The Western outlook., 1915-04-10

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Ireland. In the New York Sun Law
renee Flick writes thus about It,
1t is related that Cromwell once
stood on hilltop in Erin and sur
veyed the smiling expanse of fertile
plain that unfolded before his eyes
''This is land worth~fighting for!'
he exclaimed. He was gazing at the
Golden Vale-the heart of Tipperary
Tipperary today is a region as beau
tiful as its people are hospitable and
kindly; a peaceful region quietly pros;
porous; people proud of their history
and their relics of the golden age of
Cashel of the Kings. 1t Is a region
whose story is interviewer with the
most glorious and the most distress
ing events of Irish history. 1t is a re-
gion bright with color and vivid with
romance.
A word about the Tipperary of to-
day. There is Tipperary the county
and Tipperary the garrison town. Tip
perary town is described as SLOW
sort of place, which never recovered
from the kick up" in the Irish party
after Parnell's death. Tipperary coun-
ty Is in the Irish province of Munster
andis the sixth largest county in Ire
land, having more than million
acres of peat@bog, meadow, field and
mountain
Varied and Picturesque.
1t is a varied and picturesque land.
Most of it is a great plain. On it's
south m border are the Knockmeal-
down mountains, and north of them
the wild Galtees. The SUR is Tip
perary's biggest river 1t takes it's
rise in the Devils Bit and flows south
ward and eastward by the historic
Towns of Templemore, Thurles, Cashel
and Clonmel. The River Shannon,
the poets own river, washes the bor-
der of the county.
N Tipperary of this modern day is one
Il of the best agricultural districts in
Ireland. From Cashel to Limerick,
right in the midst of Tipperary,
stretches the Golden Vale, the most
fertile valley in all Erin. Tipperary
is given mostly to agriculture and
dairying. There are some ancient
lead mines, whose ores hold a trace
OF silver, but they engage only small
port OF the populace. Large meal and
flour mills are scattered over the
country, and the town of Tipperary
comes second only to the city of Cork
as butter market.
The town of Tipperary is ancient.
King John built a castle there as far
back, as the thirteenth century, and
one of the landmarks of the place is
an old gatehouse which belonged to
an Augustinian monastery founded by
Henry Ill
"Tip-rar-ry," as the townspeople call
1t, hasn't large population-6,OO0 &C
cording to the last available census
figures. And one reason for this. they
say, is that the lads and lasses Of Tip
perary these many years have been
turning their faces toward the United
States. There are hundreds of thous-
ands Of Irishmen-millions of them.
perhaps, would come nearer the true
mark-in this country who remember
well the original cause of this exodus.
1t was one of the results of-the great
boycott on landlords % years ago.
casheI of the Kings.
1t is not Tipperary the town, how
ever. that most endears Tipperary the
county to Irishmen everywhere. 1t is
Cashel Of the Kings and its resplen-
dent memories of a glory that will
never die.
Listen to this poetic description of
Cashel in William Bulfin's admirable
"Rambles in Eirinn." The author
glimpses 1t In the distance from the
vantage rock on which Cromwell
stood:
Ear away to the northeastward
great gray mass caught the sunlight,
and looking more intently I could
make out the roofs and walls of a
town. It was ancient Cashel. The