Women and Music in Ireland

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

Preface Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Harry White Introduction Laura Watson, Jennifer O'Connor-Madsen, and Ita Beausang Part I: Establishing a Place for Women Musicians in Irish Society of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 1. Daughters of Hibernia: Seen and Not Heard? Ita Beausang 2. 'No Accomplishment So Great for a Lady': Women and Music in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Elite Irish Household Karol Mullaney-Dignam 3. The Development of the Female Musician in Nineteenth Century Dublin Jennifer O'Connor-Madsen 4. Family, Filial Ties, and Forging Careers as Female Musicians in the Nineteenth Century: The Story of the Glover Sisters Mary Louise O'Donnell Part II: Women and Practice in Irish Traditional Music 5. The Daghda, the Minstrel Boy, and Convent Schools: Reflections on Gender and the Harp in Ireland Helen Lawlor 6. 'No Longer Second Fiddle': Due Recognition for Josephine Keegan Daithí Kearney 7. Ireland's Female Harping Triumvirate: The Legacy of Sheila Larchet Cuthbert, Mercedes Garvey, and Gráinne Yeats Teresa O'Donnell Part III: Gaps and Gender Politics in the History of Twentieth-Century Women Composers and Performers 8. 'A Daughter of Music': Alicia Adélaïde Needham's Anglo-Irish Life and Music Axel Klein 9. Mary Dickenson-Auner: A Life with the Violin Margarethe Engelhardt-Krajanek 10. 'Opera Over a Cooking Stove': Gender Dynamics in the Music Career of Joan Trimble Ruth Stanley 11. Rhoda Coghill and the Gender Politics of Piano Performance Laura Watson Part IV: Situating Discourses of Women, Gender, and Music in the Twenty-First Century 12. Women and Composition: Fifty Years of Progress? Nicola LeFanu 13. Transcending Conventional Habits: Music and the Collaborative Process in Joint Works Rhona Clarke 14. Surveying the Scene: Current Thoughts on Women and Electroacoustic Music in Ireland Barbara Jillian Dignam 15. We Buried the Heteropatriarchy and Danced on its Grave: Towards a Liberation Movement for Irish Traditional Music Tes Slominski Bibliography Index