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Browner, Gerry, ‘Old Australian piping news’ in An píobaire vol. 11, no [5] (Dec. 2015), pp. 26−29

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Donnelly, Seán, ‘The Liberator’s piper: Pádraig a’ Chasúir Ó Súilleabháin’ in The Kerry magazine no 26 (2015), pp. 12–13

Foley, Catherine E., ‘Cultural tourism, Meitheal, and re-presentation of heritage: traditional step dancing and Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland’ in Yearbook for traditional music as above, pp. 141–160

Irwin, Colin, ‘The Greeking of the Irish’ in Froots no 390 (December 2015), pp. 24−29. Andy Irvine on the integration of the Greek bouzouki into Irish traditional music

Johnston, Roy, & Declan Plummer, The musical life of nineteenth-century Belfast Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2015. 400 pp. ISBN 9780754663256 (hbk.)

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Keegan, Niall, ‘The Star of the Folk Revival’ in Journal of music (4 November 2015). Online article

Lambkin, Brian, ‘Blathmac’s Bithchuíniu: “perpetual keening” and migration’, in Pádraig Ó Riain ed., The poems of Blathmac son of Cú Brettan: reassessments, London: Irish Texts Society, 2015, ISBN 9780957566149, pp. 119–55

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McLaughlin, Dermot, Audit of traditional music sector in Northern Ireland Belfast: Arts Council of Northern Ireland, October 2015, 71 pp. Online report

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