Moore and His Music

New Zealand Tablet, 19 January 1922, Page 31

Moore and His Music

Of Moore and his music. Father Burke, 0.P., has eloquently said: “The hour.is yet near when God gave to out native land one of its highest gifts, a truly poetic child. When Ireland’s poet came to find fame and immortality in Ireland, nothing was required of him but to* take the ancient melodies floating in the land, to interpret the Celtic in which they were found into the language of to-day.. Tom Moore, Ireland’s poet, was a lover of his country. He made every true heart and every noble mind in the world melt into sorrow at the contemplation of Ireland’s wrongs and the injustice that she suffered, as they came home to every sympathetic heart on the wings of Ireland’s ancient melody.”