Gough, George

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Dates Active in Dublin: 

before 1797–1807

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

29 Capel Street, before 1798
4 Sackville Street, 1797–1807

Details: 

Succeeded the business of Bartholomew Cooke at 4 Sackville Street (Pollard).

[Dates and addresses differ according to sources: the Dublin Directories, Hogan, Humphries & Smith, Boydell and McHale give 4 Sackville Street from 1798 to 1807 but Pollard gives it from 1787 citing press advertisements. Kerry gives it from 1798 to 1807 referring to press advertisments without citation. Boydell also gives 29 Capel Street, before 1798.]

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Published

  • Alas Poor Lubin, arranged for guitars, c.1800 (Lawrence)
  • The Confession: a Favourite Canzonet (Pollard)
    • See Also: 

    Cooke, Bartholomew

    Source(s): 

    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. 157

    Kerry, Frances P., 'The Music Scene in Dublin During the Late Eighteenth Century (1790–1800)' (unpublished masters thesis, St Patrick's College, Maynooth, 1994), p. 31

    Lawrence, Thomas, ‘The History of the Guitar in Ireland 1760-1866’, 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, University College Dublin, 1999), I, p. 36

    Pollard, M., A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550–1800: Based on the Records of the Guild of St Luke the Evangelist Dublin (London: Bibliographical Society, 2000), p. 245

    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 (p. 597)

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

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

    Last Update: 17-05-2018