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| YACHTING CLUB HOUSE, KINGSTOWN, CO. DUBLIN. -Yachting is, perhaps the chiefest recreation of the gay population of Kingstown, now numbering about 20,000 souls, mostly of the aristocratic and "well-to-do" classes. The leading clubs, both renowned for their hospitality to strangers, are the Royal St. George, shown in the sketch, and the Royal Irish, which is equally popular. In the yachting season both clubs are crowded with members and their families and guests. At such times, Kingstown presents an aspect of animation not surpassed by any of the favorite English pleasure resorts. The shores and piers are thronged with youth and beauty, "ladies bright" and chivalric cavaliers. The town has on its holiday attire, and livliness is the order of the day, and also of the night, when the clubs entertain lavishly, in good, old Irish fashion, forgetful of everything but the unquestioned national virtue of hospitality, common to Saxon, Celt, Norman, Catholic Protestant and Dissenter alike. This is one quality that Ireland, by universal acknowledgement, has not lost, and it is a quality that makes the Irishman, and Irishwoman, popular throughout the world. Kingstown is conceded to be the most charming and properous suburban place in Ireland. |
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