The Songs of Anna John Chiot

The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin

Irish Traditional Singer

Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

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. Collecto…

The Otherworld

Music & song from Irish tradition

Ríonach uí Ógáin & Tom Sherlock editors

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 …

Clár Amhrán Mhaigh Cuilinn

Ciarán Ó Con Cheanainn

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…

Music in nineteenth-century Ireland

Irish musical studies 9

Michael Murphy & Jan Smaczny, editors

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…

Life, lore and song / 'Binneas an tSiansa'

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

Kelly Fitzgerald, Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail & Anne O’Connor, editors

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 contrib…

Irish music in the twentieth century

Irish musical studies 7

Gareth Cox & Axel Klein, editors

This seventh volume in the Irish Musical Studies Series examines the development of art music in Ireland from different perspectives. The book includes historic…

The Egan Irish Harps

Tradition, patrons and players

Nancy Hurrell

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 s…

Harp Studies II

World Harp Traditions

Helen Lawlor & Sandra Joyce, editors

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)…