Irish Composer

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“The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A nation creates music—the composer only arranges it.”
—Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857)