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| A VIEW OF DALKEY HARBOR, CO. DUBLIN.- The above is another view taken between Kingstown and Dalkey, at a point facing Dalkey island, on the highest point of which stands the Martello tower shown in the picture. There is deep water in Dalkey harbor, at this point, at one time, it was thought likely to outrival its larger neighbor Kingstown. It is said that here the great Earl of Shrewsbury, then Sir John Talbot, and afterward so celebrated in the French wars of Henry V. and John of Bedford, landed the year before the battle of Agincourt, 1414, to act as viceroy for the young King of England. He found Ireland almost entirely wrested out of the hands of the English, chiefly through the military genius of Art McMurrough, heriditary King of Leinster, who defeated, in rapid succession, every English king, prince and general who marched against him. Talbot fared no better than the rest, and, in fact, he mad so little impression in Ireland that his military progress is very slightly alluded to by McGeoghegan and other Irish chroniclers. Accordingly he sailed back from Dalkey to England a much sadder, if not wiser, man, carrying with him a full appreciation, as a good soldier should, of Irish military prowess. As for King Art McMurrough, who had beaten Richard II. twice at the end of the 14th century, he died in possession of his crown at his palace in New Ross, a year of so after Talbot quitted Ireland. |
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