... pioneering visits to North and South America, the Far East and Australia. She was the only artist to equal 'Swedish Nightingale' Jenny Lind, in the mid 19th century, and yet today the name of Catherine Hayes, the soprano from Limerick, is all but forgotten. Basil ...

... 20 April 1843. It was here that the Irish Academy of Music first began its work; here that world famous singers such as Jenny Lind and Catherine Hayes performed, and musicians Joseph Joachim and Anton Rubinstein played. Later, the building became just ...