BO
LJav.
tint island tha
.1
Mn.ill
ban
rock
lying at the entrance of the
dob
it
serves aa an adi.
days
it
was
aa
irland
mctity has Ire-
>r
land's
Eye was
crime, ioh literature as
of Dublin, and land of Dalkey,
equal!;
ry different
aly periods it
wa i-ut
ist, King of Dalkey, Emperor of the Muglins, Prince of the Holy Island of Magee, Elector of Lambay and Ireland's Eye, Defender of his own Faith -pecter of all others, ign of the illustrious order of the Lobster and Periwinkle. Amongst other extracts from the records we read that after the election his majesty partook of a sumptuous banquet, in
the course of which a plenipotentiary arrived from the Grand Duke of Bullock with a present of potatoes ready boiled, which was gra-
After the dinner the folciously received. " lowing blessiug was pronounced May the blessing of the beggar and the clerk of the crown attend you in all your adventures in this life, and the last prayer of the recorder and of all the judges of the crown circuit attend you in the next.*' A parody on the National Anthem, which w as frequently sung, is too good to be left alone
it
partly on its
If sprung from
from its was considered
Did you
and
rable
and hi
Or must
trading
it
place,
i
.'
and every shade
"What though the realms rejoice In your melodious voice, Kings are but men And while each subject sin " God made us men, not kings,"
- inating stream,
helm
a without
?
you, like the clown,
of all Dalkey lands, Chief of our jovial bands, Are ye not man With you though peace doth reign, Nor blood your isle doth stain, Nor famine here complain, Are you not man ?
I
say,
the day,
Lord
although it was each Revolution UhU Dalkey became so famous. Those were days of the wildest and most extreme opinions, reform were rampant, to it
woman,
know
Spite of your great renown, Lay your great body down Deep in the dirt ?
particularly
Then becan.
first
—
Without a shirt
land, safe retreat during the various epidemics to subject,
—
r
principally
iin
a
who
diet,
presumed
2
As a specimen of the ludicrous grandiose style in which things were carried on, it is enough to enumerate the titles of the king, who kted his Facetious Majesty, Stephen
!
was too absurd to
ml nothing fcof a good
be.
I
>alkey
was fa
With echoes Dalkey 11
rings,
Kings are but men
" !
Notwithstanding the somewhat levelling of the above rhymes, the kingdom of but the Dalkey was, on the whole, loyal [reland became bo alarming, in that the meetings were prudently discontinued, and ni Nothin Ichabod red. endexvoua in Dalkej
- '
!
V,
which
in
sional
under the amoti
pic-nic, will
fioance of
.
,,
i
ir
when the only
subjects
now leave Dalkey and Mai a hide and
sail
no
I
Vl> .
and
recall
dis-
north-
cliffs
of
with with a
I