lo LIFE IN IRELAND 



CHAPTER II 



BORU's country exploits — A fox-chase through a Methodist 

 Chapel — Account of Garry Owen — Personal qualifications — 

 Education — A poor scholar — His use in a family — BoRU's 

 pleasure-boat upset, and his Tutor drowned in the Shannon — 

 Goes to a boarding-school at Limerick — Country life — Galway 

 Gaol — Gallows anecdotes — Introduced to a Marquis — First peep 

 into high life— Lord Sheepy's misfortunes and folly — A low 

 battle in High Street — Patrick Mooney and his master on their 

 travels — View of Dublin — Arrival at Morrison's Hotel, Dawson 

 Street — A sleepy conclusion. 



BRIAN BORU was now a pretty long distance 

 from home, and, except a few visits to Limerick, 

 he had never been in a city equal in size to Belfast, so 

 justly termed the metropolis of the North. 



At Limerick he had beat up the quarters of the 

 flax-dressers, and robbed the bleach-greens of many an 

 animated pretty girl ; these may be called the sample 

 commodity of that town, as great quantities are ex- 

 ported from thence to America annually, where they 

 fetch a good price. 



Brian was no saint; on the contrary the craw 

 thiwipers and soap-hoard crazvlers denounced him as a 

 miserable sinner. When these devotees were one day 

 earnestly engaged in 'exhorting each other' to live 

 godly, righteous, and sober lives, Brian, directing his 



