A LITTLE TOUR IN IRELAND
By S. Reynolds Hole
An Oxonian
(Dean Of Rochester)
With Illustrations By JOHN LEECH
“By suffering worn and weary,
But beautiful as some fair angel yet.”
1892
TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN LEECH
A TRUE ARTIST
A TRUE FRIEND AND A TRUE GENTLEMAN
THIS BOOK
WHICH HE MADE A SUCCESS
IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR
S. REYNOLDS HOLE
PREFACE.
I have been so often and persuasively asked to republish A Little Tourin Ireland, which I wrote as “an Oxonian,” many years ago, at therequest of my beloved friend and companion, John Leech, and of which onlyone edition has been issued, and that long since exhausted; I have been soseverely upbraided for “keeping his splendid illustrations locked up in abox, and raising the price of the few copies which come into the market,to thrice the original cost;” I have been so fully certified, not only byhearsay but by my own eyes, that there is little or no perceptible changein the scenes, which he drew and I described; and my apprehension, thatthe style in which the book is written might be denounced as unbecoming,has been so completely expelled by the amused remonstrance of my friends,who insist that gaiety becomes an undergraduate as much as gaiters a Dean;—thatI can make no further resistance, and only ask that the failings of theauthor may be condoned by the talent of the artist.
S. Reynolds Hole.
The Deanery,
Rochester: 1892.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER IV. FROM DUBLIN TO GALWAY.
CHAPTER VI. FROM GALWAY TO OUGHTERARDE.
CHAPTER X. FROM KYLEMORE TO GALWAY.
CHAPTER XI. FROM GALLWAY TO LIMERICK
CHAPTER XVI. FROM KILLARNEY TO GLENGARRIFF
CHAPTER XVIII. GLENGARRIFF TO CORK