A Little Tour in Ireland

THE scenery on leaving _Clifden_ is for a time bleak and monotonous, but soon becomes varied and beautiful. You pass, by _Streamstown_ and _Ballinakill_, through the pleasant vi...

A car and guide, as per order, were waiting for us, when we had breakfasted next morning, and we set forth for the _Gap of Dunloe_. Entering upon the main road, we seemed to be...

The next morning found us, with the indomitable pluck of Englishmen, once more upon an outside car, as doggedly determined as two old Whigs never to resign our seats. First, we...

We witnessed at the railway station, on our arrival at _Galway_, a most painful and touching scene,--the departure of some emigrants, and their last separation, here on earth, f...

and it commands a fine view “over the water and over the Lee” over lake and meadow, and over “the Groves of Blarney,” renowned in song. The landscape rewards your exertions, whe...

The next morning at breakfast, a Scotch gentleman, with an amazing accent, would read the newspaper in such loud tones to his friend, that, not being monks, nor accustomed to be...

Measured and mapped _Connamara_ may be, but painted or described it never can. Those sublime landscapes of mountain, moor, and mere, are photographed on the memory for ever, but...

Mounted on the Cork car next morning, we passed the estuaries of _Bantry Bay_, where, the tide being out, the heron stood, lone and aristocratic, and the curlew ran nimbly among...

HAPPY and expectant, as two young cricketers, who, having made no “end of a score” in their first innings, go forth a-gain to the wicket, we started next morning in the _currus...

WE left _Kyle-more_ next morning about 8.30,--the Irishman calling to us from his window, “to give his love to the Bishop of London, and to ask him what he fancied for the Chest...

There are words which, although unnoticed in the delightful treatises of the Dean of Westminster 1 (may his fame increase!) have a strange power upon the heart,--words which can...

We arrived at _Carrs Hotel_, in _Clifden_, between 5 and 6 p.m., and strolled down the main street before dinner. The whitewashed houses are much less miserable than the cottage...

The omnibus took us to the town of Killarney, and there we mounted the Glengarriff Car. People do not look particularly wise when seated, in a public street, upon a vehicle to w...

WE left Galway for Clifden at 9.30 next morning. The public conveyance is a large-paper edition of the outside car, with an elevated seat for the driver. There is one place to b...

I was dreaming that I met Lord Evelyn, at sunrise, in the Gap of Dunloe; that he put into my hand, with a graceful bow and striking amenity, the largest horse-pistol I ever saw,...

There are two species of Undergraduates, the Fast and the Slow. I am now of the former persuasion. Originally, having promised my relations that I would take a Double First-Clas...

As schoolboys, to whom “next half” begins to-morrow--sailors on the eve of a voyage--invalids, expecting a physician, who, they know, will prescribe an unwelcome diet--yea, even...

Undoubtedly, there is solace for the forlorn in the pleasant city of _Limerick_. Justly celebrated for its Hooks, it is far more to be admired for its Eyes, for, although the fo...

FORTHWITH, I put myself into active training, and got into splendid condition for doing “justice to Ireland.” I read Moore's Melodies; I played Nora Creina upon the flute, not p...

Graduates and undergraduates (O my brothers, how gladly shall I meet you once again, when the long vacation is past!), did you ever dine, as I have dined, with an elderly Don, s...

There are objects, I doubt not, in the well-cultivated country which lies between Cork and Dublin, well worthy of special notice, but we did not pause to observe them, passing o...

_Boots. (Returning after a putative intervieiv with No. 20.)_ Plaze, yer 'onour, the gintleman's bin and bought him, and I was to give his best love to yer 'onour, and his hagle...

_The scene, like the hero, is laid in bed. The room is strewed with wearing apparel in great disorder. The appearance of the candle suggests the probability of its having been e...