1918 was a seminal year in Irish, European and global history. St Patrick’s Day fell on a Sunday but celebrations for the fourth national holiday since the outbreak of the First World War were muted by the world-wide calamity. It was nonetheless a glorious spring day in Ireland with sunshine and a refreshing breeze.
This essay considers the politics of music publication by the Irish state in the early
decades of independence alongside the prescription of 'Irishness' in education,
collection and composition. It surveys the roles ...
Sole contributor, The FitzGeralds in Ireland, KFM (local radio) history feature, aired live May 2014. Podcast online to mark the publication of Aspects of Irish Aristocratic Life: Essays on the Fitzgeralds and Carton House, ...
Despite being overlooked in much of the historiography
of the European country house, music
was a key facet of social and cultural life among
regional landowning elites. In the medieval
period it was an agent of ...
