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Title: Priests and people in Ireland
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: McCarthy, Michael J. F. (Michael John Fitzgerald)
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Publisher: Dublin, Hodges
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tpaths of the main road or through the PeoplesGardens, with infants in their arms and smokins: hus-bands by their sides, or clutched at hand and skirt bytoddling youngsters requiring to be towed. The electrictram has stopped outside the gate, not permitted tocome farther; not permitted to carry those gasping,weak-loined mothers and those pale infants up thehill into the fresh air, where the grass and the treesmake it so pleasant to rest. The Government iswilling to let the trams into the park, but the popularpress unanimously oppose the concession in the allegedinterests of a score or two of jarvies. The Phoenix Park,and all its beauties, the plain of the Fifteen Acres, theFurry Glen with its lake, the view of the salmon-weirfrom the Magazine bluff, and the many other prospectsof the winding, placid Liffey, and of the blue Dublinmountains, are all therefore inaccessible to those hun-dreds of poor Dublin mothers and their infants, towhom the Park might be such a priceless boon ; and to
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PHCENIX PARK ON SUNDAY 269 those lazy or tired Dublin artisans; and those pale-faced Dublin girls with their wealth of glossy hair, allof whom would gladly pay a penny for the tram. Itis such a long walk up the hill to the PhcBnix Column,past the front of the Viceregal Lodge, to that centralspace midway in the main road, where those threegreat houses, tenanted by the Governments three chiefofficials in Ireland—to wit, the lord-lieutenant, thechief-secretary, and the under-secretary—front eachother, occupying the best portion of the Phcenix Park.Such a long uphill climb from Parkgate Street formen, and above all, for women, who have had scantrest and no good air for six days! Yet this middle-space, where the official lodges stand, is only half-wayto the Castleknock Gate, and, having reached it, youhave not seen half the Park. It is five oclock on aSeptember Sunday afternoon, as I have said. The Parkin the vicinity of the Parkgate Street Gate—that isto say, the portion of it betwe

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