Great disgust on seeing criticism of concert. Absolutely rotten. While every trash gets the highest praise in the ‘Examiner’, this beautiful concert, and all really artistic performances, are shamefully ignored. Many resolutions of going to Germany as soon as possible, where good efforts of any kind are well recognised, and bad ones turned down. Spend the day in school ((Aloys was now going to school in St Finbarr’s College, Farranferris, where his father was music teacher. It was the diocesan seminary founded in 1887, a boarding school for boys. Students did not have to undertake a commitment to study for the priesthood; boys living in the city could attend as day students. It closed in 2006.)) ruminating on the events of yesterday, and feel hopelessly disgusted. On coming home from school, I find Mammy and Pappy not as upset as I expected, they are well seasoned now to such things. Hear that Sophie Stockley is giving a fancy dress ball, which livens things up a bit. Determination of going as a clown, and of having a really jolly time.
