Big Crowd Hears Delargy Speak of Irish Traditions

"It used to be said in Dublin that if you threw a stone through a saloon window, you would be sure to hit a poet," James H. Delargy, Director of the Irish Folklore Commission, told a packed audience of Bostonians and Harvard undergraduates in the New Lecture Hall last night. He lectured under the auspices of the Department of Anthropology.

Delargy told of his experiences in collecting together Irish folklore. He wandered through the Irish country side, recording on dictaphones the folk tales as told by the old Irish story tellers.

Leverett Saltonstall '14, Governor of Massachusetts, sent a telegram to Daniel T. O'Connell '05, chairman of the meeting, expressing his regrets that he could not attend.

Fred N. Robinson '91, Gurney Professor of English Literature, who introduced the speaker, said that the Department of Anthropology has done more for the study of Irish literature and history than any other college department. Harvard has a large collection of Irish folklore, he said.