A Musical Offering

Essays in honour of Gerard Gillen


Kerry Houston & Harry White, editors

Hardback €45.00
Catalogue Price: €50.00
ISBN: 978-1-84682-658-0
Coming October 2017. 288pp; ills.

Professor Gerard Gillen celebrated his 75th birthday on 16 August 2017. Many of his friends and colleagues marked the occasion here with a collection of essays that reflects the stellar contribution which he has made to music and musicology in Ireland.

For a full list of contents, see button at right.

Contributors: T.P. Dolan (UCD), David Adams (Royal Irish Academy of Music), Lorraine Byrne Bodley (MU), Paul Collins (Mary I, U Limerick), R.V. Comerford (MU), David Connolly (DkIT and St Michael's, Dun Laoghaire), Kieran A. Daly (ind.), Patrick F. Devine (ind.), Kerry Houston (DIT), Frank Lawrence (UCD), Darina McCarthy (MU), David Mooney (DIT), Carole O'Connor (DIT), John O'Keeffe (MU), Ite O'Donovan (Lassus Scholars), Adrian Scahill (MU), Jan Smaczny (QUB), Yo Tomita (QUB), Liam Tracey (SPCM), Harry White (UCD).

Kerry Houston is head of academic studies at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. Harry White is professor of music at University College Dublin.