There is inthe public consciousness an awareness of 20th century Irish writers and poets, but
most would be slower to
retrieve or recognize the names of composers working in the
same era such as J. F. Larchet (1884
1967), or later composers to which Frederick May belongs such as Rhoda Coghill (1903
2000),
Archie Potter (1918
–
1980), Brian Boydell
(1917
–
2000)
and Aloys Fleischm
ann (1910-1992) or even later composers, many still composing now, such as
Frank Corcoran (1944), and the list
continues.