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our only standards of beauty and art . It is high
now lacking we are in teachers and how amateurish
responsibility of providing for its continuity .
for the extension of the Order of Saint Benedict ,
Haredeous is " and Glenstal is intended
secondly , to provide education of the type which
boys in arts and crafts .
to develop it on the lines of the parent house .
Appleford , England , and thirdly , to train country
English drumingen have for too many centuries been
to be " a settlement ( not merely monastery ) first ,
many middle class Irish families now seek at
We have not the trouble of initiating it nor't the
blacksmiths , woodworkers and metal workers .
handcraft .
Glenstal provides an opportunity of
The Benedictines or Haredeous have
You know also how difficult it would be
have been and are being trained there in large
now backward we are in all these matters in Ireland ,
it would be , and what cost , for our Government to set
The latter work has been carried to a
up an organisation such as " they provide ready-made .
to assemble a body of such consistent and artistic
and ineffective are our own efforts at organisation .
history of art and designing as well as the actual
I know that you do not need to be told
men as the Benedictines and how altogether impossible
established a foundation here and have commenced
very high degree of development in Haredsous :
members . They are taught the principles and
roproductions . German lithographs , French brick , a brac
enamellers , " carvers of ivoryes and precious
We need not pass Acts or build houses or pay teachers .
immediately commencing the work of the restoration of
a native art and native culture . Italian
a native art and native culture .
Italian .

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training of a small number who will live in.
and teachers and not business men and so their
worthy of Ian Irish Government's patronage .
shops and machines and other equipment . and some
speed is of course important .
on their feet .
The Benedictines at Glenstal have the
time to bridge the gap between the Tara brooch
A loan is of no use to them # if it were
therefore be provided by grant and gift .
Can any means be found in the machinery
I myself can , and will if necessary .
Already they have trained a good many
to provide the money .
and # 1938 .
a thousand pounds would be sufficient to put them
teachers and the organisation but they are monks
want of essential things .
their rulers and by their parent house .
progress has been lamentably slow and will continue
rooms for their Irish novinces . It is not a bit
the Finance Office or Department of Education
matter : " I have examined it and an satisfied that
to be slow unless we help them . They need war
In any case I hope you will agree that the work is
mount of their borrowines to strictly limited by
they hope in September to commence , the more serious
find some , of the money but I could not give it . all .
boys from the country round by day school classes and
it could be arranged without bothering you ... . In
Help must
but that are hampered and hold up at every hand
their rulers and by their parent house . Help must
limited by