Having finished school-work, decided on doing Hadow’s ‘Music’ for History Exam. and began it. Read a wonderful article on the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, the perfection of its symmetry in regard to mathematics and astronomy, and the manner in which the positions and length of its passages has been shown to represent the past history of the world, and to prophecy the future. The whole purpose of the article is to show that this pyramid is the sign and witness of God and that its building was inspired by him. Fr. Pat is very sceptical about the whole thing. Finished ‘The Vicar of Wakefield’. It is a simple yet charming tale; it is summed up in Goldsmith’s introduction.
Fr. Pat left to-day – he was really kind to me. Went to Horgans’, ((John J. Horgan (1881-1967), a solicitor and city coroner – his most famous case being that of the Lusitania, torpedoed off Kinsale by a German submarine in 1915. He was on the boards of the Cork Harbour Commission and Opera House, was author of several books, among them Parnell to Pearse. John J.’s father had been Parnell’s Cork election agent; his wife Mary was the daughter of UCC President Sir Bertram Windle; she studied the piano with Tilly Fleischmann. His sons Ivor and Joe and daughter Madoline were the children of his first marriage, David and Joan those of his marriage with the second Mary Horgan. The latter was to study music at UCC in the 1940s. It was thanks to John J. Horgan that Aloys Fleischmann senior was not interned for the first two years of the first world war: he was a family friend from 1906.)) but found that Ivor and Joe are in Macroom. Did duty of helping Aunt Elsa ((Elsa O´Malley Williams née Swertz (1883-1959), Tilly Fleischmann´s sister, the third of the nine Swertz children. Her children Arthur (1910-1975), Frieda (1917-1982) and Pat (1918-2008) were friends of Aloys.)) for Thursday’s ball, the Lord secure us! Went with Madge, ((Madge was the Fleischmann´s housekeeper for many years.)) as Mám was too tired to come, to the ‘Sea-Wolf’. It was alright. I enjoyed the sea bits, and Madge’s content[ment] at the comic [parts] more.
