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| ST. MARY'S CHURCH, CORK. -The sketch displays a wide sweep of the river Lee as it dashes on the St. Patrick's Bridge, shown in the distance, with the masts of the shipping forming a forest above its battlements, and a fleet of small boats moored in the rapid stream. On the left rises the graceful portico of the Dominican Church of St. Mary's, which is Hellenic in almost every point of its graceful architecture. The hexastyle portico of the Ionic order, is the admiration of all visitors to the City of Cork. The figure of the patron saint is in marble, rises above the pediment and can be seen at a great distance up and down the river. Interiorly, the sacred edifice also recalls the nameless grace that characterizes everything arranged after the Grecian model. Of all the Orders of the Catholic church, the Dominican is most noted for the beauty and finish of its architectural designs. To this great Order belonged the celebrated preacher and lectureer, the Rev. Thomas Burke, generally called "Father Tom"-an orator who had much of the power that O'Connell possessed of charming the impressionable Irish people. His eloquent voice was heard often in St. Mary's Church, and the Irish people felt the bereavement to be personal to each one, when the premature death of the brilliant conqueror of the sensational English "historian," Froude, was announced only a few years ago. |
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