SKETCHES IN IRELAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 51, 18 April 1874, Page 12

SKETCHES IN IRELAND.

Akother evidence of advancement in Ireland is the building of new streets m old towns-. -The metropolis presents a striking instance. I had lived in Dublin ten years, and of- course knew it " like a boob." To my great surprise I find it now so enlarged, that on pacin« its suburban exiension* I could not help fancying that I was at the <rther side of the Atlantic. All sides of the capital present this evidence, but the extensions south-easterly are to mo wonderful. Your street railroad system is in full blast in Dublin, and more commodious cars I

hare not seen; in Cincinnati, Washington or New York—indeed. I think the Dublin onerexeel, owing to their excellent spiral stair, (of sond iron), and the comfortable accommodation overhead, to eacerlT •ought by light-teem; . . . * . ,-' ".■ '" ;' O' l noWYtmra iw oonc . . „...- •'*"' < > ;< tyfi* *&*****">& I "« toW, in Cork obtains there, butfi did 2& TO* J ad « e *» miiel^ IfobVd K »hpiraTer, the lit?h» town of mwbndge, newrthe Cufrmgh oTKildNfe&iaft than doubled -in the Sfe ? W,^ -^•.,T«ni»We'« City of King*,": Cashel, U the Mine Mbuntrath, in the Queen's County; instead' '°?ftW* 1 "* V** " Icould £ «cc aridliear in &£ night's sojourn, and Clonmel h« to be content with a mere remnant of ! the.ifßmenM trade which ifc had monopolist for generations its the agricultural depot of Hhree or foiir centre, j>Hor to railroad* in th» i^t '£" '?"— ?"# £— J *]«»MP«nw>tthiß onoe imporWcent* that the townt of WiWrford arid Tipperary on its flasks hare #o notoriously advanced within the last twenty years. , . , VT ■';',- ' _ HATHOOTH 00LCEO1. . >"' '.„//' Bufc how is it with disendowed Maynooth-it was, 1 understand, never *o flourishing. I have come from that eitabli«K™n* iS »>^>°~ ext*nde\than ever it was before^AiSflSloAif buddings, formufe about onethmi bf .the whole &E°ha! b*n recently erected, making the whole fabric as imposing to th« B ™T«rAto Trinity itself. JAUHalFows, whichl I visited thTS day, uJmHarS enlarged,io much so that the fabric of fifteenyearTLo can harilr b« recognised. *« ;the_ vicinity of this msdtu&oTis^UhvJ^fcfte recently erecWd by "Cardinal Cullen, arid' known as SoS. ?n the opposite direction- of the metropolis, far bufc beyond Bathmines ' bnfe ms*M >J *•^-treetraa carsris mother neV coH^fSISS l to= the propagation of the^th. *As for new churc&sV wnVinHl monMtenes^ndhospitals. there is no^counting them all through tie land. During my absence the Mater Misericord^ Hospital, of Dublin, has been ereoted'-a I>uuaing which any metropolis of Europe mikht well feel proud of. - . - . , V , *" :: ~ ft™ " : .'V KHaiABNBX CATHXDB&Zi. : • n iiSfP, V ■? 11^^' in 4 h e P°P»»s^q«arte* of Ireland, is anew Cathedral of splendid proportions, with the most costly and be»utijful .ft? \ haTe e Tl r . Been - T1"!/ { aw five in number, each altar oC a dtferent typ* with it* own wparate corresponding sanctuary.rand nohe f e ,. el ??- h * ye - 1 B?en the ? r peers. I -understand one of them ft at 11^ 11 — -° 8 u ?^.^ eEapl of Keninare, and I am r told;the Irish in America must be credited with a respectable portion of the iiwds which erected the others as well as the. main pile. Even bat in tne rural districts, as.it were b» tKe (road side, I have seen new temples to the. living Go* which^nval some of thecitychapels of -fifteen years ago, while these latter have recently given place to buildings worthy ofthe people's charactenstio faith. A notable instance of this is"he rural cWh of Latten and the parish churh oMipperarytownrwitbin a few miles of each other-the, former throwing the, old civic chaS into the shade, which m the spirit of Christian pride and. Catholic ° rd £\ f !?" S I iUC T ? Wh^ WOuld not " hame the^netropo^ lt ?fi f .? f ; 1 * "^uW^have it for a Cathedral. -The mai^altarofS w i* X magmflcent_reredos,of stone. carving, is.such another airthose of the.KiUarney Cathedral, above referred to. -I understand a OathX landlordof the .locality is,- the principally ja£ ent in the. erection of • both -indeed, the former I understand, comes mainly out ofhisnri. vate purse. ** 1 THE KtW OS KENHABE. <Z * h VZ * lß ° ma .? 6 a lltlh de , to ? r - to If * e J« 8 oo the celebrated «NunofKenrnare,'now popularly named Miss Cusack/ Thirdart of my letter^therefore, does not come under the.above date or address, having beep written smte I left Killarney. The journey from KiUarneyw twenty-one miles, and from Killarney to GHengariffe as far again, by car and horses, over the' mouhtaim-the bare prospect of such a journey by such conveyance is calculated to scare one at first but upon trial I found it a very pleasant journey ' The moment- the literary nun heard me speak of Cincinnati, she exclaimed, •« O, the See of my esteemed friend Archbishop !'' Sha most cordially pressed me to stay for dinner and off she wen" to send a messenger to thehotel to hold my luggage leafc the carman take it off to Glengariffe. W.thmany thanks f left, however, 'reacW O-lengariffe that evening. While at the convent quite Vnum Wot, tourists going m the opposite Affection (i. c. from Macroooa to KilLrney),bp.lted m to the eacred precents-all, non-Catholica as weir as Catholics, to see the famous nun and nunnery of Keumare The U«S aead of the convent is Miss o"Hagan, sister of the Lord Chancellor an excellent portrait of whom is to be seen in one of the rooms. Miss Cusaclf (so to call her), M personaUy of the ordinary woman size, with B gg J °-. ? atuped » »™l»f countenance, beaming with animation W and intelligence. Having riiown us the handiwork of the pupils in tha shape of needle, crochet and lace work, which is on, exhibition and for sale (and more delicate work of the kind I have never eeen) she then got up a little concert for us seejo let us that not only the head and hands, but likewise the voice, is highly cultivated in the poorest quarter of old Ireland; *