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Anderson, Ted, ‘Harvesting Californian cane’ in An píobaire vol. 10, no 1 (Feb. 2014), pp. 25–29
Aubrey, Graham, ‘The influence of nineteenth-century anthologies of traditional Celtic music in defining Celtic nationalism’ in Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic colloquium vol. 28 (2008), pp. 1–8
Barclay, Katie, ‘Singing, performance, and lower-class masculinity in the Dublin Magistrates’ Court, 1820–1850′ in Journal of social history (2014). Abstract online
Bracefield, Hilary, ‘Gramophone or radio: transatlantic effects on the development of traditional music in Ireland’ in Irish journal of American studies vol. 13/14 (2004–5), pp. 115–21
Carolan, Nicholas, ‘A Galway piper at home c. 1890’ in An píobaire as above, p. 21. Music & dance in Killary c. 1890
de Gallaí, Breandán, Imeall-siúl: a choreographic exploration of expressive possibilities in Irish step dancing, Thesis (PhD): University of Limerick, 2013. 284 pp. Online thesis
Denvir, Síle, ‘Niamh Ní Shiadhail, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdáil & Ríonach uí Ógáin (eag.), Sealbhú an traidisiúin (Four Courts Press, 2013)’ in Eighteenth-century Ireland vol. 28 (2013), pp. 218–221. Review
Dervan, Ailbhe, & Ciara Lynch, Mike & Sue Fahy, comps, Ceoltóirí an Doirín, Ballinderreen, Co. Galway: Ceoltóirí an Doirín, 2014. 79 pp. (pbk.). Tune book
Doan, James E., ‘Julie Henigan, Literacy and orality in eighteenth-century Irish song (Pickering & Chatto, 2012)’ in Journal of folklore research reviews (Jan. 2014). Online review
Doherty, Liz, Iseult M. Wilson & Laura McKeown, ‘Practicing safe trad: why existing approaches to playing-related musculoskeletal disorders may not help the Irish traditional music community’ in Medical problems of performing artists vol. 28, no 4 (Dec. 2013), p.181. Online abstract
Dyrup, Marta Mestrovic, ‘Irish traditional dance in the Greater Metropolitan Area: ceili, step and set dancing’ in Studies on the Irish-American experience in New Jersey and New York paper 1 (2013), pp. 1–16. Online article
Feeney, Seán, Come West along the road, Thesis (BA Arch.): University of Limerick, 2013. 29 pp. Online thesis. Architectural project formed around the ‘unformalities’ of Irish traditional music
Ford, Peter L., & Lawrence E. McCullough, ‘Traditional Irish music in New Jersey and New York’ in Studies on the Irish-American experience in New Jersey and New York paper 5 (2013), pp. 1–20. Online article
Forsthoff, Kyle, & Andrew Kruspe, ‘The Irish bodhrán in context: celebrating the evolutions of a modern tradition’ in Percussive notes vol. 51 no 5 (Sept. 2013), pp. 20–22. Online article
Hillhouse, Andrew Neil, Touring as social practice: transnational festivals, personalized networks, and new folk music sensibilities, Thesis (PhD): University of Toronto, 2013. 380 pp. Online thesis
Mac Cathmhaoil, Nioclás, Muiris Ó Gormáin: beatha agus saothar fileata, Indreabhán, Co na Gaillimhe: An Clóchomhar / Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2013. 300 pp. ISBN 9781906882747 (pbk.). 18th-century Ulster poet
Mahan, Gregory L., Fifty great celtic reels, vols. 1-5, [USA]: Mahan, 2012. [iv]+29 pp.; [iv]+31 pp.; [iv]+27 pp.; [iv]+29 pp.; [iv]+29 pp. ISBN 9781477668610; 9781477668900; 9781477669044; 9781477669112; 9781477669242 (pbk.)
Mongan, Tom, A song for the forest, Mongan, 2014. [vi]+213 pp. ISBN 9781910097168 (pbk.). Memoir of 1960s Ireland including music and song
Moran, Jimmy O’Brien, ‘Hugh & Lisa Shields, eds, Tunes of the Munster pipers: Irish traditional music from the James Goodman manuscripts, vol. 2 (ITMA, 2013)’ in An píobaire as above, pp. 14–15. Review
Morley, Vincent, ‘Amhrán poblachtach ón mbliain 1795’ in Eighteenth-century Ireland as above, pp. 136–147. Analysis of song
Moylan, Terry, ‘Two piping duets from Leo Rowsome: The wearing of the green [and] The harp that once’ in An píobaire as above, pp. 18–19
Moylan, Terry, ‘The piper without patronage’ in An píobaire, as above, p. 20. History of 19th-century American drawing of unidentified Galway piper
Murphy, John. A., ‘Tomás Ó Canainn, 1930–2013: an appreciation’ in Independent thinking: [UCC] alumni magazine (2014), pp.
Nic Éinrí, Úna, ‘Vincent Morley, eag. Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín (Field Day/Keogh-Naughton IIS, 2012)’ in Eighteenth-century Ireland as above, 215-217. Review
Nolan, Emer, ‘Irish melodies and discordant politics: Thomas Moore’s ‘Memoirs of Captain Rock’ (1824)’ in Field Day review vol. 2 (2006), pp. 40–53
Ó Catháin, Séamas, ‘Early twentieth-century field-work in Ireland and Scotland by the Norwegian ethnomusicologist, Ole Mørk Sandvik (1875–1976)’ in Ailbhe Ó Corráin & Gordon Ó Riain, eds, Celebrating sixty years of Celtic Studies at Uppsala University: proceedings of the eleventh symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica (Uppsala Universitet, 2013. ISBN 9789155488093), pp. 181–202. Has music relevance
O’Connor, Barbara, The Irish dancing: cultural politics and identities, 1900-2000, Cork: Cork University Press, 2013. x+182 p. ISBN 9781782050414 (hbk.)
Ó hAllmhuráin, Gearóid, ‘Soundscape of the Wintermen: Irish traditional music in Newfoundland revisited’ in The Canadian journal of Irish studies vol. 34, no 2 (fall 2008), pp. 33–46
Ó Muircheartaigh, Peadar, ‘Muintir Longáin agus Caoine Airt Uí Laoire: fianaise nua-aimsithe ar a ról i seachadadh an dáin’ in Eighteenth-century Ireland as above, pp. 148–169
Pietzonka, Katrin, And the healing has begun: a musical journey towards peace in Northern Ireland, Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse, 2013. 292 pp. ISBN 9781491885581 (pbk.)
Poulet, Charlotte, ‘L’attention parfaite ou l’écoute du chant irlandais’ in Volume! vol. 10, no 1 (2013), pp. 129–145. Online abstract
Smith, Vic, ‘Len Graham’ in Froots no. 369 (March 2014), p. 18. Interview with traditional singer
Staib, Matthew, Lennart Jansson & Edward Dai, Music structure in Irish traditional tunes, Stanford University CS 229 Machine Learning Final Projects (autumn 2013), 5 pp. Online PDF
Stanley, Roy, In tune: a milennium of music in Trinity College Library, Dublin: TCD Library, 2013. 58+[2] pp. ISBN 9781871408904 (pbk.). Catalogue of TCD Library online music exhibition
Sweeney, Virgie, (née Igoe), ‘Memories of Cumann Rinca [sic] Thuama’ in Journal of the Old Tuam Society vol. 10 (2013), pp. 47–48
Whitmer, Nick, ‘The O’Donnell Brothers’ in An píobaire as above, pp. 22–24. Cornelius and Edward O’Donnell, ‘Irish Pipers and Dancers’: early 20th-century American vaudeville act