Chapter I: Front Matter

PEEPS AT MANY LANDS AND CITIES

EACH CONTAINING 12 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

AUSTRALIA GREECE NEW ZEALAND
BELGIUM HOLLAND NORWAY
BERLIN HOLY LAND PARIS
BURMA HUNGARY PORTUGAL
CANADA ICELAND ROME
CEYLON INDIA RUSSIA
CHINA IRELAND SCOTLAND
CORSICA ITALY SIAM
DENMARK JAMAICA SOUTH AFRICA
EDINBURGH JAPAN SOUTH SEAS
EGYPT KASHMIR SPAIN
ENGLAND KOREA SWEDEN
FINLAND LONDON SWITZERLAND
FRANCE MOROCCO TURKEY
GERMANY NEW YORK WALES

PEEPS AT NATURE

WILD FLOWERS AND THEIR WONDERFUL WAYS
BRITISH LAND MAMMALS
BIRD LIFE OF THE SEASONS
THE HEAVENS

PEEPS AT HISTORY

CANADA JAPAN
INDIA SCOTLAND

PEEPS AT GREAT RAILWAYS

THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY
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PEEPS AT MANY LANDS

IRELAND

BY

KATHARINE TYNAN

AUTHOR OF "THE DEAR IRISH GIRL," "AN ISLE IN THE
WATER," ETC.

WITH TWELVE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
IN COLOUR

BY

FRANCIS S. WALKER, R.H.A.

LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1911

_First printed November, 1909
Reprinted October, 1910, and September, 1911_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. ARRIVAL 1

II. DUBLIN 6

III. THE IRISH COUNTRY 20

IV. THE IRISH PEOPLE 27

V. SOUTH OF DUBLIN 38

VI. THE NORTH 44

VII. CORK AND THEREABOUTS 49

VIII. GALWAY 58

IX. DONEGAL OF THE STRANGER 65

X. IRISH TRAITS AND WAYS 76

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE EAGLE'S NEST, KILLARNEY _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

A VILLAGE IN ACHILL viii

SACKVILLE STREET, DUBLIN 9

DUBLIN BAY FROM VICTORIA HILL 16

BLARNEY CASTLE 25

OFF TO AMERICA 32

A WICKLOW GLEN 41

THE RIVER LEE 48

RALEIGH'S HOUSE, MYRTLE GROVE 57

GLENCOLUMBKILLE HEAD 64

A DONEGAL HARVEST 73

A HOME IN DONEGAL 80

DIGGING POTATOES _on the cover_

_Sketch-Map of Ireland on p. vii_

IRELAND