The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-08-29
FAMOUS SPOTS IN IRELAND.

Near by the place where Emmett and
his fellow conspirators planned the re-
volution of 1903, is No ISL Thomas
street the house in which Lord Edwin
Fitzgerald, leader of the inSurrection
of 1898, was captured after desperate
struggle, and it is curious coincidence
that he and Emmett should both have
been arrested by th>- same man, a GER
tain Major SIR. in command of a regi-
ment at the castle. Lord Edwards
refuge was the house of a tailor who
sympathized with. the insurrection-as
almost every other artisan in Ireland
did-and sheltered him for several days
before the arrest. The house is marked
with a tablet and an appropriate in
scription. Lord Edward was wounded
in the shoulder by Major SIR and car
ried away to prison, where he died be-
fore he could be brought into court.
The Corn market of Dublin is just
| beyond the house and the name of the
thoroughfare is there changed to
| Thomas street which is customary in
| Dublin. Sometimes there is a different
name for every block, and it is very
puzzling to a stranger. You walk from
| Clare street into Merton street and
from Merrion street into some other;
from Dame street into the Corn market
and from the Corn market into Thorn
as street, all unconscious, but the
names are plainly posted on the walls
of the corner houses both in English
and i'm Gaelic, so that he who runs may
read.
Thomas street is very wide and that
is understood when you know it was
formerly an open market place outside
the city walls for the sale of country
produce. A octroi tax levied by the
corporation on the farmers who |
brought in vegetables, butter, chickens
and eggs was paid in kind. a measure
of corn from each sack, a pound of |
butter from each firkin and one egg
from every twelve, which was the orig
in of the proverb that eleven eggs |
make a dozen in Ireland. The taxes
were farmed out to the highest bidder,
who exacted every penny possible from
the farmers and used every means OF
extortion that could be devised to in
crease his profit. The most odious of
all the Dublin tax contractors In his
tory was woman named Kate Strong,
and they hated her so that after her
death the farmers erected gross carl
cature of her person holding large
toll dish in her hand. 1t stood for sew
eral years.
James street succeeds Thomas street
on the same thoroughfare. and runs
down upon the river quay, where the
city. which is divided into two almost
equal parts by the river Liffey, and
spreads over an uneven surface from
the dark green woods of Phoenix park
to the dark blue waters of the Irish sea.
Handel used to play the organ in st.
Michan's church and it was there the
public first heard the score of THE
The most remarkable feature of st.
Michans. however, is a peculiar at
effect from the soil in the
crypt upon the bodies that are buried
there They mummify before decay
sets in and turn into a leathery brown,
similar to the mummies of Egypt. The
vaults are filed with remains that
iave lain there for centuries. Among
them is the body of one of the kings
IF Leinster and beside him is the
corpse of a baby. from whose wrists {
AIDED white ribbon has been hanging
since its funeral in 1879. Every corpse
n the crypt is mummified in the same '
way, and it is the only place in Dublin
where this phenomenon occurs. Nor ;.
S there any satisfactory explanation =
# the phenomenon The vaults are
Lbsolutely dry. The popular theory is !.
hat a subtle gas arising from the = :
,eaty soil suspends natures law of =
lecay.
The anniversary of the birth of
in the other day. and program of Il
lis Irish Melodies" was sung by local
nusicians-sweet, old-fashioned bal
ads like The Harp That Once
through Taras Halls, " Believe Me, If o
III Those Endearing Young Charms" +,
nd other like them. The proceeds of n
he concert are the nucleus of a fund Ii
-hich is 10 be raised to erect monu- II
lent in memory of this most popular r,
f Irish poets, whose songs are sung in n
very cottage in Ireland. His most
poem, a Persian epic called a
Lalla Rookh.'' brought $4,000. the NJ
ighest price ever paid for poem 81
colts Lady Of the Lake" and some
Tennyson's, and perhaps Kipling NJ
nd other authors, have received larger NJ
ums in royalties. but no other man n
as paid so much for his lines in adj l.,
ance of their publication. n,
Moore was born in a little house on
ungier street. Dublin. which is unfor- L,
lnately now filthy saloon. He was ",
1ucated in a little grammar school in a,
ohnston's court. off Grafton street.
ear the Shelbourne hotel. where 81
ichard BrinGsle> Sheridan was also a n
lpil Petty, the first great Irish n,
dentist. who was also a physician and r.
IrVeyOr. was educated there. His book
surveys made for Oliver Cromwell is -,
ill used by the authorities fl
Tom Moore was a chum of Robert y,
mmet at Trinity college. After grad
alton he entered journalism and was y,
with the London Times and ~,
lie London Chronicle. He went to o.
as British consul in 1903. and ~
sited the United States before he re- To
lrned. He was lionized everywhere
ecause his plaintive Irish ballads, e
hich he set to the music of the oldest nj
easant airs, were in the portfolio of -
'ery musician in the civilized world. "
Id his social attractions made him a
elcome guest. When he returned to
ngland he was given a pension of r
900 year until his death. L'