McCullagh, Edward

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1821–1831

Business Type: 
General music shop
Address(es): 

1 Royal Arcade, College Green, 1821–31
22 Suffolk Street, c. 1830–31 [second premises]

Details: 

Succeeded in business by McCullagh & McCullagh, a partnership of Edward and James McCullagh.

[Dates and addresses differ according to sources: the Dublin Directories give the College Green address from 1821 to 1830. Humphries & Smith give '1 Arcade, College Green' from c. 1821 to 1831 and 22 Suffolk Street from c. 1830 to 1831.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Published (as listed in Boydell, 'Flageolet')

  • 'A Collection of Irish Airs for the flute, violin or flageolet, Arranged as duets or solos'
  • 'A Collection of the most famous quadrilles for the flute, violin or flageolet [Books I – III?]'
  • Away with Melancholy [adaptation of Mozart’s Das klinget so herrlich from the Magic Flute]
  • Black eye’d Susan
  • The Boatie Rows
  • For Lack of Gold she Left me, oh!
  • How Blest the Maid [by Galuppi, from Love in a Village]
  • A Highland Lad my Love was Born
  • My Heart was so Free
  • O had I been by Fate Decreed [by Samuel Howard, from Love in a Village]
  • O’ we’re a Noddin’ Nid Nid Noddin’
  • Robin Adair
  • Rose Tree
  • Savourneen Deelish [beg. ‘Oh! The torment was sad’, from The Surrender of Calais (1791) by Samuel Arnold]
    • See Also: 

    McCullagh & McCullagh

    Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    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. 222

    Boydell, Barra, 'The Flageolet in Ireland: Aspects of the Repertoire, the Instrument and its Makers', in Musicology in Ireland, ed. by Gerard Gillen and Harry White, Irish Musical Studies, I (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1990), pp. 151–168 (p. 162)

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

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

    Last Update: 26-09-2013