Martin Dowling

A Traditional Fiddler in the Modern World: Exploring the Music of Paddy Canny
Opinion
A Traditional Fiddler in the Modern World: Exploring the Music...
A new book by Helen O’Shea, 'No Better Boy: Listening...
May 11, 2023
An Incomplete Journey Through Chicago's Irish Music Scene
Opinion
An Incomplete Journey Through Chicago's Irish Music Scene
Richie Piggott’s recent book, 'Cry of a People Gone:...
Mar 16, 2023
The Collector as Coloniser?
Opinion
The Collector as Coloniser?
The University of Chicago Press has recently published a...
Dec 6, 2022
Cultural Treasures Bound up with Barbarism
Opinion
Cultural Treasures Bound up with Barbarism
The Irish Traditional Music Archive has recently published...
Aug 4, 2022
Ways of Talking and Thinking About Irish Traditional Music
Opinion
Ways of Talking and Thinking About Irish Traditional Music
A recent book by Jessica Cawley, 'Becoming an Irish...
Aug 11, 2021
The Manufacture of Irish Traditional Music
Opinion
The Manufacture of Irish Traditional Music
Is Irish traditional music a newly constructed music – ...
Jun 15, 2015
Ghosts of Belfast
Opinion
Ghosts of Belfast
Martin Dowling's and Úna Monaghan's performance...
May 1, 2012
Let Go of the Language of the Past
Opinion
Let Go of the Language of the Past
The language we use around traditional music isn’t about...
Dec 1, 2009
Tiger Ireland, Turd Sniffers & Meta-Trad: People, Power and the Pursuit of Privileged Status in Music in Ireland
Opinion
Tiger Ireland, Turd Sniffers & Meta-Trad: People, Power and...
At a recent conference on 'Music and Identity in...
Mar 1, 2007
Time to Kill off the Revival
Opinion
Time to Kill off the Revival
Irish traditional music still lives under the shadow of the...
Nov 1, 2001