2. THE TOOTLE ON THE FLUTE (U.12.997-98)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTFMkD8nI-Y
From the song “Phil the Fluter’s Ball,” by Percy French. Chorus:
“With a tootle of the flute/ And a twiddle of the fiddle –oh/ Dancin’
up the middle like a herrin’ on the griddle - / up! Down! Hands
around! Crossin’ to the wall,/ oh, hadn’t we the gaiety at Phil the
Fluter’s ball.”
3. …BRINI FROM SUMMERHILL, THE EYETALLYANO (U.12.1067)
Continues Great Britain (now Parnell) Street to the east-northeast into a
district of run-down houses and tenements.
4. …SKIVVIES AND BADHACHS FROM THE COUNTY MEATH (U.12.1090)
The county just north of County Dublin.
5. OLD MOTHER HUBBARD WENT TO THE CUPBOARD (U.12.1231)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ5r0t76ETo
The first line of “Old Mother Hubbard,” a fourteen-stanza nursery
rhyme recorded or composed (c. 1804) by Sarah Catherine Martin
(1768-1826); the first stanza continues: “Went to the cupboard, /
To fetch her poor dog a bone; / But when she came there/ The
cupboard was bare / And so the poor dog had none.”
6. OUR FLAX AND OUR DAMASK FROM THE LOOM OF
ANTRIM (U.12.1243-44)
Antrim, a county in Northeastern Ireland,
was the heart of the flax-growing, linen-
weaving industry in Ulster as early as the
mid-sixteenth century.
7. LIMERICK LACE (U.12.1244)
Limerick, the capital of County Limerick, 120 miles west-southwest of
Dublin, was famous for its handmade lace in the late seventeenth and the
eighteenth centuries. The industry declined in the course of the nineteenth
century, largely as a result of competition from machine-made lace.
8. IVORY RAISED POINT FROM THE CARMELITE CONVENT IN
NEW ROSS (U.12.1246-47)
New Ross is a village on the Barrow
River in County Wexford; it was
supposed to have taken its origins as
the site of an ancient sixth-century
monastery.
9. READ TACITUS AND PTOLEMY (U.12.1250-51)
The Roman historian and orator,
who does briefly mention Ireland in
his life of Agricola, section 24,
where he describes the passage of
a ship around the island and
observes that there was little
difference between the religious
practices of England and Ireland.
10.
11. READ TACITUS AND PTOLEMY (U.12.1250-51)
An Alexandrian Greek astronomer
and geographer.
12. THE FAIR HILLS OF EIRE, O (U.12.1264)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwkMol5U9z8
From a song, “The Fair Hills of Eire, O,” translated by James
Clarence Mangan from the Irish of Donogh Mac Con-Mara (1738-
1814). The poem begins, “Take a blessing from my heart to the
land of my birth, / And the fair hills of Eire, O!
13. WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE (U.12.1290)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwcYPCpIIkY
An American popular song by George P. Morris and Henry
Russell. The first of its four verses, “Woodman, spare that tree!/
Touch not a single bough/ In youth it shelter’d me/ And I’ll protect
it now/ Twas my forefather’s hand/ That placed it near his cot;/
There, woodman, let it stand/ Thy axe shall harm it not.
14. AS MUCH AS HIS BLOODY LIFE IS WORTH TO GO DOWN AND ADDRESS HIS
TALL TALK TO THE ASSEMBLED MULTITUDE IN SHANAGOLDEN (U.12.1312-
1314)
A post town and parish in County
Limerick, eighteen miles west of
Limerick and 116 miles west-
southwest of Dublin.
15. O’DONNELL, DUKE OF TETUAN IN SPAIN (U.12.1382-
83)
Leopold O’Donnell (1809-67), was a
descendant of one of the wild-geese families
and a marshal of Spain whose career was a
checkerboard of military insurrections and
counterinsurrections. He was prime minister of
Spain.
16. COME WHERE THE BOOSE IS CHEAPER (U.12.1397-98)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4q4Mjcs2sc
A parody, by George Dance of Stephen Foster’s song “Come
Where My Love Lies Dreaming.” Dance’s parody begins: “Come
where the booze is cheaper; / Come where the pots hold more, /
Come where the boss is a deuce of a joss, / Come to the pub next
door.”
17. GLENDALOUGH (U.12.1451)
“The Valley of the Two Lakes,” in
County Wicklow twenty-five
miles of Dublin, is a short, deep
valley noted for its beauty and its
early monastic ruins. It is one of
the most popular tourist sites in
Ireland.
