Dr Susan O’Regan is recently retired from her position as lecturer in Music History at MTU Cork School of Music. She has authored Music and Society in Cork 1700-1900 (Cork University Press, 2018), and more recently has researched urban song in Cork city in the early nineteenth century, for which she has […]
Siobhán Armstrong is one of Europe’s foremost harpists playing medieval to 18th-century music on reconstructions of historical harps. She performs and records with prestigious vocal soloists and instrumentalists, period-instrument ensembles, orchestras and baroque opera companies in Ireland, England and further afield, mainly in Europe. Siobhán also works with leading traditional Irish singers and instrumentalists. The […]
Sheep were a vital component of the early modern economy in Britain and Ireland, and in this lecture Professor Andrew Hadfield talks about the poet Edmund Spenser’s representation of sheep and sheep farming to ask whether his work demonstrates a sympathetic understanding of animals. Spenser had access to a wide series of works on animals […]
Doneraile Court, Doneraile, Co. Cork Sunday 3rd September 2023 • 4pm €20, from www.eventbrite.ie The Irish harpsichordist Malcolm Proud will give a recital at Doneraile Court, Co. Cork at 4pm on Sunday afternoon the 3rd September. The first half will consist of music by William Byrd who died in 1623, exactly 400 years ago. Byrd was […]
Doneraile Court, Doneraile, Co. Cork Sunday 17th September 2023 • 4pm €6 An illustrated talk by Professor Jane Grogan The sixteenth-century English poet Edmund Spenser is a disturbing presence in Irish history, one of the most celebrated poets of the period in English, but also a planter who wrote not just in favour of English […]
Doneraile Court, Doneraile, Co. Cork Sunday 1st October 2023 • 4pm Aoibhe Kettle, Naoise Kettle and Senan Shortall are a trio of multi-instrumentalists from Co. Laois. With strong roots in Irish music and a grounded traditional sound, they like to experiment, fusing contemporary and world styles of music into their performances. Aoibhe is an accomplished harpist and […]
An illustrated talk by Dr Ciarán Reilly. In September 1851, towards the end of the Great Famine, the Waterford News and Star newspaper reported on the ‘public rejoicings’ in Tramore, County Waterford, that welcomed the arrival of the Honourable Mr. St. Leger and his wife, Lord and Lady Doneraile. According to the report, thousands gathered to […]