Romantic Ireland. Volume 2/2

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Mansfield Milburg Francisco. Romantic Ireland. Volume 2/2

CHAPTER I. QUEENSTOWN, CORK, AND BLARNEY

CHAPTER II. GLENGARRIFF AND BANTRY BAY

CHAPTER III. KILLARNEY AND ABOUT THERE

CHAPTER IV. AROUND THE COAST TO LIMERICK

CHAPTER V. THE SHANNON AND ITS LAKES

CHAPTER VI. GALWAY AND ITS BAY

CHAPTER VII. ACHILL TO SLIGO

CHAPTER VIII. THE DONEGAL HIGHLANDS

CHAPTER IX. LONDONDERRY AND THE GIANT’S CAUSEWAY

CHAPTER X. ANTRIM AND DOWN

CHAPTER XI. THE BOYNE VALLEY

CHAPTER XII. BELFAST AND ARMAGH

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TWO of the most famous men in English literature have passed unstinted praise on the beauty and charm of the southern Irish coast.

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 go to the coast itself, he will have revealed to him a wondrous kaleidoscope, – alternate scenes of sweet, pathetic gentleness, and stern and rugged grandeur, all full of engrossing charm.

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“What sends picturesque tourists (What, if you please, Mr. Thackeray, are picturesque tourists?) to the Rhine or Saxon Switzerland, when, within five miles of the pretty inn at Glengarriff, there is a country of the magnificence of which no pen can give an idea? I would like to be a great prince, and bring a train of painters over to make, if they could, and according to their several capabilities, a set of pictures of the place. Were such a bay lying upon English shores, it would be the world’s wonder.”

Glengarriff is all that Thackeray pictured it in prose. It is more than that, – more, indeed, than is within the power of words to describe, though its beauty is somewhat of the stage-scenery and landscape-painting order.

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