Romantic Ireland;. Volume 1/2

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Mansfield Milburg Francisco. Romantic Ireland;. Volume 1/2

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER II. A TRAVEL CHAPTER

CHAPTER III. THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE

CHAPTER IV. ROMANCE AND SENTIMENT

CHAPTER V. RELIGIOUS ART AND ARCHITECTURE

CHAPTER VI. THE SCOTCH-IRISH BLEND

CHAPTER VII. IRISH INDUSTRIES

CHAPTER VIII. DUBLIN AND ABOUT THERE

CHAPTER IX. KILKENNY TO CORK HARBOUR

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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, have no realization of the unquestionable authority by which nature “sets up her boundaries and fences; and so circumscribes the discontent of man,” to borrow the words of Sterne.

The individual who merely wants to “get there” in the shortest possible time, and by the most direct road, knows not the joys of travel, nor ever will.

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The railway routes, generally speaking, also readily lend themselves to this arrangement of the topographical divisions into the south, the north, and the west. Thus one may go to Cork either via Mallow, the junction for Killarney, or via the easterly coast through the “Garden of Wicklow,” Wexford, Waterford, and Youghal.

Until Cork is reached, the tourist journeys rapidly or slowly, as the places en route may or may not have an appealing interest for him; but, once Cork, or Mallow, is reached, he is put to it to decide his future movements with something of the precision of a time-table, depending on whether he has much or little of the well-recognized commodity of time at his disposal.

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