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Féile John McGrath, Westport, lecture – the flute in Ireland
Fintan Vallely: ‘From battlefield to boreen, Basel to Ballymoe: How the wooden flute was colonised by Ireland’, Guest lecture to Féile John McGrath, Westport.
Read MoreGuest Lecture at Cruinniú na bhFliút, Coolea, Co. Cork.
Fintan Vallely ‘The Gentleman, the Jig, and the Gibbet: Flute phases of Irish History’. Guest lecture to Cruinniú na bhFliút, Coolea, Co. Cork. http://flutemeet.blogspot.com/
Read MoreTuned Out: Traditional Music and Identity in Northern Ireland
The book looks at the Traditional Irish music scene and notes that while there is enthusiastic participation of Northern Ireland Catholics therein, Protestants are largely absent.
Read MoreSing up! Irish Comic Songs and Satires for Every Occasion
A collection of comic and satirical lyrics that comment on some of the inconsistencies and absurdities that mark Irish society’s transition from the past to the future.
Read MoreFintan Vallely – Traditional Irish Flute Music
Fintan Vallely’s first album, recorded in America in 1979. In it his style is raw and fresh, yet rounded and solid. With Mark Simos, guitar; CB Heinemann, bouzouki; and Lori Cole, piano and English concertina.
Read MoreFrom 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.
Read MoreCrosbhealach an Cheoil / Crossroads Conference 2003
Papers from The Crosbhealach Conference 2003. A diverse range of voices assessing aesthetic, practical and academic aspects of formal and informal Traditional music learning.
Read MoreSecond Conference on Irish Traditional Music – Crosbhealach an Cheoil 2003
A 2003 conference that concerned itself with the assessment and provision of Traditional music education at all levels from the practical to the academic, throughout the island of Ireland and abroad.
Read MoreCrosbhealach an Cheoil / Crossroads Conference 1996
Proceedings of a conference on the subject of tradition and innovation, in Dublin, organised by Fintan Vallely, Cormac Breathnach, Liz Doherty, Colin Hamilton and Eithne Vallely.
Read MoreJohn 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.
Read MoreBig Guns and Hairy Drums – Tim Lyons & Fintan Vallely
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.
Read MoreBlooming Meadows: The World of Irish Traditional Musicians
Interviews with 30 musicians, singers & dancers based in Ireland, England and US, by Charlie Piggott & Fintan Vallely, photography by Nutan.
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