The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-21


red him off to his place at Herpelpen where his strong
house backed by barns and covers for cattle
stood strongly inrenched in small, deep lake. Swallowed
with trees Here Casde, who young and handsome
Enghman retained years. in voluntary exile
given understand for he married Caserces
fine daughter after he had learned her language and by whom
he had son. whom together with her. he afterwards brought
England where York. at which place Richard IT,
was then he met Froissa and as the latter was
always the lookout for local and historical anecdotes
rated to him his adventures among the Irs of whom he
entertained very favorable impression This little glimpse
of Ireland in the 18th century, which obtained through
the foreign pencil of the French chronice enlightened
is valuable throws strong light the ameny of dis
position and civilization of the people who regarded through
general English accounts, barbarians.
Several paraments hedn Christ church during the
fifteenth century, and many Popes Bull read within its
gray walls 1t also agrea resort for pilgrims
of the holy rod and other relics in the possession of It's
munity. The price of food in Henry the Fights day is
registered in the existing cathedral accounts from which we
find that when the bishops dined together Christmas the
of their fresh eggs dry fish, rolls of fresh salmon pastes
of the bread and wine beef pork and HAMS amounted
collectively to three hilngs and sxpence Latin used
until l2o When on Easter day. the liturgy was irst read
in the English language In 1862 the south wall tmbed
and smashed Strongbow's monument which, however,
put together as we It, The egy of his of which
the body only remains rise to the fable that it his
fathers sword which had essened him by the legs Strong
bow however, merely his sword through the body and
was the fall Of the church which prevented the statue
which, if animated with any consciousness in such neigh
borhood would doubtless have done sorom running away
The learned Archbishop Usher felt himself called upon in
1900 preach in the church against the mmoder
ate aledrinng of the Dublin people Sundays during
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little effect the carnalmnded citizens who INDUCED in
old October and claret to pitch of weakness which
rlghtul to consider in connection with those remote times
before odawaer invented In 1888 Lord Deputy Went
worth to the archbishop of Canterbury relative to the
numerous ale cellars and tobacco shops erected upon the
fabric OF the church and driving roaring trade in its vaults
Sabbath days. the result of which was that those
permitted approach than ST. Johns lane
which the structure When Cromwell occupied
Dublin he suppressed the reading of the liturgy in all the
churches and in 1859 King James heard Mass in the build
ing The burial of peers in the vaults of Chrss church
attended with great ceremony trumpets and drums
heraed the numerous on such OCCASIONS and as
the its way and while being deposited in the
vaults ordnance fired every minute For long period the
old law courts stood the west side of Chrss church.
Here Hamilton Rowan Jackson and others tried, and
Curan and Bush delivered their greatest speeches Chriss
church originally built in the center of the city, and
it long continued to be costly envroned by buildings It's
yard entered by low and gloomy arched passage called
He'll which was filled with toy shops and tayers and over
which stood black statue of his Satanic majesty in wood
This figure which object of superstition the uve
nile classeso whom otherwise center of attraction
taken down at the of this century, and
said transformed into the snuboxes of many citizens
animated with sentiments of local veneraonmen of good
who had fear of being taken pinch by the
parsonage from whose image they inhaled their rappee In
journal of the day there is the following advertisements
"To be le-apartments In Hell. n. B-They are well
suited to lawyer"rom their propinquity to the courts.
Wine Tavern street. which runs from the quay to the
limit of Chrss church, is celebrated early the
twelfth century the great emporium of that liquid and
for its houses of entertainment At this PERIOD
and later Ireland used to supply England with large quant
ties of Spanish and French wnes in 1929 the citizens
supplied the kings Scotland with hogsheads.
Ale subsequent passion in the sixteenth and
teenh centuries every housewife brewed and writer during
the reign of James says that ale the very of
the commonwealth Of Dublin" Though down to the
mencement of this century, cIaret mot the prme doubess
sold at shilling quart The drinks which nations
most affect have judging from history, looked at from this
point of view, inconsderabe influence the various
phases of their Look at the Industrious patient in
genou Chnese-how much is their character attributable
the teadrnkng of ages the civilization of the Arab
coffee. Without, however, embracing theory which must
be largely modified by external circumstances may admit
that the animal chemistry of the human SYSTEM affected by
its "nervous foods" for something In Shakespeare
age poetry of the most vigorous description and Of the
highest orderthe dramatic-may have been determined
by prevalence of ale and wine drinks as we'll as bv the
much talked of impetus derived from the discovery of
America and the Reformation of Luther As regards Ire
land her caret period produced her most brilliant intellect
ua in social and general sense At nresent when her