You are here

قراءة كتاب Ulster

تنويه: تعرض هنا نبذة من اول ١٠ صفحات فقط من الكتاب الالكتروني، لقراءة الكتاب كاملا اضغط على الزر “اشتر الآن"

‏اللغة: English
Ulster

Ulster

تقييمك:
0
No votes yet
المؤلف:
دار النشر: Project Gutenberg
الصفحة رقم: 1


ULSTER

Described by Stephen Gwynn
Pictured by Alexander Williams

BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED
LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY
1911


Beautiful Ireland

  • LEINSTER
  • ULSTER
  • MUNSTER
  • CONNAUGHT

Uniform with this Series

Beautiful England

  • Oxford
  • The English Lakes
  • Canterbury
  • Shakespeare-Land
  • The Thames
  • Windsor Castle
  • Cambridge
  • Norwich and the Broads
  • The Heart of Wessex
  • The Peak District
  • The Cornish Riviera
  • Dickens-Land
  • Winchester
  • The Isle of Wight
  • Chester and the Dee
  • York

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Page
AT THE GAP OF THE NORTH 5
"THE BLACK NORTH" 13
THE MAIDEN CITY 28
TIRCONNELL 37

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  Page
Muckross Bay, Killybegs, Donegal Frontispiece
Narrow Water Castle, Carlingford Lough 8
Cave Hill, Belfast 14
Carrickfergus Castle, Belfast Lough 20
The Giants' Causeway 26
Fair Head, Co. Antrim 32
Londonderry from the Waterside 36
Tory Island from Falcarragh Hill, Donegal 42
Muckish and Ards from Rosapenna, Sheephaven, Donegal 46
Mount Errigal from the Gweedore River, Donegal 50
Glenveagh, Donegal 54
The Entrance to Mulroy Bay, Donegal 58

ULSTER

AT THE GAP OF THE NORTH

Ulster is a province much talked of and little understood—a name about which controversy rages. But to those who know it and who love it, one thing is clear—Ulster is no less Ireland than Connaught itself. No better song has been written in our days than that which tells of an Irishman's longing in London to be back "where the mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea"; nor indeed is the whole frame of mind which that song dramatises, with so pleasant a blending of humour and pathos, better expressed in any single way than in the phrase "thinking long"—an idiom common to all Ulster talk, whether in Down or Donegal. And when I who write these lines "think long" for Ireland, it is to Ulster that my thought goes back, back to the homely ways and the quaint speech of northern folk, hard yet kindly, with the genial welcome readier even in their rough accent than in smoothest Munster: for these things there rises in my mind the vague aching, half-remembrance, half-desire, which we call "thinking long". It is a far cry from Belfast, with its clang of riveters, to the vast loneliness of Slieve League or Dunlewy; and yet the great captain of industry, nurtured and proven in the keenest commerce, has upon his tongue, in his features, in the whole cast of his nature, these very traits which endear themselves to me in some Irish-speaking schoolmaster of western Donegal. Soil, climate, and common memories—these are what identify and what bind. No man gets his living too easily in Ulster, and need makes neighbourly. Protestant and Catholic have to fight the same battle with hard weather—of which perhaps even the summer traveller may form some judgment; they are rewarded by the same loveliness which makes a fine day in Ulster the most enchanting upon earth; and they fend

Pages