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| INTERIOR, MAYNOOTH CHAPEL. -The exterior of the handsome chapel attached to the Catholic Ecclesiastical College of Maynooth has been given in another sketch. The interior is presented in the accompanying picture, showing the aisle, the splendidly artistic arched roof, the costly side windows of stained glass, with richly worked mullions, and the superb rose window which illuminated the choir. There is not, in Ireland at least, a more beautiful chapel than that of Maynooth. It is after the design, peculiarly Gothic in character, of the gifted architect of the modern quadrangle of the University. Mr. Pugin, singular fact that Maynooth College was first endowed without a dissenting vote, by the Irish parliament, in 1795, when not one Catholic member sat in that body. The annual amount appropriated for the accommodation and education of fifty Roman Catholic ecclesiastical students was 8,000 per annum -a very liberal allowance for those days. This action of the Irish Protestant parliament proves beyond a doubt that had the "Union" with great Britain not prevailed, in 1800-1, Catholic Emancipation would have been granted by said parliament a whole generation earlier that it was by that of Great Britain. |
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