A VIEW OF
DALKEY HARBOR, CO. DUBLIN.- The above is another view taken between
Kingstown and Dalkey, at a point facing Dalkey island, on the highest
point of which stands the Martello tower shown in the picture. There
is deep water in Dalkey harbor, at this point, at one time, it was thought
likely to outrival its larger neighbor Kingstown. It is said that here
the great Earl of Shrewsbury, then Sir John Talbot afterward so celebrated
in the French wars of Henry V. and John of Bedford, landed the yeare before the battle of Agincourt, 1414, to act as viceroy for the young
King of England. He found Ireland almost entirely wrested out of the
hands of the English, chiefly through the military genius of Art McMurrough,
heriditary King of Leinster, who defeated, in rapid succession, every
English king, prince and general who marched against him. Talbot fared
no better than the rest, and, in fact, he mad so little impression in
Ireland that his military progress is very slightly alluded to by McGeoghegan
and other Irish chroniclers. Accordingly he sailed back from Dalkey
to England a much sadder, if not wiser, man, carrying with him a full
appreciation, as a good soldier should, of Irish military prowess. As
for King Art McMurrough, who had beaten Richard II. twice at the end
of the 14th century, he died in possession of his crown at his palace
in New Ross, a yeare of so after Talbot quitted Ireland.