Newry, Armagh, Belfast From Dundalk To Newry : Newry, Armagh, Belfast--from Dundalk to Newry. My kind host gave orders to the small ragged boy that drove the car to take "particular care of the little gentleman," and the car-boy, grinning in appreciation of the joke, drove off at his best pace, and landed his cargo at Newry after a pleasant...
A Summer Day In Dublin Or There And Thereabouts : A Summer Day in Dublin, or there and thereabouts THE coach that brings the passenger by wood and mountain, by brawling waterfall and gloomy plain, by the lonely lake of Festiniog and across the swinging world's wonder of a Menai Bridge, through dismal Anglesea to dismal Holyhead--the Birmingham...
Killarney Stag Hunting On The Lake : Killarney--Stag-hunting on the Lake. Mrs. Macgillicuddy's house is at the corner of the two principal streets of Killarney town, and the drawing-room windows command each a street. Before one window is a dismal, rickety building, with a slate face, that looks like an ex-town hall. There is a row...
Ballinasloe To Dublin : Ballinasloe to Dublin. During the cattle-fair the celebrated town of Ballinasloe is thronged with farmers from all parts of the kingdom--the cattle being picturesquely exhibited in the park of the noble proprietor of the town, Lord Clancarty. As it was not fair-time the town did not seem...
From Carlow To Waterford : From Carlow to Waterford The next morning being fixed for the commencement of our journey towards Waterford, a carriage made its appearance in due time before the hall-door: an amateur stage-coach, with four fine horses, that were to carry us to Cork. The crew of the "drag," for the present...
Title Page : THE IRISH SKETCH-BOOK BY MR. M.A. TITMARSH [PSEUD.] [WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY] [b. 1811 D. 1863] With Numerous Engravings On Wood Drawn By The Author. London, Chapman And Hall [1845] Scanned And Redacted By Phillip Brown. Additional Formatting And Proofing By John B. Hare. This Text Is...
Tralee Listowel Tarbert : Tralee--Listowel--Tarbert. I made the journey to Tralee next day, upon one of the famous Bianconi cars--very comfortable conveyances too, if the booking-officers would only receive as many persons as the car would hold, and not have too many on the seats. For half an hour before the car left...
Untitled : Title Page A Summer Day in Dublin or there and thereabouts A Country-house in Kildare--sketches of an Irish family and farm From Carlow to Waterford From Waterford to Cork Cork--the Agricultural Show--Father Mathew Cork--The Ursuline Convent Cork From Cork to Bantry; with an account of the city...
From Westport To Ballinasloe : From Westport to Ballinasloe The mail-coach took us next day by Castlebar and Tuam to Ballinasloe, a journey of near eighty miles. The country is interspersed with innumerable seats belonging to the Blakes, the Browns, and the Lynches; and we passed many large domains belonging to bankrupt lords...
Killarney The Races Muckross : Killarney--The Races--Muckross. The races were as gay as races could be, in spite of one or two untoward accidents that arrived at the close of the day's sport. Where all the people came from that thronged out of the town was a wonder; where all the vehicles, the cars, barouches and shandrydans...
A Country House In Kildare Sketches : A Country-house in Kildare--sketches of an Irish family and farm. It had been settled among my friends, I don't know for what particular reason, that the Agricultural Show at Cork was an exhibition I was specially bound to see. When, therefore, a gentleman to whom I had brought a letter...
From Waterford To Cork : From Waterford to Cork The view of the town from the bridge and the heights above is very imposing; as is the river both ways. Very large vessels sail up almost to the doors of the houses, and the quays are flanked by tall red warehouses, that look at a little distance as if a world of business...
The Pattern At Croaghpatrick : The Pattern at Croaghpatrick. On the Pattern day, however, the washerwomen and children had all disappeared-nay, the stream, too, seemed to be gone out of town. There was a report current, also, that on the occasion of the Pattern, six hundred teetotallers had sworn to revolt; and I fear that it...
Cork The Ursuline Convent : Cork--The Ursuline Convent. There is a large Ursuline convent at Blackrock, near Cork, and a lady who had been educated there was kind enough to invite me to join a party to visit the place. Was not this a great privilege for a heretic? I have peeped into convent chapels abroad, and occasionally...
From Glengariff To Killarney : From Glengariff to Killarney The Irish car seems accommodated for any number of persons: it appeared to be full when we left Glengariff, for a traveller from Bearhaven, and the five gentlemen from the yacht, took seats upon it with myself, and we fancied it was impossible more than seven should...
Clifden To Westport : Clifden to Westport. On leaving Ballinahinch (with sincere regret, as any lonely tourist may imagine, who is called upon to quit the hospitable friendliness of such a place and society), my way lay back to Clifden again, and thence through the Joyce country, by the Killery mountains, to Westport...
More Rain In Galway A Walk There : More rain in Galway--A walk there--and the second Galway Night's Entertainment. "Seven hills has Rome, seven mouths has Nuns' stream, Around the Pole seven burning planets gleam. Twice equal these is Galway, Connaught's Rome: Twice seven illustrious tribes here find their home. [a] [a] By the help...
