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Bourke, Angela, ‘Singing at the Centre of a Life: Liam Mac Con Iomaire, Seosamh Ó hÉanaí: Nár Fhágha mé Bás Choíche, Cló Iar-Chonnachta, Indreabhán, 2007’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland vol. 8, no 3 (May–June 2008), pp. 28–31. Review
Breathnach, Padruig, ed., Songs of the Gael: A Collection of Anglo-Irish Songs and Ballads Wedded to Old Traditional Irish Airs, Kessinger, Montana n.d. [2008?]. 384 pp. ISBN 0548735085 (pb.). Facsimile of 1922 ed.
Broderick, Vincent, Traditional Irish Flute Solos Volume 2: The Turoe Stone Collection: Original Compositions in the Irish Tradition, Waltons, Dublin 2007 [recte 2008]. 47 pp. ISBN 9781857202007 (pb.)
Brooks, Denis, ‘Origins and Diffusions’, The Pipers’ Review vol. 27, no 2 (Spring 2008), pp. 18–19
Buckley, Angela, A Critical Edition of the Irish Music Manuscripts of Philip Carolan c1839–1910, MA thesis, Waterford Institute of Technology 2007. 341 pp. (hb.)
Carolan, Nicholas, ‘Seanchas: More James Goodman Music Manuscripts’, An Píobaire vol. 4, no 45 (Apr. 2008), pp. 23–5
Carson, Ciaran, ‘The Little Bag of Spuds [part two]’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, pp. 10–12
Clerk, Carol, Pogue Mahone, Kiss my Arse: The Story of The Pogues, Omnibus Press, London 2006. 447 pp. ISBN 9781846090080 (hb.)
Crane, Joe, ‘Some thoughts on the playing of regulators’ An Píobaire as above, pp. 9–14
Cunningham, John, ‘Sean Nugent and the Pride of Erin Céilí Band’ in Tales from the Banks of the Erne, Nonsuch, Dublin 2005, pp. 55-8. ISBN 9781845885175 (pb.)
Denvir, Síle, ed., Ciarán Ó Fátharta: Amhráin, Cló Iar-Chonnachta, Indreabhán 2008. 127 pp. ISBN 9781905560240 (pb.) Contemporary songs in traditional idiom
Dillon, Willie, ‘Flying the Flag’ in Connect: The Magazine for DAA Employees Issue 13 (Apr. 2008), pp. 26–7. About Paddy Moloney
Donnelly, Seán, ‘The “Whip of Dunboyne” and Other Irish Dance Tunes from Tudor and Stuart Leinster’, Ossory, Laois and Leinster [journal] vol. 3, OLL, Kilkenny, pp. 127–67
Donnelly, Seán, ‘Seanchas: “Drunk as a Piper” or Just “(Very) Hearty?”’, An Píobaire as above, pp. 21–2
Flanagan, William, ‘No Traditions without Change: Listeners Make the Music’ in Ireland Now: Tales of Change from the Global Island, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN, 2007, pp. 82–111. ISBN 9780268028862 (pb.)
Harlow, Ilana, & Stephen Winick, ‘From “Hide and Go Seek” to “Paddy’s Resource”: The Dunn Family Collection of Captain Francis O’Neill Cylinder Recordings’, Folklife Center News vol. 29, no 4 (Fall 2007). pp. 3–12
The Humours of Tulla: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Tulla Comhaltas 1957–2007, n.p. [Tulla Comhaltas, Tulla], n.d. [2007]. 140 pp.
Jones, Alan, ‘A Driven Man’, The Pipers’ Review as above, pp. 11–17. Autobiography
Keegan, Niall, ‘Aindreas de Staic, Latchico’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, pp. 38–9. Review
Keegan, Niall, ‘Matt Molly, John Carty and Art McGlynn, Pathway to the Well – Recorded Live at Matt Molloy’s, Racket Records (RR007),’ JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, p. 40. Review
Kelly, Ronan, Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore, Penguin, Dublin 2008. 623 pp. ISBN 9781844881437 (hb.)
Long, Harry, ed., Ireland’s Best Tin Whistle Tunes for Children, Waltons, Dublin 2005. 48 pp. ISBN 1857201558 (pb.)
The Living Tradition: Celebrating 50 Years of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Involvement in Portarlington, Portarlington Comhaltas Branch, Portarlington n.d. [2007?]. 222 pp. (pb.)
Lynch, Aogán, ed., Irish Concertina Tunes. Volume 1, Waltons, Dublin 2007. 72 pp. ISBN 9781857201925 (pb.)
McCabe, Rory, ‘Frankie Gavin, Rick Epping and Tim Edey, Jiggin’ the Blues, Greentrax (G2CD7011)’ JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, pp. 36–7. Review
McNamara, Veronica, & Iris Nevins, eds, ‘The Professor, James Morrison’: His Original Handwritten Music Manuscripts for Irish Fiddle, McNamara & Nevins, Johnsonburg, NJ, 2008. [iv] + 190 pp. ISBN 9780962040030 (pb.). Facsimiles
Mac Suibhne, Donnchadh, ed., Introducing Irish Slow Airs: 40 Fonn Mall Álainn as Gach Cearn d’Éirinn, Ceol Dhál Riada, Antrim n.d. [2008?]. 20 pp. (pb.)
Madden, Sinéad, ed., Irish Fiddle Tunes. Volume 2, Waltons, Dublin 2007. 48 pp. ISBN 9781857201970 (pb.). With 2 CDs
Moylan, Terry, ‘Airs & Graces: Ag Taisteal na Blárnan’, An Píobaire as above, pp. 18–20
Ó Baoill, Colm, ‘Two Irish Harpers in Scotland’ in James Porter, ed., Defining Strains: The Musical Life of the Scots in the Seventeenth Century, Peter Lang, Oxford, UK, 2007, pp. 227–43. ISBN 9783039109487 (pb.)
Ó hEaghra, Breandán, ‘Ag Treabhadh Rocks of Bawn an Idirlín’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, p. 13
Ó Máille, Seán, ‘The Poet and the Piper: Liam O’Flynn (uilleann pipes), Seamus Heaney (poetry)’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, pp. 43–4. Review
Ó Séaghdha, Barra, ‘Seán Ó hÉanaigh’, JMI: The Journal of Music in Ireland as above, p. 46. Review
Quinn, D. M., ‘Pipemaker’s Corner. On Reamers: Confessions of a Self-Taught Pipemaker’, The Pipers’ Review as above, pp. 2–5
Smith, Daniel, ‘Interview with Jimmy O’Brien Moran’, The Pipers’ Review as above, pp. 7–11
Stokoe, Helen, Dance with the Broom: Remarkable Women of Irish Music, Stokoe, n.p., 2006. 18 pp.
Vallely, Eithne & John, Tin Whistle Tutor, Appletree Press, Belfast 2008. 96 pp. ISBN 9781847580047 (pb.). New ed. of 1976