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of the Ionic order; the interior is highly decorated,
and the organ, which is considered to be one of the
finest in Ireland, was built for the great musical fes-
tival at Westminster. The chapel in Denmark-street,
dedicated to St. Dominic, belongs to the order of
Dominicans, consisting of a prior and five friars; in
connection with this is St. Patrick’s Juvenile Society.
The chapel in North William-street belongs to the con-
vent of the order of Carmelites: the inmates consist of
a superioress and a sisterhood of 15. The chapel is a
neat building, in the later style of English architecture;
a school, in which 20 girls are educated, clothed, and
wholly provided for, is attached to the institution. The
Sisters of Charity have an establishment in Upper Gar-
diner-street, consisting of a superioress and a sisterhood
of 14, who superintend the education of 200 girls.
The principal establishment of the Christian Doctrine
Confraternity, consisting of a director and two assis-
tants, is in North Richmond-street, where they support
a model school for the novices for the other houses of
the society; they also instruct 550 children in the paro-
chial chapel and 130 in Denmark-street, every Sunday.
The confraternity instruct children in all the other pa-
rochial and in most of the friary chapels: the total
number of children under their tuition amounts to
5987 males and 3942 females. There are two national
schools, one in Gloucester-place, and the other in King’s
Inns-street; an almshouse in North William-street for
twenty-three widows, which is supported by subscrip-
tion; and the Metropolitan Orphan Society, in which
99 children are supported, chiefly by penny weekly sub-
scriptions of the working classes. The Asylum for
Female Penitents, founded in, 1833, affords shelter to
30 inmates; another in Mecklenburgh-street, founded
in the same year, supports 35; a third in Dominick-
street supports 34, and there is another in Marlborough-
street; in all of them the penitents are employed in.
needlework, washing, and similar useful occupations.
St. Michan’s parish comprises parts of the Protestant
parishes of St. Mary, St. George, St. Michan, St.
Paul, and Glasnevin. The duty is performed by a
parish priest and six officiating clergymen. The chapel
in North Anne-street is a splendid edifice, built entirely
of granite; it is in. the later English style, with three
finely arched entrances in the front, which terminate
above in a sharply pointed gable, embattled and sur-
mounted with a cross; the interior in richly ornamented
with sculpture, and the ceiling is elaborately groined,
the intersecting arches springing from heads of saints
finely sculptured; the altar in embellished with paint-
ings of the Virgin und Child, and of St. Francis, copied
from Guido, There is another chapel on George’s-hill,
belonging to the convent of the Presentation order, the
inmates of which, consisting of a superioress and ten
sisters, superintend a.school, at which about 300 female
children are instructed, 50 of whom are clothed, and
from 16 to 20 are also boarded. The institution in
chiefly supported by the profits of the work done by
the children. The chapel, which is exceedingly neat,
is open every morning. There is a day boys’ school
of about 300 pupils; also an establishment for 12
orphans who are totally provided for and when of a
proper age apprenticed; the institution is supported
by subscriptions, The Orphan Society of St. Vincent
a Paulo was founded in 1826, in which 40 orphan chil-
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dren are wholly provided for, and 45 by the Society for
Destitute Orphans under the tutelage of the Blessed
Virgin Mary of Mount-Carmel. The Society of St.
John the Evangelist, for promoting the exereise of spiri-
tual and corporal works of mercy, is in North King-street,
and has a good library in connection with it. In Para-
dise-row is the Josephian Orphan Society, in which 36
orphans are totally provided for; and in the same
street in the House of Reception for aged females, con-
taining 18 inmates.
St. Paul’s parish comprises the Protestant parish of
Grangegorman, the principal part, of St. Paul’s, and
parts of St. Michan’s and Glasnevin. The duty is per-
formed by a parish priest and six officiating clergymen.
The chapel on Arran-quay having been found to be too
small, another, near the entrance of the old building, is
now completed with the exception of the portico and
steeple: the interior is richly ornamented; behind the
altar is a painting in fresco, on which the light is thrown
after the manner of the. “lumiere mysterieuse” in some
of the churches of Paris. The whole cost of the erection
of the building will be about £10,000, which will be
wholly defrayed by voluntary subscription. There is a
chapel of ease at Phibsborough, a neat Gothic struc-
ture, but too small for the increasing congregation
beneath are nude and female free school room, and
apartments for an orphan society, and over the sacristy
a residence for the clergyman and a lending library
belonging to a branch society of St. John the Evangelist.
The chapel of St. Francis, in Church-street, belong to the
friary of the Capuchins, the community of which consist.
of a guardian and six friars. The chapel is a large plain
building; the altars are adorned with paintings of the
Crucifixion, the Virgin and Child, and St. Francis a
free school for boys is connected with it. There is a
school in Queen-street, in which about 850 boys and
150 girls are instructed; also a national boys’ and girls
school connected with the chapel at Phibsborough The
convent of the Sisters of Charity, in Stanhope street.
consists of a local superioress and a sisterhood of twenty,
who support, a house of refuge, in which 50 industrious
young women of good character are sheltered, the in
situation derives much of its support from the work
executed by the inmates, St. Stephen’s Cholera Orphan
Society was first established in 1828, as a general
orphan institution, but in 1830, owing to the ravages of
the cholera, it assumed its present name and character
St. Andrew’s, parish comprising nearly the whole of’ the
Protestant parishes of St. Andrew, St. Mark, and St.
Anne, and part of that of St. Peter. The duty is per
formed by a parish priest and seven officiating clergyman.
The chapel, in Westland-row, was commenced in 1832,
and finished in 1837: its form is that of a Roman cross,
the length being 160 feet, the transept 150, the breadth
and height 50 each. The walls of the interior are in
com formed by Grecian Doric pilasters The
great altar consists of four pillars of seagliola, support
ing a pediment copied from the Lantern of Demosthenes
at Athens, The tabernacle is in imitation of the trium
phal arch of Titus in Rome, and is surmounted by a
group in white Italian marble, by Hogan, representing
the Ascension; on each side of the great altar are smaller
altars of Egyptian marble; several good paintings have
lately been brought from Rome, and hung up over and
at the sides of the altar. The portico in front consists