“During the prevalence of the Penal Code, the music of Ireland was made to share in the fate of its people.” Tying the survival of a nation's music to the survival of the nation itself · Preface to Irish Melodies Memory Music
“One of the noblest minded as well as the most warm hearted of all God's creatures was born under that lowly roof.” A son's tribute to the mother who shaped his ambitions · Remembered remark, revisiting his mother's Wexford birthplace in 1838 Love Memory