Rainy Days At Glengariff : Rainy Days at Glengariff. A smart two-horse car takes the traveller thrice a week from Bantry to Killarney, by way of Glengariff and Kenmare. Unluckily, the rain was pouring down furiously as we passed to the first-named places, and we had only opportunity to see apart of the astonishing beauty...
Roundstone Petty Sessions : Roundstone Petty Sessions. "The temple of august Themis," as a Frenchman would call the sessions-room at Roundstone, is an apartment of some twelve feet square, with a deal table and a couple of chairs for the accommodation of the magistrates, and a Testament with a paper cross pasted on it to be...
Peg Of Limavaddy : Peg of Limavaddy. Between Coleraine and Derry there is a daily car (besides one or two occasional queer-looking coaches), and I had this vehicle, with an intelligent driver, and a horse with a hideous raw on his shoulder, entirely to myself for the five-and-twenty miles of our journey. The cabins...
Cork : Cork. Amidst the bustle and gayeties of the Agricultural meeting, the working-day aspect of the city was not to be judged of: but I passed a fortnight in the place afterwards, during which time it settled down to its calm and usual condition. The flashy French and plated goods' shops, which made...
Two Days In Wicklow : Two Days in Wicklow. The little tour we have just been taking has been performed, not only by myriads of the "car-drivingest, tay-drinkingest, say-bathingest people in the world," the inhabitants of the city of Dublin, but also by all the tourists who have come to discover this country...
Dublin At Last : Dublin At Last A wedding-party that went across Derry Bridge to the sound of bell and cannon, had to flounder through a thick coat of frozen snow, that covered the slippery planks, and the hills round about were whitened over by the same inclement material. Nor was the weather, implacable towards...
Country Meetings In Kildare Meath Drogheda : Country Meetings in Kildare--Meath--Drogheda. An agricultural show was to be held at the town of Naas, and I was glad, after having seen the grand exhibition at Cork, to be present at a more homely, unpretending country festival where the eyes of Europe, as the orators say, did not happen to be...
Westport : Westport. Nature has done much for this pretty town of Westport; and after Nature, the traveller ought to be thankful to Lord Sligo, who has done a great deal too. In the first place, he has established one of the prettiest, comfortablest inns in Ireland, in the best part of his little town...
From Galway To Ballinahinch : From Galway to Ballinahinch. The Clifden car, which carries the Dublin letters into the heart of Connemara, conducts the passenger over one of the most wild and beautiful districts that it is ever the fortune of a traveller to examine; and I could not help thinking, as we passed through it, at how...
Limerick : Limerick. A capital steamer, which on this day was thronged with people, carried us for about four hours down the noble stream and landed us at Limerick quay. The character of the landscape on either side the stream is not particularly picturesque, but large, liberal, and prosperous. Gentle sweeps...
Dundalk : Dundalk. The stranger can't fail to be struck with the look of Dundalk, as he has been with the villages and country leading to it, when contrasted with places in the South and West of Ireland. The coach stopped at a cheerful looking Place, of which almost the only dilapidated mansion was the old...
Cork The Agricultural Show Father Mathew : Cork--the Agricultural Show--Father Mathew A man has no need to be an agriculturist in order to take a warm interest in the success of the Irish Agricultural Society, and to see what vast good may result from it to the country. The National Education scheme--a noble and liberal one, at least...
Templemoyle Derry : Templemoyle--Derry From Newtown Limavaddy to Derry the traveller has many wild and noble prospects of Lough Foyle and the plains and mountains round it, and of scenes which may possibly in this country be still more agreeable to him--of smiling cultivation, and comfortable well built villages...
From Cork To Bantry. With An Account : From Cork to Bantry; with an account of the city of Skibbereen. That light four-inside, four-horse coach, the "Skibbereen Perseverance," brought me 52 miles to-day, for the sum of three-and-sixpence, through a country which is, as usual, somewhat difficult to describe. We issued out of Cork by...
The Giant's Causeway Coleraine Portrush : The Giant's Causeway--Coleraine--Portrush. The traveller no sooner issues from the inn by a back door, which he is informed will lead him straight to the Causeway than the guides pounces upon him, with a dozen rough boatmen who are likewise lying in wait; and a crew of shrill beggar-boys with...
Belfast To The Causeway : Belfast to the Causeway. The Lough of Belfast has a reputation for beauty almost as great as that of the Bay of Dublin; but though, on the day I left Belfast for Lame, the morning was fine, and the sky clear and blue above, an envious mist lay on the water, which hid all its beauties...
Galway Kilroy's Hotel Galway Nights' Entertainments : Galway--Kilroy's Hotel--Galway Nights' Entertainments--First Night: An evening with Captain Kenny. When it is stated that, throughout the town of Galway, you cannot get a cigar which costs more than twopence, Londoners may imagine the strangeness and remoteness of the place. The rain poured down...
