Chapter 22

'Veiled in your mist, and diamonded with showers.'

Alfred Austin.

Shan Van Vocht Hotel,

Heart of Connemara.

Shan Van Vocht means in English the 'Poor Little Old Woman,' one of the many endearing names given to Ireland in the Gaelic. There is, too, a well-known rebel song called by this title-one which was not only written in Irish and E