Music

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)…

The Songs of Anna John Chiot

Amhráin Anna John Chiot

Pól Ó Seachnasaigh

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…

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 history of Wexford Festival Opera, 1951–2021

In a place like no other

Karina Daly

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…

Documents of Irish music history in the long nineteenth century

Irish Musical Studies volume 12

Kerry Houston, Maria McHale & Michael Murphy, editors

This volume explores various aspects of Ireland's musical past through the lens of historical documents.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…

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…

A Musical Offering

Essays in honour of Gerard Gillen

Kerry Houston & Harry White, editors

This gathering of seventeen specially commissioned essays and two original editions of music honours the manifold achievements of Gerard Gillen as organist, chu…

The Mount Callan Garland

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

Collected and edited by Tom Munnelly with music transcriptions by Marian Deasy

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…

Gaelic Grace Notes

The musical expedition of Ole Mørk Sandvik to Ireland and Scotland

Séamas Ó Catháin

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…

Irish musical analysis

Irish musical studies 11

Gareth Cox & Julian Horton editors

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…

Irish harping, 1900–2010

Helen Lawlor

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…

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 …