an author of established fame, to come before the public when he has long passed the age of three- score and ten here who never wrote years ; yet am I, a line for publication, and never meant to do so, daring to make my first attempt in my eight and seventieth year. I should not have had the courage to venture on such an undertaking, had I not been urged by literary friends (who ought to have known better) to jot down some recollections of my earlier days, and to publish some of the Irish stories which from time to time, in my long life, I have heard. I In politics I have never taken any part, and have tried, I hope successfully, to keep clear of them in what I have written. Vlll PREFACE. I trust I have said nothing to hurt the feelings of of and I leave it to any my fellow-countrymen ; a generous public to pardon the many faults and shortcomings of my first and only book. W. E. LE FANU. SUMMERHILL, ENNISKERRY, October, 1893. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Early days A royal visit to Ireland in 1820 : Grattan's witticism A maid for a dog A disciple of Isaak Walton as preceptor Sheri- dan Le Fauu's youthful verses and relaxations A parrot at prayers; and a monkey with the parrot ... ... ... 1 CHAPTER II. Lord Edward Fitzgerald's dagger United Irishmen : the apologia of John Sheares Doctor Dobbin's kind deeds The story of the Ilchester oak An outlaw sportsman : his narrow escape and sad ending ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 16 CHAPTER III. Faction fights: the Reaskawallahs and Coffeys Paternal chastise- ment A doctor in livery I bear the olive branch Battles of the buryinga Dead men's shoes Fairy doctors : their patient spoils a coachman's toggery Superstitions about birds ... ... 31 CHAPTER IV. Good will of the peasantry before 1831 A valentine A justice's bulls A curious si^ht indeed Farms to grow fat on Some cooks " " What the Dean wears on his legs Bloodthirsty gratitude Old servants and their theories ... ... ... ... ... 42 CHAPTER V. The tithe war of 1831 : the troops come to our village A marked man ' " kill 1 Push on ; they are going to ye Not his brother's keeper Boycotting in the thirties None so dead as he looked Lord Cloncurry's manifesto A fulfilled prophecy ... ... 55 X CONTENTS. CHAPTER VI. PAGE The pleasures of coaching I enter at Trinity College, Dublin A miser Fellow : Anecdotes about Whately, Archbishop of Dublin, and his legs The vocative of "cat" Charles Lever's retort- courteous to the Bishop ... ... ... ... ... 68 CHAPTER VII. " " The Charleys' life was not a pleasant one Paddy O'Neill and his " " rhymes With my rigatooria Too far west to wash On the " " coast at Kilkee Phaudrig Crohoore The Dublin Magazine ... 81 CHAPTEE VIII. Peasant life after the famine of 1847 An aged goose Superstitions and Irish peculiarities The worship of Baal The Blarney stone " " The wren boys The direful wurrum A remedy for the chin cough, and doctors' remedies ... ... ... ... 99 CHAPTER IX. Mitchelstown remembered Anight on the Galtees The weird horse Killing or murder? The ballad of "Shamus O'Brien" A letter from Samuel Lover ... ... ... ... 116 CHAPTER X. A determined duel I act the peasant, and am selected for the police force Death of my sister Sketch of my brother's life Dan " " O'Connell's illustrious kinsman A murderous Grand Jury A sad reflection ... ... ... ... ... ... 130 CHAPTER XI. of the his London The power people Sergeant Murphy ; manners Pat Costello's humour I meet Thackeray Paddy Blake's echo Dan O'Connell's imagination Sir James O'ConnelFs anecdotes He is prayed for by his herd ... ... ... ... 145 CHAPTER XII. A proselytizing clergyman Some examples of religious intolerance An inverse repentance The true faith The railway mania Famine of 1846 Mrs. Norton solves a difficulty The old Beef- steak Club A pleasant dinner-party ... ... ... ... 157 CONTENTS. XI CHAPTER XIII. PA6B Smith O'Brien's rebellion Louis Philippe's interview with the Queen, as seen by the boy Jones Plain i'are and pleasant Married by mistake A time for everything A pagan altar-piece Drawing the long-bow Proof against cross-examination Fooling the English Larceny or trespass ? ... ... ... ... 170 CHAPTEE XIV. race for life on Anthony Trollope : his night encounter A an engine Eailway adventures I become Commissioner of Public Works Some Irish repartees and ready car-drivers Rail against road No cause for uneasiness ... ... ... ... ... 190 CHAPTER XV. Tory Island: its king, customs, and captive William Dargan : his career and achievements Agricultural and industrial experi- ments Bianconi, the carman Sheridan Knowles : his absence of mind Absent-minded gentlemen Legal complications Judges and barristers Lord Norbury ... ... ... ... 