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| ST. PATRICK'S BRIDGE., CORK. -The imposing structure, of which the sketch given above is a faithful picture, is the finest and most modern of nine bridges that span the historic river Lee in the beautiful city of Cork, which, like Chicago, seems to have been originally built on a swamp, as its Gaelic name, "Corach"-a marsh-by which the Irish-speaking people still call it-attests. St. Patrick's street is the finest business thoroughfare of Ireland's southern metropolis, which is one of the most picturesque of the Irish cities, and is particularly noted for the beauty of its women. Among those who have testified to the latter agreeable fact is Queen Victoria, of England, as will be seen by reference to her published diary of travels in Ireland a generation or more ago. Cork was betrayed into the hands of Henry II. by the traitor King of Desmond, Dermod McCarthy, in 1172; was besieged and taken by Cromwell in 1649; and by John Churchill, afterward Duke of Marlborough, in 1690. Here William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, became a Quaker while on a visit to Ireland in the family interest in 1667, and from its harbor Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, "one of King James' chief commanders," sailed with the "Wild Geese," who became the renowned Irish Brigade of France, after the fall of Limerick, in 1691. |
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