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Title: A pictorial and descriptive guide to Dublin and the Wicklow tours ..
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Ward, Lock and Company, ltd
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Publisher: London
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ourteen years purchase, plus;^2o,ooo. The buildings, erected in 1846 from designs byPugin, and recently enlarged, are very fine and commodious. The College Church at Maynooth, built in the Gothicstyle, was consecrated in 1891, and cost some ;^49,ooo. Ithas a fine rose window in the west front, a good organ, and nofewer than 454 carved oak stalls. Another building is knownas the Aula Maxima, and is used for public gatherings. Onthe lawn is a very fine old yew tree—said to be as old as theold college. King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra visited MaynoothCollege in 1903, being received by the R.C. Archbishop ofDublin and other members of the Irish Roman Catholichierarchy. Queen Mary paid a visit in 1911. From the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion the Fitz-geralds, or Geraldines, had acquired by force immense tractsof country south of Dublin, and none among the barons moreconstantly and fiercely raided the territories of the nativechieftains or of their own countrymen. The Desmond Geral-
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MAYNOOTH 89 dines lorded it over the greater part of Munster, but the position of the Geraldines of Kildare was even more impor-tant, says the Hon. Emily Lawless in her Story of the (IrishNation, on account of their close proximity to Dublin. Inlater times their great keep at Maynooth dominated thewhole Pale, while their followers swarmed everywhere, eachman with a G embroidered upon his breast in token of hisallegiance. From 1480 to 1513 Gerald the eighth earl,called Geroit Mor, or the Great, was to all intents and purposesKing of Ireland. Indeed, when summoned to London toanswer a charge of conspiracy, the other barons swore that all Ireland could not govern the Earl of Kildare. Thenlet the Earl of Kildare govern all Ireland, replied Henry.The king advised him, however, to get a good counsel. BySt. Bride, said the earl, I know well the fellow I wouldhave ; yea, and the best in England, too ! Who is he ? said the king. Marry, the king himself, laughed the boldearl. Kildare was reinst

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