Insightful essays excavate the magic of music in Ireland and its creative realm
What Ireland Can Teach the World About Music: showing the magical power of musicians to soundtrack our lives and timesToner Quinn, founding editor, writer and publisher of What Ireland Can Teach the World about Music, taps into an unsung component behind Irish music’s success on the world stage.
Despite its rather portentous and presumptuous title, What Ireland Can Teach the World About Music is an engrossing appraisal of the magical power of musicians to soundtrack our lives and times and a powerful compendium of necessary ideas. The final essay, from August 2023, How Ireland Treats Its Free Thinkers: The Life and Death of Sinéad O’Connor, is among the finest tributes penned to her to date.
“The silence that surrounds dissenters is, we know well, an Irish fear: a long-held, deeply felt apprehension of being associated with the troublemaker, the danger-maker, the dissenter,” Quinn writes. “It is a lesson learned from our colonised, violent history: if they speak up, we all go down. Say nothing and let it pass. O’Connor knew this traditional Irish practice but would not, or could not, stay silent.
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