46 Ireland as a Tourist Resort. 



self so well known in connection with everything that was for 

 the benefit of the country in which he lived. He had done a 

 good deal to popularise Ireland as a tourist resort, and his 

 lecture was sure to be brimful of interest. 



Mr. MiLLiGAN said the object of that night's lecture was 

 twofold — to try to develop the tourist traffic in Ireland and to 

 raise money for the Causeway defence — in both of which they 

 hoped to be successful. He had selected the subject of tourist 

 development because of its importance to this country, and 

 particularly to those districts known as congested. Those who 

 travelled usually went abroad because they did not know the 

 beauties of their own country. If Irish people were deficient 

 in their knowledge of Ireland, English people were more so, 

 and required enlightenment. He would be ashamed to confess 

 that he knew foreign countries better than his native land. No 

 reasonable excuse could now be offered why such a state of 

 things should continue. The hotels in the districts where the 

 scenery was situated were all that could be desired, and from a 

 sanitary point of view, superior to hotels in the tourist districts 

 abroad. It was only reasonable to hope that the people of the 

 United Kingdom should become better acquainted with each 

 other, and that Ireland should be visited more frequently by 

 those who want to have a good holiday, as well as invalids in 

 search of health. They had great variety of scenery to suit all 

 tastes — magnificent sea cliffs in Donegal, beautiful sylvan 

 glades, lakes and rivers, encircled by fine mountain ranges in 

 Sligo ; heath-clad hills and mountains, and picturesque tarns 

 and lakes in Connemara ; in Wicklow glens and waterfalls, and 

 lovely rivers flowing through beautifully-wooded valleys, too 

 charming for description ; they must be seen to be realised. In 

 Kerry they had all these features combined, and, added to these, 

 the soft balmy air of the southern Atlantic, tempered by the 

 waters of the Gulf Stream, which rendered it a perfect paradise 

 and health restorer for the invalid, or overworked man of 

 business. 



In a work published m London in 1622, entitled, "The 



