The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-01-04

sadder than the sadness of sorrow
full Irish song. Light or heavy, joyful
or sad the Irish heart speaks always
in Irish music.
Fond of song and dance and crowd
OF harp and pipe and laughter loud
Their lay of love is low and bland,
Their wall for death is wild and grand
Awful and lovely their song of fame
AS they clash the chord in their coun-
try's claim.''
This is no prejudiced, exaggerated
appreciation of Irish music; this is
the general appreciation of Irish
music. In the seventh Christian cen
fury SITS. Foilan and Ultan We're en-
ployed by Gertrude, daughter of King
Pepin, to instruct in psalmody the
nuns of the convent of Neville,
France. In the ninth century, the
celebrated musical school of st. Gall,
Switzerland, owed it's celebrity to
Maengal, its famous Irish musical
professor. OF eleventh-century Irish
music, Fuller Nnglish speaking of
the first crusade, says, "You might
we'll think that the concert of chrlsten-
dom would have made no music in
this war if the Irish harpist had been
wanting" In the twelfth century
Gerald Barry (bigotedly EnglisD
says, ''The musical skill of this people
surpasses UNNECESSARILY the skill of
all other nations" In the fifteenth
century Henry vi. England CON-
planned that his English subjects resi-
dent in Ireland gave large gifts in
return for Irish music. In the six
tenth century the English Drayton
sang:
'"The Irish admire
And still cleave to that Tyre
AS to our muses. mother;
And think till expire
Apollos such another"
The Italian Geminiani said, "In the
British dominions there is no original
music except the IRISH" This con-
cert of praise is augmented by the
voices of Brompton, Fordun, Clynn,
Virgil, Bacon, Stanlhurst, Camden,
Corelli, Gallilei and Giordani. All
these master critics are loud in their
praises of Irish music.
The washington Post, has said of
Miss Sullivan: Miss Sullivan has in
itiated the renaissance of harp-play-
ing" 1t is not permitted to women
to enlist as soldiers and die on
the battlefield in defence of their
country. While the soldier may die OH
the field, patriotic women must die in
horrid concentration camps. But it
is given to every woman to be patriotic,
to love her country, to love the lover
of her country and to despise, to
thoroughly despise, the renegade.
Miss Josephine Sullivan is patriotic;
Miss Sullivan loves her country; Miss
Sullivan loves the sweet music of the
dear harp Of her country. When ma
terial results We're proposed to her to
induce her to study the music of the
piano or the music of the violin; when
she was told there was no name in the
harp, no fame in the harp; when she
was told she could not get Il butterfly
world to listen to the music of the sub
dued but unconquered harp; when she
was told all these things she an
swercd, Il shall get some to listen to
the music of the harp" We have lis
tened this evening; we have listened
with pleasure; we have listened with
delight; we feel we are nothing the
worse; we feel we are something bet
ter; we feel we are more sympathetic,
more human; we feel we are less ma
tcrial and more spiritual; thanks
chiefly to Miss Josephine Sullivan,
daughter of A. NJ. Sullivan, who in
parliament and out of parliament, in
prison and out of prison. gave Il life
of fifty years to the service of his
country.
when the nations that know thee
shall cease to admire thee,
Then, Erin mavournecn, I'll love thee
no morc''