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| INTERIOR OF ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, DUBLIN. -St. Patrick's disputes with Christ Church the destruction of being Dublin's most venerable cathedral. The present edifice was founded by John Comyn, Archbishop of Dublin, in 1190, on the ruins of a church said to have been built by St. Patrick himself. The Catholics possessed it until the period of the Reformation, when it passed into Protestant hands. It became once more a Catholic church when James II ascended the throne, and Te Deum was chanted there in his honor, when he made his formal entry of Dublin in 1689. After his flight, it became again a Protestant temple, and such it still remains. The sketch represents the interior of the edifice, which is of cruciform design, 300 feet long, including a Lady Chapel, and proportionately wide. The architecture is solid and gloomy, but impressive. Sir Benjamin Lee Guiness, the Dublin brewer whose family has since been advanced to the peerage, had the entire structure renovated at enormous cost to himself, in 1864-65. This venerable pile holds the dust, or contains the monuments of many distinguished people, chief among whom are Marshal Schomberg, killed at the Boyne; Jonathan Swift, the immortal author of "Gulliver's Travels;" Esther Johnson, embalmed in poetry by the eccentric Dean, as "Stella;" Richard Boyle, "the great Earl" of Cork, and several members of his family. There are also memorials of Rev. Charles Wolfe, author of "The Burial of Sir John Moore," and of John Phillpot Curran. |
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