The Portland daily press., 1885-12-02
OUR FOREIGN LETTER.
Dublin and Its Enthusiastically
College and The Royal Irish Acade-
my-The Birthplace of Irish Liberty
Landlords and Tenants.
Especial Correspondence of the PRESS
DUBLIN.

Especial Correspondence of the PREss.l
DUBLIN.
Ten hours ride on hot dusty day brought
us weary and hungry to ''dear dirty Dublin,
as it has been dubbed. We bargained, ac-
cording to our rates of hack fares, with Mike
to take us to- the Shelsurne, finely located
opposite Stephens Green. After much
shifting of trunks and packs, he sue
ceeded in storing five of our party
into his little yellow cab and tucked
the small boy on the top with him, saying,
''Niver you fear, sittle him stidely," and so
he did. He magnanimously offered to show
us the sights, as The could well afford to do,
having been paid as we afterwards learned,
three times the regulation tariff. He turned
quite out of his way. and with manifest
pride drove around the square which en-
closes Guinness Brewery, supposed by an
Irishman to be the chief object of interest in
the city. 1t is an immense establishment,
and did it produce an article of commerce
conducive in any degree to the peoples good,
they might well boast of its dimensions.
We were agreeably surprised with the beauty
and apparent prosperity of Dublin. A day
was pell-spent in the cathedrals. st. Pat
rick's dates back to the 18th century, before
which time undoubtedly the patron saint
himself had built an edifee on this spot, and
baptized converts in a well near by, as in
$50 Gregory of Scotland worshipped there.
1t has undergone many fluctuations in form
of worship, but to-day is in the hands of the
Protestants, sore thing for the Catholics,
and has several times just escaped entire
destruction. few years since B. L. GUM
ess, at cost Of 10000 pounds, restored it,
preserving as much as possible the old ma
terial, and following the original plan indi-
Gated by the walls in the crypt. 1t is a sin
gular fact that the three leading brewers in
the kingdom, Guiness Finlater and Roe,
have donated each princely fortune from
the profits of brewing, to restore and sustain
the three grandest churches in Ireland.
Query, whether this can offset the pauperism
and crime resulting from the outflow into
the lanes and alleys of the poisonous stream
whose fountain they supply. In this ancient
edifce rest the remains of Dean Swift and
near by is a tablet dedicated to Stella.
Christ's Church, restored by Mr. Roe, is
worth visit, where are shown monuments
of Strongbow and his wife Eva and the
shrine of st. Guile to which thousands of
pilgrims have come to worship and gained
thereby during their stay the right of sane
tuary. We climbed Nelson's monument, an
ascent of 1863 stairs, took peep at Yelling
toms birthplace and Daniel O'Connell's home
and monument Like most young people
who have been educated in a land where ''all
men are born free and equal" and who nat
ural1y have great reverence and admiration
for royalty and its descending scale of digni-
taries, the children had longed to see real
live princess Before going to the coffee
room one morning, they were told that Lord
and Lady D would breakfast with us,
and they must pick them out from the
groups. OF course knightly looking man,
with quite a swell front and grandiloquent
air, and lady with glittering gems and taste
full costume were chosen. When told they
were mistaken their confusion and disap-
pointment could not be easily depicted as a
weakened faced, timid little old man, the VERT
able lord, entered with shambling gait and
escorted his lady, good woman of unmarked
personal appearance and common attire, to |
seat near US. Before leaving the Lady drew |
grocer's brown paper bag from her pocket |
and slipped into it lump of gray bread for |
her lunch on the train. Thus familiarity re- |
moves the imaginary lines of social diStinc- |
tions, and will help to place patrician and |
plebeian alike on his own mer tied level.
Trinity College and the Royal Irish Acad- |
envy occupied another day. Trinity dates |
back to the patronage Of Queen Elizabeth |
for its start, and is truly home for sages |
and philosophers, where young man must
catch inspiration in its scholastic halls and |
extensive libraries The buildings, like most
of the old public edifces, are of classic or
der, arranged around broad open court |
yard park. At the Academy we were much
interested in the spears, arrow heads, chisels |
and various stone implements, identically
like those found in our Indian shell heaps.
One curious relic was a rude keg bound to-
gether by withes, full of butter, found II feet
below the surface of an Irish bog. Speci-
mems of this kind have often been dug up, in
laying piles for new roads across the boys.
In early times the warlike tribes made fire.
quent marauding excursions through the !