Book contents
- Elizabeth Maconchy in Context
- Composers in Context
- Elizabeth Maconchy in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions and Publications
- Bibliographic and In-Text Abbreviations
- Part IEnvironments
- Chapter 1‘Difficult for a Woman’
- Chapter 2Elizabeth Maconchy – Personal Recollections of my Mother
- Chapter 3Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–94)
- Chapter 4Ireland
- Chapter 5‘Let Us Start with Our Own’
- Chapter 6Teachers, Colleagues and Friends
- Chapter 7Studying in Prague and Europe in the 1930s
- Chapter 8Facing Tuberculosis during the Interwar Years
- Chapter 9The Composers’ Guild of Great Britain
- Chapter 10Elizabeth Maconchy’s Predecessors
- Chapter 11A Supportive Sisterhood
- Part IIIntersections
- Part IIIWorks and Legacy
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 4 - Ireland
Revival and Revolution
from Part I - Environments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 April 2026
Book contents
- Elizabeth Maconchy in Context
- Composers in Context
- Elizabeth Maconchy in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions and Publications
- Bibliographic and In-Text Abbreviations
- Part IEnvironments
- Chapter 1‘Difficult for a Woman’
- Chapter 2Elizabeth Maconchy – Personal Recollections of my Mother
- Chapter 3Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–94)
- Chapter 4Ireland
- Chapter 5‘Let Us Start with Our Own’
- Chapter 6Teachers, Colleagues and Friends
- Chapter 7Studying in Prague and Europe in the 1930s
- Chapter 8Facing Tuberculosis during the Interwar Years
- Chapter 9The Composers’ Guild of Great Britain
- Chapter 10Elizabeth Maconchy’s Predecessors
- Chapter 11A Supportive Sisterhood
- Part IIIntersections
- Part IIIWorks and Legacy
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Elizabeth Maconchy’s family moved to Dublin in 1917. The five years in which they remained in Ireland coincided with a period of remarkable change in the country: the aftermath of the Easter Rising (1916), the War of Independence (1919–21) and the Irish Civil War (1922–23). Above all, it saw Ireland gain its independence from the ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland’ with the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922. This chapter outlines the trajectory of the revolutionary years in their broad historical and political context. It considers the Irish revolution against the wider background of the Gaelic Revival, with which it was intricately bound, while also considering musical culture in Dublin at that time.
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