Music

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…

Joe Holmes: here I am amongst you

Songs, music and traditions of an Ulsterman

Len Graham

Named as the Best Book about Irish Music in 2010 by The Irish Echo

'I love the Joe Holmes book. What a great achievement', Paul Muldoon.

'One of the book's ma…

Music, Ireland and the seventeenth century

Irish Musical Studies 10

Barra Boydell & Kerry Houston, editors

The 17th century is a pivotal but unfamiliar period in Irish musical history: reflecting political and cultural changes, the ancient harp tradition declined as …

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…

The progress of music in Ireland

Harry White

This book collects a number of essays on the relationship between music, cultural history and musicology in Ireland which, taken together, comprise a natural pr…

Dancing as a social pastime in the south-east of Ireland, 1800–1897

Mary Friel

At the beginning of the 19th century, dancing was viewed as a necessary social skill and dancing masters and musicians were found throughout Ireland to cater fo…

Bach studies from Dublin

Irish musical studies 8

Anne Leahy & Yo Tomita, editors

The eighth volume of Irish Musical Studies contains papers presented at the ninth biennial conference on Baroque music, which was held at Trinity College Dublin…

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…

A hidden Ulster

People, songs and traditions of Oriel

Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin

This book is the first major study of the song-tradition of Oriel, a region which straddles the borders of southeast Ulster and north Leinster and which was the…

'I have a yong suster'

Folksong, ballad and the middle English lyric

Karen Boklund-Lagopoulou

This study explores the relationship of the Middle English lyric (primarily, though not exclusively, the secular lyric) to the various forms of folksong and pop…

An historical anthology of Irish church music

Irish musical studies 6

Gerrard Gillen & Andrew Johnstone, editors

The sixth volume in the Irish musical studies series forms a logical sequel to the second volume, Music and the Church (1993), which explored the connective str…