The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-08-15
IFrom Our Own Correspondents
OUR IRISH LETTER.

as think 1 have read more than once, take
vacation as well as other people; and have
come down here from Dublin to spend a Few
days in the shadow of the Kerry hills. AS
am away from the centre OF
political life in Ireland, and cannot write
about the course of politics; and, perhaps, my
readers will be just as glad if for once have
to travel cut of the beaten path, and tell them
something of this remote but beautiful region.
The journey down-nine hours by railway
would be exceedingly tedious but for the
bea uty of the scenery; and never, feel conf
dent, did the country look 80 beautiful
the day travelled. The sun shone out in a
cloudless sky after week, or rather weeks, of
heavy rain. A summer haze just served to
round off the Irregularities of the hills. AS we
swept excessively through the wide-spreading
plains of Kildare, the we'll wooded, gentle
eminepces of the Queens County, the rich pas
ture lands Of Limerick, and ''the golden vale"
of Tippersry, there was an almost overpower-
ing sense of freshness, and everything in nature
(including the policemen, who were about in
the fields and on the roads Invested of their
belts and with their coats open) seemed sunk
in healthful repose. Even the hay makers, who
had turned ont in the morning to take advsn-
b8Sc VI UAo koh0 OOSa "a - OLy 0oyS SoctA0N w
work but lazily after all and at every moment
the musing spirit was reused. and one called
to mind Hawthorne's sketch of transitory life
as seen on o summer's day from the dollhouse
on bridge. The mantle of green which over
spread the landscape seemed to me greener
than ever but alas the homes of the farmers
were fewer, and whole he'd, of sheep and
cattle more frequently met the ey than human
beings. Until we came to Limerick Junction,
near the town of Tipperary, the crops were not
yelloWed in the slightest degree; 30 that, ex-
cept in Munster-if, indeed, l may except even
Munster-the harvest will be unusually late.
Below the Limerick function, there was just
u tinge of yellow in the growing wheat and
pats, and if there be two or three weeks now
pf fine weather, the corn will be ready for the
pickle in these parts about the usual time. 1
should add that everywhere there appears to
be luxuriant growth. It was evening when
We arrived at Mallow, so prettily situated on
the Blackwater. The country from that town
20 within about Ave miles Of Killarney is well
wooded and not unpioturesaue. 1t then be-
PONIES bleak, bare and desolate, 90 that Killar-
hey looks gem embedded in q rocky and
mountainous waste. This waste, however, is
broken by mountain range, on which o. nights
bang moonlit slips of silver cloud, and at the
base of which trickle to unknown outlets from
pnknoWn sources o hundred babbling stream
4ets. OF the sights of Killarney you see from
she railway only Flesk Castle, the wierd- look
ng but charming residence of Mr.. Cronin
'oltsman, the Franciscan church, the Railway
Hotel, the Catholic Cathedral and the Lunatie
Asylum (where the renegade ODonoghue is
trongly suspected to have resided since the
exposure he received at the hands of the Home
Rulers last session of Parliament), and it will
Pc as we'll for the rest of the journey to Tralee
ait down and keep reading the book you
ave brought with you, for there is nothing to
e seen but heather-covered fields destitute of
ny other vegetation, or patches of corn.field
so'ted by houses, come of which appear CON-
oftabie but prim, while the rest are mere
ovels.
Tralee ITSELF the capital town of Kerry, ia
huen improved in appearance since saw it
We years ago. The houses in several of the
'Eeets have been freshened up, and some new
ouses nave either been built or are in course
construction. Three of the principal banks
we mad branches here for several years, the
"'ion@l having built house for itself with
"e ~ehitectural pretensions, and a fourth
uAng establishment is now erecting hand
pune eaihce in Denny st. This thoroughfare,
ptinoipal one in the town, is called after the
1oprietor OF the soil on which the town stands
~ teSos st one end into Sir Edward Denny's
e0ne-an enclosure ornamented by wind
walks amidst grand old trees and the re-
r' VI an old castle or two, which are now
0sr'nrown and garlanded by ivy, but in
gone BY did service in many q fierce
Inc great osstle, which served as the
n- Y mansion for many generations, God in
=. street, There is no trace of it at pres
snn. MOI is there any other mansion of the
.ra sn this beautiful demesne. Sir Edward
a ~, ~ In fact, is one of "the peculiar people,"
ii ~ in London, in garrett, from years
Fbi,t end; never seeing the greenfield
fb;. were given to some cut-throat ancestor
s.sl ' ~ the reign of Elizabeth for murderous
ss' uone against the Papists. There are two
b;.v lc churches here-the parish church,
~ mas magnificent spire, and the church