March/April 2007

What's Wrong with the Royal Irish Academy of Music?

What's Wrong with the Royal Irish Academy of Music?

What's Wrong with the Royal Irish Academy of Music?

If we cared as much about our musical life as we do about our national theatre we would already have seen the Royal Irish Academy of Music discussed in the same terms as the Abbey, argues former RIAM Governor Richard Pine.

Published on 1 March 2007

Richard Pine, Director of the Durrell School of Corfu, is a former Concerts Manager in RTÉ. He is the author and editor of books on Irish music history and of definitive studies of Oscar Wilde, Brian Friel and Lawrence Durrell.

Tiger Ireland, Turd Sniffers & Meta-Trad: People, Power and the Pursuit of Privileged Status in Music in Ireland

Tiger Ireland, Turd Sniffers & Meta-Trad: People, Power and the Pursuit of Privileged Status in Music in Ireland

Tiger Ireland, Turd Sniffers & Meta-Trad: People, Power and the Pursuit of Privileged Status in Music in Ireland

At a recent conference on 'Music and Identity in Ireland' one of the general editors of the forthcoming Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland implied that traditional music is lacking in scholarly analysis.

Published on 1 March 2007

Fintan Vallely lectures in traditional music at Dundalk Institute of Technology. He is author of several biographical and ethnographic books on the music, and is editor of the A-Z reference work Companion to Irish Traditional Music.

Siobhán Ní Laoire at the Sean-nós Cois Life Traditional Singing Festival, 1993

Siobhán Ní Laoire at the Sean-nós Cois Life Traditional Singing Festival, 1993

Siobhán Ní Laoire at the Sean-nós Cois Life Traditional Singing Festival, 1993

Dublin singer Siobhán Ní Laoire at an event of the Sean-Nós Cois Life Traditional Singing Festival on 2 April 1993 in the Góilín Club at the Ferryman, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2, with fellow-singers Clíona Ní Shúilleabháin, Áine uí

Published on 1 March 2007

CD Reviews: Róisín Elsafty: Má bhíonn tú liom bí liom

CD Reviews: Róisín Elsafty: Má bhíonn tú liom bí liom

RÓISÍN ELSAFTY Má bhíonn tú liom bí liom VERTCD080

Published on 1 March 2007

Lillis Ó Laoire retired from his post as professor of Irish at the University of Galway in 2023. He has published widely on song. His most recent book, a collection of essays written in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, edited with Philip Fogarty and Tiber Falzett, is 'Dhá Leagan Déag: Léargais Nua ar an Sean-nós' (Cló Iar-Chonnacht 2022).

Dublin Style

Dublin Style

Dublin Style

A review of the recent Temple Bar Trad traditional music festival in Dublin.

Published on 1 March 2007

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.

CD Reviews: Geantraí: Ceol den Scoth ón tSraith Teilifíse

CD Reviews: Geantraí: Ceol den Scoth ón tSraith Teilifíse

GeantraíCeol den Scoth ón tSraith TeilifíseGael Linn CEFDVD189, CEFCD 189This DVD and CD marks ten years of the TG4 series Geantraí, and is a useful and thoroughly enjoyable compilation documenting the variety and vigour of contemporary...

Published on 1 March 2007

Adrian Scahill is a lecturer in traditional music at Maynooth University.

Editorial: Territorial

Editorial: Territorial

Talk about ‘music education’ in Ireland is actually about classical music education.

Published on 1 March 2007

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.

Recent publications: Listings from the Contemporary Music Centre

Recent publications: Listings from the Contemporary Music Centre

Continued from JMI Jan–Feb 2006NEW WORKS RECEIVED Ball, Derek, A Brightness of the Upper Cheek [2006], T-solo, Bar-solo, 3333 4000 timp hrp str; The Caves of Padirac [2006], 2 tpt hn trb tuba.Bodley, Seóirse, Islands [2006], gui.Farrell, Ci

Published on 1 March 2007

Recent publications: Listings from the Irish Traditional Music Archive

Recent publications: Listings from the Irish Traditional Music Archive

Continued from JMI Jan–Feb 2007CDs PUBLISHED 2006–2007Balscadden Sound, vocal & instrumental duet, City of Savannah, McKenna & Clarke n.n., 2006Bourke, Malachy, & Donnacha Dwyer, fiddle & uilleann pipes, Bourke and Dwyer, Bo

Published on 1 March 2007

CD Reviews: John Spillane & Louis de Paor: The Gaelic Hit Factory

CD Reviews: John Spillane & Louis de Paor: The Gaelic Hit Factory

John Sillane & Louis de PaorThe Gaelic Hit FactoryEMI, CDGHF1John Spillane and Louis de Paor’s first album together, The Gaelic Hit Factory, brings a contemporary approach to Irish- language song, blending poetry and music, to provide a

Published on 1 March 2007

Susan Motherway is a folk theatre and music technology lecturer at the Institute of Technology, Tralee.

Honouring Deane

Honouring Deane

A review of a new book by Patrick Zuk on composer Raymond Deane, part of the new Field Day Music series, and the first biography to be published in an Irish composer's lifetime.

Published on 1 March 2007

Barra Boydell is Senior Lecturer in Music at NUI Maynooth and currently holds a Senior Research Fellowship from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. He is Hon. Secretary of the Society for Musicology in Ireland and has published widely on the history of music in Ireland. He is general editor, with Harry White, of the Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland to be published by UCD Press, Dublin.