New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-02
syy DAYS IN IIELAND...u.

their dnss H,hemiaD hypsroose' lou CONC " ""'
nav and f.d modern bulldogs, Gtecsaa OF h'hf
h. than in .,,Ie and population thoroughly Celtic 10
s,tures and character, and anything but spansn Id
dr,ss.
GALWAY rs the frst town we saw with thorougnY
Continental look Some streets reminded one OF pruo'
.e,s anne Of Milan, some OF the outskirts OF Pads'
but rot house, not shop front, that had anything
English aooat it, The houses generally three or
fonr stories high, painted wbitewashed, the people
louaeIg about the open doors or engaged IN hVely
copyersa, n the streets running mortly in ireguiar
cury.s rather narrow and preserving even IN sho"ery
uestl er that clean sppesrar OF pavement "hicn ID
Fnsa1d every where is lost under coser OF rrec4m'
able mud. The Spanish character Of the town Is
e,pfued TO about four or FIVE old houses buht by
uea thv traders three four hundrd years ago. ana
all but lost among more n cent buildings They are
certainly designed from Spanish models, and at least
two of them are very fine buildings OF their KIND; Dat
the, are no more sufcent to give specific character
10 the town than the heap of Grecian buildings, Town
balls county halls, courthouses ETC., or the Ehla'
bethan cole ge and monastery at the north END OF the
town.
In Galway Won begin to find out how the En-
olsh hsye coyeiped Ireland. The whole OF the puohc
buildings colleges balls, rail ray station, etc. dale
from the last twenty Live years. Up 70 0aenor0
Emil cpstion and Parliamentary Reform, Ireland was
a corQutrtd country, to spend money on "hich' eh
cent for rerressive parposes would have been preP"s
,eous TO any sound Tory miDd; but since then this
ne,mapent state Of siege had TO be accompanied by
br,bes not only to the Irish lawyers who took tho
seats hitherto held by Tory squues 10 the House OF
Commons but to toer agents and electors, too Joos
tad 10 be multiplied all over the country; and that
yas iust he soft ofthDg in which the Wings eIceled
Eyery f 81 coercion bill (whst people on the Con-
t;pe1t call in tbeir less decent language, declaration
of state of sitgt) was accompanied by vehement
seytrstions Of ~ npatbies for the Irish people
s,mpaibies had to be proved, to the Irish lawyers
in Parliament BY consider able grants OF money Tor the
be1t f of Ireland, which gran ts OF course, were SO
arranged as to fId their way very safely into the
pockets Of SAID lawyers, their reaners aud chle sup
porters OF course, the wild lnsh' had to be civil
zed and to do th the very first thing was to present
Il EN- with strong gendarmeiie compete set Oh
comt Louses PRISONS barracks, and other buildings
without which nation csrnot be 6icn PoIcee Inc
ere ctop Of these structu created at the same me
q demand for labor without interfering, as the phrase
,uus. with private industry ard found plenty of Dbs
fer the understIappers Of the new Roman Cfhohc
Pc whose votes il was very imp0r ant to secare.
No sooner rtkOlNCQ tnan anu W NhAo AZ" W
TEN of policy Galway, among other towns, owes an
.itireb new quarter, consisting OF nothing but pub
lie buildings ard almost large as the remainder OF
the town. 1t NUT be owned that these buildings are
far simpler, and therefore Intensely more tasteful
and lure in st, e than the ike Of them in England,
where every facade is spoiled by overloaded ornanen.
taicn and by RIDICULOUS incoi gtuities. But if you
walk through the streets and squeres formed eX-
clusrvely BY such public buildings, where the grass
grows between the paving es and hens geese and
PIGS are the only living beings to be met with, save
low ard then beg gipg child-when you consider
that since this system of policy was introduced, the
population Of Galway has decreased from 30 600 to
20 eco. YOU are sure to be attacked by strange mis-
cyires as TO the Wbig mode of governing Ireland.
The Spanish" dr.ss of Il Galway women consists
Of red pc tCoat sometimes a red bodice and dark
blue cloak al hood coupled with bare feet and rather
etbey eled hair / eoDftss that ] cannot bring this
into bamony with any popular costume worn in Spain
The utdilection for bright coors especially red, is
common 10 oil Celt'c aud o.ROmanIc races, but,
certainly least OF I'll to the Spaniards Though Gal
woy at one time had considerable trade with
y ain the supposition that 1t Spanish COZ ny Is
purely gratutous. That fancy Dismissed, the Galway
! dIessl evidently rat opal hish one fox popular
costumes are imported or exported; they grow
| the spot or they accompany the wearers 10 case Of
emigrstion. The dark hair aud eyes Of the people
are no more than the costume trace Of Sp4nirh
| desce1t; they, too are common to all pure Celtic
! countriet-Waes included; and indeed, if language,
| habits and physical characteristics to decide,
we have here in the County Of Galway
and in the wtst of Ielapd generally, not q foreign
colony, of whose foundation know nothing, but the
very purest rtn ains of the Insh Celtic race. The
features ofboth sexes are decidedly Spanish but 10
the highest degree Insh The pug nose, the strongly.
marked cf eek bones; The low, square forehead the
email, laughing eyes the everlasting grin lowering
about the mouth, there in almost every instance
and the e1ctable and yet good-humored character of
the natives il Indeed ali Irsh and anything but Span.
ifb. The women here are far less handsome than in
the districts where admxture of Saxon blood exists
among the population
The port Of Galway contained but few ships
mestly golfers from Wales coastingyesses and 6shipe
sDaeks. Some of the latter brought sea.wced which
left in heaps on the shore, TO be used as manure
laterop, but serving, pro tem, 80 many st fss to
numerous wOmtp, either belonging to the place or To-
tel ding emgrsnis, who held complete leyees there
and chatted away in Celtic with considerable dignity
AooibiI the port is the fsh.market, where another
huLdred or two Of women seated on tubs chat
ting and scOlcng, all under the preterse of selling
natkerel, though not a single fsh buyer was near;
for when we two poor tourists near the place
the whoe army at once from their seats, each
woman with fish in either hand, and, shout ns and
laughing, the whole force with Simultaneous rush
bore down upon us. 1t was a decisive momen.;
already rereat cut OF; we divided our forces
ard itimrg ourselves into skirmishng order, we sue
ceeaed in passing among the enemys red petticoats
without any serious Damage, bat holy pursued under
heavy fire Of Celtic nuns across the hrdgn Rhere we