Excerpt from Ireland: Dublin, the Shannon, Limerick, Cork, and the Kilkenny Races, the Round Towers, the Lakes of Killarney, the County of Wicklow, O'connell and the Repeal Association; Belfast and the Giant's Causeway This gentleman a so wrote several works con jointly with his daughter, as the Essay on Preo tical Education and the humorous Essay on Irish Bulls. And now, I have no doubt, many of my German readers will expect of me a very Da guerreotype of the amiable, cheerful, intelligent and witty authoress and a precise description 0 the little corner by t e window of her pretty libra ry, her usual sitting-room, and of the little wri ting-table, and of all the comfortable and a ree able dependencies of the place where the oral Tales, the qular Tales, Belinda, Leonora, Griselda, Castle Bach-mt, Helen, and all her other delightful narratives, were imagined and put to paper. All this, I can easily believe, might be made extremely interesting; but I feel so invin cible an aversion against speaking in my books of living persons who have hospitably received me under their roofs, that I shall persist in my old practice, and shall merely invite my readers to accompany me in my walks about Edge worthtown, where they will find much that is characteristic of the country and i's inhabitants, things with which I occupy myself at all times more willingly than with mere personalities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.