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In this programme Roisin Ni Dhuill looks at the music that emerged from Ireland in the twentieth century. After a bloody uprising in 1916, Ireland pushed its way toward eventual independence from Britain. She'll present the music composed against this backdrop of political and cultural upheaval, not least the music of Irish women composers, some of which was hardly played in their own lifetimes and only recently recorded - Ina Boyle, Joan Trimble and Alicia Adelaide Needham, a suffragette who was the first woman to conduct at the Royal Albert Hall.

Roisin will also tell the story of classical music in her hometown of Cork, Ireland's second city, where the immigrant Fleishmann family brought fresh ways of playing and collaborating. The Cork music scene gave rise later in the century to some of the country's most influential composers, steeped in both classical and traditional - Sean O'Riada and Michael O'Suilleabhain. And we'll look at the rise of a generation able to return and work in Ireland - Brian Boydell, Frederick May and Gerard Victory - and ask if this affects the music they create.