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| A SECTION OF EYRE SQUARE, GALWAY.- The accompanying picture shows a modern section of ancient Eyre Square in Galway Town. It is adorned by statues of Viscour Dunkellin and John Orrell Lever, former members of parliament, who did all that in them lay to make Galway one of the greatest seaports in the world. In this good work they had the active assistance of the fearless and energetic Father Peter Daly, whose great heart fairly broke when, after aplendid effort and heroic self-sacrifice, the grand project, chiefly because of England's commercial jealousy, finally came to naught. Galway directly faces America, and her great bay, protected by the rugged and indestructible breakwater of the Arran islands, can shelter the ships of all nations, no matter how great their tonnage. It is fully five hundred miles nearer to New York than is Liverpool, and, did Ireland possess a native parliament, Galway would soon be a formidable rival of the famous English seaport. Only a rear view of the one of the statues is shown in the picture, because the artist wished to sketch the happy little children mounted on the old cannon or playing on the grass beneath and around it. They are rosy, healthy little ones, if we could only see them nearer, invigorated by the beath of liberty wafted to them from Columbia across the salt waves of the broad Atlantic. Some day they may be stron men and fair women, but when that day comes, they will, most likely, be in America or Australia. Alas, poor Ireland! |
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