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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                15th Century marys a noted Boyles unique Tomb in and raised his first overlooking you Ghat Harbor Are the remains of the old by Mandan staff writer photos by Lloyd Burguss sleepy Little town of nearly tucked away on the South rat Corner of Ireland coast it full of historical importance and not Only to Ireland and but to America Ai tradition it that sir Walter Raleigh smoked the first pipe of Virginia tobacco in Ireland under a Yew tree on the Lawn of when he was of the and in the Back Yard he is supposed to have planted the first Pegalow to be brought Back to ire land from Myrtle an excellent example of the traditional Eliza Bethan gabled is in excellent condition despite the passage of 341 years since his death on the scaffold in the Tower of privately owned and the House not open to the but an excellent View of the premises May be obtained from the adjacent grounds of the ancient marys collegiate though history arc flu Raleigh with helping popularize potatoes and tobacco in legend has it that when he smoked his pipe for the first time at a serving woman thought he was on fire and promptly threw a pail of water Over sir an Early court favorite of England Queen Elizabeth was awarded lands around Moughal for his part in sup pressing a rebellion of the Irish Earl of for his valor in behalf of the English he was Given acres of Desmonds vast England great Edmund who is rated in English literature with Chaser and lived about 30 Miles from at it was Here that he wrote his great poem the Faerie Queen and there is evidence that he and Raleigh visited each others like Spenser earned his Irish estate of Kllc Olman Castle when the prop Erly was confiscated from the original Irish however great his contribution to English literature May have he earned neither the love nor respect of the Irish during the eight years of his residence in the country As Secretary to the English lord Deputy in Spenser wrote a prose work titled View of the present state of ire land which outlined detailed plans for the systematic extermination of the Irish race if they would not submit to English unlike the Latte Day nazi philosopher Alfred who advocated similar ideas and ended his career at the end of a Hangman Spenser and his wife managed to make their escape when the infuriated Irish populace burned his although their infant son perished in the resultant making his Way to he died soon afterwards and was burled in the poets Corner in Westminster close to Chaucer for was a wish a later Oliver took Spenser advice to Landing at you Hal in 1649 Cromwell marched North past to take the town of where nearly every individual within the without distinction of age or was put to the Cromwell later ill ended the Drogheda mass re by writ i am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of after Raleigh fell into Disfavour with Elizabeth in 1604 his lands around Moughal were confiscated and eventually fell into the hands of one Richard an enter prising englishman who went to Ireland Early in life and subsequently became the first Earl of Boyles Success in life was based on his introduction of Industrial development to the South of his unique Tomb in the South transept of marys Church is Worth a on it Are effigies of his two wives and nine children and the heraldic inscriptions and illustrations give a graphic family one of Boyles sons was Richard the distinguished chemist who gave has name to Boyles Law which states in Brief that As the pressure of Gas is the volume of Gas decreases in another interesting Tomb in is that of countess of who danced with Henry Vii after the Battle of Bosworth Field and died at the age of in the reign of James from the effects of a fall from a of More immediate interest is the fact that the town is famous for the Manu facture of Irish Point distinguished by its vivid the lace has been made for the past 100 years by the Sisters of the presentation Convent although the town has gone quietly about its business since Cromwell and Boyle walked its there Are still occasional flurries of sex Moughal comes to life during the summer tourist season but the last time it really sat up and took notice was in 3954 and when the Cust and production Crew of the motion picture moby Dick came to town to shoot most of the ski for the the stars and stripes Page 13  
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