The famous cities of Ireland . Accordingly, a drive was taken off the main shaft and a grinding placeestablished; and you may see in this one factory handlooms at work, besides power looms and spinningjennies, and bags of flour and of malt coming downthe rough, ramshackle old stair; while the billiard-room of a disestablished public-house makes the woolstore. It all belongs to a rudimentary stage of in-dustrial civilisation, but the ingenious mind is at workthere, improvising for the countryside what thecountryside wants. Town life must, for many a yearto come, in the West of Ireland, anyhow,
The famous cities of Ireland . Accordingly, a drive was taken off the main shaft and a grinding placeestablished; and you may see in this one factory handlooms at work, besides power looms and spinningjennies, and bags of flour and of malt coming downthe rough, ramshackle old stair; while the billiard-room of a disestablished public-house makes the woolstore. It all belongs to a rudimentary stage of in-dustrial civilisation, but the ingenious mind is at workthere, improvising for the countryside what thecountryside wants. Town life must, for many a yearto come, in the West of Ireland, anyhow, be theservant of the country; we are in the day of small II GALWAY 103 things; and there is a deal to be learnt in Galwayabout the organisation of an Ireland in which peasantproprietors have replaced landlord ownership. Onanother of the water-leads is a newly-set-up factoryof agricultural implements, where I became aware, forthe first time, that every county or district in theWest uses its own type of spade; all of them one-. /// the Claddagh. sided, long-shafted implements, but varying inbreadth and length of blade, till you come down toone forged for the stoniest ground, which is not muchwider than a crowbar and not much less strong. At the quay in Galway you can see, too, the slowbut gradual transformation which is altering themethods of taking fish. The Claddagh is to-day whatit has always been—an Irish-speaking fishing village. I04 THE FAMOUS CITIES OF IRELAND m lying outside the limits of the city proper, and livingits own life apart. Outside every Anglo-Normantown there grew up an Irish town beyond thewalls, beyond the city pale; and at Galway its peoplewere fishers, who have probably, since the beginningof time, complained that the fish are not in it asthey used to be. At all events, a bye-law of 1585enacted that no fisherman ^ do take in hand theploughe or spade that would barr them from if the harvester of the sea was forbidden to seeklabour on the land
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