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Live Reviews: Galway Early Music Festival: The Irish Consort / Red Priest
The Life and Times of Grace O’Malley, the 16th Century-Century Irish Pirate Queen Augustinian Church, Galway, 17 May 2007Pirates of the BaroqueSt Nicholas Collegiate Church, Galway, 18 May 2007 In spite of the Arts Council’s mind-numbingly culture-killing...
Tom Munnelly at the Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown Malbay, Clare, 1980
Traditional-song collector Tom Munnelly (second, left) with Clare traditional singers Tom Lenihan, Miltown Malbay; Kate Droney, Ballyvaughan; Martin Reidy, Connolly; and Michael ‘Straighty’ Flanagan, Inagh, at the Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown... 
Ní ón ngaoth a fuair sé é: Aloys Fleischmann, 1910–92
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin reviews a biography of the composer Aloys Fleischmann and remembers a seminal figure in Irish musical life. 
How to compose in your own time
We might as well start by stating that this article will not provide any solution to the problem of how to compose in your own historical time. Like an academic character from a David Lodge novel it will instead, ‘merely seek to raise some interesting...
His Pencil Poised...
One hundred years after the publication of The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems…, Caoimhín Mac Aoidh's book on James O'Neill throws new light on the O'Neill collections.
Colour on all sides
A review of the recent RTÉ Living Music Festival which focused on jazz and the music of American composer John Adams.
Musical Texts of the Elites
Barra Ó Séaghdha finds much to debate in a recent work on music and Irish identity.
