Mercedes Bolger Garvey, Grainne Yeats' friend and colleague, died the same year, not in April but in November this time. Mrs. Garvey I believe did not pursue the wire-strung Irish harp as Mrs. Yeats did, but stuck to the nylon-strung improvements over the old gut-strung versions. Mrs. Garvey's career was really that of the teacher of teachers, and so she was not so much a public performer as an influence on the conditions in which harpists are formed. I find it touching that the two passed away in the same year.