Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-23
A Home q 1Elsh GeaIus-rOm SIoore's


Home of Irlsh GenIus-rom Rfoore,s
------ Birthplace.
An article under the above caption, in the
last number of the Irish Magazine, gives the
following description Of the room in No. IL
Aungier-street, Dublin, in which Tom Moore
was born; .-.l.r ...a 10.
Leaving the sitting-rooms, we assembled
another story, and turning to the left, Mr..
Daffrca led me into the room corresponding
in size and shape with the drawing-room
beneath. "Here, sir" he said, 0our poet was
born" took cff my hatinstinctively as hs
spoke. | remember doing so many years
ago from a similar feeling of respect. 1t was
on visiting the statue of Gutenberg, the in
ventor of printing, at Mayence. l was now
in the room where a gifted Irishman was
born, and felt the inspiration of his pres
ence as though saw him. What name he
left How literature ennobles man how
great an influence does it exert over the soull
Truly the intellectual man, as compared
with the uneducated, has almost as great an
advantage as the man who possesses his sight
over the blind. Literature cOnfers pleasure,
not prOcurable by any amount Of riches-it
affords enjoyment the edeepestprivations may
diminish, but not deprive us Of Here che
young bard Of Erin felt the first breath of
life, and as a room may be considered the
upper garment Of person, | was curious to
see how young Moore was habited.
1t is tolerably good-szed apartment, with
three windows looking upon Aungier-street,
and the Fireplace in an angle where the
young melodist often had his food warmed
Higher yetw clambered, and entered rooms
concealed and boarded. tried 10 make
out the room he thus describes: "As ouI
house was far from spacious, the bedroom
which ! occupied was but corner of that in
which the two clerks slept, boarded of, and
| fitted up with bed, table, and chest Of
drawers, with book. case over it; and here
as long as my mothers brother continued to
be an inmate of our family he and sleDt
together. After he left MS had this little
nook to myself and proud enough was ot
my oasn apartment. Upon the door, and
upon every other vacant space which my
boundaries supplied, placed inscriptions oi
my own composition, in the manner, as
hattered myself, of Shenstone's at the Lea
sowesr ! carefully examined the rooms
back and front, of this portion of the house
to try and fix upon the corner allotted tc
Moore, and think it must have been a back
room, because it has a window looking on
| the rear. A glazier who was at work on the
! premises told me he possessed piece ot
| glass from one of the panes, with Moore's
name inscribed by himself / asked him, as
| also Mr.. Daffron, if any traces of the in
| scriptions Moore mentions existed in his
time; he said, mo, they had probably been
| effaced by paint"
MOores domestic affections were uery
strong, and it is impossible to read his men,
ories without being convinced that no mat
ter how high the circle in which he was
placed, or how much he appeared engrossed
by the 1attering attention of the noble and
the gifted, his heart was ever turning to the
quiet scenes of home. He was devotedly
attached to the lovely and engaging wife of
his choce-to the mother he loved-to the
father he revered-to his sisters and his
| friends. It's no small tribute to his worth
that his earliest friends were his latest, and
now those who survive hold his memory in
affectionate regard