Cork Literary and Scientific Society (CLS)

Cork Literary and Scientific Society Descriptive List

3. Oct 1908 - Feb 1909 (6 items)

4. 11 Nov 1909 (1 item)

5. Oct 1910 - Jan 1911 (7 items)

6. Oct 1912 - Mar 1913 (6 items)

7. 27 May 1913 (1 item)

8. 17 Feb 1916 (1 item)

Essayists include J.D. Lynam, TC Murray, Mrs Christie, M. Holland, DJ Coakley, MJ Stapleton, Owen C. Barry, J, Scott-Kerr, E. Lynam, Rev. TW Davidson, Maurice F. Healy, Charles Johnson, Thomas F. Ward, Thomas Farrington, Rev. CM O'Brien, Florence McCarthy, Rev. George Vance Crook, Theodore Lawson, Francis Rountree, RG Bateman, Daniel Corkery, PG Lee, James J. Scanlan, John J. Horgan, John Connell, Richard Kerr, B. Farrington, W. Smyth, RL O'Sullivan, Prof MM Hartog, Wesley Frost.

Topics include national education, women's progress, Irish art, Commercial education, trade and commerce, Jonathan Swift, state forests, Hamlet, national trade mark, science and aesthetics, crime and punishment, Is Smoking a Manly Practice, public houses, Wordsworth, the orchestra, organised charity, British empire, Dickens and Thackeray, Dramas of JM Synge, Clement Scott, fiscal controversy, The Heather Field, Napoleon, curiosities of nature, Bernard Shaw on Ireland, Realism, Shelley, co-operation and municipal trading, principles of Irish Reform (land, housing etc), scholarships, the American educational system.

Ref.

CLS/010/04

Date:

23 Jan 1908

Title:

Programme of Music Lecture by Mr. Plunket Greene

Level: item Extent: 4pp Scope and Content:

Printed programme of lecture to Cork Literary and Scientific Society by Mr. Plunkett Greene on 'Songs and Singing', at the Assembly Rooms, South Mall, with vocal illustrations by Greene accompanied by Miss Constance Greene. List and lyrics of 16 songs used for illustration, including songs by Schubert, Brahms, R. Vaughan Williams, Hubert Parry, Ernest Walker, CV Stanford, and AM Goodhart. Also old Cornish, Welsh and Irish airs arranged by A. Somervell and CV Stanford such as 'Where be Going', 'By the Waters of Babylon', 'The Gentle Maiden', 'O Ye Dead', 'Molly Brannigan', 'Trottin to the Fair', and 'Quick ! We have but a second'.