Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-Garde

The Aisteach Foundation is a repository and archive for historical documents, recordings, materials and ephemera relating to avant-garde music in Ireland. Edited by composer Jennifer Walshe, this new publication is the first authoritative survey of avant-garde composition in Ireland from the late 19th to early 21st centuries. *Thank you for reading the fine print, because I have a confession to make – all of the composers and artists on this website are fictional. The Aisteach Foundation is a communal thought experiment, a revisionist exercise in “what if?”, a huge effort by many people to create an alternative history of avant-garde music in Ireland, to write our ancestors into being and shape their stories with care. We played fast and loose with history and the truth and we like to think Flann O’Brien would have approved.