The history of Wexford Festival Opera, 1951–2021

The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin

Irish Traditional Singer

Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

Elizabeth (Bess) Cronin, ‘The Queen of Irish Song’ as Séamus Ennis called her, was probably the best-known Irish female traditional singer of her time. Collecto…

Vinegar Hill

The last stand of the Wexford Rebels of 1798

Ronan O'Flaherty & Jacqui Hynes, editors

On 21 June 1798, 20,000 men, women and children found themselves trapped on a hill outside Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, facing a Crown force of some 15,000 troops …

Carrick, County Wexford

Ireland’s first Anglo-Norman stronghold

Denis Shine, Michael Potterton, Stephen Mandal & Catherine McLoughlin, editors

Carrick, Co. Wexford, is one of the most enigmatic and misunderstood medieval sites in Ireland. Built in the autumn and winter of 1169 by Robert Fitz Stephen, o…

Arrogant Trespass

Anglo-Norman Wexford, 1169–1400

Billy Colfer

Arrogant Trespass is the first sustained treatment of the Anglo-Normans in Wexford since Orpen's century-old work. Profusely illustrated, meticulously researche…

A Musical Offering

Essays in honour of Gerard Gillen

Kerry Houston & Harry White, editors

This gathering of seventeen specially commissioned essays and two original editions of music honours the manifold achievements of Gerard Gillen as organist, chu…

William Marshal and Ireland

John Bradley, Cóilin Ó Drisceoil & Michael Potterton, editors

This richly illustrated collection of essays examines for the first time the important Irish career of one of the most famous personalities of medieval Europe, …

The progress of music in Ireland

Harry White

This book collects a number of essays on the relationship between music, cultural history and musicology in Ireland which, taken together, comprise a natural pr…

Irish music in the twentieth century

Irish musical studies 7

Gareth Cox & Axel Klein, editors

This seventh volume in the Irish Musical Studies Series examines the development of art music in Ireland from different perspectives. The book includes historic…