Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . Stephens Green—North Side. 368 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. As it was founded on a plundered monastery, it was, after some early financialtrials, sustained by confiscations. For two centuries Catholics were debarred ofits benefits; and, as if to mark the era of dawning light, almost the very first youthwho availed himself of the partial removal of the ban against his creed,
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . Stephens Green—North Side. 368 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. As it was founded on a plundered monastery, it was, after some early financialtrials, sustained by confiscations. For two centuries Catholics were debarred ofits benefits; and, as if to mark the era of dawning light, almost the very first youthwho availed himself of the partial removal of the ban against his creed, and entered Trinity Col-lege, in 1793, arose tobe the representativelyrist of the Land ofSong. It was ThomasMoore, whose scholar-ship, though deniedeven honorary rewardsin college, undoubted-ly developed resourceswhich contributed tohis world-wide as was the con-cession to growing in-telligence which per-mitted Catholics to ob-tain a certain amount ofeducation in the Na-tional University ofCatholic Ireland, it isdeemed creditable to itsspirit that Trinity Col-lege took this step longbefore either of theEnglish Universitiesmade up their mindsto be equally reforms f o 1-lowed, until, after the. Grafton Slrect—Banl: on left- disestablishment of the Anglican Church in Ireland, Trinity cast off the remnantsof its exclusively Protestant statutes, and threw open the whole institution, itsfellowships and professorships, its honors and emoluments, to all, irrespectiveof creed. Although intended to be the intellectual garrison and training school DUBLIN. 369 of the English interest in Ireland, its roll of students contains the names of someof the most illustrious patriots and martyrs of the national cause, from Swift,Berkeley, and Molyneux, to the present day. The great lights of the Irish Par-liament, Flood, Grattan, Curran, Hussey Burgh, Plunket, Speaker Foster, andothers; the most historic martyrs of 98, Fitzgerald, Wolfe Tone, the Sheares,and Emmet;
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