Duffy, James

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1839–c. 1858

Business Type: 
Music publisher
Music seller
Address(es): 

4 Lower Sackville Street, 1839
23 Anglesea Street, 1839–46

Details: 

Succeeded the business of Hardy & Walker at this address (McHale).

[Dates and addresses differ according to sources: Humphries & Smith gives 23 Anglesea Street from 1845 to 1846. Boydell gives 4 Lower Sackville Street in 1839 and (erroneously)25 Anglesea Street (citing Humphries & Smith) from 1839. Zon gives the dates of 1847, 1849 and 1858. McHale gives 4 Sackville Street from 1839 to 1846.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Published

  • The Spirit of the Nation. Ballads and Songs by the writers of 'The Nation', with original and ancient music, arranged for the voice and piano-forte, 1845 (Humphries & Smith)
  • Barton, James, Ancient Irish Airs Arranged for Temperance and Other Bands, 1845 (McHale)
  • The Spirit of the Nation. Ballads and Songs by the writers of 'The Nation', with original and ancient music, arranged for the voice and piano-forte, 1846 [new edn] (Humphries & Smith)
  • Lambert, John, The Vesper Psalter (Birmingham: Camden and Co.; Derby: Richardson and Son; Dublin: Duffy; London: Burns), 1847 (Zon)
  • Lambert, John, Vesper Psalter Organ Accompaniments (Birmingham: Lander and Co.; Derby: Richardson and Son; Dublin: Duffy; London: Burns), 1849 (Zon)
  • Lyons, C.B., The Catholic Psalmist, or, Manual of Sacred Music, 1858 (Zon)
    • See Also: 

    Davis, Thomas
    Hardy & Walker

    Source(s): 

    Humphries, Charles and William C. Smith, Music Publishing in the British Isles, from the Beginning until the Middle of the Nineteenth Century; a Dictionary of Engravers, Printers, Publishers, and Music Sellers (London: Oxford University Press, 1970), p. 137

    Zon, Bennett, 'The Revival of Plainchant in the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, 1777–1858: Some Sources and their Commerce with England', in The Maynooth International Musicological Conference 1995: Selected Proceedings Part Two, ed. by Patrick F. Devine and Harry White, Irish Musical Studies, V (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1996), pp. 251–61 (pp. 256, 258)

    McHale, Maria, 'Music', in The Irish Book in English 1800–1891, ed. by James H. Murphy, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, IV (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 595–601 (pp. 597, 600)

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Duffy, James’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 26-09-2013