Category: Travel Writing
In times past books of travel were frequently written for the perusal of "a few intimate friends." Such was the purpose of a little pamphlet entitled "A Trip to Ireland," which a few years ago fell into the hands of the writer. Its author and place of publication are unknown,...
In times past books of travel were frequently written for the perusal of "a few intimate friends." Such was the purpose of a little pamphlet entitled "A Trip to Ireland," which...
5. CHAPTER II.The true peripatetic philosopher is the only genuine traveller, and the vagabond and the pilgrim are but varieties of the species. The "personally conducted," alone or in droves...
6. CHAPTER III.One hundred or more years ago, when Arthur Young first wrote his journal of a tour in Ireland, those who had Ireland's welfare most at heart deplored the fact that "her greatnes...
7. CHAPTER IV.The ingredients which most writers on Ireland, the historians, the antiquarians, the political agitators, the publicists, the poets, and, last but not least, the fictionists--fr...
8. CHAPTER V.It has been claimed that Ireland has no distinctive art or architecture, and that the venerable ruins of monasteries and churches, the stone crosses, the curiously interwoven tr...
9. CHAPTER VI.Those who have studied deeply the subject of the ethnology of the Scotch and Irish races will know, and have often used as an illustration, the likeness, which is discernible to...
10. CHAPTER VII.It is usually supposed that there is very little romance about industry or business of any sort. In general, this is doubtless true, but there is an element which enters into ce...
11. CHAPTER VIII.Phoenix Park, belonging anciently to the Knights Templars, is more beautiful, as a city park, than those possessed by any other city of the size of Dublin in the British Isles,...
12. CHAPTER IX.If Lismore is the most celebrated and stately of Irish castles, Kilkenny, at least, comes more nearly to the popular conception of the feudal stronghold of the romancers and poe...