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Popular music in eighteenth century Dublin / [edited by] Hugh Shields

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Popular music in eighteenth century Dublin / [edited by] Hugh Shields

Foreword / Hugh Shields — Eighteenth-century tunes today [article] / Breandán Breathnach — Georgian lollipops, or, The lighter side of classical music [article] / Brian Boydell — Mr Connor [air] — The Irsh bagpipes [article] / Breandán Breathnach — Gaelic song [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Ailleacan dubh o! [air] — Ballads, ballad singing and ballad selling [article] / Hugh Shields — Dancing [article] / Breandán Breathnach — Yellow stocken’s [air] — A young virgin of 15 — years [air] — Notes — Books and articles — Abbreviations. Illustrations include: ‘Crazy crow’ the instrument porter, whose real name was George Hendrick [woodcut] — A set of uilleann pipes, c.1790 [drawing] — Turlough Carolan from Bunting’s 1840 collection [woodcut] — Wood’s halfpence [photograph] — An impression from Goldsmith’s ballad-making [woodcut].