18. THE LOVELY LAKES OF KILLARNEY (U.12.1451)
In County Kerry; all guidebooks
rhapsodize on the “multiform contrasts and
endless variety” of the lakes and their
mountain settings.
19. THE RUINS OF CLONMACNOIS (U.12.1451-52)
Clonmacnois (the Meadows of the Sons
of Nos) is on the river Shannon in central
Ireland; the ruins of seven churches,
including a tenth-century cathedral, mark
this site of the most remarkable of the
religious schools.
20. CONG ABBEY (U.12.1452)
Near Galway in County Galway.
The abbey was founded in 624,
destroyed by fire in 1114, and then
rebuilt in Norman style in the
course of that century. The abbey
was disbanded in the sixteenth
century, but considerable
restoration of the building was
undertaken in the nineteenth
century.
21. GLEN INAGH AND THE TWELVE PINS
(U.12.1452)
Glen Inagh is a long mountain valley in
County Galway, flanked on one side by
twelve conical domelike hills, the Twelve
Pins or Bunnabeola (“The Peaks of
Beola”)
22. IRELAND’S EYE (U.12.1452)
A small island one mile north of the
Howth promontory the site of the ruins of
a seventh-century chapel.
23. CROAGH PATRICK (U.12.1453)
A 2,510-foot mountain on the coast in
County Mayo; it was regarded as an
enchanted hill. St. Patrick is said to
have rung a bell at its summit to drive all
venomous living things out of Ireland,
and each time he tried to throw the bell
away, it returned to his hand.
24. THE BREWERY OF MESSRS ARTHUR
GUINNESS, SON AND COMPANY (LIMITED)
(U.12.1453-54)
In west-central Dublin south of the Liffey
25. LOUGH NEAGH’S BANKS
(U.12.1454)
Lough Neagh in northeastern Ireland is
the largest lake in the British Isles;
eighteen miles long and eleven miles
wide, it has sixty-five miles of “banks”.
26. THE VALE OF OVOCA (U.12.1454-55)
Or Avoca, a picturesque junction of rivers
in County Wicklow, south of Dublin.
27. THE MAPAS OBELISK (U.12.1455)
A “folly” at Killiney, on the coast nine
miles southeast of Dublin. It was
constructed in 1741 on the grounds of
Mr. Mapas’s Killiney estate “with the
benevolent intention of providing
employment for the industrious poor.”
Guidebooks advertise “a remarkable
view” from Obelisk Hill.
28. SIR PATRICK DUN’S HOSPITAL
(U.12.1455)
On Grand Canal Street overlooking the
Grand Canal, which circles south around
Dublin. The hospital (built in 1803) was
financed by the estate of Sir Patrick Dun
(1642-1713), a famous and influential
Scots-Irish physician and politician.
30. THE GLEN OF AHERLOW
(U.12.1456)
A valley eight miles long and two miles wide
formed by the river Aherlow, famous for its
beauty and, in history, as the contested major
pass between County Tipperary and County
Cork to the south.
31. LYNCH’S CASTLE (U.12.1456)
In Galway, the town residence of the
famous James Lynch (Fitz-stephen),
warden of Galway in the early sixteenth
century. He condemned his own son to
death (for conspiracy to mutiny on the high
seas) and hanged him from a window to
prevent his being rescued by other
members of the family.
33. TULLAMORE JAIL (U.12.1457)
Tullamore is a town in the bog of Allen;
the jail is as undistinguished a building
as the town itself. An Irish rhyme sums
it up: “Great Bog of Allen, swallow
down/ That odious heap call’d
Philipstown;/ And if thy maw can
swallow more, / Pray take – and
welcome – Tullamore.”
34. CASTLECONNEL RAPIDS
(U.12.1457)
The broad weirs and rapids (the Falls
of Donnas) on the Shannon in central
Ireland; the Shannon is broad at this
point and flows through innumerable
rocky islets.
35. THE CROSS AT MONASTERBOLICE (U.12.1458)
Monasterboice, thirty-five miles northwest of Dublin,
is the site of ecclesiastical ruins, a round tower and
three stone crosses, two of which were regarded as
among the finest in Ireland. The more important of
the two is St. Boyne’s Cross, which is reputed to be
the most ancient Christian relic in Ireland.
37. ST. PATRICK’S PURGATORY (U.12.1458-
59)
On Saints’ Island in Lough Derg,
County Donegal (northwestern
Ireland). Tradition has held that
St. Patrick had a vision of
purgatory and hell in a cavern on
the island and that properly
prepared pilgrams could share
that vision.
