Rose Mooney

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Rose Mooney (* around 1740, † around 1798) was an Irish harpist at the time when traveling singing was coming to an end.

Mooney was from County Meath . She was blind and learned to play the harp from Thady Elliott . Many harpists in their day were blind. With her help, Mary, she traveled through Ireland to the Harper Meetings to take part in the competitions.

There is evidence that Rose Mooney participated in the Granard Balls in 1781, 1782 and 1785. There she won the third prize. In July 1792 she was at the Belfast Harp Festival. There she stated that she was from County Meath and was 52 years old.

Most recently, it is reported that she was involved in the chaos of war at the Battle of Killala in 1798 and was killed because of her maid Mary's drunkenness. However, Edward Bunting claimed to have received the melody Plangsty Charles Coote from her in 1800 .

Modern reception

Judy Chicago dedicated an inscription to Rose Mooney on the triangular floor tiles of the Heritage Floor for her installation The Dinner Party . The porcelain tiles labeled Rose Mooney are assigned to the place with the place setting for Ethel Smyth .

literature

  • Charlotte Milligan Fox: Annals of the Irish Harpers . Smith, Elder & Co., London 1911 ( archive.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b At the time of death there are contradicting information from Arthur O'Neill (1798) and Edward Bunting (not before 1800): Colette Moloney: Mooney, Rose . In: Harry White and Barra Boydell (Eds.): The Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland . University College Dublin Press, Dublin 2013, ISBN 978-1-906359-78-2 , pp. 678-679 .
  2. ^ Roy Johnston: The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast . Routledge, 2017, ISBN 978-1-351-54211-1 , pp. 49 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ↑ a b c Early Gaelic Harp Info: Rose Mooney: her life. In: earlygaelicharp.info. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
  4. ^ Edward Bunting: The Ancient Music of Ireland . Hodges and Smith, Dublin 1840, p. 64 ( archive.org ).
  5. ^ Irish Harp Festivals and Harp Societies. In: libraryireland.com. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
  6. ^ Edward Bunting: The Ancient Music of Ireland . Hodges and Smith, Dublin 1840, p. ix ( archive.org ).
  7. ↑ Brooklyn Museum: Rose Mooney. In: brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Mooney, Rose
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish harpist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH County Meath
DATE OF DEATH around 1798