One Irish Summer

"Oh, Paddy, dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round? The Shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground: No more St. Pathrick's Day we'll keep, his color can't be s...

Occasionally we saw a stone cabin in the far distance, from which a pale stream of smoke was arising, but until noonday, when we dropped into the valley and approached the littl...

Only a few miles from Drogheda, and on the direct road to Tara, is a collection of tumuli which are unsurpassed in Europe or any other part of the world. They mark the location...

There is a hideous kind of hobgoblin called a dullaghan who can take off and put on his head at will; in fact, people generally see him with that useful member under his arm or...

He was so deaf that he couldn't understand us, and he mumbled his words so that we couldn't understand him, except now and then a word, but he was so anxious to be of service, s...

The City Hall of Belfast is an imposing building, which cost a million and a half of dollars, and is very ornate for its purpose. It stands in the center of a large square, admi...

His only child, Mary Martin, married an American, Colonel Bell of New York, and lived in that city until her death. Although she was known as the Princess of Connemara and inher...

The castle dates back to the days when it was necessary to have some stronghold, as the king said, "to curb the city as well as to defend it," and to provide a safe place for th...

An investigation made by the estates commissioners showed that 3,245 of these persons had holdings of five acres, 987 had holdings of between five and ten acres, 912 between ten...

Adjoining the village is Bantry House, a stately mansion surrounded by a beautiful lawn and grove, which was the residence of the late Earl of Bantry, and was inherited by his n...

But sometimes they won't be let alone. In the summer of 1908 there was a riot in the town of Thurles and a mob did a lot of damage in order to show its disapproval of legal proc...

Wexford is very different from Dublin and every other place in Ireland that we saw, because of its narrow streets, which are more like those of a Spanish or oriental town, some...

The castle is well kept, and Sir George Colthurst, the owner, makes it as pleasant as he can for the thousands of tourists who come here every year from all parts of the world,...

Parnell's grave in Prospect Cemetery is not neglected, although I have seen it stated repeatedly that such was the case. It occupies the most prominent place in the cemetery, on...

The term "himself" is used to describe the boss, the head of a family, the chief man in an association, the commander of a ship, or the colonel of a regiment. It is applied in t...

"And there was Bill Beresford," he continued, "a gallant soldier and the best horseman in Ireland--good, old 'Ulundi Bill,' as he was fondly known. There isn't a man between the...

Most of these institutions were in France, and they were closed and desecrated by the French Revolution, which expelled their inmates, profaned their altars, and confiscated the...

Tom Moore was a chum of Robert Emmet at Trinity College. After graduation he entered journalism and was connected with the _London Times_ and the _London Chronicle_. He went to...

Canon Hayman, who was curate of St. Mary's Church at Youghal for many years and made a thorough investigation of the history of the town and the church and all the remarkable in...

Mr. Wyndham, the author of the Land Act of 1903, stated in the House of Commons that 159,000 farmers had applied for the assistance of the government to purchase their holdings,...

The long line of the O'Neill ancestry was terminated in 1607 by the flight of Hugh, Earl of Tyrone, after his unsuccessful rebellion against Queen Elizabeth, and the O'Dohertys,...

"The average daily attendance seems very small, and is due to several reasons: first, the lack of accommodations and the long distances between schoolhouses in the thinly settle...

The eighth earl subdued all the native chieftains and made them submit to English authority. An early historian describes him as "A mightie man of stature, full of honoure and c...

Ultimately, King Daire gave Patrick the hill he coveted, then called Drum-saileach, the "ridge of the willows." The story is quaintly interesting. Daire brought to Patrick a bro...

Fin MacCool kept his tubs of gold in the lake near Muckross Abbey and his dog Bran watched them. "One day a brute of an Englishman, an' a great diver intirely, came over to git...

"Our next step was to organize societies among the farmers for the co-operative purchase of supplies of various kinds, for the purchase of seeds, manures, feeding stuffs, machin...

In 1903 a young newspaper man named Arthur Griffith conceived the idea of applying the Hungarian policy to Ireland and boycotting the British government. He wrote a good deal fo...

During the entire history of the institution its faculty and students have been loyal to the British government and to the Protestant church. It has refused to receive Roman Cat...

A peat bog is not always in a hollow, but often on a hillside, and sometimes at considerable height, which contradicts the theory that bogs are due to defective drainage. Scienc...

It is a curious fact that the jaunting car, although it is distinctively Irish, and would not be tolerated in any other country, was invented and introduced by an Italian, Charl...

As one might naturally infer, the advent of parties of "congests" into localities where they do not belong is not welcomed by the local residents. On the contrary, there is a bi...

"Is it singin' yees want?" said the verger of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, when we entered that ancient sanctuary shortly before the hour for worship on a gloomy, drizzly Sa...

The O'Neills were kings of Ulster in ancient times and their coat of arms was a red hand, whereby hangs a startling tale. According to tradition, the original O'Neill came over...

More laborers' cottages have been erected by the government in County Limerick than in any other part of Ireland, and more are being built all the time. Any laboring man who wan...

Near the entrance to St. Patrick's Cathedral is a long, narrow, brass tablet upon which are inscribed the names of the fifty-seven deans who have had ecclesiastical jurisdiction...

There is a great deal of drunkenness in Ireland. There is more in Dublin than anywhere else, but not so much as in Scotland. In Ireland a saloon is called "a public house" and a...

The famous battle of Clontarf, the final struggle between Christianity and heathenism on the soil of Ireland, was fought here on Good Friday in the year 1014 between the Danes u...

The largest buildings in the county towns of Ireland are workhouses, almshouses, and insane asylums, and they are always well filled. I visited an insane asylum at Killarney, wh...

Nearly every one of the peers who has sold his estates in Ireland under the land act has taken the cash and has gone to London to live, and if home rule is ever granted to the I...

In Ireland the shopkeeper now educates his son for a profession. The sons of contractors become architects and civil engineers. The sons of lawyers and doctors enter the army an...

"In the following year, 1882, the Arrears of Rent Act was secured by the Irish parliamentary party under the leadership of Parnell, and that measure wiped off the slate in some...

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On p. 274, the village of Ennisworthy is referred to several times as the site of the battle of Vinegar Hill. This took place in the environs of Enniscorthy. The spelling is ret...