Author: Thomas Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Author: New York Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Author: Emma Byrne
Publisher: O'Brien Press
ISBN: 9781788492201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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A collection of Ireland's greatest and best-loved ballads, including the lyrics, music and chords, along with an introductory piece on each song. Illustrated with photographs and woodcuts. A beautiful guide to the cream of the Irish ballad tradition. Songs of love, yearning, revolution, celebration, emigration, mourning, fun, famine, drinking and more. A collection of powerful yet beautiful ballads of Ireland, placed in and reflecting historical events and traditions. All have stood the test of time and present to the world the uniqueness of Irish history and her musical and revolutionary traditions. Including: Are You Right There Michael? Danny Boy Kevin Barry I'll Tell Me Ma The Irish Rover Molly Malone The Rare Old Mountain Dew The Rocky Road to Dublin The Rose of Tralee Whiskey in the Jar Best-Loved Irish Ballads celebrates the songs and tradition of Irish music.

Author: Thomas Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Sir Charles Gavan Duffy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Charles Gavan Duffy
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338507410X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

Author: Will Boast
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609380436
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Real musicians don’t sign autographs, date models, or fly in private jets. They spend their lives in practice rooms and basement clubs or toiling in the obscurity of coffee-shop gigs, casino jobs, and the European festival circuit. The ten linked stories in Power Ballads are devoted to this unheard virtuoso: the working musician. From the wings of sold-out arenas to hip-hop studios to polka bars, these stories are born out of a nocturnal world where music is often simply work, but also where it can, in rare moments, become a source of grace and transcendence, speaking about the things we never seem to say to each other. A skilled but snobby jazz drummer joins a costumed heavy metal band to pay his rent. A country singer tries to turn her brutal past into a successful career. A vengeful rock critic reenters the life of an emerging singer-songwriter, bent on wreaking havoc. The characters in Power Ballads—aging head-bangers, jobbers, techno DJs, groupies, and the occasional rock star (and those who have to live with them)—need music to survive, yet find themselves lost when the last note is played, the lights go up, and it’s time to return to regular life. By turns melancholy and hilarious, Power Ballads is not only a deeply felt look at the lives of musicians but also an exploration of the secret music that plays inside us all.

Author: David Pierce
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300063233
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: Aaron Kelly
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137083182
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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This Guide surveys existing criticism and theory, making clear the key critical debates, themes and issues surrounding a wide variety of Irish poets, playwrights and novelists. It relates Irish literature to debates surrounding issues such as national identity, modernity and the Revival period, armed struggle, gender, sexuality and post colonialism.

Author: Richard Parfitt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000517632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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Musical Culture and the Spirit of Irish Nationalism is the first comprehensive history of music’s relationship with Irish nationalist politics. Addressing rebel songs, traditional music and dance, national anthems and protest song, the book draws upon an unprecedented volume of material to explore music’s role in cultural and political nationalism in modern Ireland. From the nineteenth-century Young Irelanders, the Fenians, the Home Rule movement, Sinn Féin and the Anglo-Irish War to establishment politics in independent Ireland and civil rights protests in Northern Ireland, this wide-ranging survey considers music’s importance and its limitations across a variety of political movements.