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 . lute defence, thegovernor, Roger MacElligot,was forced to yield. In themeantime the revocation ofthe edict of Nantes introducedinto the city a number ofFrench Protestant families, whose descendants have become identified with itsprogress. For a century after the Williamite war, the annals of Cork furnish lit-tle of general historical interest. Many local improvement
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 . lute defence, thegovernor, Roger MacElligot,was forced to yield. In themeantime the revocation ofthe edict of Nantes introducedinto the city a number ofFrench Protestant families, whose descendants have become identified with itsprogress. For a century after the Williamite war, the annals of Cork furnish lit-tle of general historical interest. Many local improvements, however, were great part of the old walls were removed in 1706 ; the wooden bridges weresuperseded by handsome works in stone in 1712 ; new jails were erected in 1715and 1728. In 1719 Mr. Edward Webber built the Mardyke, an elevated prom-enade a mile long, westward, shaded by rows of elms, which is still an ornamentalfeature of the city; and in 1763 statutes were passed for the erecting of lamps,and securing the quays with walls or iron railings. In 1798 Lord EdwardFitzgerald found succor for a time near Sundays Well. A Cork constituencywas one of represented by OConnell in Parliament during the Repeal agita-. From the Road to Cork. CORK. 429 tion. In the Young Ireland era, Meagher addressed the citizens on the occasion of forming a branch of the Irish Confederation, in September, 1847. After the French Revolution in 1848, a large meeting of citizens, on St. Patricks Day, by resolution hailed the hopes held out to all oppressed nationalities by the French Republic. Meetings of citizens also approvingly addressed OBrien, Mitchel, and Meagher, after their arrest by the gov- ^ ernment, and a dem- ^, ^=sa^ onstration in their ^ ^fe^ honor, in the form of _~ / ^^^i^^s:y»B^P~\l=^ a procession
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