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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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hing eyes, soul- 8 Romantic Ireland stirring and beaming with goodness; such agraceful mien and frankness of manner,blended with a quiet reserve; and, altogether,such a kindly air about them as to fully meritany eulogy which has been bestowed uponIrish women. One is not surprised at theirbeing addressed by such mellifluous epithets as Cushla machree, asthore, mavourneen!These are endearments which certainly soundappropriate to all, whatever be the subtle shadeof distinction. Entrance to Cork via the river Lee givesprominence, first of all, to Shandons squarechurch tower, of whose bells sang FatherProut: The bells of Shandon, that sound so grand onThe pleasant waters of the River Lee. Shandon Church is, for itself, decidedlyworth seeing, though by no stretch of theimagination could it be called a beautifulstructure. Up a long hill and up two flightsof stone steps, one climbs to the quiet little oldgray church, built in 1720, with its spiringtower and sounding peal of eighteenth-century
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SHANDON CHURCH TOWER Queenstown, Cork, and Blarney n bells. Seventeen hundred and fifty is the datecast on each of the eight. St. Anne Shandon, or Sean-dun, signifying the old fort, is situated on Shandon Hill,and is really a suburb of Cork. Its fame, inthe minds of most, reverts to Father Proutsworld-famous lyric, The Bells of Shandon.If in the mood, the listener will experiencemuch the same emotions as are set forth inthose pleasing stanzas. If not, as with mostother things which have been similarly eulo-gized, the traveller will condemn it as merehollow sentiment and bosh. But the latterwill, likely enough, not prove to be the case. The church was erected on the site of theold Church of Our Lady, or St. Mary Shan-don, a very ancient edifice, destroyed at theburning of the suburbs at the siege of Corkby Marlborough in 1690. In the decretalepistles of Pope Innocent III., it is mentionedas the Church of St. Mary in the Mountain.In 1536, the rector of St. Marys, one Dom-inick Tyrrey, w

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