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No. 5 =-======== !RELAND'S FLAG OF NATURE'S GREEN It is no flag of painted cotton, or dyed Impel'i0118 C'aesw' dead (£1HZ tun/ed to clay wave over him: which is, in a enl:!e. texture but just nature's own Jlight st.op Cb hole to keep the wi'/Id away. to make little of banners, and probably they deserve it. l!'lag-wagging we call embroidery. Wrap the gree'/1 flag rOllnd me, A. there eVE'r a Illore llev<1l:!tat­ it. [1, men'lS creation, for women never buys is the modern singing ing parablc of nmn's fleeting wore thrillcd by a flag and only thcir version of it, but the reality is that W Ireland in itl:! green grass is a bright t glory than that? Tho trim, rivalry, one with another, leads tho1l1 aut, alcrt hody thc maO'nificcllt to thc dresl:!·battle of colours at all. banner all the days of the year. Grass­ Out Works o[ ~Iansolll;'"that haml that That is, perhapH, to digress too much green i,;; the greatest sedative colour IlVa . J I:!lngle rrestlU'e sct lIIicrhty armiE'f; from "illlperious Caesar" and his ami people are put to bed under OIL th" " march, that eyc that kept thc tryHt with thc winll; hut ho was '0 filtered greell light in thousands of World in awe, that chin which, lifLcd univel'l:!al a ('!lamcter that one Dlay convalescing places to speed their up a Illall inch or two siO'llalled trl'at of him [1'0111 ,t liiversity of angles. happy nerve cure. In Ireland there llla t ' ,., . s cry, domination, terror to the It nevcr can be explaincd now, for is never a call for that cure. All day t.l'Jyet ed crowd. Jlight stop a hole to instance, why Caesar, living. gave up and every day in the atmosphere of ~~ep the wind away-no morc. indeell, his "big' push" as soon as he had emerald, life goes smoothly, gently sh~ll a snail, sneaking from the SUIl­ finishell with the drive into Britain. and firmly on. It is better to take a . me, lnight do-just stop a hole, and, SOll1cthing at the other side of the holiday in Ireland therefore and cancel Jnored expertly than any dust of the further sea was antipathetic; he out in advance that necessity for the oead, seal it against the wind with his just didn't want to go there. green-light cure, artificially, elsewherc Wll slime. So that Caesar dead is no o Ireland mis ed the tide of Roman at some more awkward time. ~ore, less even, than a nail living, civilisation and aesar missed the D. L. KELLEHER, owe'Ver much the posthumous banners sight of the finest" flag" in the world. in "Coming Events." =--. Jrintipal ~ontenlS ((bid j1 tisb ~bent~ PAGE Febmary What\b theB n't'ISIT'1 ounst L'kl es I Fi~hing Season Opens on Loughs • out D~. By H. S. Skeffinglan 9~-!l5 :\1ask and Corrib. Tales. tllat are Told J-Zl Feis :\[yra, ::\[yra Hall, Dul>lin. I. By ean Healy 97 J Racing. N'aas, Co. Kildare. fish C. A. 01lntl('s, their Lit rarv & Art 8 Ploughing Championships of Ireland ehl<:vements - County - i\1eath KiUarney, County Kerry. By SPallms G. 0' CeaUaigh 1919 FURUAI\Y 191'9 I1 Racing. Baldoyle, Co. Dublin. r ,..T. 18 Racing. Leopardstown. Co. Dubliu. Cl.l:\1o insit·.le, Around Ireland .. 101 .... ..... l'U1ltalneering in Irelancl-8: -- 1 t 3 4 IS Tnternational Hockey (Ireland v. .. " " Cel many), Dublin. he Great Leinster Chain 9. 10 11 By Claude rv. Wall 102 S 6 7 20 la ::\[ar. 4. Feis Atha Cliath (Dublin 1S• 16 17 11 Feis\, :\[ansion House, Dublin. AngliIlg-The Rivers. and Lak('s 11 13 14 of Ireland lOJ-105 19 10 11 It U 14 IS' 22-23 Spring Show and Sale of Bulls Cl .. and Pigs, Cork. ontna Ut7 t8 It It enolS, 1Il Countv Olfah " .. 22-23-24 Coursing (National Meeting), Ry P. C. MaUa); 107 Powerstown Park, Clonmel. Hadio Eireallll 25 Rugby International (Ireland v. A. birectory of Irisl~ ·Hot.cl~· .. III Scotland), Dublin. 93 jRISH TR A VEL February, 1939 What the BRITISH TOURIST Likes About Us By Hanna Sheehy Skeffington Tipperary, from the Round Tower on the Rock of CasheI. [A sequel to " What U.S. Likes About Us" tn Decem'Jer ." Irish Travel. "] WROTE recently on What The Green Grass Grows .... lovely greennes of our gra..<;s. e~se Uncle Sam likes about us-what I asked, while recently in London, Nothing he had seen anywhere I of John Bull? a ks a corres­ in the world could compare WIth various persons what they liked best pondent. For we get more visitors about their Irish holiday and I got it emerald enamel, so shining, from Great Britain than we do from poli hed bright. Well had we been some surprising and quaint reaction£. any other country-and they come One, a canny Scot, from whom one christened the Emerald Isle. And at any old time, not just in the how we kept the green right through would not have looked for romance, the winter and e\'en summer-to Tourist Season. This year they said what struck him mo.,t in each flocked to Ireland when the Season him that was an eternal marvel! succeeding trip was the perennial was at its height: later they came I recall as a child how disappointed to spend Christmas in Southern, I was during a trip to England to Western and Dublin hotels, for the find that the grass was not red, as custom is growing of spending one's I had supposed from the map of Christmas from home. That way, that country it was. I thought the older generation gets over the that nowhere was grass green save ache of the vacant places at the in Ireland. Certainly in no other hearth that the years bring: and country is it as emerald green as the Bright Young Things like the in onrs. communal Christmas with fancy dress dances, drives in the snow and A New Tourist. such winter sports as, for instance, We are long familiar with the Christmas of 1938 brought. 0 I "hunting, fi. hing and shooting" know of Londoners and orth visitor from Britain; but we have Britons who book, year after year, now a new type of tourist-the for Christmas in certain Wicklow youthful hiker and the likeable hotels. Then there are the Britons persons. not so youthful, of both to whom Ireland is a happy hunting sexes who make a cult of the open ground-they shoot, hunt and fish paces and love to get a whiff, religiously in the appropriate sea on. uncontaminated by cities, of the But of these there is no need to wind upon the heath! They do write, for every reader knows them. not fish, hunt or shoot-they some­ It has been said that the Brown times botanize, they watch birds Trout of Irish streams is our best and their habits, they get up to see publicity agent, though he, poor the sun rise, they trace the rivers fellow, often gives his life in the to their source, thev climb the cause of propaganda. "You're welcome to Connemara." highest mountains, tlley swim in 94 February, 1939 IRISH TRA VEL the coldest mountain tarns. Some Chasing a Leprechaun. I met last Whitsuntide at the Saltees Some English visitors, believe it that lovely bird sanctuary off or not, actually come to Ireland in Wexford: -they came to spend a the hope of seeing fairies in some week alone with the wild birds. ancient rath, after the manner of To all these visitors the peace of Shaw's Broadbent: some have told Our countryside, especially in its me the\' heard fain' music round remote valleys and quiet dells is Kilmasllogue, as George Russell a balm to the spirit.