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Title: Romantic Ireland
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco), 1871- McManus, Blanche, 1869-1935, joint author
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Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
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is hemmedWith purple hills around. At mornings dawn or evenings shadeThy glorys still the same:And ever will be so arrayed,With English tourists fame. 54 Romantic Ireland An enthusiastic American, who subscribedhimself as from New Jersey, has left the fol-lowing lines upon the register of the hotelat Glengarriff: ADIEU TO GLENGARRIFF Glengarriff! on thy shaded shoreIve wandered when the sun was high,Have seen the moonlit showers pourThrough thy umbrageous canopy: Glengarriff! might I but delay, I would not say good-bye to thee:Alas ! far distant is the dayWhen I thy charms again may see.Yet, in the land remote of mine,Remembrance will thy grace renew,So, as thou canst not call me thine,Glengarriff ! loveliest, best, adieu! This valleyed and landlocked harbour ofGlengarriff terminates Bantry Bay, which,says Mr. Kipling, lies just to the eastwardof the Fastnet, that well-worn mile-post ofthe Atlantic liner/ In Kiplings Fleet in Being, which firstappeared in the Morning Post (London) in
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HUNGRY HILL. Glengarriff and Bantry Bay 57 1898, and of which even this authors mostardent devotees appear too frequently to haveno knowledge, are to be found some wonder-ful bits of descriptions of Irish coast scenery.Therein are recounted virile experiences andobservations on board the flag-ship of theChannel fleet during the autumn manoeuvres;and, from Lough Swilly in the north to BantryBay in the south, the author depicts, with amaster mariners fidelity, the characteristics ofthe coast-line, — its harbours, bays, headlands,and ports, — in so incomparable a fashionthat it is to him that we must accord the rap-idly increasing appreciation of, and interest in,the charms of Ireland as a tourist resort. Coupled with the charms of Glengarriffsbay is its sister attraction — no less winsome— of the monarch mountain of these parts,Sliabhna-goil (i. e., the Mountain of theWild People ), more commonly called SugarLoaf. Why it is so named is, of course,obvious to all who see it; but i

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