Volume 1

The beauties of Ireland. Being original delineations, topographical, historical, and biographical, of each county / By J.N. Brewer. Illustrated with engravings, by J. & H.S. Storer, after original drawings, chiefly by Mr. Petrie.

  • Brewer, J. N. (James Norris)
Date:
1825-1826
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Credit: The beauties of Ireland. Being original delineations, topographical, historical, and biographical, of each county / By J.N. Brewer. Illustrated with engravings, by J. & H.S. Storer, after original drawings, chiefly by Mr. Petrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    until the same hand shall fall upon myself, I must retain a grateful impression of his personal worth, and the zeal with which he entered into every view, marked with a love of letters and the arts, and partaking of a general libera- lity of sentiment. , From the late W. BEAUForRD, A.M. 1 bash nea some MSS. relating to the general and local history of Ireland; of which, however, I have made little use; for, although his literary acquirements were, in many points of view, so respectable as to deserve a better fate than he experienced at the hands of his adopted country, he was, as relates to antiquities, a writer prone to indulge in imagination, rather than to exercise severity of judgment. — 3 The names of several other persons who have honoured me with notice and assistance, will be introduced, with more propriety, in pages prefatory to the second and third volumes. I cannot so far intrude on private favour, as to men- tion, individually, the numerous civilities, and offers of ‘hospitable reception, I experienced in different parts of the island. Nor would it be necessary to notice these acts of kindness, in a public way, except for the purposes of ac- knowledging my sense of obligation to the country at large, and of adding the humble corroborative testimony of my experience, to the prevailing opinion respecting the hospi- tality of the people of Ireland, and their pre-eminence in the grateful quality, best expressed by the term of urbanity. Truth, spoken without harshness, is said by Mr. Edge- worth to be “ the most certain way to succeed in every honourable pursuit.” A sense of duty, without any consi- deration of the policy of such conduct, impels me to place ‘a fair and full record in the annals of topographical inves- tigation in Ireland. Whilst I met with urbanity in all, I found, amongst individuals, even of the upper classes of