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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
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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is so often claimed by the proud native.The celebrated Gap of Dunloe is far moredeserving for its natural scenic splendour, and,in its way, rivals anything in Ireland. The popular method of imbibing the charmof Dunloe is a combination of picnic, al frescoluncheons, and donkey-riding. This answerswell enough for the tripper, but is as un-satisfying to the real lover of nature as animitation Swiss chalet set out in a Londonpark, or a Japanese tea-garden built out ofbamboo poles from Africa. The Gap of Dunloe is a grand defile, per-haps five miles in length, which can only beexplored and truly enjoyed by a pilgrimagealong its solitary and rugged road on foot.Its scenic aspect is gloomy and grand, withmirrored lakes, lofty mountains, and a thickundergrowth of heather and ivy. It is, how-ever, in no manner theatrical. Through thiswild glen ripples the river Lee, linking its fivetiny lakes as with a silver thread. At the upper end of the gap one emergesinto The Black Valley, somewhat apoc-
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THE EAGLES NEST. Killarney and About There 79 ryphally stated to be a gloomy, depressingravine. The sun, it appears, does not shine down itslength for long in the day, as it is flanked oneither side by precipitous hills. The averageimagination will not, however, conjure up anyvery dark suspicions with regard to its past,judging from the aspect of the valley betweenthe hours of nine in the morning and two inthe afternoon. Both before and after thesehours there is no sunlight; and, because of thedense, long-reaching shadows which are pro-jected across it, it was so named. There is a good weeks rambling here tospots already famed in history for their beauty;but one must search them out for himselfas a personal experience. Englands poet laureate has written in praiseof Killarney in a fashion which should pleasehis severest critics, those who have mournedthe lack of a single thought in his verse. Thisis certainly not true with regard to his prose,which, in the following lines, so justly an

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