Cross Roads in Ireland.
Author: COLUM, Padraic.
New York: Macmillan, 1930. xi, 375 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.
The landscape of every country is three-fold - there is the natural landscape, the historical one, and the psychic one, this last being expressed in myth, legend, poetry, types of men and women This three-fold landscape is evoked in “Cross Roads in Ireland ” Mr Colum believes that every travel-book should be primarily a storybook, and he has written this as a succession of stories In bringing before us the country and its men and women he has been distinctly aided by present-day Irish painters whose work appears in this book in fourteen pictures.
CONTENTS
PART I MEATH AND CAVAN
A ROAD IN MEATH
GYPSY SOJOURNERS
WELLINGTON IN MEATH
AT LARACOR
A HOUSE BY THE BOYNE
TARA
A RUIN OF TO-DAY
INTO CAVAN
THE COUNTY SHOW
AN ISLET
WEST AND NORTH
MYTHOLOGY BY THE ROADSIDE
FOLK-LORE
THE COTTIER
A PLACE TO RETURN TO
CAVAN STORY: AN INTERIOR
PART II MID-ULSTER
CONCERNING STATION-MASTERS
INTO THE NORTH
DYNASTS IN FERMANAGH
ENNISKILLEN
MONAGHAN
A STATESMAN
IN A COURT-HOUSE
POETS IN TYRONE
TYRONE STORY: THE LONE MAN
PART III EAST ULSTER
ARMAGH
PORTADOWN
DERRY: A CITY WITH TWO TRADITIONS
COUNTY DERRY TO COUNTY ANTRIM
MEMORIES
THE GLENS OF ANTRIM
NORTHERN METROPOLIS
THE LAST HARPERS
LORE OF ULSTER
SAINT PATRICK
BORDER STORY: CATHERINE MULAMPHY AND THE MAN FROM THE NORTH
PART IV THE VALE OF THE LIFFEY
DUBLIN TO KILDARE
THE GERALDINES
MAYNOOTH
A KILDARE MAN, JOHN DEVOY
THE HUNT
KILDARE STORY: THE SHEPHERDS
PART V EAST AND SOUTH
THE SLANEY
WEXFORD: THE TOWN
A PERFORMANCE
WATERFORD
A BALLAD-SINGER
A SONG OF EXILE
OSSORY
KILKENNY
WITCHCRAFT: 1324
CATHOLIC CONFEDERATION : 1642-1648
THE ORMONDS
BACK TO WATERFORD COUNTY
THE MONASTERY
STORY: THE DEATH OF THE RICH MAN
PART VI THE SOUTH
YOUGHAL
CORK
BLARNEY CASTLE
GLENGARRIFF
THE OUTER PLACES
To LIMERICK
MICHAEL COLLINS
THE SHANNON
ATHLONE
LISSOY
YOUNG GOLDSMITH
THE HOLY ISLAND OF INISCEALTRA
CLARE AND LIMERICK
LIMERICK
SHANNON SAGA: BRIAN’S BATTLE
ILLUSTRATIONS
Barney Backed a Winner, by Sean Keating
Cottages, by Paul Henry
La Montagne d’Achelin, by Marie Howet
La Baie de Dooagh, by Marie Howet
Strand, by “A. E.”
Wicklow Mountain, by Maurice McGonigal
West of Ireland Scene, by Paul Henry
Le Seau d’Argent, by Marie Howet
Night’s Candles Are Burnt Out, by Sean Keating
Quiet Interior, by Leo Whelan
The Fairy Thorn, by Paul Henry
Galway, by Michael MacLiammoir
The Busy Mill, by Estella F. Solomons
“The Decent Church that Topt the Neighb’ring Hill,” by Estella F. Solomons
The Tipperary Hurler, by Sean Keating
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