From Fifth Column to Pillar of Society

Observations on the political implications of popular revival and education in Irish Traditional music in modern Ireland. This discussion pamphlet is the text of the Seán O’Riada Memorial Lecture No. 14, given by Fintan Vallely to the Traditional Music Archive and the Irish Traditional Music Society of University College, Cork.

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John Kennedy · Together in Time

The life story of John Kennedy, ‘the bard of Cullybackey’, County Antrim, his songs and his tunes, all brought to the eyes and ears of a wider public for the first time.

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Big Guns and Hairy Drums – Tim Lyons & Fintan Vallely

big guns scithereedee - Fintan Vallely, Tim Lyons

Comic and satirical lyrics of the modern time about hamburgers, politicians, murder, drink, sex, religion, statues, Jesus, Ben Dunne, Willie McBride, false teeth, the weather, potholed roads, and everybody’s scapegoat, that shockingly authentic icon of ‘roots’ music – the bodhrán.

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