Drove to the little village of Togler with Fr. Pat for Mass and Benediction. After had breakfast in a little room over the sacristy. Fr. Pat got a few sick calls on the way home, and we passed through the bleakest and stoniest mountain roads. Then drove with Denis, Fr. Pat’s acting chauffeur, to Cork, a distance of over 40 miles. I took the wheel from Bandon to Cork. Called for Mám, ((Mám: Aloys´ mother, the pianist and teacher Tilly Fleischmann née Swertz (1882-1967), born in Cork to German parents; her father had come to Cork in 1879 from Dachau; he was organist and choirmaster at the cathedral from 1890-1906, when he left for Philadelphia. Tilly studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Munich from 1901-05 under two pupils of Franz Liszt. In the first part of the diary of 1926 Aloys refers to her as ´Mammie’.)) had dinner, then picked up Mrs. Stockley, Sophia ((Marie Germaine Stockley née Kolb (1868-1949) was born in Munich, came to Cork in 1908 having married William F. P. Stockley, professor of English at University College Cork. She was a gifted singer who had studied with a pupil of Brahms; she taught in the Cork School of Music. She had one daughter, Sophia.)) and her friend Miss Mac Leod of Dublin (niece of editor of ‘An Phoblacht` ((An Phoblacht [The Republic] founded in 1906, the newspaper of the Irish republican movement.))) and we turned about for Dunmanway. I chaffed Sophia en route. Arrived at hotel, and after tea, we all left for Hall and Gaelic League Concert. First there was a charming performance of ‘Red Riding Hood’ in Irish, then ‘Íosagán’ by a band of fresh young fellows, then followed a play ‘Paid in his own Coin’, Anglo-Irish, but exceedingly witty and excellently acted. Between were traditional dancing, singing and violin-playing. The huge audience of country folk were most enthusiastic, and for a Gaelic League concert it was highly successful. I acted as stage-prompter.
