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"FIRST DAY" KINGSTOWN REGATTA, CO. DUBLIN.-"Old Dunleary," Gaelic, Dun-Laeghaire, "Leary's Fort," was socalled after the pagan King of Ireland, who, although himself a Druid and firm in his pagan belief, gave the apostl St. Patrick a hearing at the royal hill of Tara, and protected him in his sacred mission against the fury of the Druid priests. A huge, and ugly, obelisk covers the spot where George IV. of unblessed memory, left his last footprint, when leaving Ireland forever, in 1812 - an occasion on which the Irish flunkies, who expected ryal favors, made a disgraceful exhibition of their slavishness -
Shout, drink, feast and flatter! O, Erin! how low |
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