Fintan Vallely
1 June 2009
The Irishness of Irish MusicJohn O’FlynnAshgate (Surrey and Vermont, 2009)It is a fact that music genres which originate outside Ireland tend not to be regarded as ‘Irish’. While this need not question the nationality of composers and performers...
1 November 2007
Challenging the standard idea that traditional singing ‘can’t be taught’, Fintan Vallely argues that there is now an urgent necessity to do so.
1 November 2007
Fintan Vallely, Dundalk IT, writes:Your interviewee Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (Sep-Oct) presents a rather jumbled self-image with too many contradictions. He sees himself as both young and radical, yet swears by the ancestors – that’s...
1 March 2007
At a recent conference on 'Music and Identity in Ireland' one of the general editors of the forthcoming Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland implied that traditional music is lacking in scholarly analysis. Fintan Vallely, lecturer in traditional music at Dundalk IT, challenges the idea.
1 July 2005
New recordings and writings by Tommy Sands, Gerry O'Connor, Harry Bradley, Paul O'Shaughnessy and Paul Brock.
1 September 2004
A review of the recently published Music In Ireland.
1 July 2004
A new book by Cyril Maguire on the music of County Fermanagh.
1 November 2003
Dear Editor,What dreary horror to see Patrick Zuk occupying 30 per cent of a 34-page magazine again (JMI, July/August 2003). In this format the potential wisdom of his words becomes just an unmemorable gripe, however revelatory. His comments were never a review...
1 July 2002
Making the case for traditional music as an independent area of study in the Irish education system.
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