Library Lunchtime Lecture by Professor Harry White, MRIA, Professor of Music at University College Dublin. The first lecture in our series on 'Discovering Thomas Moore.'

This lecture series accompanied our exhibition 'Discovering Thomas Moore: Ireland in nineteenth-century Europe'. Curated by musicologist Dr Sarah McCleave, School of Arts, English & Languages, QUB, the exhibition and lecture series exposes the breadth of Moore’s research and writing about Ireland and explores Moore’s role as an Irish writer with an international reputation in positioning Ireland within Europe through cultural exchange. It also addresses contemporary European fascination with the orient and Moore’s influential role in depicting eastern culture, particularly via his hugely successful work, Lalla Rookh.

This lecture was part of the Dublin Festival of History programme.

Location: Academy House

Date : Wednesday 9 October, 2019

Speaker:

Harry White is Professor of Music at University College Dublin and a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. His publications include The Keeper's Recital (1998), The Progress of Music in Ireland (2005), Music and the Irish Literary Imagination (2008) and (with Barra Boydell) The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (2013). He was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2006 and to the Academy of Europe in 2015. In 2018, he became the first Irish person to be elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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