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)…
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 gre…
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…
In 1951, the first ever Wexford Opera Festival (now known as ‘Wexford Festival Opera’) took place in a small town in the southeast corner of Ireland. What start…
This volume explores various aspects of Ireland's musical past through the lens of historical documents. The contributors have examined a range of published and…
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…
This gathering of seventeen specially commissioned essays and two original editions of music honours the manifold achievements of Gerard Gillen as organist, chu…
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…
Harp Studies presents new research on the Irish harp, with perspectives from the disciplines of ethnomusicology, musicology, history, arts practice, folklore an…
The exploits of Ole Mørk Sandvik (1875–1976) in the collection of Norwegian folk music and his close involvement in the development of Norwegian church music ea…
The extraordinary rise of musicology in Ireland over the last twenty years has generated an increased interest in the sister discipline of music theory and anal…
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 a…
