... Lady Lisronan, anxious that her child's youth should not be tainted by premature knowledge of man's inhumanity to man, and that he should as much as possible escape that lust of hate which even now defiles too many Irishmen, had forbidden Tadgh to come to her house.  It was Dermot's first near view of the old minstrel, his first chance of hearing him.  He followed eagerly across the threshold of the guard-room and stood watching Tadgh with rapt attention while he tuned up the battered ancient five-stringed harp. (Beyond the Law, Alexander, 1912)