Category: Travel Writing
Queenstown has been called a mere appendage to its harbour, and, truly, it is a case of the tail wagging the dog, though the residents of Cork will tell you it is Cork Harbour, anyway, and Queenstown is nothing but a town that was made by the American War of Independence, and...
Queenstown has been called a mere appendage to its harbour, and, truly, it is a case of the tail wagging the dog, though the residents of Cork will tell you it is Cork Harbour,...
5. CHAPTER II.If one looks at a map of the southwest of Ireland, it will be seen that its whole coast-line is broken into serrations, making harbours, islands, bays, and coves. If he should g...
6. CHAPTER III.Killarney is a considerable town, rather prim and staid and too offensively well kept to be wholly appealing. It is by no means handsome of itself, nor are its public buildings.
7. CHAPTER IV.It is at Fastnet that the great incoming Atlantic liners, bound for Queenstown, or through St. George's Channel to Liverpool, first make land and run up their four-deep strings...
8. CHAPTER V.No river in Great Britain, neither the Thames, nor the Clyde, nor even the Severn, equals the river Shannon and its lakes, either in length or in importance as an inland waterwa...
9. CHAPTER VI.It may not be recognized, it certainly is not a widely known fact, that Galway at one time--however extraordinary it may now appear--arrived at a pitch of mercantile greatness s...
10. CHAPTER VII.It has been suggested before now that the domain of Achill Island, off the coast of Mayo, that wonderland of natural unspoiled grandeur, be preserved as a sort of national park.
11. CHAPTER VIII.The Bay of Donegal, and indeed the whole Donegal district, is mellowed and tempered by the everflowing Gulf Stream, which, so the scientists say, were it diverted by any terrest...
12. CHAPTER IX.Londonderry was the original site of an abbey for the canons of the Augustinian order founded by St. Columbkille in 546. There was also an abbey for Cistercian nuns founded in 1...
13. CHAPTER X.Journeying from the Giant's Causeway to Belfast and Dublin, through the north-eastern counties of Antrim and Down, one comes upon a region little known to the casual traveller,...
14. CHAPTER XI.Drogheda, at the mouth of the Boyne, first calls to mind the memorable siege by Cromwell, and the "Battle of the Boyne." In 1649 Cromwell landed at Dublin with an army of twelve...
15. CHAPTER XII.The stranger to Ireland will never imagine, as the result of his visit to Belfast, that the land is the home of the effete civilization that some English writers would have him...