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Author:   Eamon Maher ,  Una Hunt ,  Mary Pierse
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   66
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9783034319140

ISBN 10:   3034319142
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   31 July 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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»: Poldowski’s Settings of Verlaine’s Poetry – Eamon Maher: Kate O’Brien’s As Music and Splendour: When Words and Music Chime – Axel Klein: Gilbert Bécaud’s L’Opera d’Aran (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 Françoise Lefèvre – 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 Murphy’s The Battle of Aughrim – Arun Rao: «Claude de France»: Debussy’s 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 Joyce’s «Sirens» – Sarah Balen: «The music you’re carrying in your head»: Reading Hélène Cixous in the «Breath» of Paula Meehan’s Poetry.

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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)

"""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)"

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)

Author Information

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-première 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, 1810–1930, 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.

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