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Ahern, Pat, ‘Cork Folk Festival 5-10 September 2006’ in JMI. The Journal of Music in Ireland vol. 6, no 6 (Nov.–Dec. 2006), p. 36. Review
Best of Dervish: 23 Traditional Favourites from One of Ireland’s Most Celebrated Bands, Hal Leonard, Milwaukee n.d. [2005]. 35 pp. ISBN 0-634-09882-9 (pb.)
Butler, Jean, ‘Re-Imagining Irish Dance’, in Re-Imagining Ireland, Andrew Higgins Wyndham ed., University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville & London (2006), pp. 140-44. ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-2544-8 (hb.)
Carolan, Nicholas, ‘Re-Imagining Irish Traditional Music’, in Re-Imagining Ireland, as above, pp. 137-39. Effects of sound recording
Fennell, James, & Turtle Bunbury, Vanishing Ireland, Hodder Headline, Dublin 2006. 180 pp. ISBN 0-340-92277-X (hb.). Includes images of traditional musicians
Gaul, Liam, Masters of Irish Music, Nonsuch, Dublin 2006. 127 pp. ISBN 1-84588-563-5 (pb.). Brief biographies
Graham, Eugene, ‘Noisy Island: A Short History of Irish Popular Music by Gerry Smyth. Cork University Press…’ in History Ireland, vol. 14, no 5 (Sept. – Oct. 2006), pp. 60. Review
Grasso, Elliot, ‘Dynamics in Piping’ in An Píobaire vol. 4, no 38 (Dec. 2006), pp. 14-15
Keegan, Josephine, The Keegan Tunes Book Two, Keegan, Newry 2006. 96 pp. (pb.). New compositions
Marnane, Denis G., ‘The Ballad Collection of John Davis White’ in Tipperary Historical Journal 2005, County Tipperary Historical Society, Thurles (n.d. [2006?]), pp. 61-85
Mac Fheilimidhe, Ciarán, ‘Pipes and Fiddle: Brothers in Arms’ in An Píobaire as above, pp. 17-19
McGarrigle, Dara, Irish Women and Traditional Music, MA thesis, School of Music, University College Dublin, September 2006. 51 pp.
Moloney, Mick, ‘Re-Imagining Irish Music and Dance’, in Re-Imagining Ireland, as above, pp. 123-36
Moran, James O’Brien, Paddy Conneely – The Galway Piper: The Legacy of a Pre-Famine Folk Musician, Ph.D. thesis, University of Limerick, January 2006. 604 pp.
Moulden, John, ‘One Green Hill: Journeys through Irish Songs by John McLaughlin. Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications, 2003’ in Folk Music Journal vol. 9, no 2 (2007), pp. 264-5. Review
Murray, Peter, ed., Whipping the Herring. Survival and Celebration in 19th-Century Irish Art, Crawford Gallery/ Gandon Editions, Cork 2006. 264 pp. ISBN 0948037 318 (hb.). Includes images of traditional music
Ó Laoire, Lillis, ‘Gathering of the Gaeltachtaí’ in JMI as above, p. 12-13. About an tOireachtas
Rooney, Brendan, ed., A Time and a Place: Two Centuries of Irish Social Life, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin 2006. vi+172 pp. ISNB 1-904288-17-0 (pb.). Includes images of traditional music
Vallely, Cillian, ed., Lúnasa Nótaí: Music from the Recordings of Lúnasa, SGO Music Publishing, 2006. 133 pp. (pb.)
Wilkinson, Desi, ‘Around the Hills of Clare: Songs and a Recitation from the Jim Carroll and Pat Mackenzie Collection (Musical Traditions MTCD 331-2/ Góilín Records 005-6)’ in Folk Music Journal…pp. 279-81. Review