Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

List of Tables

pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

Notes on Contributors

pp xi-xvi

Preface

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - Establishing a Place for Women Musicians in Irish Society of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

pp 11-12

1 - Daughters of Hibernia: Seen and Not Heard?

pp 13-28

2 - ‘No Accomplishment So Great for a Lady’: Women and Music in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Elite Irish Household

pp 29-39

3 - The Development of the Female Musician in Nineteenth-Century Dublin

pp 40-53

4 - Family, Filial Bonds and Forging Careers as Female Musicians in the Nineteenth Century: The Story of the Glover Sisters

pp 54-68

Part II - Women and Practice in Irish Traditional Music

pp 69-70

5 - The Daghda, the Minstrel Boy and Convent Schools: Reflections on Gender and the Harp in Ireland

pp 71-85

6 - ‘No Longer Second Fiddle’: Due Recognition for Josephine Keegan

pp 86-100

7 - Ireland’s Female Harping Triumvirate: The Legacy of Sheila Larchet Cuthbert, Mercedes Garvey and Gráinne Yeats

pp 101-114

Part III - Gaps and Gender Politics in the History of Twentieth-Century Women Composers and Performers

pp 115-116

8 - ‘A Daughter of Music’: Alicia Adélaïde Needham’s Anglo-Irish Life and Music

pp 117-128

9 - Mary Dickenson-Auner: A Life with the Violin

pp 129-142

10 - ‘Opera Over a Cooking Stove’: Gender Dynamics in the Music Career of Joan Trimble

pp 143-155

11 - Rhoda Coghill and the Gender Politics of Piano Performance

pp 156-172

Part IV - Situating Discourses of Women, Gender and Music in the Twenty-First Century

pp 173-174

12 - Women and Composition: Fifty Years of Progress?

pp 175-181

13 - Transcending Conventional Habits: Music and the Collaborative Process in Joint Works

pp 182-190

14 - Surveying the Scene: Current Thoughts on Women and Electroacoustic Music in Ireland

pp 191-205

15 - We Buried the Heteropatriarchy and Danced on its Grave: Towards a Liberation Movement for Irish Traditional Music

pp 206-220

Bibliography

pp 221-240

Index

pp 241-250

Irish Musical Studies Previous volumes

pp 251-252