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Title: Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Savage, John, 1828-1888, ed
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Publisher: New York, T. Kelly
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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KELSONS PILLAR-FROM CARLISLE BRIDGE. 326 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. daughter of the orator and advocate. In bidding her farewell he also bade fare-well to hope and life. He was captured at Harolds Cross, tried and convictedon the 19th September, and executed the next day on a temporary scaffolderected in Thomas Street nearly opposite St. Catherines Church. An American Tourist, who traveled through Ireland in the first decade ofthis century, speaking of Dublin, said it presented the most extraordinary con-trast of poverty and magnificence. The suburbs were composed of unseemlyhovels, not exceeding twelve or fourteen feet square. Having passed these miserable caves, the writer continues, the dwellings improve; and, on reach-ing Sackville Street, you imagine yourself in one of the most elegant cities inEurope. In walking over the city, the late Parliament House (now the Bank),the Exchange, the quay along the Liffey, and several public squares, excite thestrangers admiration. There is no part o

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