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 . v> Famous Persons and Places, by N. P. Willis, pp. 309-310. Tliis is liuly a liriUiantly suggestive idea of Irish DUBLIN. 365 The Castle contains portraits of the viceroys for nearly two hundred years—the Buckinghams, Westmorelands, Dorsets, Townshends, and nearly every noblefamily in England. A study of these portraits, says the writer of a brilliantpaper on the
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 . v> Famous Persons and Places, by N. P. Willis, pp. 309-310. Tliis is liuly a liriUiantly suggestive idea of Irish DUBLIN. 365 The Castle contains portraits of the viceroys for nearly two hundred years—the Buckinghams, Westmorelands, Dorsets, Townshends, and nearly every noblefamily in England. A study of these portraits, says the writer of a brilliantpaper on the Castle, in 1866, is full of profit, and in these faces we might almostread the story of the govern-ment of thecountry. Forhere are clever,and weak, andcunning faces ;open, jovial,and unsuspi-cious counte-nances ; thereckless Town-sliend, the free,debauched Rut-land, the diplo-matic Claren-don, the good-natured Eglin-ton, and thegenial Car-lisle. The CityHall, designedby ThomasCooley — wasoriginallyfounded in1769, as an Ex-change former-. JIoiisc pf Lords—Old Parliainent House. female beauty ; but it may be remarked in passing, that English travelers, like Inglis, Hall, Thackeray, and still later,Sir John Forbes, have dwelt iipon the beauty of the rural classes, and without imputing the infusion of Saxon blood,as forcibly as Willis dwells on that of the fair Milesians of the upper classes. It is a subject that may commandfurther attention. 366 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. chants, but was often used for other purposes, inhumanly so during the Ter-ror of 98, when mock trials, pitch caps and triangles were applied to suspectedpatriots. It is more favorably known,as the place where OConnell, on the13th of January, 1800, made his first speech againstthe Union he afterward so powerfully sought to re-peal. It became the property of the Corporation in1852. The grand hall contains some notable statues:Hogans noble and colossal figure of OConnell, whichfulfills the adjuration of the poet D
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