"A local habitation and a name."
"A local habitation and a name."
"A local habitation and a name."
"A local habitation and a name."
It would seem specially reserved for Dublin, my native city, to record by public inscriptions, and to insert in the list of our metropolitan thoroughfares, that within the municipal precincts there may be found aCow-parlour, aPigtown, aCheater's Lane, aStoneybatter, aCutthroat Lane, and aMurdering Lane. It may be said that these places are mostly of small dimensions, but they appear in Thom's Official Directory in the same type, and fully as conspicuous to the eye of a stranger as the most populous and important of our streets or squares. Within my memory Skinner Row has been metamorphosed into Christchurch Place, Dirty Lane has become Bridgefoot Street, half of Exchequer Street has been converted into Wicklow street, and French Street has been elevated into Upper Mercer Street. Surely the same authority that effected such alterations ought to substitute other names for those which cannot be retained without continuing to impute to our city that it contains places specially appropriated to low, vulgar, dishonest, and sanguinary practices. During my tenure of magisterial office I found the city of Dublin capable of very favorable comparison with any other place of similar extent and population; and I consider the names to which I have referred most unjustifiably false and defamatory. The designation of one of our bridges has lately been changed, and it is to be henceforth made conducive to the memory of Grattan. The motives of those who proposed such an alteration were undoubtedly patriotic and praiseworthy; but identifying the truly illustrious orator and statesman with a bridge across the Liffey, will not, in the present state of the river, tend to keep his name ingood odour.
Since my return home I have lived in such retirement and quietude that I cannot refer to any incident worthy ofinsertion in these pages. In concluding these "Recollections," I have to assure my readers that I have sedulously endeavoured to minister to their information or amusement. If I have succeeded, their approval will impart great happiness to the closing years of my life; and having done my utmost, I trust that they will accord me a favorable criticism, for which I shall be deeply grateful.
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NOW READY. SECOND EDITION.Royal 8vo, Cloth, Price 28.sTHEECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTUREOF IRELANDANTERIOR TO THE ANGLO-NORMAN INVASION;COMPRISINGAN ESSAY ON THE ORIGIN AND USESOF THERound Towers of Ireland,To which, was awarded the Gold Medal and Prize of theRoyal Irish Academy.BYGEORGE PETRIE, R.H.A.FORMERLY VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY.This is admittedly one of the most valuable contributions on the origin of these famous Round Towers, and containsTwo Hundred and Fifty-six Illustrations.DUBLIN:HODGES, FOSTER, AND FIGGIS,Booksellers and Publishers to the University of Dublin.
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THE
ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTUREOF IRELAND
ANTERIOR TO THE ANGLO-NORMAN INVASION;
COMPRISING
AN ESSAY ON THE ORIGIN AND USES
OF THE
Round Towers of Ireland,
To which, was awarded the Gold Medal and Prize of theRoyal Irish Academy.
BY
GEORGE PETRIE, R.H.A.
FORMERLY VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY.
This is admittedly one of the most valuable contributions on the origin of these famous Round Towers, and containsTwo Hundred and Fifty-six Illustrations.
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THE
EFFICACY OF PRAYER:
BEING THE
Donnellan Lectures for the Year 1877
Delivered in Trinity College, Dublin.
BY
JOHN H. JELLETT, B.D.
SENIOR FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.
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