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Show CATHEDRALS IX IRELAND.-Regarding IRELAND.-Regarding cathedrals in Ireland, Dublin is in the curious position, as the capital of a Catholic country, coun-try, of not alone possessing no Catholic cathedral, bu tof having two Protestant cathedrals. Late anti-Catholic anti-Catholic writers on Ireland, to whom Bacon's dictum dic-tum that writing makes an exact man can hardly be. applied, find great fault with and trace the country's coun-try's failures to the overnumerous Catholic churches. 'The fact of the two Protestant cathedrals cathe-drals of Dublin escapes their, notice as well as the fact the supply, as regards congregations, by no means demands so much accommodation. Xeither do these writers record the undeniable fact that, however numerous the Catholic churches may be, they one and all have congregations to fill them. London Truth. |