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THREEPENCE VOL. ~-N'cr.'"'!Y OCTOBER, 1944 SWIMMING THE CATTLE ASHORE IN THE WEST UrrUJJll~IQ)(Q11f\ ~~ Jtr~ rc~~'gm .~ Th)P\~1J~~ Official Organ of the Irish Tourist Association :"1111'11111'1"'11111'1"11111'111111111'11"1111111'1""1""""""11""""""'1""'1"1'1'11'1'1'11'111"1' DUBLIN * BANK OF IRELAND N ESTABLISHED 1783 FACILITIES FOR TRAVELLERS AT Head Office: COLLEGE GREEN, DUBLIN s BELFAST CORK .. DERRY "Where North meets South" AND 100 TOWNS THROUGHOUT IRELAND PHONE: DUBLIN 71371 (6 Lines) EVERY DESCRIPTION OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE Resident Manager BUSINESS TRANSACTED T. O'Sullivan OIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'"I"'"OUIIIIIIIIIIIIII"IIIIIIIIII"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"IIIIIII11I11I11I1HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII • .. ~I .~O\)\ r_~ ~\\. 0\.:7 OV ~~ Deca",e food is of primary importance. we do not apologise fOI" brinl!ins: it so loudly to the attt:ntion of hote1 4 Unrivalled for Cuisine and Service __ .... _ ..__ iers and restaurateurs. "Ve would ." emphasise. too, that only with up-ta-date kitchen equipment can the most efficient results he obtained. \Ve'd Superb Cuisine makes the Clarence menus be glad to have your inquiries when you need any equipment concerned unrivalled and appetisin8' The service, too, with the preparation and cookin" of food. Suppliers of Domestic. which is prompt and courteous. will please the Hotel and Restaurant Kitchen Equipment, we recently transferred Our Kitchen Equipment Dept. to lar~er and more central premises most exacting patrons. 'Phone 76178 at 51 Dawson Streel (beside Royal Hibernian Holel). Phone 74296 EVANS LTD. 7he CLARENCE HOTEL Dublin 51 Dawson St. (next Royal Hibernian Hotel) _O·Keef/e·s•••••••••••••••••••• L IRIS Official Organ of t~~ '"]ris~ t50urist Association an~ of t~~ '"]ris~ '11otds 7~~~ration VOL. OCTOBER. 1944 NOTES AND NEWS IRELAND ON ITS FEET AGAIN. MIDGES-BUT NOT IN IRELAND. Ireland is learning to walk again. Best proof of One hundred and fifty different kinds of midges that is the record number. almost 80.000. who came are, according to the British Parliamentary Secretary to see the Gaelic football final at Dublin. A couple for Scotland. a great deterrent to visitors. especially of thousand. at least. of these. covered a walking in the West Highlands where too many bites keep section up to 10 or 20 miles in default of regular the tourists away. There have been many wise­ transport. We have escaped almost all the horrors cracks uttered about insects in Ireland, but we have of war. The compulsory return to shanks' mare is one never had a grand total of 1SO like this Scottish of the accidental benefits of it. With easy. lazy trans­ plague. The truth is that Ireland has fewer insect port. young Ireland was beginning to lose its energy. pests than almost any country in the world. "THINGS YOUR VILLAGE SLOW MOTION, BUT LACKS." CROWDED TRAVEL. "The Landmark." a At the LT.A. Annual bright new journal of LT.A. ANNUAL General M e e tin g in Muintir na Tire, writes: Dublin on Oct. 24th there " An American broadcast GENERAL MEETING will be an opportunity for agency recently inqUired reviewing another remark­ of the men in the front This year's AnnualGeneral Meeting able travel and catering lines of battle what they sea son, for the 1944 would like to hear over the of the Irish Tourist Association recQrd. in spite of the radio. These men who will be held in the Gresham Hotel, delays of rail and road. have faced and are facing has been as surprising as battle in all its horrors Dublin, on Tuesday, October 24th, those of all the war years. asked for the . sound of at 11 a.m. The meeting will be The stay-at-home holiday chickens chirriping.· for did not seriously diminish the . lowing of cattle at followed by a Luncheon at 1 p.m. movement. and as many milking time,' and for the in the hotel. A large attendance is travellers as ever seem to . homely sizzle of bacon on have stowed themselves the pan over a kitchen expected, and those who intend to into the trains and buses. fire.' The jazzbands. the travel are urgently advised to book The popular centres were . hotcha . songs. the things frequently booked out, and your village lacks, they do their accommodation in Dublin visitors who had not not miss." well in advance. secured accommodation in advance had often to grow THE FOYLE SHORE OF footsore in search of it on DONEGAL. the