THE MAGIC OF IRELAND

e [Music] [Music] I [Music] I [Music] [Applause] [Music] behind this is Dublin a venerable City where Modern conveniences augment an older slower pace where the way of life is cordial and tradition a living [Music] thing the marketplace is full and varied but the buying is not pressured for Dublin is a city of charm where the color of sidewalk flowers is reflected in the welcome of gay painted [Music] doors here at Trinity College are the books of ancient Irish poems and sagas which Brian baru fought to save from the Vikings a thousand years ago here at St Patrick's Cathedral lies the grave of Jonathan Swift who was Dean here for over 20 years Dublin inspired his works as it did a few other Fair scribblers James Joyce George Bernard Shaw Samuel Becket Oscar wild but if it is true that the city reveals the mind it is the country that reveals the soul [Music] for here is the pace of an earlier time where honored crafts and cares still breathe and the fields byways and tended Cottages still Inspire an older [Music] love we patience and the motion of days are [Music] easy where beneath a thatched Roof Tradition and comfort combine to provide the guest an opportunity to take a country home and leisurely discover the magic of [Music] Ireland it was Brendan Bean who said there are many famous things and many experiences in this life that disappoint o people but there are two things that did not disappoint me my first taste of champagne and my first look at the lakes of Karne it's as elusive to try to remember the feeling of your first look at it as to try to recall the smell of the hair of the girl you first kissed but you keep [Music] trying it is said that the true Irishman can recognize 40 different shades of green for the golfer there are other greens as well over 200 of them and of course there is laah hinch which is renowned as one of the 10 best in the [Music] world there are more golf greens per square mile in Ireland than in any other country in the world [Music] for as long as anyone can remember Ireland has been a land of fine horses and the love of horse racing a long and happy tradition racing festivals are scheduled year round and the big Classics are all held at the Kura in County kildair where the Irish sweep sturby is run in late June or July for Stakes of £600,000 the minimum bet is p and the limit on Stakes is 200 to1 [Music] [Applause] [Music] for truly Ireland is a generous land fertile and abundant lavish with wildlife and the gifts of sea and soil a traditional land of feasting and good [Music] cheer in the long history of Royal Ireland The Fortress known as Cashel has held an important position as a symbol and reality of Irish strength and continent ity of chivalry Valor and religion for Cashel was the royal seat of the kings of monster where cury mcda led the clown of deid in the days of cullin 18800 years ago where canera the Great and the famed scholar King cormack Mulan ruled where the brave Knights of Brian baru sallied forth to drive out the Danes and where St patri came to baptize King Angus and receive all of southern Ireland to Christianity from these walls the songs of poets and sounds of Royal feasts echo down Through the Ages and continue today [Music] and we rode on The Plains of the Sea's Edge the Sea's Edge Barren and gray fled foam underneath us and round us a Wandering and milky smoke and those that fled and that followed from the foam pale distance broke the immortal desire of Immortals we saw in their faces and [Music] side and we rode on The Plains of the Sea's Edge the Sea's Edge Barren and gray gray sand on the green of the grasses and over the dripping trees dripping and doubling landward as though they would hasten away like an army of old men longing for rest from the moan of the Seas [Music] I once loved a boy just a old Irish boy who would come and would go at my request and this old Irish boy was my pride and my joy and I bu him in my [Applause] [Music] let that she and he me love me I will walk with my love [Music]