Best-Loved Irish Ballads
Best-Loved Irish Ballads

Author: Emma Byrne

Publisher: O'Brien Press

Published: 2020-09-28

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781788492201

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A collection of Ireland's greatest and best-loved ballads, including the lyrics, music and chords, along with an introductory piece on each song. Illustrated with photographs and woodcuts. A beautiful guide to the cream of the Irish ballad tradition. Songs of love, yearning, revolution, celebration, emigration, mourning, fun, famine, drinking and more. A collection of powerful yet beautiful ballads of Ireland, placed in and reflecting historical events and traditions. All have stood the test of time and present to the world the uniqueness of Irish history and her musical and revolutionary traditions. Including: Are You Right There Michael? Danny Boy Kevin Barry I'll Tell Me Ma The Irish Rover Molly Malone The Rare Old Mountain Dew The Rocky Road to Dublin The Rose of Tralee Whiskey in the Jar Best-Loved Irish Ballads celebrates the songs and tradition of Irish music.

The Ballads of Ireland
The Ballads of Ireland

Author: Edward Hayes

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-10-09

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 3375165145

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

Great Irish Songs and Ballads
Great Irish Songs and Ballads

Author: Walton Manufacturing Ltd

Publisher: Waltons Manufacturing Limited

Published: 1998-03

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780786631292

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This book features 20 famous Irish songs and ballads including: Carrickfergus, The West's Awake; Red is the Rose; Peggy Gordon, and many more. Walton Mfg. and UK product #WM1140B.

Narrative Singing in Ireland
Narrative Singing in Ireland

Author: Hugh Shields

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Narrative Singing in Ireland is a definitive account of Irish traditions of singing as a storytelling art. Of interest to scholars and general readers, this book examines the varied associations of song and story in Ireland and why people sing as they do. It ranges from ballads in English, through Irish Heroic songs - of Fionn mac Cumhaill, Deirdre, the Big Fool and others, sung from earliest times to the present - to ballads of European tradition with the lyric songs of Irish. Written in a lively and entertaining style, it includes chapters on: Irish narrative singing in general, Lays, Ballads - old and new, the lyric songs of Irish and their stories, Singers and songmakers, Traditional singing and the media and Narrative singing today.

Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America
Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America

Author: David Atkinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1317049209

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In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writers and reached the populace in printed form. Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature’s interaction with, and influence on, oral traditions.