France and Ireland

The collective achievement of this book is to identify so many neglected but vital cultural interdependencies between France and Ireland. (Harry White, The Irish Times 22 Jan. 2016)

Una Hunt is a leading authority on Irish performance-led music research and in 2010 established the first digital archive of historic Irish composers: (www.naic.ie). She is also a concert pianist who has recorded fourteen world-premire CDs. She lectures at DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama in Dublin and is currently writing a book on Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies. Mary Pierse is the editor of Irish Feminisms, 18101930, Vols I-V (2009) and has published widely on the writings of George Moore. She has taught courses on Victorian literature and feminism at University College Cork and is a board member of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies at IT Tallaght.

Contents: Una Hunt: George Alexander Osborne, Paris and the Pluie de Perles Joanne Burns: The Influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Thomas Moore David Mooney: De la musique avant toute chose: Poldowskis Settings of Verlaines Poetry Eamon Maher: Kate OBriens As Music and Splendour: When Words and Music Chime Axel Klein: Gilbert Bcauds LOpera dAran (1962) - A Rapprochement Laura Watson: Ireland in the Musical Imagination of Third Republic France Maguy Pernot-Deschamps: Assuaging Loss: Artistic Approaches by Neil Jordan and Franoise Lefvre Mary Pierse: Silent Pictures in Mind and Memory: Irish Poets and a Proustian Madeleine? Brian Murphy: Wine and Music: An Emerging Cultural Relationship Benjamin Keatinge: France, Ireland and the Jacobite Cause in Richard Murphys The Battle of Aughrim Arun Rao: Claude de France: Debussys Great War of 1915 Joe Kehoe: Maestro, Magician, Midwife: Jean Martinon in Dublin Cathy McGlynn: Play it in the original: Music, Language and Difference in James Joyces Sirens Sarah Balen: The music youre carrying in your head: Reading Hlne Cixous in the Breath of Paula Meehans Poetry.