38 Ireland and the Scottish hies. 



Irish property, whilst they lost Islay and Cantire. We have 

 ^ried to show that an ancient and intimate connection existed 

 between Ireland and the Scottish isles ; that they were of the 

 same race and language ; and that hundreds of years ago there 

 was a close and intimate union existing. They retain the 

 name that we have lost — that is, Scots, whilst we are called 

 Irish. When in Dunvegan Castle we were shown a drinking 

 cup made in the North of Ireland 400 years ago. Maguire, of 

 Fermanagh, in the fifteenth century married a lady from Skye, 

 Catherine Magrannal, and this cup was made at her expense 

 and forwarded as a present to her relatives there. The high 

 crosses of Ireland were reproduced in Scotland and the isles, 

 and the island monasteries of Ireland and Scotland were similar 

 in both architecture and discipline. The ruins we examined 

 on the Flannan Islands and North Rona have their counter- 

 parts in Innismurray, Arran, and the Skelligs. If you would 

 understand the social condition and the mode of life in Ireland 

 in the Tudor period, you may study it at present in the Island 

 of Lewis and other islands, where the mode of living has 

 altered very little for hundreds of years. Fynes Morrison, who 

 was secretary to the Lord Deputy, and who visited the Scottish 

 islands, writes in 1598 than the West of Scotland carried on 

 trade with Ireland in red and pickled herring, sea coal, and 

 aquavitae, in exchange for yarn and cow hides. The Scottish 

 Parliament passed an Act to promote temperance and stop the 

 importation of wine to the islanders. The large landowners, 

 however, y^trt permitted to import wine, and the quantity was 

 fixed in proportion to their property. ^1acLeod, of Dunvegan, 

 might purchase 876 dozen bottles, smaller proprietors 220 

 dozens. Claret was the wine in most demand. 



The Scottish people have done a great deal to attract 

 tourists to their country. Besides providing extremely cheap 

 railway and steamboat travelling, they have availed themselves 

 of the halo of romance that Scott has shed on so many spots in 

 Scotland in his poems and stories, and they continue to keep 

 them well to the front as an additional attraction to their fine 



