Thackeray’s Journey from Skibbereen to Bantry via Caheragh, August 1842

From Thackeray’s  ‘The Irish Sketchbook of 1842. https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Caheragh,+Co.+Cork/@51.6325479,-9.3065158,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845a797cbacb2a1:0xa00c7a99731ea90 The crowd of swaggering ‘gents’ (I don’t know the corresponding phrase of … Continue reading Thackeray’s Journey from Skibbereen to Bantry via Caheragh, August 1842