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Grills. l10l ClI"boar(k Wr, _ O'Keell.·s •• I RISH TRAVEL Official Organ of the Irish Tourist JU~ E, 1946 5/- per Annum Post Free from Association and of the Irish Hotels Irish Tourist Association, O'Connell Federation Vol. XXI No. 9 street, Dublin Two New Ships for Irish English Crossing. The New Migration . Two 3,000 ton Great Western Railway steamers are Evidence of the new migration, consequent on war III construction at Birkenhead to replace war losses on and taxation charges elsewhere, is seen in the demand the Fishguard-Ireland passage. It is hoped that they for country residences now in many parts of Ireland. may be in service in the late summer of 1947. In some centres even houses in a neglected condition have been acquired or rented at unexpected prices. Swimming Pool for Westport. A swimming pool and pleasure park at the Quay at Angling and Fly Casting Championships. \Vestport are to be laid down at a cost of about There will be a record entry of more than 150 frol11 £6,000. all parts of Ireland at this year's National Champion­ ships to be held on Lough Mask during the Whit Cannibal T....out. week end, reports Dr. H. A. Lafferty, Hon. Sec., I.T.F.F.C.C. ,'ir John Abercrombie, a visiting angler at Oughter­ ard, watched one of his boatmen take in a landing net what appeared to be a large pike devouring a small The late Mrs. Sheehy-Skeffington. ~sh. On examination, reports the Connacht Tribune, 3~ :\Trs. Sheehy-Skeffington who died recently at 1l proved to be a 9-pound trout with a pounds Dublin was a valued occasional contributor to IRISH trout in his mouth. TR,WEL, in which many charming and informative articles by he'r appeared. A woman of very wide Motor Car is Fox's Best Friend. interests and of striking ability and character, her loss "Though the hunted fox is quite una\\are of it. will be felt by the members of the many associations modern transport is his best friend. Should a motor in which she was actively interested. Readers wi,ll car travel along a road after he has crossed over he rccaI1 her last contribution, "J Remember Port­ should feel grateful to its driver. If the vehicle has marnock,' a very pleasant picture of a different Port­ had a recent re-fill of new oil, the fox should go back marnock, forty years ago. and thank the driver personally, The pungent odour emitted by a motor exhaust plays havoc with the sensi­ tive membrane of hounds' noses," wri tes M r. Stanis­ First Prize for Ireland. laus Lynch in his chapter: "Are Foxes Clever?" in " Whoever sleeps in Eire Echoes of the Hunting Horn, a delightful series of Wakes to wondrous breakfast fare," sketches and impressions. (The Talbot Press, 7/6). was one of the Browningesque couplets in a recent Much more than mere expert interest and in formation .John 0' London's Weely competition for wishful for ridel's and huntsmen is contained in the book, for thinkers in verse. True to Ireland's priority as a Mr. Lynch is good company, even for those who must holidays-choice of the day, the first prize-winner also follow the chase on foot or for that multitude of people who, more remotely, can only follow the hunt celebrated Ireland in his song: in print. " For the man that roams in Ireland Finds enchantment everywhere, ((Angling and Golf" Guide. \Vhen the dove-grey skies and the emerald land Ha\'e been touched anew by a faery wand." Just published, Angling and Golf (lrish Tourist Association, 1/-), in its 116 pages summarises all the up-ta-date information for anglers and golfers in the From an Australian Reader. 