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    Recent Publications & Acquisitions, January 2024

    Wednesday 31 January 2024

    Listings of the latest publications and items of interest received in the ITMA collection in the last two months.

    Commercial Sound Recordings

    Fahy, Gerard (uilleann pipes) and The Wild Atlantic Orchestra (instrumental group, singing in English). Gerard Fahy and The Wild Atlantic Orchestra. Fahy, 2023. 1 CD + digital download.

    Gannon, Luke (accordion). Sweet Renvyle by the sea. Gannon, 2024. 1 CD

    Huellou, Pol (tin whistle, flute), Seán Howley (bouzouki), Brian O’Donoghue (guitar), Liam Weldon (singing in English & Irish) & David ‘Hopi’ Hopkins (bodhrán). Elixir. Re-issue. Goasco Music GM003-21, 2021. 1 CD

    Keane, Pádraic (uilleann pipes), Aidan Connolly (fiddle), Fergus McGorman (flute) & Ruairí McGorman (bouzouki). Keane Connolly McGorman. Raelach Records, 2023. 1 CD + digital download.

    Ní Shé, Muireann (uilleann pipes, singing in Irish). Éistigh liomsa sealad. 2023. 1 CD + digital download.

    Scullys Fest (instrumental group). The dancing kiln. Scully Fest, 2022. 1 CD + digital download.

    Vallely, Cillian (uilleann pipes) & David Doocey (fiddle). The yew & The orchard. Vallely & Doocey CVDD01, 2023. 1 CD

    Printed Materials

    Carolan, Nicholas. “Traditional music in County Louth” In Louth: history and society, ed. William Nolan, 655–673. Dublin: Geography Publications, 2024. ISBN 9780906602867 (hbk). 

    De Gallaí, Breandán. “Performed identity: a vase study in Irish dance” In The Routledge companion to the anthropology of performance, ed. Lauren Miller and David Syring. [S.l.]: Taylor & Francis, 2023. ISBN 9781000907919. Online book. 

    Gubbins, Helen. “The long note: The mediation and mediatisation of Irish traditional music on Irish public radio, 1970-1994.”  PhD thesis, University of Sheffield, 2024. Online thesis. 

    Lawlor, Helen, & Sandra Joyce, eds. Harp studies II: world harp traditions. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2024. 358 pp. ISBN 9781846829819 (hbk).  

    • Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh. “Cia an saoi lé seinntear an chruit’: a bardic poem to the harper.”  
    • Mary Louise O’Donnell. “In the shadow of Bochsa: a study of three foreign pedal harpists in Dublin (c.1850–1900).” 
    • Lia Lonnert & Helen Davies. “When thy slender fingers go forth on the wire’: The visit of the Swedish harp virtuoso Adolf Sjödén to Ireland in 1879.” 
    • Cormac De Barra. “Sustaining the harp in Ireland: Máirín and Róisin Ní Shéaghdha’s music, teaching and legacy.” 
    • Sandra Joyce. ‘Lantern works’: opening access to music education and harping through convent schools in Ireland. 
    • Niall Keegan. “‘Balls!’ Gender, language and aesthetic in the worlds of Irish harping.” 
    • Helen Lawlor. “Learning together: participatory music practices in Irish harp ensembles.” 
    • Catríona Cannon. “The Viggianese harp: an exploration of a musical diaspora and its parallels with the Irish tradition.” 

    Johnson, Peter. The laughing lesson: a memoir by the founder of Living Folk Records and Concerts. Portsmouth, N.H.: Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2019. 358 pp. ISBN 9781942155300 (hbk). 

    Kiely, Benedict. The waves behind us. London: Methuen, 2000. 190 pp. ISBN 9780413751201 (pbk). 

    Mac Aoidh, Caoimhín.  “The hidden note: the bonnie bunch of ferns.” Fiddler magazine 33, no. 4 (2024): 28–30. 

    McElwain, Seán. Our dear dark mountain with the sky over it: the James Whiteside collection. Dublin: Dark Mountain Publications, 2023. 175 pp. ISBN 9781399962285 (hbk). 

    Marsh, Christopher and Angela McShane. 100 Ballads. Website. 

    Morgan, Amanda. “Crossing the pond: the Influence of Southern Appalachian old time on contemporary Irish music.” MA thesis, East Tennessee State University, 2024. Online thesis. 

    Morgenstern, Felix. “Celtic alterity: a persistent German imaginary of Irish folk music,” In Experience and expectation: the “future from the Past” in music making, eds. Ardian Ahmedaja and Anda Beitāne. Riga: Musica Baltica, 2023. ISBN 9789984588728. Online article. 

    Murphy, Rose. “Irish fiddling: the tradition of South Yorkshire.” Fiddler magazine 33, no. 4 (2024): 39–40. 

    Ní Scolaí, Emer, and Tatyana Feeney. Mo chuid uirlisí ceoil = My musical instruments. [S.l.]: My Irish Books, 2023. [11] pp. ISBN 9781739528300 (hbk). 

    Quinn, Toner. What Ireland can teach the world about music: and other essays. Galway: Journal of Music, 2024. 256 pp. ISBN 9781739577407 (hbk). 

    Sherlock, Tom, & Ríonach uí Ógáin, eds. The otherworld: music & song from Irish tradition. New ed. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2022. 160 pp. ISBN 9780956562838. (pbk + 2 CDs). 

    Wood, Neil. “Amongst the harpists playing Scottish traditional music on the harp.” Harp perspectives (November 2023). Online article. 

    With thanks

    ITMA would also like to acknowledge donations of materials (CDs, printed items, visual items, etc.), and other help and information from the following people and organisations: Helen Broderick, Aidan Connolly, Dr John Cullinane, Eamon Flynn, Fiona Gavin, Colin Kadis, Sandie Purcell, Fr John Quinn, The Shields Family, Richard Tew and Paddy Joe Tighe.

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