Table of Contents

Foreword by Julian Lloyd Webber
John Ireland - a life in music - Colin Scott-Sutherland
John Ireland: a personal discovery - Bruce Phillips
Meeting John Ireland - Alan Rowlands
John Ireland's personal world - Fiona Richards
Interview with John Ireland - Murray Schafer
Aprahamian, Bush, Markes, Morrison, Thompson remember John Ireland
John Ireland and the BBC - Lewis Foreman
Sea Fever: John Ireland and Deal - Julie Deller
Remembering John Ireland and His World - Freda Swain
Arthur Machen and John Ireland - Colin Scott-Sutherland
Helen Perkin: pianist, composer and muse of John Ireland - Fiona Richards
John Ireland and Charles Markes: a creative relationship - George Dannatt
The John Ireland Charitable Trust - Bruce Phillips
John Ireland: some musical fingerprints - Alan Rowlands
John Ireland and the piano - Eric Parkin
John Ireland in the Concert Hall: Orchestral and Choral-Orchestral Music - Lewis Foreman
The Happy Highways: John Ireland's Chamber music - Bruce Phillips
The Church Music of John Ireland - Jeremy Dibble
The Organ Music - Stephen Le Provost
The Songs of John Ireland - Charles Markes
Songs of Innocence: the part-songs of John Ireland - Philip Lancaster
John Ireland and Poetry: a singer's experience - Roderick Williams
John Ireland on Record - Robert Matthew-Walker
John Ireland: a personal impression - Geoffrey Bush
Arnell, Britten, Bush, Moeran and Searle: Ireland's Pupils on their Teacher
John Ireland: two reminiscences - Jocelyn Brooke
Appreciation and biographical sketch - Norah Kirby
Piano Sonata - Frederick Lamond
Discovering John Ireland - Kenneth A. Wright
John Ireland - E.J. Moeran
John Ireland the Man - C.B. Rees
Modern British Composers: John Ireland - Edwin Evans
John Ireland's Writings on Music
Appendices: John Ireland's Addresses and a Note on John Ireland's Handwriting
Catalogue of works
Discography

About the Author

JEREMY DIBBLE is an Emeritus Professor of Music at Durham University where he taught for 30 years. He is the author of C. Hubert H. Parry: His Life and Music (1998), Charles Villers Stanford: Man and Musician (original edition, 2002), Michele Esposito (2010). With the Boydell Press, Dibble has published John Stainer: A Life in Music (2007), Hamilton Harty: Musical Polymath (2013), British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought, 1850-1950 (2018) (with Julian Horton) and The Music of Frederick Delius (2021).

Reviews

[T]he Ireland enthusiast [...] will enjoy dipping into the contents again and again.
*FANFARE*

[A]n eminently readable [...] volume.
*MUSICAL TIMES*

This impressively large book [...] contains almost everything the reader could wish to know about the composer John Ireland.
*DELIUS SOCIETY JOURNAL*

[An] impressive publication, eagerly awaited and finely produced.
*BMS NEWS*

[A] well constructed and more than comprehensive volume. [...] beautifully produced and copiously illustrated [...] highly recommended.
*ELGAR SOCIETY JOURNAL*

What a cornucopia this is for admirers of Ireland's music, as the 50th anniversary of his death is marked for this year. [...] Many musical examples and some wonderful photographs enhance this splendid, thoroughly recommendable book.
*CLASSICAL MUSIC*

[T]his Companion (and a forthcoming collection of letters) will have to stand as the nearest thing to a true portrait of the man.
*FINZI JOURNAL*

Comprehensive and magisterial.
*CHURCH TIMES*

Any reader interested in the music of John Ireland will find this book a marvellous source of information [...] handsomely illustrated and beautifully produced.
*RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS SOCIETY JOURNAL*

In this substantial hardback, Ireland himself is brought to life through sympathetic explanations and pertinent recollections as well as exhaustive listings of repertoire and recordings [...] Much is revealed - a timely opportunity to stimulate or re-excite interest in a considerable composer.
*GRAMOPHONE*

[T]he latest monument to Lewis Foreman's heroic toil for British music. [...] A very impressive achievement.
*BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE [5 stars]*

Lewis Foreman deserves a medal for his Stakhanovite endeavours. A bouquet is in order, too, for the superb standards of production and proof-reading. ... [A] mighty achievement. John Ireland has come home.
*INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW*

The present volume takes a vitally important place in the relatively sparse bibliographical catalogue of John Ireland's life and music. [...] This book is essential reading for all enthusiasts of John Ireland's music in particular and British music in general.
*MUSIC WEB INTERNATIONAL*