Women and Music in Ireland

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