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.


Rock and Popular Music in Ireland Before and After U2

Rock and Popular Music in Ireland Before and After U2

Author: Noel McLaughlin

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780716530763

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This volume explores Irish rock's relationship to the wider world of international popular music through detailed analysis of the island's most prominent artists and bands such as U2, Van Morrison, Sinéad O'Connor, The Boomtown Rats, and Horslips - and key musical movements including the beat scene and the folk revival.


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.


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.