Hill, Joseph

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1774–1799

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

8 Mary Street, 1780?–93
36 Denmark Street, 1793–96
51 Abbey Street, 1796–99

Details: 

Admitted free of the Stationer's Guild in 1774.

Munter notes that the printed sheet songs and half-sheet songs, and a collection of Masonic Songs between 1780 and 1790. Kerry states that he had a music shop and was a music publisher, based on (uncited) advertisements.

In 1799 he was 'taken into custody, on a charge of seditious practices' (New Cork Evening Post, 15 March 1799, cited in Munter).

[Dates and address differ according to sources: the Dublin Directories give 8 Mary Street from 1790, 36 Denmark Street in 1794 and 51 Mary Street from 1789 to 1799. Hogan and Kerry give 8 Mary Street from c. 1789 to 1793, 36 Denmark Street from c. 1793 to 1796 and 51 Abbey Street from c. 1796 to 1799. Munter gives 51 Abbey Street address in '1799?' only.]

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Published

  • The Hours of Love, a collection of sonnets adapted for the voice, harpsichord, violin, flute, and guitar, 1787 (Lawrence)
    • Source(s): 

    Flood, W.H. Grattan, ‘Dublin Music Printing from 1750 to 1790’, The Bibliographical Society of Ireland: Short Papers, 2.5 (1923), 101–06 (p. 106)

    Dix, E.R. McC., ‘Some Dublin Music Printers and Music Sellers of the Eighteenth Century’, The Irish Book Lover, 18.1 (January/February 1930), 26–28 (p. 28)

    Hogan, Ita Margaret, Anglo-Irish Music 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966), p. 102

    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. 180

    Munter, Robert, A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland: 1550–1775 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1988), p. 133

    Kerry, Frances P., 'The Music Scene in Dublin During the Late Eighteenth Century (1790–1800)' (unpublished masters thesis, St Patrick's College, Maynooth, 1994), p. 31

    Lawrence, Thomas, ‘The History of the Guitar in Ireland 1760-1866’, 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, University College Dublin, 1999), I, p. 37

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

    Last Update: 17-05-2018