On an Eden Quay boarding-house, the members of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, and the events of 1916... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to The Whistling City, by Antonia Hart above.
"Gaiety Theatre audiences first saw the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company perform Gilbert and Sullivan in 1876. Trial by Jury was a new comic opera, and Dubliners lapped it up..."
Business as Usual: The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850-1922 by Antonia Hart is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press. This essay appeared on the programme of September 21st - listen to the full programme here
