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Accardi, Dan, ‘Irish fiddling. The hop down: what’s not a slip jig’ in Fiddler magazine vol. 23, no 2 (Summer 2016), pp. 44–45
Casserly, Ray, ‘Blood, thunder, and drums: style and changing aesthetics of drumming in Northern Ireland Protestant bands’ in Yearbook for traditional music vol. 45 (2013), pp. 142–163. Review
Costello, Éamonn, ‘”Vernacular Irish song as battle paper: competition and Irish vernacular culture” accepted for the TradSong Symposium, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick (14–15 October 2015)’, 14 pp. Online article
De Cléir, Síle, ‘Atlantic currents: essays on lore, literature and language: essays in honour of Séamus Ó Catháin / Sruthanna an Aigéin Thiar: aistí ar sheanchas, ar litríocht agus ar theanga: aistí in onóir do Shéamas Ó Catháin. Edited by Bo Almqvist, Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh, Liam Mac Mathúna, Séamus Mac Mathúna agus Seosamh Watson. University College Dublin Press. Dublin 2012. xix + 485 pp.’, Éigse. A journal of Irish studies vol. XXXIX (2016), pp. 372–78. Review
Dillane, Aileen, ‘Irish pirate ballads and other songs of the sea / Dan Milner (Smithsonian Folkways, 2009)’ in Yearbook for traditional music vol. 43 (2011), p. 245. Review
Dillane, Aileen, and Matthre Noone, ‘Irish music Orientalism’ in New Hibernia review vol 20, no 1 (spring 2016), pp. 121–137
Dorrity, Michaela, Regional styles of Irish music with particular emphasis on the fiddle music of Donegal Thesis (BMus): Newcastle University, 2016. 53 leaves (pbk.)
Gubbins, Helen, Shortwaves, acetates and journeywork: Irish traditional music on early Irish radio Thesis (MA): University College Cork, 2016. x+220 leaves (hbk.)
Mac Aoidh, Caoimhín, ‘John Sheahan: music maker, wordsmith’ in Fiddler magazine as above, pp. 16–18
Moylan, Terry, An index to the Samuels collection of Irish political ephemera at Trinity College, Dublin, typescript, 2016
Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín, ‘On the meaning of baile (buile), and the interpretation of the poem beginning Rop tú mo baile’, Éigse as above, pp. 231–42. Connection with traditional air
Ní Íceadha, Máire, ‘Is atuirseach casmhar ró-chathach le spás mé’, Éigse as above, pp. 96–110. Song by Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin
Ó Briain, Lonán, ‘The musical traditions of Northern Ireland and its diaspora: community and conflict / David Cooper (Ashgate, 2009)’ in Yearbook for traditional music vol. 42 (2010), pp. 212–214. Review
Ó Corragáin, Fiachra, Legends as music: new composition in the traditional Irish idiom Thesis (PhD): University College Cork, 2016.
Ó Curnáin, Brian, ‘Amhrán faoin bportach as Carna’, Éigse as above, pp. 226–30
Ó Murchú, Tomás L., ‘Caoineadh ar Shéamas Óg Mac Coitir (+ 1720)’, Éigse as above, pp. 71–95
O’Neill, Berrie, Tones that are tender: Percy French 1854 – 1920 Dublin: Percy French Society in association with The Lilliput Press, 2016. 176 pp. ISBN 9781843516675 (hbk.)
Ó Laoire, Lillis, ‘Tráthnóna beag aréír’, in Ag siúl an bhealaigh mhóir: aistí in ómós do Nollaig Mac Congáil, John Walsh & Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh eds, Dublin: LeabhairCOMHAR, 2016, ISBN 978-0-9927313-8-0, pp. 154–76. On song of the same title
Osborne, Evelyn, ‘The most Irish place in the world? “Irishness” in the recorded folk music of Newfoundland and Labrador’ in MUSICultures vol. 42, no 2 (2015), pp. 79–102
Ó Siadhail, Pádraig, ‘Sean, nua agus síoraíocht: féilscríbhinn in ómós do Dháithí Ó hÓgáin. Curtha in eagar ag Ríonach ui Ógain, William Nolan agus Éamonn Ó hÓgáin. Coiscéim. Baile Átha Cliath 2012. xv + 526 lch., Éigse as above, pp. 378–85. Review
Ramsey, Gordon, ‘Vaughan Williams Memorial Library online indexes ; Cecil Sharp’s Appalachian diaries 1915– 1918 ; Irish Traditional Music Archive [website]’ in Yearbook for traditional music vol. 42 (2010), pp. 245–247. Review
Reily, Suzel Ana, ‘Focus: Irish traditional music / Sean Williams (Routledge, 2010)’ in Yearbook for traditional music vol. 42 (2010), pp. 196–197. Review
Russell, Ian, ‘ICTM Ireland: fieldwork (ICTM Ireland, 2013) ; The full English (Topic Records, 2013)’ in Yearbook for traditional music vol. 46 (2014), pp. 245–247. Review
Stecher, Jody, ‘Jody’s new column: Paddy Fahy plays ‘The Irish washerwoman” in Fiddler magazine as above, pp. 40–41
Waldron, Janice, ‘An alternative model of music learning and ‘Last night’s fun’: participatory music making in/as participatory culture in Irish traditional music’ in Action, criticism & theory for music education vol. 15, no 3 (June 2016), pp. 86–112. Online article
Wiens, Kathleen, ‘Comhaltas Traditional Music Archive [website]’ in Yearbook for traditional music vol. 45 (2013), pp. 291–292. Review
Woods, Fergus, Kind friends lend an ear: songs and stories from County Monaghan [S.l.]: Ashtress, 2016. 147 pp. ISBN 9780957585874 (pbk.)