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unusual facts about Ivor Gurney


Ethna Carbery

She is best known for the ballad Roddy McCorley and the Song of Ciabhán; the latter was set to music by Ivor Gurney.


A Soldier and a Maker

A Soldier and a Maker is a piece of musical theatre by Iain Burnside on the life story of the First World War poet and composer Ivor Gurney.

Cecil Coles

Cortege also appears on Artists Rifles, an audiobook CD issued in 2004 featuring war poetry read by Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, David Jones, Edgell Rickword and Lawrence Binyon, as well as music by Edward Elgar, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Maurice Ravel, Gustav Holst, Ivor Gurney, Ernest Moeran and Arthur Bliss.

Is My Team Ploughing

The text, along with other poems from A Shropshire Lad, has been famously set to score by several English composers, including George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ivor Gurney.


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