"Palestrina was a Cork man; there is internal evidence in his music"

From "The Old Munster Circuit" by Maurice Healy (published in 1939 by Michael Joseph, re-published in 1979 by Mercier Press):

The best talk in the world is to be heard in Cork...All speak at once ; but there is both art and method in it. Talk of Haydn's Quartets ! As works of art they take second place to a Cork conversation. Palestrina was a Cork man; there is internal evidence in his music ...the idiom is there: one voice starts, but is almost immediately joined by a second and a third which descant about the first, adding to it, embellishing it, and sometimes even contradicting it,but never interfering with the story. Through all the apparent confusion there is pleasant repetition of the main theme; and all parts enjoy themselves thoroughly

(original punctuation retained)