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18 LEINSTER
whisky—the restorer was Mr. Henry Roe. Broadly
speaking, the century which began with the legislative
Union was marked in Dublin by the growth of distilling
and brewing and the decay of all other industries.
Guinness's is to-day one of the sights of the city, and
admission by order, easily procurable, will take the
visitor over the biggest thing of its kind anywhere to
be seen—and, let it be said, one of the best managed.
Nowhere are workmen better treated, and no rich
manufacturers have made more public-spirited use of
their wealth. Dublin owes to Lord Ardilaun not only
the opening but the beautification of St. Stephen's
Green, once an enclosure but now a very attractive
public park in the middle of the city's finest square.
We may well thank Providence for this one great
industry—but of how many it has had to take the
place!
Dublin in its metropolitan days was a true centre
of craftsmanship and art. I have spoken of the archi-
tecture, which used so finely the dove-coloured lime-
stone of Wicklow. Gandon, who designed both the
Four Courts and the Custom House, was not Irish,
but Ireland gave him his opportunity and in Dublin
only can he be judged. No great painter adorned
that period among us; but all the subsidiary arts
flourished exceedingly. Horace Walpole used to send
across his books to be bound; Sheraton, Chippendale's