Ina Boyle First Performances

E. VOCAL MUSIC

`Snow-flakes' (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), 'The winds as at their hour of birth' (Tennyson), 'Cradle song' (St John Lucas), 'A song of a nest' ( Jean Ingelow) (1903)

`The cry' (L. G. Moberly), 'Sea Wrack' (Moira O'Neill) (1905)

`Scythe song' (Andrew Lang) (1906)

`Do you remember still?' (L. G. Moberly), 'A cradle song' (T.J.H.), 'The high tide' (Joan Ingelow) (1907)

`Not yet' (L. G. Moberly) (1908)

`The lost water, 'Roses, 'The well at the world's end' (Eva Gore-Booth), 'The wind of dreams, life's harvest' (R. M. Marriott Watson) (1909)

`Hungarian song' (M. Byron), 'In prison' (William Morris), 'A soft day, thank God' (Winifred M. Letts), 'Potter's song' (Longfellow) (1912)

`Midwinter' (Kujohara No Fukayabu, tr. Clara Walsh), 'The last invocation' (Walt Whitman) (1913)

`Lullaby' (Maurice Hime), 'The joy of earth' (George Russell (Æ)) (1914) First performance: 5 May 1915, Arcadia Barracks Bray, Nora Borel soprano, Rev. Arthur Oulton piano

`Have you news of my boy Jack?' (Rudyard Kipling) (1916)

First performance: 9 November 2015, Fr McNally Recital Room, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Paidi O Dubhain baritone

`A song of enchantment, 'A song of shadows' (Walter de la Mare) (1922)

Published: Stainer & Bell (1923, 1926)

Dedicated 'To my Mother'

First performance: 13 October 1947, Radio Eireann, Jean Nolan mez sop, Rhoda Coghill piano

`If you let sorrow in on you' (W. M. Letts) (1922)

Dedicated to Sylvia Duckworth

First performance: 23 August 2013, Kilruddery House, Regina Nathan soprano, Anne Cullen piano

`Cum invocarum' (Philip Sidney) (1923)

`Sleep song' [`Deirin De] (1923) (tr. from the traditional Irish by P. H. Pearse, published The Irish Review, May 1911, 139ff.) First performed: Radio Eireann, 13 October 1947, Jean Nolan mez sop, Rhoda Coghill piano

Two Christmas Songs 1. 'So blyssid be the tyme' (Sloane MS), 2.. `Tyrle tyrlow' (Balliol MS) (1923)

Dedicated 'For Mother. Christmas 1923'

`Eternity' (Robert Herrick) (1924)

Dedicated 'In memory of Rev. H.S. Mecredy' [incumbent Powerscourt 1907-2.4], d. 14 December 1924

First performance: 13 October 1947, Radio Eireann, Jean Nolan mez sop, Rhoda Coghill piano

`Since thou 0 fondest and truest' 'Spring goeth all in white' (Robert Bridges) (1924)

`Longing' (George Herbert) (1925), 'The bringer of dreams' (Edith Sitwell) (1925, revised 1927)

`The stolen child' (W. B. Yeats), 'Blow, blow, thou winter wind' (Shakespeare), `They went forth' (Eva Gore-Booth) (1926)

`When Mary thro' the garden went' (Mary Coleridge) (1927)

Dedicated 'For Mother's birthday'

First performance: 5 June 2010, Documentary From the Darkness, RTE Lyric FM, Sonya Keogh, mez sop, David Brophy piano

`A mountain woman asks for quiet that her child may sleep' (P. H. Pearse, tr. T. MacDonagh), 'Blessing' (Austin Clarke) (1928)

First performance: 23 August 2013, Kilruddery House, Regina Nathan soprano, Anne Cullen piano

`The Land: Prelude, Winter, Spring' (Vita Sackville-West) (1928)

All Souls' Flower' (Pamela Grey of Falloden), A Christmas carol (1928)

Dedicated 'Written for my mother at Christmas, the last of her Christmas or birthday songs ... I used the tune of this in the third movement of my violin concerto, dedicated to the memory of my mother.'

First performance: 5 June 2010, Documentary From the Darkness, RTE Lyric FM, Sonya Keogh mez sop, David Brophy piano

`Himself and his fiddle' (E. L. Twiss) (1929)

Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily (translated Grace Warrack) i. 'Eternal love; 2. 'In the desert, 3. 'The yoke, 4. 'Lord in that love, 5. 'At the altar' (1930)

`Dust' Epigram (1933)

`Praier of Pieus Mirandula unto God' (Thomas More) (1937)

`Easter snow' (W. M. Letts) (1940) Dedicated 'In memory of S. who died 12 Nov. 1939'

`With sick and famished eyes' Song by Henry Purcell (George Herbert) ed. Ina Boyle for voice with piano (or harpsichord) and violoncello ad lib.

Published: OUP (1943)

Three Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (1953) 1. 'Sleep; 2. 'Storm, 3. 'Evening on the Moselle' (translated Helen Waddell) (1953)

Dedicated 'Written for Sophie Wyss'

First performance: 4 April 1955, Drawing Room Arts Council, Joan Gray mez sop, Eric Stevens piano

Two Songs of the Woods (1954) I. 'Dirge in the woods; 2. 'Enter these enchanted _ woods' (George Meredith)

First performance: 4 April 1955, Drawing Room Arts Council, Joan Gray mez sop, Eric Stevens piano

Three Songs by Walter de la Mare (1956) i. 'Song of the mad prince; 2. 'The pigs and the charcoal-burner, 3. 'Moon, reeds, rushes'

Dedicated 'For Ina Jephson' First performance: 2 January 1968, Radio Eireann, Patricia McCarry sop, Rhoda Coghill piano

Looking Back (1961-66) 1. `Carrowdore (St John Ervine), 2. 'All Souls' night' (Frances Cornford), 3. 'O ghost that has gone' (James Stephens), 4. 'The Mill Water' (Edward Thomas)

First performance: 'O ghost that has gone, 5 June 2010, Documentary From the Darkness, RTE Lyric FM, Sonya Keogh mez sop, David Brophy piano