One Irish Summer

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An Ancient Celtic Cross at Glendalough
ONE IRISH SUMMER
BY WILLIAM ELEROY CURTIS AUTHOR OF “ The Yankees of the East ,” “ Between the Andes and the Ocean ” “ Modern India ,” “ The Turk and his Lost Provinces ” “ To-day in Syria and Palestine ,” etc.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK DUFFIELD & COMPANY 1909
Copyright, 1908, By William E. Curtis
Copyright, 1909, By Duffield & Company
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
ONE IRISH SUMMER
For those who have never spent a summer in Ireland there remains a delightful experience, for no country is more attractive, unless it be Japan, and no people are more genial or charming or courteous in their reception of a stranger, or more cordial in their hospitality. The American tourist usually lands at Queenstown, runs up to Cork, rides out to Blarney Castle in a jaunting car, and across to Killarney with a crowd of other tourists on the top of a big coach, then rushes up to Dublin, spends a lot of money at the poplin and lace stores, takes a train for Belfast, glances at the Giant’s Causeway, and then hurries across St. George’s Channel for London and the Continent. Hundreds of Americans do this each year, and write home rhapsodies about the beauty of Ireland. But they have not seen Ireland. No one can see Ireland in less than three months, for some of the counties are as different as Massachusetts and Alabama. Six weeks is scarcely long enough to visit the most interesting places.