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FAMOUS SONGS
called upon to write a novel, 1 availed myself of the popularity attaching to the name, and en-titled my story ' Rory 0'More.' The success of the novel induced the management of the Adelphi Theatre to apply to me to dramatize the story, and in this its third form, ' Rory O'More* was again received by the public with such approbation that it was played over one hundred and eight nights in the first season in London, and afterwards universally throughout the kingdom." . " Garryowen," next to " St. Patrick's Day," was the greatest favourite as a national air in Ireland. It is a curious production, the melody of which is preserved in Moore's "We may roam through the world." There is also that wonderful street song, " The Wearing of the Green" that almost caused " a question for par-liament," when the Earl of Beaconsfleld was premier (then the Right Honourable Benjamin DTsraeli), when introduced by Dion Boucicault into " Arrah-na-Pogue," and sung by Shaun the Post at the Adelphi Theatre in the late seventies. There are countless versions of the lay (a good one being by Henry Grattan Curran), but the most popular is that by Dion Boucicault The earliest version extant shows that it was written when France, and not America, was the des-191 |
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