The Age Of Revolution in the Irish Song Tradition: 1776-1815 - Softcover

Moylan, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1901866491 ISBN 13: 9781901866490

Publisher: The Lilliput Press, 2000

Synopsis

The Age of Revolution in the Irish Song Tradition is a definitive gathering of songs, poems and tunes composed between the 1776 American Revolution and Napoleon’s exile and death in 1821 and beyond dramatically conveying how the seismic events of those years inspired literary and musical effort across succeeding generations in Ireland. The material is drawn from tradition and from print and manuscript collections. These include contemporary sources – the various editions of Paddy’s Resource, Watty Cox’s Irish Magazine and Madden’s Literary Remains – and archival collections of songs and music. Many traditional songs have been notated directly from the singers themselves, and represent an important addition to the literature of bardic nationalism. The work breaks down as follows: songs (text and tune) 157; poems (text only) 27; tunes (music only) 25. This includes 15 pieces in the Irish language, 14 from loyalist sources and 10 written by members of the United Irishmen including Wolfe Tone, Henry Joy McCracken, Jemmy Hope and Robert Emmet. All come with notes listing source and musical associations as well as historical and political background. Appropriate music accompanies the words attached to each tune, and the whole is liberally illustrated with over a hundred period engravings

About this title

About the Author

Terry Moylan is a music historian, piper and archivist at Dublin’s Na Piobairi Uilleann. His earlier publications include Johnny O’Leary of Sliabh Luachra: Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border (Dublin 1994, 2014), and The Age of Revolution in the Irish Song Tradition 1776-1815 (Dublin 2000).

Edition details

• Publisher: The Lilliput Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1901866491
• ISBN 13: 9781901866490
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176