CD Review: Neill Lyons – Skins & Sins
CD Review: Neill Lyons – Skins & Sins
Published on 1 January 2009
Tony MacMahon (1939–2021) was a traditional musician and television producer in RTÉ, where he produced The Pure Drop, The Green Linnet, Aisling Gheal, The Long Note, The Blackbird and the Bell and many other series. He made three solo recordings, Tony MacMahon (1972), MacMahon from Clare (2000), and Farewell to Music (2016) and recorded I gCnoc na Graí (1985) with Noel Hill and Aislingí Ceoil (1994) with Noel Hill and Iarla Ó Lionáird. Read our full obituary here: https://journalofmusic.com/news/rip-tony-macmahon
John McLachlan is a composer and member of Aosdána. www.johnmclachlan.org
Barra Ó Séaghdha is a writer on cultural politics, literature and music.
Ciaran Carson (1948–2019) was a poet, prose writer, translator and flute-player. He was the author of Last Night’s Fun – A Book about Irish Traditional Music, The Pocket Guide to Traditional Irish Music, The Star Factory, and the poetry collections The Irish for No, Belfast Confetti and First Language: Poems. He was Professor of Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast. Between 2008 and 2010 Ciaran wrote a series of linked columns for the Journal of Music, beginning with 'The Bag of Spuds' and ending with 'The Raw Bar'.
Kevin Stevens is is a Dublin-based novelist and writer on history, literature, and jazz.
Kevin Stevens is is a Dublin-based novelist and writer on history, literature, and jazz.
Kevin Stevens is is a Dublin-based novelist and writer on history, literature, and jazz.
Michael Quinn is a freelance music and theatre journalist based in Co. Down.
Garrett Sholdice is a composer and a director of the record label and music production company Ergodos.
Garrett Sholdice is a composer and a director of the record label and music production company Ergodos.
Rob Casey is a Dublin-based musician and composer of electronic and acoustic music.
Michael Quinn is a freelance music and theatre journalist based in Co. Down.
Breandán Ó hEaghra is a member of the contemporary Irish language group Rís and Director of Meas Media.
Barra Ó Séaghdha is a writer on cultural politics, literature and music.
Peter Rosser (1970–2014) was a composer, writer and music lecturer. He was born in London and moved to Belfast in 1990, where he studied composition at the University of Ulster and was awarded a DPhil in 1997. His music has been performed at the Spitalfields Festival in London, the Belfast Festival at Queen’s and by the Crash Ensemble in Dublin. In 2011 the Arts Council acknowledged his contribution to the arts in Northern Ireland through a Major Individual Artist Award. He used this award to write his Second String Quartet, which was premiered in 2012 by the JACK Quartet at the opening concert at Belfast's new Metropolitan Arts Centre (The MAC). Peter Rosser also wrote extensively on a wide range of music genres, with essays published in The Journal of Music, The Wire, Perspectives of New Music and the Crescent Journal. He died following an illness on 24 November 2014, aged 44.
Michael Quinn is a freelance music and theatre journalist based in Co. Down.
Ian Wilson is a composer
Adrian Scahill is a lecturer in traditional music at Maynooth University.
Ian Wilson is a composer
Toner Quinn is Editor of the Journal of Music. His new book, What Ireland Can Teach the World About Music, is available here. Toner will be giving a lecture exploring some of the ideas in the book on Saturday 11 May 2024 at 3pm at Farmleigh House in Dublin. For booking, visit https://bit.ly/3x2yCL8.
Toner Quinn is Editor of the Journal of Music. His new book, What Ireland Can Teach the World About Music, is available here. Toner will be giving a lecture exploring some of the ideas in the book on Saturday 11 May 2024 at 3pm at Farmleigh House in Dublin. For booking, visit https://bit.ly/3x2yCL8.