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VI. THE NORTH 44 VII. CORK AND THEREABOUTS 49 VIII. GALWAY 58 IX. DONEGAL OF THE STRANGER 65 X. IRISH TRAITS AND WAYS 76

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE EAGLE’S NEST, KILLARNEY	Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
A VILLAGE IN ACHILL	viii
SACKVILLE STREET, DUBLIN	9
DUBLIN BAY FROM VICTORIA HILL	16
BLARNEY CASTLE	25
OFF TO AMERICA	32
A WICKLOW GLEN	41
THE RIVER LEE	48
RALEIGH’S HOUSE, MYRTLE GROVE	57
GLENCOLUMBKILLE HEAD	64
A DONEGAL HARVEST	73
A HOME IN DONEGAL	80
DIGGING POTATOES	on the cover
Sketch-Map of Ireland on p. vii

IRELAND

CHAPTER I

ARRIVAL

IT may safely be said that any boy or girl who takes a peep at Ireland will want another peep. Between London and Ireland, so far as atmosphere and the feeling of things is concerned, there is a world of distance. Of course, it is the difference between two races, for the Irish are mainly Celtic, and the Celtic way of thinking and speaking and feeling is as different as possible from the Saxon or the Teuton, and the Celt has influenced the Anglo-Irish till they are as far away from the English nearly as the Celts themselves. If you are at all alert, you will begin to find the difference as soon as you step off the London and North Western train at Holyhead and go on board the steamer for Kingstown. The Irish steward and stewardess will have a very different way from the formal English way. They will be