Clune, Anne, ed., Dear Far-Voiced Veteran: Essays in Honour of Tom Munnelly, The Old Kilfarboy Society, Miltown Malbay, Co Clare 2007. 404 pp. ISBN 978 0 9556037 0 9 (pb.). Contents. Nicholas Carolan: Introduction; Ciaran Carson: ‘Fishing for Eels’, Poem for Tom Munnelly; David Atkinson: From Text to Work: Reconceptualizing Folk Songs as Texts; Margaret Bennett: ‘History, Heartbreak and Hope’: Recording the Story behind the Song; Seóirse Bodley: ‘Bean an Fhir Rua’ as Performed by a Master of Conamara Traditional Style, Seán Mac Donncha of Carna; Angela Bourke: Songs in English from the Conamara Gaeltacht; Caoilte Breatnach: Twenty Years Too Late: Collecting in the Kinvara Area; Nicholas Carolan: The Talking Machine Comes to Ireland; Jim Carroll & Pat Mackenzie: A Simple Countryman? Walter Pardon of Norfolk; Len Graham: Meeting Child on the Road; Patricia Lysaght: From the Kingdom to the Banner: Tadhg Ó Murchú as a Folklore Collector in Southwest County Clare in 1942; John Moulden: What Did We Sing before There were Folksongs?; Terry Moylan: Collecting Sets in the Early Days of the Revival; Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin: A Drogheda List of Melodies: Implications for the Song Tradition of Oriel; Éamon Ó Bróithe: Gluaiseacht na gCarabhat i Sliabh gCua: An Stair agus an Béaloideas; Séamas Ó Catháin: Connoisseurs of Song; Pádraig Ó Héalaí: ‘Nuair a Bhí an Slánaitheoir ag Siúl ar an Talamh’: Scéalta Mínithe Cráifeacha sa Traidisiún Béil; Lillis Ó Laoire & Sean Williams: Singing the Famine: Joe Heaney, ‘Johnny Seoighe’ and the Poetics of Performance; Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: ‘Traditional Ears’: Perception and Analysis in Irish Traditional Music; Stan Scott: Brown Ale and Black Tea (Traditional Singing in North India and Ireland); Hugh Shields: Textual Criticism and Ballad Studies; Thérèse Smith: ‘Borders and Boundaries: Discord in Irish Traditional Song’; Seán Spellissy: Luibheanna Íce Árainn – The Healing Herbs of Aran; Barry Taylor: A Problem for the Public – Seán Ó Riada and Irish Traditional Music; Ríonach uí
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Healy, Audrey, The Singer and the Song: Sixty Irish Songwriters and their Favourite Songs, Hodder Headline Ireland, Dublin, 2007. 282 pp. ISBN 978-0-340-92408-2 (pb.). Reissue of 2006 trade pb. (ISBN 0 340 92407 1)

Hodgins, Tom, Rhetoric of Beauty. An Slabhra gan Bhriseadh : Filíocht, Seanchas agus Cuimhní Cinn as Rann na Feirste, Coiscéim, BÁC 2007. 161 pp. (pb.)

Kuntz, Andrew, ‘Fiddle Tune History : a Well-Traveled Melody …[Glenbeigh Hornpipe]’ in Fiddler Magazine vol. 14, no 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 33–8.

Mitchell, Pat, ed., The Dance Music of Séamus Ennis, Na Píobairí Uilleann, Dublin 2007. 431 pp. ISBN 978 0 9509743 6 1 (hb.)

Ó Drisceoil, Proinsias, Seán Ó Dálaigh: Éigse agus Iomarbhá, Cork University Press, Cork 2007. 487 pp. ISBN 978-1-85918-407-3. Study of nineteenth-century music and song collector and publisher

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Ó Súilleabháin, Mícheál, ‘Aloys Fleischmann, Séamas de Barra, Field Day Publications, Dublin, 2006, 240 pp.’ in JMI as above, pp. 6–9. Review

Quinn, Toner, ‘My Tunes and I’ in JMI as above, pp. 26–7

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