Fintan Vallely

Fintan Vallely lectures in traditional music at Dundalk Institute of Technology. He is author of several biographical and ethnographic books on the music, and is editor of the A-Z reference work Companion to Irish Traditional Music.

Forty-Five Years of the Armagh Pipers' Club
Brian and Eithne Vallely have produced a book to mark forty-five years of the Armagh Pipers' Club containing a visual and written history of the Club as well as a collection of personal reflections and essays on its origins and impact.
Book Review: The Irishness of Irish Music – John O’Flynn
The Irishness of Irish Music – John O’Flynn / Ashgate (Surrey and Vermont, 2009)
Challenging the standard idea that traditional singing ‘can’t be taught’, Fintan Vallely argues that there is now an urgent necessity to do so.
Tiger Ireland, Turd Sniffers & Meta-Trad: People, Power and the Pursuit of Privileged Status in Music in Ireland
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.
Banners, Turf and Liquefied Gas
New recordings and writings by Tommy Sands, Gerry O'Connor, Harry Bradley, Paul O'Shaughnessy and Paul Brock.
A Challenge to Academics and Pundits
A review of the recently published Music In Ireland.
Opening Up Hidden Fermanagh
A new book by Cyril Maguire on the music of County Fermanagh.
Making the case for traditional music as an independent area of study in the Irish education system.