Continued from JMI November–December 2007

CDS PUBLISHED 2006–2007
Barry, Margaret; Patrick Galvin, singing in English, An Irish Tinkerlady, Forever Gold FG492, 2007. Reissued from LPs
Black, Michael, singing in English, banjo, Michael Black, Compass Records 744622, 2007
Boys of the Lough, instrumental & vocal group, Midwinter Live, Lough Records 010CD, 2007
Casey, Bobby, fiddle, The Spirit of West Clare, Bow Hand Records 003, 2007
Cullen, Frank, mandolin & mandola, And All Points West, Cullen FC001, 2007
Davis, Anthony, accordion, Perfect Timing: Irish Dance Music, Davis BGRCD01, n.d. [2007?]
De Búrca, Nan Tom Teaimín, singing in English & Irish, The Home I Left Behind, De Búrca NTT-CD-002, 2007
Dervish, instrumental & vocal group, Travelling Show, Zapala Media WHRl011, 2007
Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band, pipe & drum band, Re-Charged, Premier FMMCD807, 2007
Fitzgerald, Alice, singing in English, The Songs I Sing, Fitzgerald n.n., n.d. [2007?]
Harbison, Janet, harp, & the Irish Harp Orchestra, A Christmas Collection, Harbison IHCPCD010, 2007
Island Eddy, instrumental & vocal group, Island Eddy, Cló Iar-Chonnachta CICD170, 2007
Ivers, Eileen, fiddle, An Nollaig. An Irish Christmas, Musical Bridge 744672, 2007
Martin, Laurel, fiddle, The Groves: Irish Traditional Music, Martin LKM7876, 2006
Molloy, Matt, John Carty & Arty McGlynn, flute, fiddle & guitar, Pathway to the Well, Racket Records RR007, 2007
Murphy, Paddy, concertina, In Good Hands: Field Recordings from a Pioneer of the Irish Concertina, Celtic Crossings CC2007, 2007
Patrick Street, instrumental & vocal group, On the Fly, Loftus Music LM002, 2007
Ó hÉanaí, Seosamh, singing in Irish, Ó Mo Dhúchas Sraith 1 & 2, Gael Linn CEFCD 191, 2007 (2 CDs). Reissued from LPs
O’Rourke, Kane, fiddle, flute, whistles, etc., The Jolly Tinker, Celtic Bulldog Records CBR001, 2007
Roebuck, Brian, singing in English, A Song for Luke, Blerp Music 2005, 2007
Tunney, Brigid, singing in English, Hand in Hand, Tunney n.n., 2007
Various, instrumental & vocal, Armagh Pipers Club: 40th Anniversary Album, Armagh Pipers Club WKPFCD002, 2007 (2 CDs)
Various, instrumental & vocal, Echoes of Erin 2007. Comhaltas Concert Tour of North America, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann CL66, 2007
Various, singing in English, Songs of the Irish Travellers: Traditional Ballads and Lyric Songs 1967–75, Recorded and Edited by Tom Munnelly, Pavee Point PPCD004, 2007. Reissued from cassette
Various, Traditional Irish Recordings from 1923 to 1947, Oldtime Records OTR102, 2007. Reissued from 78s
Various, instrumental & vocal, Experience Ireland, Nascente EXPRCD008, 2007 (2 CDs)
Walsh, Garry, flutes, whistles, Penny Trumpets, Faetain SPIN CD1011, 2007

BOOKS & ARTICLES PUBLISHED 2004–2008
Ahern, Pat, ‘Masters of Tradition… Bantry House… 15–19 August 2007’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland vol. 7, no 6 (Nov.–Dec. 2007), p. 34. Review
Carolan, Nicholas, ‘Graveside Words for Tom Munnelly’, An Píobaire vol. 4, no 43 (Dec. 2007), pp. 20–22.
