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| MOUNT JEROME CEMETERY, DUBLIN. -This fine "city of the dead" is situated at Harold's Cross, now a part of the metropolis, and is recognized, in the main, as a burial place for non-Catholics. Although it contains the dust of many celebrated Irishmen, it is not, like Prospect cemetery, Glasnevin, famous for the imposing charcter of its mortuary monuments, if the fine chapel, partially revealed in the sketch, is expected. This edifice is built in the early Anglo-Gothic style and is generally regarded as a model of its kind. The grounds surrounding it are strikingly beautiful and no expense has been spared to make them attractive to the living and worthy of the departed. The chapel is approached by a broad walk, which leads directly to the main entrance of the cemetery beside Harold's Cross church. Near it is interred the dust of James Whiteside, one of Ireland's greatest lawyers-the same who defended Smith O'Brien and his compatriots when tried for high treason at Clonmel, in 1848. He, subsequently, accepted office under the British government, and thus forfeited his early popularity with the majority of his fellow-countrymen. Here also are buried the relics of the illustrious Thomas Davis, the poet and virtual founder of the "Young Ireland" party, whose ballads will be an inspiration to Irishmen while they remain worthy of their history and their blood. Davis was a Protestant and the sone of a Welshman, but he was the most potent "Irish rebel" of his period, and has left the marks of his genius on the pages of Irish history. A life-like statue by his friend, Hogan, marks the place of sepulture. On his tomb is inscribed the epitaph composed by himself: "He served his country and loved his kind." |
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