With this should be combined another extract from the same writer, as illustrating the wide-spread
With this should be combined another extract from the same writer, as illustrating the wide-spread taste for music in the British Islands at that early period. In 1171 Giraldus “Cambrensis, or Gerald Barry, Bishop of St. David”s, to give him his proper name and title in English, visited Ireland in the suite of Henry the Second; and in his Topographia Hibernia there are the following impressions of the National Music of the Irish :-