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Anderson, Emma, ‘The Bekan horn: some new contextual suggestions’ in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland vol. 142–143 (2012–2013 published 2015), pp. 28–41
Bisagni, Jacopo, ‘Flutes, pipes, or bagpipes? Observations on the terminology of woodwind instruments in Old and Middle Irish’ in Pádraic Moran & Immo Warntjes eds, Early Medieval Ireland and Europe: Chronology, Contacts, Scholarship: Festschrift for Dáibhí Ó Cróinín Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2015, pp. 343–394, ISBN: 978-2-503-55313-9
Bowman, Peter, Irish folk tunes for descant recorder: 63 traditional pieces London: Schott Music, 2014. ISBN 9781847613639, 48 pp. (pbk.) +CD
Buckley, Ann, Nobilitate Vigens Furseus = The medieval office of Saint Fursey Norwich: Fursey Pilgrims, 2014. ISBN 0954477367, [x]+68 pp. (pbk.)
Carolan, Nicholas, ‘‘Out of the smoke’: A. Martin Freeman’s west Cork song collection of 1913–14’ in Early Medieval Ireland and Europe: Chronology, Contacts, Scholarship: Festschrift for Dáibhí Ó Cróinín as above, pp. 695–715
Carolan, Nicholas, ‘Pipers in the workhouse, Limerick, 1780s’ in An píobaire vol. 11, no 4 (September 2015), pp. 22–23
Costello, Éamonn, ‘Up against the Flatirons: The ace and deuce of piping. Vol. 1 / Eliot Grasso (NPU / Claddagh Records 2011)’ in Ethnomusicology: journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology vol. 59, no 3 (Fall 2015), pp. 506–510. Review
Donnelly, Seán, ”Neither a Papist nor a piper’: the Jacobite roots of the abhorrence of bagpipes at Bandon’ in The Irish sword: the journal of the Military History Society of Ireland vol. 30, no 120 (Winter 2015), pp. 157–169
Donnelly, Seán, ‘A Scottish Gaelic piping term in a bardic poem to the MacDonnells of Antrim’ in Ulster Folklife vol. 52 (2008), pp. 1–16
Erskine, Sarah, ‘Is the Cloc ind Édachta St Patrick’s oldest and most important medieval bell-relic?’ in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland as above, pp. 74–85
Garvin, Wilbert, ‘How I came to the pipes’ in An píobaire as above, pp. 26–29
Gunning, Carmel, The maid of sweet Gurteen: an anthology of songs and recitations from the western counties Gurteen, Co Sligo: Michael Coleman Heritage Centre, 2007. 72 pp. (pbk.) +CD
Mac Dhonnagáin, Tadhg, Mise Raifearaí: an fíodar focal An Spidéal, Co Galway: Futa Fata, 2015. ISBN 978-1-906907-90-7 (hbk.), [xv]+267. Biography of song composer and musician Antoine Ó Reachtabhra
Moore, Allan F., & Giovanni Vacca, Legacies of Ewan MacColl: the last interview Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014. ISBN 9781409424307, xvi [ii]+267 pp. (hbk.)
Myers, Jason R., ‘Keeping the old country alive: cultural connections between Chicago and Ireland, 1900–1933’ in Mícheál Ó hAodha & Máirtín Ó Catháin, eds, New perspectives on the Irish abroad: the silent people? Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2014, pp. ?–? ISBN 9780739183717
O’Dowd, Sheila, Four generations: a collection of reels, jigs & hornpipes from the County Sligo [S.l.]: Sheila O’Dowd, 2007. 120 pp. (pbk.)
O’Dwyer, Simon, Ancient music & instruments of Ireland and Britain [S.l.]: Ancient Music Ireland, 2015. ISBN 9781514175378, 184 pp. (pbk.)
Ó Sé, Seán, with Patricia Ahern, An poc ar buile: the life & times of Seán Ó Sé Cork: The Collins Press, 2015. ISBN 9781848892538 (pbk.); ISBN 9781848895027 (pdf ebook); ISBN 9781848895003 (epub ebook); ISBN 9781848895010 (Kindle ebook), xii+196 pp. Autobiography of singer
Scahill, Adrian, ‘The piper’s story over three centuries’ in Journal of music (8 September 2015). Online article
Sheahan, John, Fiddle dreams: poems & lyrics Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2015. ISBN 9781910251102, 96 pp. (pbk.)
Stephen, Sam, ‘Lives remembered: Packie Manus Byrne’ in EDS = English dance & song: the magazine of the English Folk Dance & Song Society vol. 77, no. 3 (Autumn 2015), p. 44
Turville-Petre, Thorlac, Poems from BL MS Harley 913: ‘The Kildare Manuscript’ in Oxford: Oxford University Press / Early English Text Society, 2015. ISBN
9780198739166, lxiv+173 pp. (hbk.)
Varade, Kristina R., ‘Dressing the “Feispora”: changes in Irish dance costume in the new millennium’ in New Hibernia review vol. 19, no 3, (Autumn 2015), pp. 58–7