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Hulzinga, Gosse, Flight of the eagle: the life of Donald Ban MacCrimmon, Kampen, The Netherlands: Blurb, 2014. 116 pp. (hbk.)
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Larsen, Grey, Down the back lane: variation in traditional Irish dance music, Pacific, MO: Mel Bay Publications, 2013. 52 pp. ISBN 9780786685745 (pbk.). With CD
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Munnelly, Tom (Anne Clune, ed.), The singing will never be done: collected essays and lectures, 1990–2007, Miltown Malbay, County Clare: The Old Kilfarboy Society, 2014. x+406 pp. ISBN 9780955603730 (hbk.). Contents: Editor’s preface — Foreword / Ríonach uí Ógain — Forty years folk song collecting — Irish song — Defining excellence in traditional singing — Junior Crehan of Bonavilla — Irish travellers and their traditions — Plaisir d’amour? Love in Anglo-Irish folksong — Work and occupation related songs — Mo bhrón ar an bhfarraige: songs of emigration and exile — Come all ye loyal Christians: religious song — Ye a-muses nine: humorous songs in Anglo-Irish tradition — The prince of the Gael is abroad — Napoleon and the English language song tradition in Ireland — Folklore and Folklore collectors in Clare — Narrative song in Clare — ‘Oh, what a falling off was there’: a survey of collections of, and attitudes to, English language folk song in Ireland, 1789–1972 — Epilogue: ‘The judgement of Munnelly’ / by Con Ó Drisceoil — Bibliography — Discography — Songs available online from the National Folklore Collection — Index
Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás (Matthieu Boyd, ed.), Coire Sois, the cauldron of knowledge: a companion to early Irish saga, University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. 648 pp. ISBN 9780268037369 (pbk.)
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Rossi, Doc, Learn how to play the Irish way ASAP: Irish mandolin, Anaheim Hills, CA: Centerstream Publishing, 2014. 32 pp. ISBN 9781574243031 (pbk.). With CD
Welch, Robert Anthony, The cold of May Day Monday: an approach to Irish literary history, Oxford University Press, 2014. 352 pp. ISBN 9780199686841. (hbk.)