Identifier: picturesqueirela00sava (find matches)
Title: Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Savage, John, 1828-1888, ed
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Publisher: New York, T. Kelly
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ist, divided into tenements, and occupied by the poorest inhabitants. Until recently the best example of these Spanish-Irish structures was the house of James Lynch Fitzstephen, the Mayor, or Warden of Galway in 1493,whose more than Roman act of justice in executing his own son Walter formurder, has been several times celebrated by pen and pencil. The most popular form of the tragic romance is briefly, as follows : James Lynch Fitzstephen, one of the merchant princes, was Chief Magistrate of Galway in 1493. On a recent visit to Spain he had brought back with him the son of a Spanish friend Gomez, who enjoying his hospitality became the intimate associate of his only son. This youth, Walter, in his twenty-first * The names of these families were Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, Darcy, Ffont, Ffrench, Joyes, Kirwan, Lynch,Martin, Morris, Skerrett. Other names of settlers of this period are given by various authorities, as, Bermingham, Blundel, Deane, Dillon, Lawless, and White. GALWAY. t8i
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Warden Lynch's House, 1493. year, had qualities of person and mind which rendered him the object of much popular admiration ; while the more dangerous elements of his disposition were supposed to be restrained by his honorable devotion to a young lady of family and fortune. A splendid entertainment of betrothal took place at which young Walter fancied his intended bride gave too much regard to his Spanish friend. Accusing her of unfaithfulness, she disdained, to reply, and the lovers 182 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. parted in anger. Misconstruing her indignant silence, and receiving what he deemed confirmation of his suspicion by seeing Gomez leave her house—wherehe had spent an evening at the invitation of her father—the frenzied Walterrushed on his friend, who, alarmed by the rage of a pursuer he did not recognize in the dark, fled toward the shore. Here Walter overtook the young Spaniard,plunged a poniard in his heart, and flung the body into the sea. The passionate youth was now horror-

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