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Black, Mary, Down the crooked road: my autobiography, London: Transworld Ireland, 2014. [vi]+265 pp. ISBN 9781848271876 (hbk.)
Boske, Joe, The works, Connemara: Artisan House Editions, 2014. 120 pp. ISBN 9780992690823 (pbk.). Includes images of Irish music
Bradley, Colm, Architecture and traditional Irish music: related motifs forming place, culture and identity. Thesis (B.Arch.): University of Limerick, 2014. 61 pp. Online thesis
Cahalan, Roisin, Helen Purtill, Peter O’Sullivan, Kieran O’Sullivan, ‘Foot and ankle pain and injuries in elite adult Irish dancers’ in Medical problems of performing artists vol. 29, no 4 (December 2014), pp. 198–206
Cleary, Thomas Stanislaus, Songs of the Irish Land War, [S.l.]: Kessinger Legacy Reprints, [2014]. [ii]+54 pp. ISBN 9781166923600 (pbk.). Originally published Dublin: W. P. Swan, 1888
Colmeiro, José, ‘Bagpipes, bouzoukis and bodhráns: the reinvention of Galician folk music’ in Helena Miguélez-Carballeira, ed., A companion to Galician culture, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis, 2014. ISBN 9781855662773, pp. 93–114
Heaney, Michael, ‘Street ballads in nineteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and North America: the interface between print and oral traditions, David Atkinson and Steve Roud, eds. (Ashgate, 2014)’ in Folk music journal vol. 10, no 5 (2015), pp. 648–649. Review
Johnson, Henry, ‘The encyclopaedia of music in Ireland’ in Ethnomusicology forum vol. 23, no 3 (December 2014), pp. 445–462. Review
Kader, Emily, ‘”Rose Connolly” revisited: re-imagining the Irish in Southern Appalachia’ in The Journal of American Folklore vol. 127, no. 506 (Fall 2014), pp. 425-447. Online article
Knevett, Arthur, ‘Cultural and political origins of the Folk-Song Society and the Irish dimension’ in Folk music journal as above, pp. 592–608
Mac Aoidh, Caoimhín, ‘The hidden note: what’s in a name?’ in Fiddler magazine vol. 21, no 4 (Winter 2014/15), pp. 46–47
Moulden, John, ‘The flax in bloom: traditional songs, airs & dance music in Ulster, Reg Hall, ed., (Topic, 2014)’ in Folk music journal as above, pp. 688–690. Review
Moylan, Terry, ‘Newly discovered 16th-century image of Irish piper’ in An píobaire vol. 10, no 5 (December 2014), p. 22–23
Mullins, Catherine E., ‘Blah, blah, blah: making sense of nonsense in Irish vocal music’ in Musical offerings vol. 5, no 2 (Fall 2014), pp. 87–117. Online article
Nic Ghabhann, Niamh, ed., Watermark: Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Limerick: Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, 2014. 60 pp. ISBN 9781905952571 (pbk.). Exhibition catalogue
Nigro, Jeffrey A., ‘“Favourable to tenderness and sentiment”: the many meanings of Mary Crawford’s harp’ in Persuasions: the Jane Austen journal on-line vol. 35, no 1 (winter 2014). Online article
O’Donnell, Mary Louise, Ireland’s harp : the shaping of Irish identity c. 1770–1880, Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2014. x+162 pp. ISBN 9781906359867 (pbk.)
Ó Dúlaing, Donncha, Donncha’s world: the roads, the stories and the wireless in conversation with Declan Lyons, Galbally, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford: Three Sisters Press, 2014. 288 pp. ISBN 9780957316256 (pbk.)
O’Farrell, Anne-Marie, An oíche úd i mBeithil = The night in Bethlehem … for lever harp, Cardiff: Creighton’s Collection, 2014. 14 pp. ISMN M570461271. Sheet music
Peters, Brian, ‘The well-travelled ‘Wild rover”’ in Folk music journal as above, pp. 609–636
Pine, Richard, ‘Harry White and Barra Boydell (editors), The encyclopaedia of music in Ireland. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2013.’ in Irish university review vol. 44, Issue 2, (November 2014), pp. 399–405. Online review
Shanahan, Joanne, Meg E. Morris, Orfhlaith Ni Bhriain, et al., ‘Is Irish set dancing feasible for people with Parkinson’s disease in Ireland?’ in Complementary therapies in clinical practice: an international journal (article published online 13 December 2014)
Vallely, Fintan, ‘The globalization of Irish traditional song performance, Susan H. Motherway (Ashgate, 2013)’ in Folk music journal as above, pp.652–653. Review
Waltham, John, ‘Tom Munnelly, The singing will never be done: collected essays and lectures, 1990–2007 (The Old Kilfarboy Society, 2014)’ in The living tradition no 105 (Dec. 2014 / Jan. 2015), p.62. Review
Ward, Conor, ‘Storytelling through music: “Drunken Kelly”‘ in Fiddler magazine vol. 21, no 3 (Fall 2014), pp. 46–47. Online article
William, Sean, ‘Traditional music and Irish society: historical perspectives by Martin Dowling (Ashgate, 2014)’ in New Hibernia review vol. 18, no 4 (winter 2014), pp. 154–157. Review