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Title: The famous cities of Ireland
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: Dublin, Maunsel & Co., New York, The Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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he ^ Come-all-ye of theballad-monger, the drinking songs, and the rest.Father Trouts immortal doggerel on the Bells ofShandon is only the best known of what was acopious outcrop of verse, and it had many sources.William Gosnell, Jerry Murphy, and others con-tributed in this kind to Blackwood, and among thereputed authors of The Night before Larry wasStretched is mentioned Dowden, father of thefamous Shakespearean scholar. Edward Dowden was only one of many brilliantstudents whom Cork has sent to the Irish alma mater.Most illustrious of them all, famous in theology, andfamous in mathematics, the late Provost Salmon had,even in his reverend way, some touch of CorksBohemianism; he certainly had his share of Corksbiting wit. It is a matter of common admissionamong those who direct Irish education, that Corkand Kerry furnish more clever children to the schoolsthan all the rest of Ireland. The Southern breed isquick-witted, eloquent, and vivacious. The society to which Maginn and Mahony be-
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Shan don Steeple. 304 THE FAMOUS CITIES OF IRELAND ch. longed, for all its Irishism, was strongly opposed toIrish Nationalism. In a later day, Cork has beenmore proud to call itself rebel Cork than theAthens of Ireland. Its most conspicuous monumentis the Martyrs Memorial, which commemorates thethree Fenians who were hanged for their part inraiding a prison van at Manchester and rescuing twoFenian prisoners. The rescuers got the men away,shackled though they were, but they lost their ownchance of freedom, and in the scuffle a police ser-geant had been shot dead. Five men were sentencedto the gallows, half-a-dozen more to long terms ofpenal servitude. Judge and jury were in such ahurry that they passed capital sentence on one manwho was a casual passer-by, and this was provedbefore the execution took place, so he was dismissed.Another, Captain Edward OMeagher Condon, aveteran of the American Civil War, was an Americancitizen, and the United States threatened action ifhis life were take

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