The Songs of Anna John Chiot

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

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

Clár Amhrán Mhaigh Cuilinn

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The rich repository of song in Irish in the National Folklore Collection is represented in this publication of song from the barony of Maigh Cuilinn, Co. Galway. The...
Author/Editor: Ciarán Ó Con Cheanainn

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

Life, lore and song / 'Binneas an tSiansa'

Essays in Irish tradition in honour of Ríonach uí Ógáin / Aistí in onóir do Ríonach uí Ógáin

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In Life, lore and song: essays in Irish tradition in honour of Ríonach uí Ógáin / 'Binneas an tSiansa': Aistí in onóir do Ríonach uí Ógáin, twenty-seven...
Author/Editor: Kelly Fitzgerald, Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail & Anne O’Connor, editors

Irish music in the twentieth century

Irish musical studies 7

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This seventh volume in the Irish Musical Studies Series examines the development of art music in Ireland from different perspectives. The book includes historical assessments of genre in...
Author/Editor: Gareth Cox & Axel Klein, editors

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

Harp Studies II

World Harp Traditions

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This book situates harping activity as a vital aspect of music making in traditions around the world. *Contributors:* Helen Lawlor (TU Dublin); Sandra Joyce (UL); Niall Keegan (UL);...
Author/Editor: Helen Lawlor & Sandra Joyce, editors