Donnelly, Seán, ‘On the Wrong Side in the American War of Independence: Barney Thompson, Piper to the Volunteers of Ireland 1778–82’, The Pipers’ Review, Iris na bPíobairí vol. 26, no 4 (Autumn 2007), pp. 15–25
Dunbar, Helen, ‘Oisín McAuley: No Strings Attached’, Fiddler Magazine vol. 14, no 4 (Winter 2007), pp. 4–7
Éigse. A Journal of Irish Studies. Electronic Edition. Volumes I–XXXV (1939–2005) with Index (2006), National University of Ireland, Dublin 2007. 3 CDs. Contains much of relevance to traditional music. See also Ní Úrdail, Meidhbhín
Foley, Catherine E., ed., Dance Research Forum Ireland: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference 2006, Dance Research Forum Ireland, Limerick 2007. 166 pp. ISBN 978-0-9557071-0-0 (pb.). Includes Irene Horgan: At the Crossroads: Irish Step-Dancing Costuming – From the Local to the Global; Elizabeth Venable: Bigger, Brighter, Better?: Irish Dancing Costumes and the Impact of Economic Growth; Sharon Phelan: Dance in Kerry: Cultural Conflict in Modern Ireland; Catherine E. Foley: Maintaining, Redefining and Challenging Dance Boundaries: Irish Traditional Dance within Third-Level Education; Orlaith M. Ní Bhriain: The Institutionalisation of Irish Competitive Step Dance; Darrah Carr: ModERIN – A Crossroads for a Crossroads; Terry Monaghan: Dance and Politics – Surface and Underflow; Erin Tisdale: At a Crossroads: Dance and Irish Culture, the Relationship between Preservation and Documentation; Kathleen Keenan: The House Dance Tradition of Donegal: The Highland; Natasha Joyce: Slipjigus Masculinus (Male Slip Jig) Extinct, Endangered or Dormant?; Maria O’Connor: An Ethnochoreological Study of Achill Cleamairí in the 21st Century
Grasso, Eliot, ‘Going Flat in Concert: A Performer’s Reaction to a Difference in Pitch’, The Pipers’ Review, Iris na bPíobairí as above, pp. 7–9
Heaney, Paddy, ‘Songs and Music of the Slieve Bloom’ in Paddy Heaney, At the Foot of Slieve Bloom: History and Folklore of Cadamstown, Kilcormac Historical Society 2006 (hb.), pp. 155–63
Houston, Kerry, ‘Musical Journeys with the Flight of the Earls: Symposium at DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, 3 February 2007’, Irish Archives: Journal of the Irish Society for Archives, vol. 14 (Autumn 2007), pp. 33–36
Jackson, John Wyse, and Hector McDonnell, eds, Ireland’s Other Poetry: Anonymous to Zozimus, The Lilliput Press, Dublin 2007. 440 pp. ISBN 978 1 84351 122 9 (hb.). Includes oral-tradition verse
Johnston, Fred, ‘Piperlink… Áras na nGael, Galway, 29 September 2007’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, p. 36. Review
Keegan, Niall, ‘Slide, Overneath (SDE003)’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, pp. 28–29. Review
Kuntz, Andrew, ‘Fiddle Tune History: Surviving Playford’, Fiddler Magazine as above, pp. 34–38
Mahon, William, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Villanova University Pennsylvania, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin 2007. 102 pp. ISBN 978 1 85500 199 2 (hb.)
McLaughlin, Dermot, ‘The Dance Music of Séamus Ennis: Pat Mitchell’, An Píobaire vol. 4, no 42 (Sept. 2007), pp. 8–10. Review
McLaughlin, Dermot, ‘Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Where the One-Eyed God Is King (Chassis no. 10001001)’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, pp. 27–28. Review
Montague, John, The Pear Is Ripe: A Memoir, Liberties Press, Dublin 2007. 242 pp. ISBN 978-1-905483-25-9 (hb.). Includes Irish traditional music
Moylan, Terry, ‘Airs & Graces: Caoineadh Uí Néill’, An Píobaire vol. 4, no 42 (Sept. 2007 ), pp. 18–19
Moylan, Terry, ‘Anne Clune, ed., Dear Far-Voiced Veteran: Essays in Honour of Tom Munnelly. Old Kilfarboy Society 2007’, An Píobaire vol. 4, no 43 (Dec. 2007 ), p. 10. Review
