IRELAND REVISITED.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 970, 10 November 1910, Page 4

IRELAND REVISITED.

"GOD SAVE THE POOB!"

Among those who returned from England yesterday was Mr. Allan Haguire, the well-known builder and contractor, who lias toured Great Britain pretty thoroughly during the last three or four months. Mr. Maguiro was chiefly inter-, ested in his native country, Ireland, which he refers to with a sigh. What rather appalled him was the evidence of poverty. Not that there is not money in the country—for its, population, Ireland was one of the richest countries. in. the world, says Mr. Maguire, which was proved by its banking returns; but the money did not seem to reach the peasantry, and their misery was in some cases very Mute. - "I'll never forget the sight of a poor woman and her two children, all barefooted, standing on a corner in one of. the northern towns, saying, 'God save the poor of Ireland!' It is the sort of thing we know nothing. about here, fortunately," said Mr. Maguire. "I had wished to see Dublin and old Sackville Street once more. I was dis- r appointed in both. Dublin is a very dirty city, and not even its principal street was decently kept. It rained much of the time we were in Ireland."