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days

it

was

aa

irland

mctity has Ire-

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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



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which

in

sional

under the amoti

pic-nic, will

fioance of

.

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i

ir

when the only

subjects

now leave Dalkey and Mai a hide and

sail

no

I

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and

recall

dis-

north-

cliffs

of

with with a

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