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IRISH RAVEL OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE IRISH TOURIST ASSOCIATION VOL. X. JANUARY. 1935 NO.4 Complimentary. LOCH CONN, IN MAYO. 1 R 1 S H TRAVl!JL. .J(/Hlla1'!} , 193;5. SEVEN ROUTES TO IRELAND Leave Paddington *5·55 p.m. FISHGUARD to CORK-Direct Every Tues., Thurs. and S.,l. Leave Euston *6·5 p.m. Sail 10.15 p. "'. LIVERPOOL to DUBLIN Nightly (Sundays excepted). BELFAST Leave Euston *6-5 p.m. Sail 1').15 p m. LIVERPOOL to Nightly (Sundays excepted). ARDROSSAN to BELFAST Express Night Mail Service. Leave Glasgow (Central) 10·30 p. m.§ GLASGOW to BELFAST-Direct SailfromGlasgow9-0p.m.t Nightly [Sundays excepted). GLASGOW to DUBLIN "ia Greenock. Every Monday. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. GLASGOW to DERRY via Greenock. Daily except Tuesday, Thurs day and Sunday. * Restaurant Boat Express. § Saturdays and Sundays excepted. t Saturdays 10·45 p.m. BANK OF IRELAND. ESTABLISHED 1763. ARDEN LOVERS G visiting Ireland Donegal FACILITIES should make a Handwoven FOR point of seeing Lissadell Tweeds and TRAVELLERS. Gardens where a very Handknitted large collection of Alpines Stockings, and other Hardy Plants Jumpers, etc., also fine can be seen growing in Handmade Rock Gardens, Moraines, Lingerie and Retaining Walls, et c . Handembroidered Goods, SEEDS A SPECIALITY always in HEAD OFFICE. COLLEGE GREEN, DUBLIN. stock. & LlSSADELL IS SITUATED BRANCHES AT ABOUT FOUR MILES BELFAST, CORK, DERRY, lVEST OF THE SLlGO AND 100 TOWNS THROUGHOUT IRELAND BUN D 0 RAN R 0 A D. ALSO AT COSH, (QUEENSTOWN.) Bc GALWAY, (DOCKS) MANAGER, LISSADELL, EVERY DESCRIPTION OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE BUSINESS TRANSACTED ON ARRIVAL SLIGO. OF ALL LINERS BY DAY OR NIGHT. IRISH FREE STATE. SUBSCRIPTION Wholesale from Th 5/- PER ANNUM. IrishTou rist Associ 1 Post Free. tion and from 00 Eason & Son, Ltd COPIES FREE 00 Retail from all TO ALL MEMBERS Newsagents and OF THE IRISH from The Irish ASSOCIATION AND Tourist Associatio n. OF ITS ASSOCIATE DEPARTMENT TRAVEL Price --- 3d. OFfiCIAL ORGAN OF THE IRISH TOURIST ASSOCIATION.. DUBLltt VOL. X. JANUARY. 1935. NO. 4. 1935 IN IRELAND. THE BIGGEST FISH. FIRST annual list of " notable saltwater fish " h~me th~ o all our readers at and abroad we. send caught from coastal stations in England, Scot same sincere old wIsh, a Very Prosperous Year A land and Ireland during the year ended ._T and Many Happy Returns to Ireland! October, 1934, has just been issued by the " Anglers' Ne,,· ." Irish coast catches are remark 1935. ably to the fore in these statistics, particulariy for Our List of Irish Events for this year,-of which Pollack, the five largest fish being caught at Bally an extract appears elsewhere in this issue, gives pro cotton, and for Skate, the biggest one, a monster of mise of a busy session. "Days stolen for sport." 148 Ibs. being also caught at Ballycotton. It will soon be the lucky lot of the keen angler who IS is of interest that Ireland holds the records itchina " to hear he reel go singing, to feel the rod for the heaviest catches of many kinds of sea o fish. The record Bass was taken at Waterville in astrain. " Hunting has been, for some month past, 1909-a sixteen pounder; the record Cod, claimed by in full swing, favoured by the extraordinarily mild Ballycotton,-was 42 Ibs .• caught in 1921. The big winter which we have, so far, experienced. gest Haddock (8 Ibs. 4 ozs.), and the biggest Pouting A dip here and there into the " Coming Eyents " (4 Ibs.. 1 oz.), came also from Ballycotton, while aives a foretaste of good things in store for holiday ValenCla gave the record Halibut-152 Ibs. 12 ozs., ~1akers in Ireland during 1935. The Royal Dublin in 1926, and the record Skate, 218 Ibs. 8 ozs., in 1927. ::)ociety will hold its annual "big" features-the Many other huge sea-fish, close in weight to the record Bull Show for three days in March, the Spring Show monsters, have been registered as caught off Irish sea for four days in May, and the Autumn or Horse fishing centres. Show for five days in August. The N.A.C.A. has earmarked February, March and June for the National Junior and ational Senior Cross-Country Champion ships, and the ational Field, Track and Cycle Chap:1 CONTENTS pionships. March promises an International Fishing contest at Lough Melvin; February and March an PAGE nounce International Rugby matches, and September A Famous Irish Church-by Rev. G. D. fubun ~ features the All-Ireland Hurling and Football Finals. In Ancient Annaly-A Land of Peaceful The Hospitals Trust has arranged three Draws for the Beauty-bY E. MacGiolla Muire 67 year,-that on the Grand ational, in March, that on Our Irish Countryside-Scene I 69 the Derby in June, and that on the Cambridgeshire Lake Inchiquin, in Clare-by M. S. Grossman 70 in October. An Artist's Holiday-by F. O'Raltilly 71 To say nothing of the many local Feiseanna, Calendar of Irish Events for 1935 72 Sports and Shows, Patterns, Race Meetings, As Others See Us 74 Regattas, Fetes and Fairs billed to while away with A Directory of Hotels 77 pleasant activity the year that is now young! 