Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-28
TON MOORE,
THE IRISH POET, WHOSE CENTENNIAL
BIRTHDAY WILL Be CElEBRA-
TED TO-DAY.
The harp that once throuh Tara's halls Its
soul Of music shed, Hangs silent now
on Tara's walls, As though
that soul we're fled"


on Tara's walls, As though
that soul we're fed"
On the 2Sth day of May, l779-one
hundred wears ago to-day, was born
Thomas Moore, apparently destined to
be one of the best remembered OF earth's
beings. The one hundredth anniver-
sarv Of his birth will De enthusiastically
celebrated, at least in all English-speak
ing countries, to-day, and many busts
and statues are TO be unveiled. BYEoN's
Heres a double health TO thee" will
be upon innumerable lips, and as many
will be iervent tOasts drank to the MEM
ory of the genial Irish poet. His coun-
trymen from the marvelouSly prolific
island of the Western seas have carried
the fame and the music OF his Melodies,
and the Oriental gorgeousness OF his
Ialla Roos d, wherever they have travel
ell i'm all their wanderings; but even had
they themselves been dumb and UNI
grateful. there was an army of others
who would have taken up and spread
abroad the wonderful tale OF his genius.
His verses have been translated into al
most every civilized language, and as he
himself said on the 18th OF August, 1885,
when he was received with so splendid
an ovation in Dublin, the sentiments
his Melodies brrathed had been Caught
up and adapted by that gallant people,
the Poles" 10 inspire them in their
struggles against the Russian masters
who had robbed them OF liberty. By
ron wrote:
..Thgy say. dear Moore. your SONGS are sung,
.Cuu 20 boz true, You happy MANI
ArmlIlI-ht. iu the Persian tongue,
ALONE the streets Of l>IHl1u
and he was addressed by the same poet
u these lines:
.Oyou who iu an names can tickle the town,
Auacryru Tom Little, Tom Moore or Tom
Brown
i'm reference to his multiplicity of Nom
Iar dg pIuue. Moore was born in Dub
lin. and, therefore, general as the ceIe-
bratjon may be, IL is in Dublin where
tine KEYNOTE will naturally be struck.
The PRESENTATIONS there have been elab-
CRATE amt long in preparation. The
venerable John Mcllale, Archbishop OF
Tuam. who remembers Moore in his
manhood. is a leading member OF the
committee. Lord O. Hara, one OF the
most eloquent and learned Judges upon
the bench, is to deliver the Grafton, and
Denis Florence Mccarthy is to write and
rccite the ode.
The father of Thomas Moore, the poet,
was John Moore, an humble citizen OF
Kerry. but, according 10 the traditions
of the family, lie was a descendant OF
Roger o. Moore, 4 famous Catholic Lead
or of l64l, and the grandfather OF Sars-
field. Dan. o. COunell himself was 4
Kerry man. of Cahir, and only three
wears the senior OF the poet, with whom
hc urrserveda friendship uninterrupted
tHl the last In l77S John Moore, the
father. married a highly intelligent and
very ,cvOut lady, u Miss Anastasia
Gold. of Wexford, and soon atterward
set up a grocery ut No. y Aungler
street. 40 the corner Of Little Longworth
street. Dublin, where, ON the 18th OF May
of the following year, the poet was born.
AZ this period Ireland was in very dis
trartcI state The legislation OF l1N2,So
soon after MOOre'S birth, had failed To
bring about perfect peace and harmony.
Flood. and Malone, and tirattan, by
their marvellous elOquencc, stimulated
rather than allayed the agitation. ana
secret political societies were numerous
AMI active throughout the island.
10 was i'm times so troubled, and
amid-ta multitude OF "reminiscences and
. VAGUE hopes diligently lOStercd by his
mother. who seems to have been pO-
. -r.~,I of the most ardent temperament,
. that Moore WAS born. i'm the drawing
room above the AuugiCr street grocery.
A. soon as he was u,d enough 10 learn
/ I.S letters he was sent % a small school
rlf very many doors from his mother :
I house. and aitrrward % the academy OF
Mr.. samuel Whyte. I'm Johnson Court,
I where. twenty wears before, Richard
Briu,Irv sheridan, whose biography
I Moore aitCrwari wrote, had been one
of the pupils, and branded 10y the master
/ OF the dav with the name of an inCOrrl-
-llie Ounce. Nr. WHITE himself was
/ Protestant. and confined his inStruc-
. tous t1 Moore exclusively % English
I literature and clocutiOn, in which he
seems % have been an adept. Both pu-
/ piI and teacher were fond OF the drama,
. and as Whyte had the cJ'Itf 10 some OF
/ the best society of the Capital, he
managed 10 introduce his iavoritc, whose
genius ne even then recognized, 10
l many of the best families IN Dublin,
I among whom private thcJtricals were
\ then the rage. I'm spite of this extreme
\ latitude for a shuul-bOy MOOre'S real
\ education was not forgotten. He
studied the classics under Donovan, who
/ was as strong a Catholic as Whyte was
. Protestant: French under Ia FaSSe, an
I .g.r,. and Italian under Father Ennis,
/ whose scholastic attainmentS were then
/ he'll I'm high reuOwu. About the same
F time. however, and certainly previous to
. his admission % the University OF Dub
. lin I'm the summer of 1874, he acquired
. the rudimcntS Of an art which more
than all his classical learning, aided him
in after years on the steps to his great
est fame. He suddenly exhibited a pas
sion for music. and practiced titiully on
. an ON ldI I'SltllpIu, WHICH III thV Np''lNC
of trade had come into the possession Of
his father. Fortunately this was soon
sold and better instrument purchased.
Mr. Warren, a musician, was then enga-
ged 10 give lessons to MoOre's sister
Ellen. He sat by her side during her
lessops,and thus gained the greater part
of that knowledge of music which, inn
perfect rs 1t was, served him so well in
the composition Of his Melodies.
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