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Additional Excerpts from Reviews
of
CELTIC Moops anp MEmorigs
by
JOSEPH McGARRITY
DUDLEY DIGGES
“It is a handsomely-turned-out book with a fitting enclosure for the many
gentle, noble and passionate things within its pages. My wife joins me in
congratulating you on it. We are glad to have it, and it was most fortunate
that the bringing out of this book was in such loving and competent hands.”
AVE MARIA (Thomas E. Burke)
“Joe McGarrity who died in 1940 will be remembered and honored as a
great Irish patriot. In his ‘Celtic Moods and Memories’ we find most of his
poems are simple and unostentatious, yet full of the same deep patriotic
unction that filled the heart of their author. Some of them are distinctly
religious, giving flashes of their abiding faith that transformed the common
things of earth into reflections of the supernatural. Joe McGarrity knew and
loved Ireland, portraying its smiles and tears as only a_real patriot could do.”
ARTHUR HALE
“The book of Joe McGarrity’s verses has been privately printed. It reveals
a poet hitherto little known to the public who thought of McGarrity as only
a promoter of Irish Independence. The collection is called ‘Celtic Moods and
Memories’ and there is a foreword by Padraic Colum, the famous Trish poet
and playwright. McGarrity’s moods range all the way from passionate rage
to the tenderest longings, deeply imbued with religious devotion.”
JAMES SHALLOO (Chicago)
“Celtic Moods and Memories” is beautiful and should become a treasure
in every Irish and Irish-American home. The poems, in a large measure,
express the kindnesses, sympathies and understanding of that splendid charac-
ter and truly Irish personality of Joe McGarrity who presents a vision of
Ireland — of the Ireland we dream of.”
PATRICK LAGAN (Berwyn, Pa.)
of sincerity. Missing is the artificial smartness and delving into the abstruse
so characteristic of the professional. His manner of speech was effective, and
his diction left nothing to be desired, Charm was added to obvious truth in
a way that the listener neither would nor could question:
God give us a will
Like Terence the Great
Whose departing soul
Unlocked the gate,
It must have been the noble characters Joe McGarrity met in his time that
helped to give him his intensity. One of the greatest of Oscar Wilde’s works
is ‘The Importance of Being Earnest.’ The importance of being exrnest Was
never better exemplified than in the life of Joe McGarrity.”