Mulligan, Néillidh, ‘The Dance Music of Séamus Ennis: Pat Mitchell’, An Píobaire vol. 4, no 42 (Sept. 2007), pp. 10–12. Review
Murphy, Michael & Jan Smaczny, eds, Irish Musical Studies 9. Music in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2007. 336 pp. ISBN 978-1-84682-024-3 (hb.) Includes of some or much traditional-music relevance: Harry White: Cultural Theory, Nostalgia and the Historical Record: Opera in Ireland and the Irishness of Opera during the Nineteenth Century; Ita Beausang: From National Sentiment to Nationalist Movement, 1850–1900; Barra Boydell: Constructs of Nationality: The Literary and Visual Politics of Irish Music in the Nineteenth Century; David Cooper: ‘’Twas One of Those Dreams that by Music are Brought’: The Development of the Piano and the Preservation of Irish Traditional Music; Jimmy O’Brien Moran: Irish Folk Music Collectors of the Early Nineteenth Century: Pioneer Musicologists; Marie McCarthy: The Transmission of Song in National Schools of Mid Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Social, Religious and Political Values in Canon; Maria McHale: Singing and Sobriety: Music and the Temperance Movement in Ireland, 1838–43; Lisa Parker: For the Purpose of Public Music Education: The Lectures of Robert Prescott Stewart; Michael Murphy: The Musical Press in Nineteenth-Century Ireland; Jan Smaczny: Musical National Traditions in Ireland and the Czech Lands in the Nineteenth Century: Similar Roots, Creative Divergences
Murphy, Pat, ‘The Flight of the Earls Set’, Set Dancing News (Dec.–Jan.), p. 28. Figure described
Ní Chonghaile, Deirdre, ‘An Teach Ósta: Tinteán an Cheoil Thraidisiúnta?’ in Bliainiris 7 (2007), pp. 72–84
Ní Úrdail, Meidhbhín, comp., Éigse. A Journal of Irish Studies… Index to Volumes I–XXXV [1939–2005], National University of Ireland, Dublin 2006 [recte 2007]. 226 pp. Includes subsidiary indexes for Airs, Amhráin/ song poetry, Ballads, Folksongs, Waulking songs, Music, etc. See also Éigse. A Journal of Irish Studies. Electronic Edition
Ó Bharáin, Liam, ‘Bodhrán: Its Origin, Meaning and History’, Treoir vol. 39, no 4 (2007), pp. 50–6
Ó Catháin, Diarmaid, ‘Féilte Cláirseoireachta Ghranáird, John Dungan, Cóbanhávan, agus an Rómánsachas Luath’, Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Iris an Dá Chultúr vol. 22 (2007), Dublin , pp. 106–32
O’Kaine, Kynch, ‘Brian McNamara and Tim Collins Reed Only (Drumlin Records BTCD001)’, The Pipers’ Review as above, pp. 26–27. Review
Ó Muirithe, Diarmaid, & Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, ‘Some Unpublished Songs and Recitations about 1798’ in The Wexford Man: Essays in Honour of Nicky Furlong, Bernard Browne, ed., Geography Publications, Dublin 2007. ISBN 978-0906602348 (hb.), pp. 73–87
Ó Murchú, Liam P., ed., Amhráin Chearbhalláin / The Poems of Carolan: Reassessments, Irish Texts Society, London 2007. 100 pp. ISBN 978-1-870166-76-8 (pb.). Includes Liam P. Ó Murchú: Foreword; Nicholas Carolan: Carolan’s Music; Emily Cullen: Carolan, Bardic Disclosures and the Irish Harping Tradition in the 18th and 19th Centuries; Joep Leerssen: Last Bard or First Virtuoso?: Carolan, Conviviality and the Need For an Audience; Lesa Ní Mhunghaile: Carolan’s Verse; Ruairí Ó hUiginn: Tomás Ó Máille, Editor
O’Reilly, Jerry, ‘Frank Harte (1933–2005)’, Folk Music Journal: The Journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library vol. 9, no 3 (2008), pp. 479–80
O’Reilly, Jerry, ‘Tom Munnelly: The Last of the Irish Folk Song Collectors?’, English Dance & Song: The Magazine of the English Folk Dance & Song Society vol. 69, no 4 (Winter 2007), p. 33
Pettinari, Graziano, La Musica Tradizionale Irlandese: Il Contesto Storico e Culturale, Trauben, Torino 2004. 121 pp. ISBN 8888398511 (pb.)
