300 IRISH SPORT AND SPORTSMEN. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



THE CORINTHIAN CUP PICTURE, PUNCHESTOWN, I 8 54. 



Perhaps the most successful of the many splendid 

 productions of the pencil of that talented artist, Michael 

 Angelo Hayes, is the print which hangs within the 

 homes of nearly all distinguished Irish sportsmen, 

 *'The Corinthian Cup, Punchestown, 1854." I shall 

 now record some of the feats in the saddle, and 

 give a brief memoir of the subjects of Mr. Hayes's 

 portraiture. Many of them have " gone over to the 

 majority," but the fame of these *' light of other days " 

 will survive some generations of sportsmen. 



On the left hand side of the picture is an admirable 

 likeness of the late Lord Clonmel. 



JoJni Henry Scott, /\th Earl of Clon?neIl, was born 

 4th January, 1817, and married, 1838, Hon. Anne 

 de Burgh, eldest daughter of the second Lord Downes, 

 and they were said to be the handsomest couple in the 

 Irish peerage. 



His Lordship, as the reader will see on reference 

 to the first chapter, was Master of the Kildare Hounds 

 for some years, and was one of the most popular of 

 the many favourites who have held that post. He was 

 known as a kind-hearted landlord, remarkable for his 

 genuine wit and cheery humour, and was extremely 



