THE FAMOUS CITIES OF IRELAND. 



Written by STEPHEN GwYNN, and Illustrated by 

 HUGH THOMSON. Large Cr. 8vo, gilt Irish 



Design, 5/- net. 



This book is a companion volume to the " Fair Hills of 

 Ireland," carrying further the same idea. The earlier book 

 dealt with selected places momentous in Irish history, 

 dwelling specially on the associations with Pagan and 

 early Christian ages. In " The Famous Cities of Ireland " 

 the same procedure is followed with emphasis rather upon 

 modern tunes. Thus, Waterford stands mainly for the 

 first stages of Norman invasion, though every object that 

 suggests earlier and later periods in its history is touched 

 on. Kilkenny is specially associated with the period of 

 resistance to Cromwell, though the varied record of its 

 monuments is rehearsed. All of the great towns are in the 

 volume, and to them is added, for historic reasons, chapters 

 on Antrim and Maynooth. 



Mr. Thomson's illustrations are as full and excellent as 

 hi the earlier book, and coloured plates illustrate Dublin, 

 Belfast, Limerick, and that critical region, the Gap of the 

 North. 



THE FAIR HILLS OF IRELAND. 



By STEPHEN GWYNN. Illustrated by HUGH 

 THOMSON. Large Cr. 8vo, Cloth, gilt, 5/- 



net ; Cheap Edition, 2/6 net. 



This book is the record of a pilgrimage to historic and 

 beautiful places in Ireland, so arranged as to give an idea 

 not only of their physical aspect to-day, but also of the 

 history for which they stand. Places have been chosen 

 whose greatest fame was in the days before foreign rule, 

 though often, as at the Boyne, they are associated with 

 the later story of Ireland. In each chapter the whole 

 range of associations is handled, so that each reviews in 

 some measure the whole history of Irish civilisation as it 

 concerned one particular place. But in a fuller sense the 

 chapters are arranged so as to suggest a continuous idea 

 of Irish life, from the prehistoric period illustrated by 

 Cyclopean monuments down to the full development of 

 purely Irish civilisation which is typified by the buildings 

 at Cashel. Seats of ancient sovereignty like Tara, or of 

 ancient art and learning like Clonmacnoise, are described 

 so as to show what the observer can find to see there 

 to-day, and what the student can learn from native Irish 

 Poetry and annals regarding them. 



