The famous cities of Ireland . iety of Antiquaries, * an ardent studentof his countrys history. This picture reveals thathe was a master of foxhounds as well; and there hesits on his horse, painted by one who knew an Irishgentleman and an Irish horse when he saw is an example of the work of William Osborne,whose son, Walter, excelled him in skill, and equalledhim in all lovable qualities. Here the old animalpainter is seen at his best; horse and man are rightin sentiment, right in tone; the leisurely, well-bredease, and the look of race is in both. We have all of us in Ireland a tender
The famous cities of Ireland . iety of Antiquaries, * an ardent studentof his countrys history. This picture reveals thathe was a master of foxhounds as well; and there hesits on his horse, painted by one who knew an Irishgentleman and an Irish horse when he saw is an example of the work of William Osborne,whose son, Walter, excelled him in skill, and equalledhim in all lovable qualities. Here the old animalpainter is seen at his best; horse and man are rightin sentiment, right in tone; the leisurely, well-bredease, and the look of race is in both. We have all of us in Ireland a tenderness for the KILKENNY 167 old stock wherever it is found. May it flourishundiminished at Kilkenny Castle in the Ireland ofa newer day! a day whose atmosphere, whose tem-perature, whose colour, is determined by all that hashappened in all these years since the incoming Normanfirst planted his stronghold on the Clifl^ above theNore, and set to work to design and build the nobleCathedral which commemorated the native Irish CHAPTER VI DERRY Derry is to one-fourth of Ireland a kind of holycity, a symbol, a flag, rather than a mere group ofhabitations. And althouo^h much that it has cometo symbolise is distasteful to Ireland as a whole, yetno good Irishman will grudge Derry its peculiarpride, its honest fame. Here we are in a stratum of history wholly differentfrom any which has been illustrated by the townsso far studied. In Derrys history the Norman hasno part. The place has very definite associationswhich go back to the early days of Christianity inIreland; but nothing exists to link the earlier his-tory with the later, except rock, earth, and water, theconfiguration of the ground, and enduring names thatkeep alive the memory of a great saint, a great glance should be thrown backwards to those far-offbeginnings of a common civic life on that isolatedhillock by the Foyle, for these are the memories thatunite. Doire, Derry, or the Derry, as it was long called, 168
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