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Dear Far-voiced Veteran
B002-DFV
Dear Far-voiced Veteran.
A Collection of essays in honour of Tom Munnelly.
Editor: Anne Clune
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Contents
Introduction, Nicholas Carolan
Fishing For Eels for Tom Munnelly, Fisher of Songs, Ciarán Carson
From Text to Work: Reconceptualizing Folk Songs as Texts, David Atkinson 1
'History, Heartbreak and Hope': Recording the Story Behind
the Song, Margaret Bennett 15
'Bean an Fhir Rua' as Performed by a Master of Conamara
Traditional Style, Seán Mac Donncha of Carna, Seóirse Bodley 31
Songs in English from the Conamara Gaeltacht, Angela Bourke 43
Twenty Years Too Late: Collecting in the Kinvara Area, Caoilte Breatnach 59
The Talking Machine Comes to Ireland, Nicholas Carolan 73
A Simple Countryman? Walter Pardon of Norfolk, Jim Carroll and Pat Mackenzie 85
Meeting Child on the Road, Len Graham 99
From the Kingdom to the Banner: Tadhg Ó Murchú as a
Folklore Collector in Southwest County Clare in 1942, Patricia Lysaght 113
What Did We Sing Before There Were Folk Songs, John Moulden 135
Collecting Sets in the Early Days of the Revival, Terry Moylan 159
A Drogheda List of Melodies: Implications for the Song
Tradition of Oriel, Pádraigín Ni Uallacháin 169
Gluaiseacht na gCarabhat i Sliabh gCua: An Stair agus
an Béaloideas, Éamonn 0 Bróithe 191
Connoisseurs of Song, Séamas Ó Catháin 209
'Nuair a Bhí an Slánaitheoir ag Siúl ar an Talamh': Scéalta
Mínithe Cráifeacha sa Traidisiún Béil, Pádraig Ó Héalaí 217
Singing the Famine: Joe Heaney, 'Johnny Seoighe' and
the Poetics of Performance, Lillis 0 Laoire and Sean Williams. 229
‘Traditional Ears': Perception and Analysis in
Irish Traditional Music, Micheál Ó Súilleabháin 249
Brown Ale and Black Tea, Stan Scott 277
Textual Criticism and Ballad Studies, Hugh Shields 287
'Borders and Boundaries: Discord in Irish Traditional Song', Therese Smith 295
Luibheanna Íce Arainn – The Healing Herbs of Aran, Seán Spellissy 317
A Problem for the Public – Seán Ó Riada and Irish Traditional Music, Barry Taylor 331
Thar Farraige Anonn - Séamus Mac Aonghusa in
Albain 1946-1947, Rionach uí Ógáin 361
Encomium on a Reluctant Academic, Fintan Vallely 373
Bibliography 387
Notes on Contributors 399

