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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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uppressing the re-bellion of a subject race, troops always used, and werejustified in using, great severities; but that thesavageries committed on her people and their likewere not so easily forgivable. Among the Catholicpopulation what persisted was the tradition of a greatfight in which an unorganised county brought thewhole British power into peril. The whole countryside is full of memories.Staying at Camolin, near to where the first fighttook place, I went for a walk and fell into talk withthe first man I met, a stone-breaker by the roadside,who gave me as much vivid topographical detail aswould furnish many pages. But it was at New Rossthat I had the most perfect presentment of traditionfrom an old man, one of the self-made scholars thatyou find here and there in Ireland. Born in 1823,he was brought up by his grandmother, who livedto be a hundred and ten, and who had full and first-hand knowledge of all those scenes. But to this headded life-long study; when I saw him he was past
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y J ^^ #5- The Tholsel, Nciv Aoss. 278 THE FAMOUS CITIES OF IRELAND ch. eighty, and blind, but piled-up volumes of theJournals and Statutes of the Irish Parliament, richly-bound, lay heaped on the clay floor. His maintrouble was that careless generations had no respectfor the books which he treasured, even when deniedthe light of his eyes to use them. In the long hours of our talk many pictures wereflashed upon my mind. Part of the strength of therebels lay in the numbers of marksmen from thebarony of Shelmalier, who were duckfowlers then asthey are now, along the reedy stretches of the tidalSlaney river, between Enniscorthy and the sea. Hisgrandmother had seen them in action with long gunsthat they rested on a mans shoulder to steady theaim. But chiefly the talk was of the battle in NewRoss itself—a turning-point of the rebellion. Thetown, which was originally fenced with walls byStrongbows sister, Basilia, wife to Raymond deGros, had kept its ring of walls till 1798. It lieson a s

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