Identifier: romanticireland02mans (find matches)
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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g into melody again. He relatesit as follows : They came from a land beyond the sea,And now oer the western mainSet sail, in their good ships, gallantly,From the sunny land of Spain.* Oh, where is the isle weve seen in dreams,Our destind home or grave ? Thus sung they, as by the mornings beams,They swept the Atlantic wave. And lo, where afar oer ocean shinesA sparkle of radiant green,As though in that deep lay emerald mines,Whose light through the wave was seen,<Tis Innisfail — tis Innisfail!Rings oer the echoing sea,While bending to heavn the warriors hailThat home of the brave and free. Valentia — the most westerly railway-sta-tion in Europe, says Bradshaw — is the truespot where West meets East; where the NewWorld first receives its introduction to the Old. More than half a century ago, the shoresof this spacious sheet of landlocked waterwere selected by the great Duke of Wellingtonand others as the terminus of a railway whichwas to be the first link in the chain which was
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Around the Coast to Limerick 91 to bind the Old World and the New, and to jointhe ocean liners that were run from Americato Valentia, as they now do to Queenstown.The project fell through, but the island wasafterward selected as the old-world end ofthe Atlantic cable of 1865, and also that laidby the leviathan steamship, the Great Eastern,in 1866. The principal village on the island iscalled Knightstown. If favoured with a freshwesterly breeze, one beholds from the hillsidea scene of grandeur unsurpassed. The oceanengages in conflict with the rugged headlandsrising hundreds of feet out of the sea, andhurls its foaming breakers with ceaselessrhythm against the base of the rocks, only tobe rolled back in spray and foam. All outsideis a scene of wild magnificence, while, suchis the perfect shelter, the harbour itself, underall stress of weather, is as placid as a summerlake. Lord John Manners, in his notes of atour through Ireland, describes the Atlantichere as follows: The great waves c

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