Last Nights Fun: In and Out of Time With Irish Music - Hardcover

Carson, Ciaran

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0788190873 ISBN 13: 9780788190872

Publisher: Diane Pub Co, 1996

Synopsis

Critically acclaimed LAST NIGHT'S FUN is a sparkling celebration of Irish music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Irish writer Ciaran Carson's inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemic captures the sound and vigor of a ruthlessly unsentimental music.

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Review:

Reading these essays by an Irish folk musician, you are drawn in and transported, and it begins to seem that you can hear the fiddles and bodhrans, and you can almost smell the Guinness. Ciaran Carson, who has published several books of poetry, spent many years playing traditional Irish music in pubs with sawdust on the floor, and he evokes both scene and sound brilliantly in prose. We're lucky that the talented Mr. Carson takes time to put down his flute and pick up the pen. Anyone who appreciates folk music, or anyone who just likes fine writing, will enjoy this wondrously quirky little book.

About the Author:

Ciaran Carson was born in 1948 in Belfast and works for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. He is the author of The Pocket Guide to Irish Music, The Star Factory, as well as five collections of poetry, one of which, First Language, was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Diane Pub Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0788190873
• ISBN 13: 9780788190872
• Binding: Hardcover