Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-26
THE CITY OF DUBLIN.
FOUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT OF
IRELAND's METROPOLIS.
Dublin Castle, Trinity College, St. Pat
ricis's Cathedral, the Four Courts
and Custom House.
From the St. Louis Globe Democrat. !

lage stood on one OF lrelands wooded
hills. The Irish people of that time called
it "Drom Col Collie" or the sHill of the
Hazel Woods" The river Lifey ran
along the hills northern side, and ON ac-
count of the wicker-work hurdles put up
by the fishermen the town finally got to be
called the clown of the Ford of Hurdles"
One thing and another led to further adj
ditions, and in succeeding generation it
became "Ballyath Cliath Dubh Lime"
meaning the Clown of the Ford of the
Hurdles and the Black River" The long
winded title was in due season made sub
ject Of reformation, the result being mod
iication to @Dubh Lime" A couple of
centuries after this Ptolemy referred to
the village as "Eblana," the Latin for
Dublin, and as Dublin it has been known
ever since In St. Patnck's biography it
is told that he foretold Dublin's future i'm
portance. He was travelling through the
country, and ascending a hill mile or SO
away broke out with the prophecy that
''that village will hereafter be an eminent
city. 1t shall increase until at length it
shall be lifted up unto the throne OF the
kingdom"
In the ninth century. the Danes sailed
up the Lifey and named the north bank
"Fingal," or the "Land of the White
Stranger" The south bank was later
called by party of Ostman 'Dubgal," the
Land of the Black Stranger" The
Danes held the territory until 1914, when
Brian Boru defeated them on the Plains
e l,,- III J 1
the Ostmen became subjects of Dublin and
paid tribute. Ireland was now divided
into FIVE Observation-Disclosures, Connaught,
Ulster, Munster and Meath, and in the
middle of the twelfth century the two
most formidable OF the five sovereigns
were Dermet Macmurragh, King of Lem
ster, and Roderick O'Connor, King of
Connaught. 1t was a subject Of conten-
ton which of these sovereigns had the
strongest claim to be recognized as the Su-
preme Dictator of Ireland, and constant
wars were waged, with view of having
supremacy in this respect decided. In the
midst of these conflicts King Dermot
immersed himself in wel-nigh insur-
mountable trouble by running away with
the wife of 0Rorke, Prince of Bretfni,
and daughter of the King of Meath. The
disconsolate ORorke hastened to the
stronghold of Roderick O'Connor, Der
mot's greatest rival, and having enlisted
his sympathies, an army from Connaught
marched upon Leinster to annihilate the
amorous King.
Dermot, finding himself powerless to
resist, sailed to France and allied himself
with Henry IL, but not receiving the aid
wished, appealed to Wales. From the lat
ter country came a penniless soldier, the
Earl of Pembrokes son Richard, better
known by his surname of Strongbow
Within two years the forces of Dermot and
Strongbow completed the conquest of the
entire east of Ireland, capturing Dublin.
Jealous of the success of his knights,
Henry II. fastened to inform them that
the time was now come when he should
himself assume the sovereignty. Accord
ingly he set sail in ll72 from Milford Ha-
ven with 1900 men, and landed at Water
ford. No hostile force opposed him, and
during the whole OF journey to Dublin he
was received by chieftains DESTROYS of do
ing him homage. After entering the Cap
ltal he caused an immense wickerwork pa
yilion to be raised, and beneath its regal
canopy all the great Irish mobiles of the
time took oath of allegiance.
Hugh de Lacey was the first Viceroy who
ruled Ireland from Dublin. De Lacey was
succeeded by John, son of King Henry,
who, IN 1l77, was declared Lord of Ireland
He arrived in Dublin with train of young
mobiles, all of whom were so disguised at
finding no royal residence prepared for
them, that John, when elevated to the
English throne, was easily induced to make
grant for an English Castle in Dublin
Henry VIII, when Duke of York, was
possessed of the nominal title of Lord Lieu
tenant, but the duties of the Office were in
trusted by him to Sir Edward Poynings,
the author of Poynings' law, which re-
stricted legislation in the Irish Parlia-
ment to measures that had first been APP
proved of in England Henry VIII. sup
pressed, among many other monasteries in
Ireland, that of All-Hallows, which was
founded by Dermot, King of Leinster, on
what is now the site of Trinity College
Parliament, during the reign of this mon
arch, was held in the city of Dublin, in
St. Mary's Abbey, where now stands the
-Four Courts.
In return for the valor of the citizens
of Dublin in putting down what was
really a revolt of the Lord Deputy him
self against established authority, Henry
gave them the lands of All-Hallows and
Queen Elizabeth, when she assembled the
throne, solidified and enhanced the gift
of her father by founding on the same
ground the University of Dublin.
james |. had passion for improving
Ireland. One of the longest and now bus
lest streets of the Capital, james street,
was founded during his reign In 1913
Parliament was held in Dublin, the first
after a lapse Of seven and twenty years,
and there was protracted struggle between
the Catholics and the Protestants as to
the election of Speaker. A Protestant
having been elected, the Catholic party
seeded from the Commons, and the bitter
ness engendered by this quarrel being en-
couraged by the successful attempts of the
Scottish nation to obtain the freedom of
their religion, led TO the general and terri
bic revolution in Ireland of l64l.
After the restoration of Charles II. the
Duke OF Ormond was Lord Lieutenant,
and then may be said to have sprung into
existence those scenes of gayetv and splen-
dor which have been the theme of many a
story of the Irish metropolis. 1t was,
however, when James II. was on the
throne that the festivities in Dublin burst
into their effulgence, for the then Queen of
Beauty, the Duchess of circumstance
Jennings-reigned at the Castle" as Lady
Lieutenant, surrounded by the most beau
tiful daughters of the Emerald Isle. The
King himself came to Dublin from Kinsale
in 1858, with his vast army of French and
English soldiers. He came, however, as
fugitive, and, although he had time to
hold a Parliament, he had speedily set of
for the northern cities, where the people,
with all possible zeal, were declaring for
the Prince of Orange. William, of Pious
memory, landed at Carrickfergus on June
IA, 1890 with an army Of $1,000 men,
chiefly Dutch troops. Nearly all OF the