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New speakers of Irish: shifting boundaries across time and space
(De Gruyter Open, 2014-12-18)
While traditional Irish-speaking communities continue to decline, the number of second-language speakers outside of the Gaeltacht has increased. Of the more than one and half million speakers of Irish just over 66,000 now ...
An comhrá síoraí: cothú agus athnuachan na hamhránaíochta i Maigh Eo
(Geography, Publications, 2014)
A discussion of recorded sound archives from County Mayo, and strategies for the revitalisation of traditional song in the county.
Seosamh Ó hÉanaí agus Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh: cleasa an chrosáin san Oileán Úr
(New Hibernia Review, University of St. Thomas, 2011)
Bhí Seosamh Ó hÉanaí (1919-1984) ar an amhránaí sean-nóis ba mhó le rá san fhichiú haois. Rugadh é ar an Aird Thoir, nó Aird a’ Chaisleáin, i bparóiste Charna. Bhí ainm na háite seo in airde mar cheantar a raibh saibhreas ...
From Galway Bay to Sydney Harbour: Joe Heaney's Concert at the Sydney Opera House in 1981
(An Cumann Le Béaloideas Éireann/Folklore of Ireland Society, 2013)
Discussion of performance strategies of singer Joe Heaney's concert in the Opera House in Sydney in January 1981.
Ceol agus amhránaíocht
(Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann (Four Courts), 2013)
Discussion of transmission and performance of traditional song.
Space, place and displacement in two Gaelic songs
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
A discussion of the texts, music and cultural context of two songs from Tory Island, drawing on contemporary theoretical perspectives on spatiality and place.
Seán Bán Mac Grianna and 'Christine Keeler'
(Celtic and Scottish Studies, 2014)
First publication of the song 'Christine Keeler' by Seán Bán Mac Grianna, made in 1963, with a discussion of its relevance for oral tradition and bard baile (township poetry).
The Gaelic Undertow: Seán Ó hEochaidh's field trip to the Bluestacks in 1947
(Cambridge Scholars' Press, 2013)
A discussion of perspectives by Seán Ó hEochaidh in life in the Bluestack Mountains, Co. Donegal, in the mid-twentieth century.
Review of Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames / Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle/Fascúl 4 (Ceall Ghabhann-Cláiríne) by Pádraig Ó Riain, Diarmuid Ó Murchadha, Kevin Murray
(An Cumann Le Béaloideas Éireann/Folklore of Ireland Society, 2012)
[No abstract available]
Review of Aesop i gConamara by Nollaig Mac Congáil
(Department of Folklore and Ethnology/Béaloideas, University College Cork, 2011)
[No abstract available]