Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924): An Address at His Centenary

Charles Villiers Stanford belongs to history. He died on 29 March, 1924, a voluntary exile from his native country. For Dublin, city of bis birth, had what proved almost its last sight of him in 1870. It was the year in which he exchanged the Liffey for the Cam. Thereafter he crossed and re-crossed the Narrow Seas, searching the continent for stimuli his native city, for all its fantastically brilliant wit and fascinating society, could not provide.