athedrals are Roman Catholic
and principally modern. The lofty church of the Augustinians in Thomas
Street; St Mary's, the pro-cathedral, in Marlborough Street, with
Grecian ornamentation within, and a Doric portico; St Paul's on Arran
Quay, in the Ionic style; and the striking St Francis Xavier in Gardiner
Street, also Ionic, are all noteworthy, and the last is one of the
finest modern churches in Ireland. Among theatres Dublin has, in the
Royal, a handsome building which replaced the old Theatre Royal, burnt
down in 1880. Clubs, which are numerous, are chiefly found in the
neighbourhood of Sackville Street; and there should further be mentioned
the Rotunda, at the corner of Great Britain Street and Sackville Street,
a beautiful building of its kind, belonging to the adjacent hospital,
and used for concerts and other entertainments, while its gardens are
used for agricultural shows.

_Suburbs._--To the west of the city lies the Phoenix Park. Here, besides
the viceregal demesne and lodge and the magazine, are a zoological
garden, a people's garden, the Wellington monument, two barracks, the
Hibernian military school, the "Fifteen Acres," a natural amphitheatre
(of much greater extent than its name implies) used as a review ground,
and a racecourse. The amenities of Phoenix Park were enhanced in 1905 by
the purchase for the crown of land extending along the Liffey from
Island bridge to Chapelizod, which might otherwise have been built over.
To the south lies Kilmainham. Here is the royal hospital for pensioners
and maimed soldiers. Close by is Kilmainham prison. To the west the
valley of the Liffey affords pleasant scenery, with the well-known
grounds called the "Strawberry Beds" on the north bank. In this
direction lies Chapelizod, said to take its name from that Iseult whom
Tennyson, Matthew Arnold and Wagner made a heroine; beyond which is
Lucan connected with the city by tramway. Northward lies Clondalkin,
with its round tower, marking the site of the important early see of
Cluain Dolcain; Glasnevin, with famous botanical gardens; Finglas, with
a ruined church of early foundation, and an Irish cross; and Clontarf, a
favoured resort on the bay, with its modern castle and many residences
of the wealthy classes in the vicinity. South of the city are Rathmines,
a populous suburb, near which, at the "Bloody Fields," English colonists
were murdered by the natives in 1209; and Donnybrook, celebrated for its
former fair. Rat