Identifier: romanticireland02mans (find matches)
Title: Romantic Ireland
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco), 1871- McManus, Blanche, 1869-1935, joint author
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Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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holiday resortit would not be possible to imagine. Thereare fine yellow sands, where children maymake dykes, fortresses, and mountains of mod-erate height. . . . There is fishing, either insmooth or rolling water, for those who love theindolent rocking or the rough rise and fall ofthe sea; precipitous and fretted cliffs, carvedwith the likeness of some time-eaten Gothicfane by the architecteonic ocean; rides, drives,and walks amid the finest scenery of the king-dom. I think she prefers Brighton, said astranger to me of his companion; and, if oneprefers Brighton, one knows where to go.But if nature, now majestically serene, nowfierce and passionate, be more to you thanbicyclettes and German bands, you can no-where be better than at Achill. The Settlement, or modern Dugort, is agroup of cabins above the shore, which owedits creation to the Rev. Edward Nangle, aclergyman of the Established Church. In 1831he visited Achill, and was so impressed withwhat he deemed the spiritual destitution
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CATHEDRAL CAVES, ACHILL. Achill to Sligo 173 of the islanders that he organized a mission.Some seventy acres of land having beenbought, two or three cottages were erected in1833, and in the following year Mr. Nanglesettled at what is now the bright little villageof modern Dugort. Whatever opinion maybe held as to the value or wisdom of hisundertaking, Catholic and Protestant alike,now that the dust of the battle has settled,will agree that Mr. Nangle had in him thestuff that heroes are made of. His immediateoversight was withdrawn about 1852, thoughfor the rest of his life he took an active sharein promoting the continuance of his work.He died in 1883, in his eighty-fourth year,but long before that time the mission hadceased to be a cause of dispute, and nowDugort is merely a small Protestant preservein a Catholic district. Just south of Achill, in Clew Bay, is ClareIsland, which has been likened to the pirateislands of the transformation scenes of thetheatre. Certainly the descriptio

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