spot. The famous fuchsia hedges of the West and South have more than a rival in the great growth along FOR CHRISTMAS POSTING. the road between Moville and Greencastle on the On the back cover page of this issue. three of the Foyle coast of Donegal, where the real blood red variety of Christmas cards available from the LT.A. variety grows as high as 20 feet in places. Altogether are shown. Elsewhere. details will be found of the view of sea. hillside and plantations on that various LT.A. publications suitable for the Christmas Foyle shore of Donegal is one of the loveliest post. A new four-colour Map of Dublin is also in nature-pictures in the North. course of preparation. "LAST OF THE TOLL-BRIDGES." {turiositie.s aroun~ 3re.lan~ Driver and Collector at Fiddown, Co. Kilkenny. HEDGE-" PRINTING." STRANGE "HERD." A topiary artist" signs" his work at Terryglass, Co. Tipp. PEPPER AND SALT. Salterstown, Co. Louth, near Pepperstown. Currachs at BaIlinagowl, Dingle. October, 1944 IRISH TRAVEL 479 G"t'lllllll'IIII""'I'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'11111111111111"'1""1'1111""'1111111111'1111111111111.1111"111'1"IIIIIIII'II'II~'I'III'ltlllll'IIIIIII"IIII"I"1111111'111111111111'1111"'111111111111111111111111'1IIIIII"II"I'IIIIIIII"~ I CALL BACK THE TRAVELLER (27) I E'IIIIIII"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'IIIIIIII"""IIII"11111111I111t11'11'III'lIlllllllllllftl"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.1I1'1"111""'1111"""111111111111111111'11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111"11111111"1'[;] English and Scottish farmers and yeomen are The Famine Years already taking possession of large portions of the lJT was natural that we should look with anxiety soiL turning it, almost at once, into great frUitfulness Jl to the moment in which the Government census and beauty. Almost every week, from the sister would come into our hands. We were prepared kingdoms, there are considerable importations of for much, but we were not prepared to find that the men and cattle, through the several ports of London~ decrease in the population, dating from 1846 (i.e., derry, Sligo and Galway. for five years), was nearly two million. Not that the -Connemara, etc.. by JOSEPH DENHAM SMITH entire two million have die<;l. Nearly a quarter of a ( 1853). million annually fly in frail barks across the Atlantic, declaring by the desperate energy of their flight thal Ireland is no longer a region fit for them to live in. Winter or summer it is all the same. I have been at "To portray scenery by language IS not Clew Bay in the dark days of January when the possible" storm howled pitilessly from over the ocean. Many wrecks had just occurred. Yet there was the help~ o portray scenery by language is not possible. less flotilla. There, too, the crowds of emigrants. often as the feat has been attempted in our How vast their courage! How apocryphal their T time. The utmost one can do is to convey fate! the impression of beauty, grandeur, or picturesque~ Downward they move, a melancholy band, ness; and one would but use familiar epithets and Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. adjectives to but little purpose were one to attempt· to depict in words what one saw on Long Island, KNOCKING AT THE DOOR OF A TOMB. at Muckross Abbey, at Torc Waterfall, in the Lower The effect of this depopulation is most visible. As Lake, the Upper Lake, the Long Range, or what one to the people, a strange desolation marks the places gazed out on at Glena Cottage. of their departure. From Mullingar to Donegal, on Equally futile would it be to try to describe the the one hand, and from the same centre to Cork, drive from Killarney to Glengarriff by Kenmare Bay. en the other, including five of the counties of I can only say to everybody: "Do not die without Connaught, there are fearful signs of depopulation. taking it." As for Glengarriff, I scarcely know how The wave of the Atlantic scarcely beats on a single anyone who goes there ever leaves it. For my part, barony or isle along the extreme west which does not I have been there ever since. It is a haven of evince that a great social calamity has passed over absolute beauty and perfect rest. the people. Who now, in visiting the villages and hamlets of Mayo, Kerry, Galway or Clare, can say, TEDIOUS HASTE. as of old: "There is a welcome for the stranger in every house." On the contrary, the traveller may But the Irish are so casual and inaccurate? Perhaps they are.