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| GEORGE STREET, LIMERICK.- Limerick's finest business throughfare, over a mile in length, and situated inthe modern addition to the city called Newton Pery, is sketched above. Ther is hardly anything of the antique about it, for, in truth, the first house was built there about the year 1170, and its greatest growth occurred during the first half of the present century. The material used for building purposes is mainly hard, red brick, which is kept scrupulously clean, and, as a result, George Street always presents a bright, cheerful aspect. The fine display of goods in the show windows reminds the American traveller of the elaborate "store" displays of Chicago or New York. It will be observed that the thoroughfare is well propled, and that the very peculiar two-wheeled Irish "jaunting car" occupies a prominent place in the fore and middle ground of the sketch. Four-wheeled vehicles are in the minority in Ireland-the two-wheelers are so much "handier" to drive and turn with. The Limerick people evidently agree with the author of the street ballad who wrote- To drive in style through Ireland, An' he'll drive ye all to glory, Just call on Mickey Marr, In his Irish jaunting car! |
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