. Romantic Ireland . rdcalled by Johnson. One ancient scrivener writes that at thisperiod nearly all the learned were under theinfluence of Ireland. The great universitiesof Oxford, Paris, and Pavia, if not actually ofIrish inception, were greatly indebted to thelearning which spread forth from the GreenIsle. There is scarcely a Continental centre oflearning, from Palermo to Bruges, or fromGrenada to Cologne, where some Irish saint,patron, or monkish scholar is not known andrevered. Cork should be endeared to Americans byreason of the association with the city of twowhose names will never be f
. Romantic Ireland . rdcalled by Johnson. One ancient scrivener writes that at thisperiod nearly all the learned were under theinfluence of Ireland. The great universitiesof Oxford, Paris, and Pavia, if not actually ofIrish inception, were greatly indebted to thelearning which spread forth from the GreenIsle. There is scarcely a Continental centre oflearning, from Palermo to Bruges, or fromGrenada to Cologne, where some Irish saint,patron, or monkish scholar is not known andrevered. Cork should be endeared to Americans byreason of the association with the city of twowhose names will never be forgotten — Will-iam Penn, the Quaker, and Father Mathew,the great temperance advocate. In proof of the successful labours of thelatter, a great writer of his time stated thatnot a single instance of drunkenness cameunder his observation during a sojourn ofsome weeks in Southern Ireland. It is a happychange from the rollicking recklessness of theould Ireland of the fictionists and comic-song V An Old-Style Irish Car. Queenstown, Cork, and Blarney 21 writers, which, let us hope, has gone for ever,if it ever existed. Father Mathew is buriedhere, in St. Josephs Cemetery, and a bronzestatue to his memory stands in Patrick Street. Cork is a picturesque and interesting oldcity. Its churches are mostly modern; butSt. Finbarrs Cathedral stands on the site ofa very old and famous church, and is itself afine building. Cork is one of the principal places wherethe genuine Irish cloak is at home, and mostpicturesque it is, though few of the youngerwomen of to-day affect it. For the most part,the girls wear the universal shawl, draped overhead and shoulders. The cloaks worn by thematrons and elderly women are great full-length wraps of a black or dark-blue cloth,with a wide hood. Rumour has it that theycost from five to ten pounds apiece, and last,literally, from generation to generation, beingsometimes passed down as an heirloom frommother to daughter for half a century. Thereis a factory
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