38. THE SALMON LEAP (U.12.1459)
A waterfall on the Liffey at Leixlip, eight
miles west of Dublin. The name Leixlip
derives from the Norse Lax-Hlaup, or
Salmon Leap.
39. THE THREE BIRTHPLACES OF THE FIRST DUKE OF
WELLINGTON (U.12.1459-60)
Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), the first duke of
Wellington. Both the exact date (29 April?) and
the place of his birth in Dublin are matters of
controversy, though opinion seems to have
settled on 24 Upper Merrion Street.
40. THE ROCK OF CASHEL (U.12.1460)
Ninety-six miles southwest of Dublin in
County Tipperary; the rock rises
abruptly to a height of 300 feet out of
an extensive plain. It is crowned by
Cormac’s Great Church or Cathedral
(consecrated 1134), now called
Cormac’s Chapel, together with a
round tower, a great stone cross, and
the ruins of a medieval cathedral.
41. THE BOG OF ALLEN (U.12.1460-61)
Begins twenty-five miles west-
southwest of Dublin. Originally
an extensive bog, it has been
partially reclaimed.
42. FINGAL’S CAVVE (U.12.1461)
In Scotland, not Ireland; the
largest of seven caves on the
uninhabited island of Staffa in the
Inner Hebrides. Fingal is portrayed
as the father of Ossian by the Scot
James Macpherson (1736-96) in
his fictional versions of the
Ossianic poems.
43. HIS MAJESTY THE ALAKI OF ABEAKUTA (U.12.1515)
Abeakuta was a province in western
Nigeria; the Alaki was the equivalent of
the sultan of a small state. He was not a
Zulu, but he was in fact visiting England
in the summer of 1904.
44. SLATTERY’S (U.12.1565)
A pub, William Slattery, grocer, tea,
wine, and spirit merchant, 28 Ship
Street Great (in central Dublin south of
the Liffey).
45. SOUTH CITY MARKETS (U.12.1651)
The Dublin (South) City Market
Company, fronting on Fade and Drury
streets with a Market Arcade from
George’s Street South, in south-central
Dublin.
46. IF THE MAN IN THE MOON WAS A JEW, JEW, JEW (U.12.1801)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neEnhgBDVlM
After the American popular song “If the Man in the Moon were a
Coon” (1905), by Fred Fisher. Chorus: “If the man in the moon
were a coon, coon, coon/ What would you do?/ He would fade
with his shade the silv’ry moon, moon, moon/ Away from you./ No
roaming ‘round the park in the bright moonlight, / If the man in the
moon were a coon, coon, coon
47. COME BACK TO ERIN (U.12.1828)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gThS3qOaHnU
A song by the English ballad composer “Claribel,” Mrs. Charlotte
Allington Barnard (1830-69). “Come back to Erin, Mavourneen,
Mavourneen,/ Come back, Aroon, to the land of thy birth: / Come
with the shamrocks and springtime, Mavourneen, / And its
Killarney shall ring with our mirth. / Sure when we lent you to
beautiful England, / Little we thought of the long winter days, /
Little we thought of the hush of the starshine, / Over the
mountains, the hills, and the braes.”
48. THREE ROCK MOUNTAIN (U.12.1830)
At 1,469 feet, the mountain, which is south
of Dublin, can be seen from the streets of
the city.
49. THE GALTEES (U.12.1831)
A chain of mountains with
some of the higher elevations
in southwestern Ireland (in
counties Limerick and
Tipperary)
57. THE OBSERVATORY OF DUNSINK (U.12.1858-
59
The astronomical observatory of Trinity
College, built in 1785 on a low hill north of
Phoenix Park and five miles from the
center of Dublin. It became the Royal
Observatory of Ireland in 1791.
58. THE FIFTH GRADE OF MERCALLI’S SCALE (U.12.1859-60)
Giuseppe Mercalli (1850-1914), an Italian
seismologist, invented a five-grade seismic scale
that was highly empirical. It was regarded as
particularly useful for the measurement of very
severe shocks. “Fifth grade” meant that the shock
was as heavy as any that had ever been recorded
on a seismograph to that date.
59. HOLEOPEN BAY NEAR THE OLD HEAD OF KINSALE (U.12.1878-79)
Kinsale is on the southeastern coast of
Ireland; Holeopen Bay is a small bay
formed by two small strips of land that
jut out into the Kinsale Harbor.
