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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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heart. . . . There is nothing in Eng- ROSS CASTLE Killarney and About There 83 land or Scotland as beautiful as Killarney;. . . and, if mountain, wood, and water, har-moniously blent, constitute the most perfectand adequate loveliness that nature presents,it surely must be owned that it has, all theworld over, no superior. CHAPTER IV. AROUND THE COAST TO LIMERICK TT is at Fastnet that the great incomingA Atlantic liners, bound for Queenstown, orthrough St. Georges Channel to Liverpool,first make land and run up their four-deepstrings of signals; where, as Mr. Kipling says: Every day brings a ship,Every ship brings a word;Well for him who has no fear,Looking seaward, well assuredThat the word the vessel bringsIs tht word that he should hear. Beyond Bantry Bay, Black Bull Head passeson the starboard, and, soon after, Dursly Headand Dursly Island. The island is said to con-tain a population of over five hundred, withno priest, no public house, and no constabulary.A veritable Arcadia! 84
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Around the Coast to Limerick 87 Bolus Head, Skelligs Rocks, and Bray Headpassed, one comes to Valentia Island and theentrance to Dingle Bay. One of the mostfondly recalled of all Irish legends is that ofthe landing of the Milesians, as they came upthrough the Biscayan Bay upon what theythen knew as Innis Ealga — the Noble Isle.Then it was ruled by three brothers, princesof Tuatha de Danaan, after whose wives (whowere also three sisters) the island was alter-nately called, Eire, Banva, and Fiola. Bythese names Ireland is still frequently knownto the poets. Whatever difficulties or obsta-cles beset the Milesians in landing, they atonce attributed to the necromancy of theTuatha de Danaans. When the Milesianscould not discover land where they thoughtto sight it, they simply agreed that the Tuathade Danaans had, by their black arts, renderedit invisible. At length they descried the island,its tall blue hills touched by the last beamsof the setting sun; and from the galleys therearose a s

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