Reading the Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Ciaran Carson reflects on the many ways traditional music has changed in recent decades, but also how much it has stayed the same.
Ciaran Carson
Ciaran Carson is a poet, prose writer, translator and flute-player, and the author of Last Night’s Fun, a book about Irish traditional music. He is is Professor of Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast.
The Raw Bar
The Princes of Serendip
The Musical Priest
Viol, Fiddle, Violin
Sixpenny Money
Around the World for Sport
The New Rough Deal
The Suffering Ducks
The Thing Itself
The Art of the Possible
The Small Back Room
The Telephone Reel
The Little Bag of Spuds
The Bag of Spuds
In Praise of the Ceili Band
The Crack Goes On
Writer, poet and flute-player Ciaran Carson remembers the traditional music group Planxty and reviews a recent book on the pioneering band.



















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