Harp Studies II

The Egan Irish Harps

Tradition, patrons and players

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An Ireland without harps is inconceivable, but in 1800 the native Gaelic harp had become obsolete. This is the compelling story of John Egan (fl.1797–1829), a self-taught harp...
Author/Editor: Nancy Hurrell

The Otherworld

Music & song from Irish tradition

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Belief in the existence of a parallel world and in otherworldly phenomena has long been established in Irish tradition and facets of such belief continue to be...
Author/Editor: Ríonach uí Ógáin & Tom Sherlock editors

The Songs of Anna John Chiot

Amhráin Anna John Chiot

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Anna John Chiot was one of the Irish Folklore Commission’s most important sources of tales, poetry and lore from its foundation in 1935. However, it was her...
Author/Editor: Pól Ó Seachnasaigh

The Mount Callan Garland

Songs from the repertoire of Tom Lenihan, Knockbrack, Miltown Malbay, County Clare

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Tom Lenihan of Knockbrack, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare (1905–1990), was a farmer. Though English is the language of his area, it is deeply coloured by Irish idiom...
Author/Editor: Collected and edited by Tom Munnelly with music transcriptions by Marian Deasy

The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin

Irish Traditional Singer

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Elizabeth (Bess) Cronin, ‘The Queen of Irish Song’ as Séamus Ennis called her, was probably the best-known Irish female traditional singer of her time. Collectors came from far...
Author/Editor: Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

A Musical Offering

Essays in honour of Gerard Gillen

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This gathering of seventeen specially commissioned essays and two original editions of music honours the manifold achievements of Gerard Gillen as organist, church musician, university professor and scholar....
Author/Editor: Kerry Houston & Harry White, editors

Music in nineteenth-century Ireland

Irish musical studies 9

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This, the 9th volume in the Irish Musical Studies Series, collects 15 essays on various aspects of musical life in Ireland in the 19th century, including sacred...
Author/Editor: Michael Murphy & Jan Smaczny, editors

Irish harping, 1900–2010

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This book provides a musical ethnography and a history of the Irish harp. It gives a socio-cultural and musical analysis of the music and song associated with...
Author/Editor: Helen Lawlor