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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1: ‘Year of the Slaughter’: A Grim Prologue
Chapter 2: Handel: The German Creator of the English Oratorio
Chapter 3: Charles Jennens, Messiah’s Librettist
Chapter 4: Music in Dublin
Chapter 5: Significant Encounters: ‘An Acquaintance Among the Wits’
Chapter 6: The Duke of Devonshire Returns
Chapter 7: ‘To th’Hibernian Shore’
Chapter 8: Susannah Cibber’s Rocky Road to Dublin
Chapter 9: ‘I Remember No Such Licence’: Swift Refuses His Choir
Chapter 10: ‘A Species of Musick Different From Any Other’: The First Performance of Messiah
Chapter 11: London’s Initial Verdict: ‘What a Profanation of God’s Name and Word is This?’
Chapter 12: Messiah Secured for Posterity
Epilogue: ‘An Idea of Heaven, Where Everybody is to Sing’
Appendices:
Appendix 1: The Messiah Word-Book
Appendix 2: How Did Fishamble Street Get its Name?
Appendix 3: Fishamble Street Developers Help to Shape Georgian Dublin
Appendix 4: Dublin, Sweet City
Appendix 5: The Phoenix Park
Appendix 6: Badger Flambé, Anyone?
Appendix 7: ‘Did He Ever Blaze?’ Duelling in Dublin
Appendix 8: The Blasters: The Dublin Hellfire Club
Appendix 9: A British Sixpence … Half a Guinea … How Much?
A Note on Dating
Images
Bibliography
Notes
Acknowledgments
Copyright
About the Author
About Gill & Macmillan
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