65 I RI SH TRAVEL. January, 1935. A • •• ST. FAMOUS MICHAN'S ln Church St., Dublin. Perhaps the chief interest in the old Danish Church of St. Michan'l5 IRISH lies in its peculia7' vaults, which pre serve several bodies m 1nummift'eJ form. The chitrch and vaults can be seen on week-days between the hours of CHURCH 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., and 2 and 5 p.m. The Va1tlts are closed on By REV. G. D. HOBSON. The Tower. Sundays. T. MICHAN'S CHURCH, Dublin, is one of the \\·ho \\'us t1 famous organ build r in his day, and it theu city's most famous sights. Thousands of cost £850. Recently the instrument was overhauled S peopl come to see the place each year, and and the aiel-fashioned hand bellows was replaced by a during the summer months a second man is employed modern motor. The instrument has a sweet and as guide. These people come from all over the world, and there are (in especial) numbers of English and Americans who visit St. Michan's. l'he church was founded in 1095 by a Danish bishop. n probably stands on the site of an original Danish church. Where Handel Played. The picture shows the tower which is very old though perhaps not the original tower. It is a hand Right-The organ ill I. some gray pile and has a massiveness about it which J[ichan's is famous be· rlluu 0/ its age and impres es you. Inside the church there are several because 0/ a tradition intere ting objects. The organ is famous because of lchich c/<£;ms that Handel its age, and also becaus of a tradition which says played the JIessiah upon Handel played the Messiah upon it when he was in it when he was in Dublin Dublin in 1743. The case is well preserved and the in 1743. wood carving on the outside is intricate and beautiful. The organ was built in 1724 by a man called Cuvillier ll1 1Io\\' tone, and the ivory on the key-board is \yorn Le/t -In the rurious through from the touch of the finger. l"aults 0/ St. JIichan's There is a famous old chair called a Penitent'::;. you will sce piles 0/ Pew. It is one of the few Penitent's stools in the coffins heaped uz,on onc world. There is an interesting story in the records another. The atrnospher£ which tells of a man called Chri topher Pell who is preserrati"e and mum· publicly confessed his guilt to a congregation. H mified bodies can be had refused to allow the clergyman to say the burial vieu:ed-brown in colour, ;;ervice over his son. For the offence he was brought with skin like leather, ami before the Archbishop of Dublin and sentenced to a vitnl organs shrirelled. fine or a public confe ion, and h chose the latter. He was led into the church bv the churchwarden" and, kneeling, he confessed. The font is a couple of hundreds of years old and it has been used for the baptism of many iamou>; people. The silver belonging to St. Michan's is old 66 (Continued on page 68). !JJ..ncient !JJ..nnaly .~ SOME FAMOUS CELEBRITIES. A Land of Peaceful Beauty. ~ By E MacGlOLLA MUlRE. 011 LOllyh (;Oll'llfl, ill LOllgford. N the heart ~f Irela~d, little known, and much less appreCIated hes the smal~ l;~unty uf alld a battle ensued in which Liath wa completely I Lonaford' small in extent, but nch m every \'llllquished. Soon aftennlrds the girl returned to her thing de~r to 'the heart of the histOl'inn, archooologi t father' palace ,,,hence she had fled and died of a or lover of folklore. broken heart, the hill taking the name Bri-Leith " Leo " Casey. which it retainecl until the last century. Some perhaps may remember it as the birthplace St. Patrick's Curse. of Goldsmith, the most graceful writer of Engli.h 'l'he north of the county differs con iderably from that the world has seen; but many others wd I the south in configuration and fertility. While the associate it with the (unfortuntltely) lesser known soil to the south, where the land is low and level is •. Leo" Casey, the wild fire of whose ~oellls and extremely fertile, that to the north, where there i~ a ballads stirred so madly the hearts of In hmen, number of low bills, is neither deep nor productive.