British born Arnold Bax was best known for his Orchestral Music. He was also a Poet and a Writer and spent many summers in Glencolmcille, Co. Donegal, where he learned to speak the  Irish language. His work was inspired by the poets of the 'Celtic Revival' and he was particularly influenced by W. B.Yeats. He wrote poetry under the pseudonym Dermot O' Byrne and much of his poems lauded the  fight for Irish freedom. He was knighted in 1937. He is buried in St. Finbarr's cemetery  Cork.