204 CHAPTER XVI. Irish bulls Sayings of Sir Boyle Roche Plutarch's lives A Grand Jury's decision Clerical anecdotes and Biblical difficulties A harmless lunatic Dangerous recruits Tom Burke Some memo- rials to the Board of Works ... ... ... ... ... 224 CHAPTER XVII. Shooting and fishing Good snipe grounds Killarney and Powerscourt My fishing record Playing a rock Salmon flies Salmon and trout Grattan's favourites Hooking a bird Fishing anecdotes Lord Spencer's adventure ... ... ... ... 243 CHAPTER XVHI. Illicit stills Getting a reward Poteen Past and present Dress and dwellings Marriage and language Material improvement since 1850... ... ... ... ... ... ... 272 CHAPTER XIX. The science of hypnotism Early experiments and lessons A drink of cider I convert Isaac Butt All wrong A dangerous power ... 282 CHAPTER XX. Catholic Emancipation, 1829 The tithe war of 1832 The great famine of 1846 The Fenian agitation of 1865 France against England Land-hunger Crime and combination Last words ... ... 292 ILLTJSTKATTONS. PORTRAIT OF W. E. LE FANU ... ... Frontispiece PORTRAIT OF JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU To face page 86 SEVENTY YEARS OF IRISH LIFE, CHAPTER I. Early days A royal visit to Ireland in 1821 : Grattan's witti- cism A maid for a dog A disciple of Isaak Walton as preceptor Sheridan Le Fanu's youthful verses and relaxa- tions A parrot at prayers; and a monkey with the parrot. I WAS born on the 24th of February, 1816, at the Eoyal Hibernian Military School in the Phoenix Dublin father then to that Park, ; my being chaplain institution. I was the youngest of three children the eldest was Catherine Frances the ; second, Joseph " Sheridan, author of Uncle Silas." and other novels, " " and of Shamus O'Brien and other Irish ballads. Here the first ten years of my life were spent, in as happy a home as boy could have. Never can I forget our rambles through that lovely park, the delight we took in the military reviews, sham fights, and races held near the school, not to mention the intense interest and awe inspired by the duels occasionally fought there. The usual time for these hostile meetings was at or soon after day- 's B 2 SEVENTY TEARS OF IRISH LIFE. break. I only saw one, which from some cause or other took at a later hour four shots were place ; fired, after which a reconciliation took place. On more than one such occasion ray father acted as peacemaker, and found that the cause of quarrel was trivial and ridiculous something ; except by him, there was seldom any interference with these combats. I shall give presently an account of one of the last duels in Ireland, fought about twenty years later. At an early age my brother gave promise of the powers which he afterwards attained. When between five and six years old a favourite amuse- ment of his was to draw little pictures, and under each he would print some moral which the drawing was meant to illustrate. I well remember one which I specially admired and looked upon as a master- piece of art, conveying a solemn warning. A bal- loon in air the two aeronauts had fallen was high ; from the boat, and were tumbling headlong to the underneath was in fine bold ground ; printed Roman " letters, See the effects of trying to go to heaven." He composed little songs also, which he very sweetly sang, and some old people can still recall his won- derful acting as a mere boy in our juvenile theatricals. One of my earliest recollections is of the re- that joicings, illuminations, and reviews took place on the accession of George IY. to the throne in 1820, and the excitement caused by his visit to A EOTAL VISIT. 3 Ireland in 1821. Royal journeys were not in those days carried out with the ease and celerity with which they are now performed. The king's de- parture from London, en route for Dublin, is thus described in the Annual Register : " About half-past eleven o'clock his Majesty left his palace in Pall Mall on his way to Ireland. His Majesty went in his plain dark travelling carriage, attended by Lord Graves, as the lord-in-waiting, escorted by a party of the 14th Light Dragoons. The king proceeded as far as Kingston with his own horses, and from thence to Portsmouth with post-horses. His Majesty was to embark and dine on board the royal yacht." I saw his state entrance into Dublin from the balcony of my grandfather's house in Eccles Street, through which the procession passed on its way from Howth, where the king had landed.
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