26 counties. From Adelaide, Australia, 1\11'. P. L. McCann writes: .r 1 .receive your paper regularly and enjoy Novelty at Lough Ree Regatta. both the artIcles an the illustrations in it. After 1 At the Lough Ree Yacht Club regatta, to be held have read it I post it to my friend, Mr. John Garrity, during the week commencing July 22nd. the dinghy \\,ho lives in Kapunda, a country town in this State. race for boats of a new de ign will be an added He came from Ennistymon, Co. Oare. My own featlll'e. Partly tacked, Bermudan rig. with main and father left Coleraine with his parents in 1850 for . foresails, the boats will be watch d with interest for Australia." (Mr. McCann's brother is Agent-General their reaction to Lough Ree conditions. for outh Australia in London). ROSS'S HOTEL I Oh I THE SEA Dun I FROJ.,T with a Tradition Laoghaire of Excellence and a Reputation for its Telephone: Modern Amenities DUi LAOGHAIRE 81195 (;' 811961 Telegrams: lUanaging Dirl'c!of ROSSOTEL, DN LAOGHAIRE MRS. M. COLDWELL ,,"'" ..... 1/5 Junc, 19-+6. IRISJ-II. TRAVEL Over The Backbone of Wicklow -with a Bike s a newcomer to Dublin I had been admiring ration of bread-and-cheese washed down by a Jaffa from afar the mountains to the outh. For the orange-easily the sweetest viands tasted since my A nnivcrsal reasons that impel one to love high­ previous outdoor holiday. Then on in the fading light lands everywhere: for the additional reason that they past the sign which said "NoMotors Past Here." are the city's outlying defences against the rain­ Very soon the gradient changed in my favour, but I bearing S.W. winds. J had seen them in action found there might well have been a further sign- within recent months; beating off rapid-firing showers, infiltrating downpours and even heavy-calibre hail­ "No Cycles Past Here'" stone attacks, with not so much as a shrug of their Still, Sheet 16, " my !:lanner with a strange device," massive rounded shoulders or a bend 01 their broad assured me it was a military road. Here a wild tron backs. Occasional!y, of course, a hit-and-run raider gu!ly with sharp.edged rbcks jostling each other to did get through. form a barrier set with traps, there a "minefield" of A resolve to get to know them better; purchase of stray turf-sods-kick one-Ouch ! It's iron-bound to the i-inch Ordnance Survey Sheet 16, successful the roadway by frost! Bump one with your wheel diplomacy towards high places-and I was cycling (as I did) and off you come! A few yards on, and out through Rathfarnham on atur­ day afternoon, the 2nd March, free of duties till the Tuesday. Across the Moor to Glencree. " Cycling" soon meant pushing, hard and far. Even so, there was the Rreat treat, when pausing at each suc­ cessive hillcrest, of looking back and watching the capital spread out all round to its grass-green and sea-blue verges, the Wellington obelisk and cliffs of Howth always claiming most attention. Slowly the sign-posts ree~ed off, Glencree 8±-5t-3t; the road wound up, and up again. A hairpin bend, a stiff climb, the trees are left behind and J am pushing steadily in a wide semi-circle south­ ea twarcI over the bare moor to Glen- . cree itself. Tt is blowing hard up ~ here, visibility not so good-to the east the alp of An Cualann l\16r alone stands out among- the hazy g~ens. Tough going and worsening surfaces, winding up past this military highway threatens to fade into a pair of Loughs Bray (the one visible from the road is frozen rtl h-grown heep tracks. ovtr), across the Liffey-Head Bridge, and now J am For once Tonelagee (which 1 make free jn translate astride of Wicklow's vertebrae. as 'tern-to-the-\Vind) belied his name. An ogre among mountains, stooping, frowning, his snowy locks The Glistening Road. stiff-frozen, with icicles for his beard, he peered down The un is out, mica glisten in a million diamond­ Glenmacnass. into the very eye of the night-bringing points along the grey-black roarlway before me. wind! I feared () pass beneath that gaze, but there Gradually unfold the snow-dome of the central \Vick­ was no way out. l)ush on! Endure! At length I low mountains, 1\1 ul1aghcleevaun. 10anbane, Tone­ was. over the last lonR ridge and free-wheeling lagee, salmon-pink against a teel-blue sky, their lower cautiously towards Laragh, and on to my destination. slopes but lightly powdered here and there. The Sally Glendalough. Gap reached, I sat on a frozen turf-sod in the lee of Monday morning broke cold and white, the prevIous a snow-bound turf-rick while I atc my emergency evening's flurried promise had been made Rood.