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Irish Folk Music Studies Front Cover

Latest Issue of Journal

Irish Folk Music Studies – Éigse Cheol Tíre vols 5-6 is the latest issue of an occasional publication of the Folk Music Society of Ireland which contains articles, book and record reviews, and a bibliography and discography compiled by the Irish Traditional Music Archive.

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A Harvest Saved by Nicholas Carolan

A Harvest Saved: Francis O'Neill and Irish Music in Chicago

This highly illustrated study details Daniel Francis O'Neill's extraordinary career and his crucial role in the preservation and dissemination of Irish traditional music and contains newly discovered information on this unique figure in Irish and Irish-American cultural history.

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Robert Emmet and Songs of Rebellion

The Sir John T. Gilbert Commemorative Lecture, 2003: Robert Emmet and Songs of Rebellion

Transcript of the sixth annual lecture in the Gilbert Lecture Series delivered in 2003 by Nicholas Carolan to mark the bicentenary of the 1803 rising. The book is accompanied by a CD anthology illustrating the songs referred to in the text.

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The Man and his Music

The Man and his Music: An Anthology of the Writings of Breandán Breathnach

Various articles written by the Irish music scholar Breandan Breathnach and a bibliography of other material written by Breathnach.

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Ballad Research

Ballad Research. The Stranger in Ballad Narrative and Other Topics

Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference of the Kimmission für Volksdichtung of the Société et de Folklore, Dublin and Co. Clare, Ireland, 26 August–1 September 1995

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Blas: The Local Accent Conference

Selected proceedings from BLAS: The Local Accent Conference

Blas / The Local Accent in Traditional Irish Music, of which this publication represents selected proceedings, was the first international conference of the 1990s held in Ireland which focused exclusively on traditional Irish music in its many manifestations, both at home and abroad.

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Eigse 2

Irish Folk Music Studies / Éigse Cheol Tíre, Vol. 2

This journal is intended to encourage interest in the traditional music of Ireland and to promote research on this and on related subjects. Edited by Hugh Shields, Seóirse Bodley and Breandán Breathnach and published in 1976.

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Eigse 3

Irish Folk Music Studies / Éigse Cheol Tíre, Vol. 3

Volume 3 of the journal of the Folk Music Society of Ireland / Cumann Cheol Tíre Éireann, running from 1976–1981

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Eigse 4

Irish Folk Music Studies / Éigse Cheol Tíre, Vol. 4

Volume 4 of the journal of the Folk Music Society of Ireland / Cumann Cheol Tíre Éireann, running from 1982–1985

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A Short Discography of Irish Folk Music

A Short Bibliography of Irish Folk Song by Hugh Shields (1985) and A Short Discography of Irish Music by Nicholas Carolan (1987)

Two historic booklets from the Folk Music Society of Ireland / Cumann Cheol Tíre Éireann, giving a guide to source material available at the time of their publication.

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A Short Bibliography of Irish Folk Song by Hugh Shields
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