Prior, Brian, comp., Foinn Seisiún 1: 116 Favourite Irish Traditional Tunes, 2nd ed., Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Dublin 2007. 46 pp. ISBN 978-0-9556425-2-4. With CDs
Prior, Brian, comp., Foinn Seisiún 2: 104 Favourite Irish Traditional Tunes, 2nd ed., Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Dublin 2007. 43 pp. ISBN 978-0-9556425-3-1. With CDs
Prior, Brian, comp., Foinn Seisiún 3: 108 Favourite Irish Traditional Tunes, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Dublin 2007. 45 pp. ISBN 978-0-9556425-4-8
Scahill, Adrian, ‘Contempo Quartet, Mairtín O’Connor, Garry O’Briain, Cathal Hayden, Spiccato Junction (GER-CD-002)’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, p. 27. Review
Scahill, Adrian, ‘DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Flow My Tears: Musical Journeys with the Flight of the Earls (DITCMD001)’, Irish Archives as above, pp. 54–6. Review
Scahill, Adrian, ‘Eliot Grasso, Up Against the Flatirons (NPUCD014)’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, pp. 29–30. Review
Simos, Mark, ‘Knotting the Chord: The Art of Accompaniment: Chord Choice Aesthetics in Old Time vs. Irish Music’, Fiddler Magazine as above, pp. 46–47
Small, Jackie, ‘Emmett Gill, The Mountain Groves (NPUCD015)’, An Píobaire vol. 4, no 43 (Dec. 2007), pp. 7–9. Review
Smith, Thérèse, ‘Lillis Ó Laoire, On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean: Songs and Singers in Tory Island, Ireland. Scarecrow Press, Oxford 2005’, Folk Music Journal as above, pp. 446–48. Review
Vallely, Fintan, ‘Singing the Ancestors: Fintan Vallely on the Teaching of Traditional Singing and the Recent Frank Harte Festival’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, pp. 16–18
Walsh, Edward, Irish Popular Songs: With English Metrical Translations and Introductory Remarks and Notes, Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish [Montana], n.d. 171 pp. ISBN 0548204667 (hb.). Facsimile of 1847
Whitmer, Nick, ‘The Pipes in Literature: References to Pipes, Piping and Music in Some 19th Century Irish Novels – A Summary’, An Píobaire vol. 4, no 43 (Dec. 2007), pp. 24–26

SERIALS PUBLISHED 2007
Cairde na Cruite: Nuachtán (Geimhreadh/Winter)
Fiddler Magazine vol. 14, no 4 (Winter), North Sydney, Canada. ISSN 1079-9974
Folk Music Journal: The Journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library vol. 9, no 3 (2008), London. ISSN 0531-9684
Hornpipe vol. 9, no 5 (Nov.–Dec.), Austin, USA. ISSN 1526-9078
Irish Dancing vol. 10, nos 11–12 (Nov.–Dec.), Bristol. ISSN 1751-9470
Irish Music vol. 14, nos 4–5 (Dec.–Jan.), Dublin. ISSN 1393 211 X
JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland vol. 7, no 6 (Nov.–Dec.), Bray. ISSN 1649 0215
An Píobaire vol. 4, no 43 (Dec.)
The Pipers’ Review. Iris na bPíobairí vol. 26, no 4 (Autumn), Seattle, USA
Set Dancing News (Dec.–Jan.), Kilfenora
Sound Post vol. 5, no 4 (Winter), Dublin
Treoir vol. 39, nos 3–4

DVDS PUBLISHED 2007
Conlon, Mickaleen, concertina & accordion, and Friends, Closing Time, Dark Horse Films, n.n.
Culleton, Maureen, dance, Learn to Dance, Culleton, n.n. DVD & CD set
Matt Cunningham and his Band, instrumental group, Come to the Ceili: Set Dancing, Ceili and Two-Hand Dances, Ainm Music ARDVD005. Reissued from video
Matt Cunningham and his Band, instrumental group, Come to the Céilí Mór: Set, Sean-Nós and Ceili Dancing Live, Ainm Music ARDVD006. Reissued from video
Various, instrumental, The World Pipeband Championships 2007, Vol. 1, Monarch DVMON106
Various, instrumental & vocal, Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, Tullamore, 19th–26th August 2007, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann n.n. Also in video

Compiled by the staff of the Irish Traditional Music Archive. All items are available for reference listening, reading and viewing in the premises of the Archive at 73 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 (for details consult www.itma.ie or phone 01-6619699).