Benjamin Britten the apex of his reputation: it was almost universally hailed as a masterpiece." Shostakovich told Rostropovich that he believed it to be "the greatest work of the twentieth century". In 1967 the BBC commissioned Britten to write an opera specially for television. "Owen Wingrave" was based, like "The Turn of the Screw", on a ghost story by Henry James. By the 1960s Britten found composition much slower than in his prolific youth; he told the 28-year-old composer Nicholas Maw, "Get as much done now as you can, because it gets much, much more difficult as you grow older." He did
The Monks of the Screw the Saint, and the Founder, and Abbot, And Prior, and Monks of the Screw! </poem> The membership included: Lord Mornington, Lord Townshend (a former viceroy of Ireland), John Philpot Curran, Barry Yelverton, Father Arthur O'Leary, George Ogle, Henry Grattan, Walter Hussey Burgh, Dudley Hussey, Henry Flood, Arthur Wolfe, Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran, Jonah Barrington, William Tankerville Chamberlain, Dudley Hussey and James Dennis. An eponymous Irish traditional music band comes from Sliabh Luachra in County Kerry. The Order of St. Patrick should not be confused with the later Illustrious Order of St. Patrick that was founded in 1783. The