Dublin not sufficiently appreciated by some of its
inhabitants--Its history--Its long Gaelic name--Danish
domination in it--Many times taken and sacked by the
Irish--Battle of Clontarf--Canute made no attempt to
conquer Ireland--Dublin has not suffered from a siege for
one thousand years--Its rapid growth in the eighteenth
century--Greatly improved during the last twenty-five
years--Its improvement undertaken under enormous
difficulties--Its educational advantages--Its libraries--
Its museum of antiquities; disgraceful management of it--
Dublin supposed to be a dirty city--Its situation--Its
public buildings--Its environs; their supreme beauty--
Glasnevin Botanic Gardens--Dublin Bay; poem on it--Variety
of scenery round Dublin--The Dargle--Howth--Fingall--Dublin
situated in a land of flowers--Abundance of wild flowers in
Ireland--Phoenix Park--Three round towers close to Dublin;
error in its census--What the author has said in its praise
is true.