Women and Music in Ireland

Edited by Jennifer O'Connor-Madsen, Laura Watson and Ita Beausang

Explores the world of women's professional and amateur musical activity as it developed on and beyond the island of Ireland.

PrefaceLorraine Byrne Bodley and Harry WhiteIntroductionLaura Watson, Jennifer O'Connor-Madsen, and Ita BeausangPart I: Establishing a Place for Women Musicians in Irish Society of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries1. Daughters of Hibernia: Seen and Not Heard?Ita Beausang2. 'No Accomplishment So Great for a Lady': Women and Music in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Elite Irish HouseholdKarol Mullaney-Dignam3. The Development of the Female Musician in Nineteenth Century DublinJennifer O'Connor-Madsen4. Family, Filial Ties, and Forging Careers as Female Musicians in the Nineteenth Century: The Story of the Glover SistersMary Louise O'DonnellPart II: Women and Practice in Irish Traditional Music5. The Daghda, the Minstrel Boy, and Convent Schools: Reflections on Gender and the Harp in IrelandHelen Lawlor6. 'No Longer Second Fiddle': Due Recognition for Josephine KeeganDaithí Kearney7. Ireland's Female Harping Triumvirate: The Legacy of Sheila Larchet Cuthbert, Mercedes Garvey, and Gráinne YeatsTeresa O'DonnellPart III: Gaps and Gender Politics in the History of Twentieth-Century Women Composers and Performers8. 'A Daughter of Music': Alicia Adélaïde Needham's Anglo-Irish Life and MusicAxel Klein9. Mary Dickenson-Auner: A Life with the ViolinMargarethe Engelhardt-Krajanek10. 'Opera Over a Cooking Stove': Gender Dynamics in the Music Career of Joan TrimbleRuth Stanley11. Rhoda Coghill and the Gender Politics of Piano PerformanceLaura WatsonPart IV: Situating Discourses of Women, Gender, and Music in the Twenty-First Century12. Women and Composition: Fifty Years of Progress?Nicola LeFanu13. Transcending Conventional Habits: Music and the Collaborative Process in Joint WorksRhona Clarke14. Surveying the Scene: Current Thoughts on Women and Electroacoustic Music in Ireland Barbara Jillian Dignam15. We Buried the Heteropatriarchy and Danced on its Grave: Towards a Liberation Movement for Irish Traditional MusicTes SlominskiBibliographyIndex