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Toner Quinn

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "William Binchy" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Toner Quinn is a writer, musician, editor, publisher and lecturer. Born in Galway and raised in An Cheathrú Rua in the Conamara Gaeltacht and in Bray, Co. Wicklow, he commenced learning traditional Irish fiddle with the late Tom Glackin and subsequently studied music in Waterford and publishing at the University of Stirling in Scotland. In 2000, he founded JMI – The Journal of Music in Ireland (later The Journal of Music), an Irish music publication that won the 2010 Utne Independent Press Award for its arts coverage. Over the past 25 years, he has edited The Journal of Music and contributed widely to public discussions on Irish music through essays and articles. In 2024, he published a collection of his writing titled What Ireland Can Teach the World About Music, described in the Irish Times as ‘a richly textured, all-embracing compendium … a formidable collection… Collecting so many well-argued pieces in one place underscores the heft of Quinn’s writing.’ Since 2008, he has lectured on the MA program in Literature and Publishing at the University of Galway and, more recently, on the postgraduate course Writing about Music – Criticism, Journalism and Professional Development at Maynooth University. Source: Commons

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