The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-10-06
The VILLAGE or CLASNEvIN
And Some Of the People Who
Lived There in Days
Gone By.
THE GREAT CATHOLIC CEMETERY.
The Tomb of Robert Emmett Re-
moyal of the Patriot Remains
by Sarah Ourran.

moYal of the Patriot Remains
by Sarah Curran.
The name Of Gla> nevin is so com
p1etely identified with our great Catho
lie cemetery that few people at di.
tauce, even Irish people born out O
their native country" know anything
of the pretty pejghborhood and tht
nice Old World village which hac
charms and interest Of their own Ions
before Catholics in Ireland were per
mitted to consecrate a POI ton of thel,
green land as last home for theil
dead. The vlIa5e is clean and neat
and planted o', a struggling hill which
begins to rise from the bridge spanning
the river Tolka, looking up on one side
to the gardens and ''keaceful bowers
of D-lyille isee Mrs. Deianey's LIT
ters'), aud or the other, down into the
green vistas OF the gardens known as
the Botanic" cultivated in part ot the
demesne Of the poet Tlckell, a favorit.
haunt Of Addison when he was in Ire
land as private secretary to the Mar
quis IF Wharton in lila. The gardens
make favori.e place of recreation for
Dublin people on Sundays. Everybody
knows that the shady avenue overlook
ing the water is named Addison's 8
Walk. after the gentle "Spectat"r, f"
and 1t is generally believed that the
pretty IVY colored ht use ia which the
curator Of lhe gardens ',ow resides WAS
the home of Tlckeil, much fri quenttd
by Addison, and often described as Ad
d,sUil's house. Within It's walls TlcRell
probably composed his porn of Colin
aud Lucy" and after AduisOn's death
performed sOme Of the tasks which de
volved upon him as the literary execu-
tor OF his friend aud frequent guest.
On the bow. ry crest of the bill upposite
VT fnd the fOntpr,nts of another classic
COMPANY; Of Swift. who here spent
many OF his pa'my days, and of his no
BILE and patient Stella; Ut DR.. D-lany,
the owner Of Delvilie, of his first wife,
''the widow Teunyson," who MAS the
friend Of Swift, and Ut his second wife.
the famous Mrs. iendarveS, who makes
sogracetula a Tx ure il English IS b cen
tu1y social life, and wh.,se ''iett-rs" so
char mingly aud unconsciousIy r. f ct
and illustrate that lite. 1t is generally
supposed that The woman best known
t. The world as Mrs. u la,y Was
Switt's friend. but.,he great Deans day
ut pelvi'le was really under the reign
OF Delany's first wife. At her table:
Mrs. Pendarves, then young widow
visiting her friends, tho Du,in+llans il
Ireland, first met Swift, Sheridan and
the other wits and sages whom DR..
Delany gathered round him at his de
lightful Thursday dinners. AT D.'ville
swift printed the Drali rs Lettels,
keeping his press securely hidden in u
surt of q cave under the summer house
with the classic, portico and inscription,
In which the brilliant company l"yed To
drink tea and eljoyth evening brr z.s.
laughing in his sle+ve while all Dublin
was sea, ched for his audacious publish.
er. Here. In Delvil.e Mrs. Deiany(Pen
darves) afterwards lived that innocent
ly and delightfully."- happy life which shs'
describes 50 naively and yet 80 viv,diy
that it is impossibls to visit this, her
home, withuu. feeling the presence Of
her glad personality still lingering
about the place.
Besides the river Tolka, which runs
under the bridge at the foot OF Glasne
vim Village there is Il tiny clear stream
which purls its way through the bowers
OF D. lville and escapes between the
grasses to fling itself into the wider
water below. There have always been
doubts as to which of the streams gave
It's name originally to Glasnevin. G'as
means water. and Naeidhe (nre) was
the name Of d chleftain of ancient
times who dwelt ON this spot. aud for
whom it was called Glas-neean. Or
..Naeidhe's S,reamlet." O, the banks
of the Tolka 1.-THE large rivel), st Motif
(otlerwss called yerchan) built his
monastery, aud to him came st. C,,lnm.
ba, as q youth, for insl ruct,on. The
church probably stood in what is now
the Protestant churchyard. 4he mon
astic firm was intersected by the river,
aud on either side were grouped the
hu,s occupied by the scholars . The
river in those .ys deserved the char
acttr given it by B,ate. and Was "a
danger brook The difficulty of 1Qr,i-
ing tie stream in a auOu is illustrated
I III \ well known inciuent iii the life bf
5iSc. Columbia, who bad his dwelling oil
the western bank. and. like his fellow
student $50 located. had to cross rs ot 9
hecsuld ldWhen it became, rs ces*ary 70