Recent Publications in Irish Traditional Music

Continued from JMI Jan–Feb 2005CDS PUBLISHED 2004/2005Heather Breeze Ceili Band, Waltz of the Bells, Heather Breeze Ceili Band HBCD0042, 2005Kunugi, Takehiro, fiddle, The Man, The Fiddler, Hats Unlimited HUCD10008, 2004Kelliher, Dessie, banjo, Banjoed,...

Continued from JMI Jan–Feb 2005

CDS PUBLISHED 2004/2005
Heather Breeze Ceili Band, Waltz of the Bells, Heather Breeze Ceili Band HBCD0042, 2005
Kunugi, Takehiro, fiddle, The Man, The Fiddler, Hats Unlimited HUCD10008, 2004
Kelliher, Dessie, banjo, Banjoed, Kelliher DK 001, n.d. [2005]
Mac Diarmada, Oisín, fiddle, whistle, Ar an bhFidil, Green Linnet GLCD1227, 2004
Ní Uallacháin, Pádraigín, singing in Irish, A Stór is a Stóirín, Gael Linn CEFCD166, 2004 (2 CDs, reissued from 1 CD)
O’Connell, Tony, concertina, & Andy Morrow, fiddle, Tony O’Connell and Andy Morrow, O’Connell & Morrow TOCAM001, 2005
O’Rourke, Jason, concertina, & Ruadhraí O’Kane, fiddle, Roguery Road, Wren WRCD1404, 2005
O’Sullivan, Jerry, uilleann pipes, O’Sullivan Meets O’Farrell, Volume 1, Jerry O’Sullivan Music n.n., 2005 [the nineteenth-century uilleann piper and publisher Mr O’Farrell]
Rafferty, Mike, flute, uilleann pipes, Speed 78, Larraga MOR1302, 2004
Various, instrumental & vocal, The Best of the Gathering 2003-2004, Gathering Records GRCD001, 2004 [from Co Kerry festival]
Various, instrumental & vocal, Irish Celebration: Pub Songs, Reels, and Tunes from the Emerald Isle, Tradition/ Rykodisc TCD1094, 2004 [includes Seamus Ennis, uilleann pipes; Joe Tunney, accordion, etc.]
Waterford Institute of Technology Irish Traditional Music Group, instrumental & vocal, Siansa 2, WIT Irish Traditional Music Society n.n., 2004

BOOKS AND ARTICLES PUBLISHED 2004/05
Donnelly, Sean, ‘The Famousest Man in the World for the Irish Harp’ in Dublin Historical Record vol. 57, no 1, Dublin, Spring 2004, pp. 38-49 [the 18th-century harper Mr Murphy]
Donnelly, Sean, ‘The Origin of the “Humours of Bandon”’ in Bandon Historical Journal no 21, Bandon, Co Cork, 2005, pp. 14-24 [history of a melody]
Garvey, Seán, ‘An Fheadóg Mhór’ in Blaiseadh: An Béal Binn, Coiscéim, Howth, Co Dublin, 2004, pp. 10-17 [the Irish concert flute]
Lowth, Cormac F., review of Tomás Ó Canainn, Seán Ó Riada: His Life and Work (Collins Press, 2004) in Dublin Historical Record vol. 57, no 1, Dublin, Spring 2004, pp. 123-4
Mac an tSíthigh, Seán, ed., Amhráin Uíbh Ráthaigh: Éigse na Brídeoige 2004, Coiscéim, Howth, Co Dublin, 2005. 118 pp. Contains essays ‘Éigse na Brídeoige’ by Pádraig de Buis, ‘Tomás Rua i Seanchas Béil Uíbh Ráthaigh’ by Ríonach uí Ógáin, ‘Aistear Amhránaíochta tríd Uíbh Ráthach’ by Tim Dennehy, ‘The Archaeology of Music in Iveragh’ by John Sheehan, ‘Amhráin agus Filíocht na nDaoine in Uíbh Ráthach sa 19ú Aois’ by Seán Mac an tSíthigh, ‘The Bonny Bunch of Roses and the Iveragh Connection’ by Seán Garvey, ‘Seán Jur Ó Móráin, Bun an Bhaile, Seanchaí agus Amhránaí’ by Brian Ó Móráin [south Co Kerry song and instrumental music]
Meek, Donald E., ‘The Scottish Tradition of Fian Ballads in the Middle Ages’ in Cathal Ó Háinle and Donald E. Meek, eds, Unity in Diversity: Studies in Irish and Scottish Gaelic Language, Literature and History, School of Irish, Trinity College Dublin, 2004, pp. 9-23 [with reference to Irish tradition of Fian ballads]
Ó Laoire, Lillis, ‘Irish Music’, in Joe Cleary & Claire Connelly, eds, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, etc., 2005, pp. 267-84. ISBN 0 521 82009 X (hb.), 0 521 52629 9 (pb.)

SERIALS PUBLISHED 2004/05
Hornpipe vol. 6, nos 4-5 (Sept.-Dec. 2004), Austin, TX. ISSN 1526 9078
Irish Dancing [?vol. 8, nos 1-2 (Jan.-Feb. 2005)], Bristol [publishing data omitted in original]
Irish Music vol. 10, nos 5-6 (Jan.-Mar. 2005), Dublin. ISSN 1393 211 X
JMI, The: The Journal of Music in Ireland vol. 5, no 1 (Jan.-Feb. 2005), Bray. ISSN 1649 0215
MQ: Music Quarterly, the IMRO Magazine vol. 5, no 4 (Winter 2004), Dublin
Píobaire, An vol. 4, nos 28-29 (Dec.-Feb. 2004-05), Dublin
Pipers’ Review, The: Iris na bPíobairí vol. 24, no 1 (Winter 2005), Seattle
Tartan & Green: Official Publication of the Irish Pipe Band Association no 22 (Dec. 2004), New Ross
The Complete Musical Traditions vol. 6, Stroud, Gloucestershire. MTCD2005: CD-ROM containing all issues of internet magazine Musical Traditions with much Irish content 1983-2004 incl., see www.mustrad.org.uk
Voice, The: Newsletter of the Nenagh Singers Circle vol. 9, nos 4-6 (Dec. 2004-Feb. 2005), Nenagh

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 63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 (for details consult www.itma.ie or phone 01-6619699). 

Published on 1 March 2005

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