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Bainbridge, Jim, ‘Reg Hall and the ITMA 78 records project’ in The living tradition no 115 (August/September 2016), pp. 28–29
Carberry, Noel, ‘Peter Carberry, 1924–2016’ in An píobaire vol. 12, no 3 (July 2016), p. 13. Obituary
Cotter, Geraldine, Transforming tradition: Irish traditional music in Ennis, County Clare 1950–1980 [S.l.]: Geraldine Cotter, 2016. xii+208 pp. ISBN 9780956651716 (pbk)
Cullen, Ellen, ‘Ireland’s harp: the shaping of Irish identity c. 1770–1880 / Mary Louise O’Donnell (UCD Press, 2014)’ in Ethnomusicology Ireland Issue 4 (Summer 2016). Review Online article
Dervan, Michael, ed., The invisible art: a century of music in Ireland 1916–2016 Dublin: New Island, 2016. xxiii+296 pp. ISBN 9781848405745 (hbk)
Dunlap, David, A., The broken fiddle CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. 332 p. ISBN 9781534610248 (pbk and e-book). Fiction
Gilmore, Peter, ‘A new track for Paddy’s ‘race-horse’: political song in shaping Pittsburgh’s Irish diaspora’ in Ethnomusicology Ireland as above. Online article
Irwin, Colin, ‘Nowt so punk as folk: the extraordinary rise and rise of ‘Dublin folk miscreants’ Lynched’ in Froots nos 398/399 (Aug./Sept. 2016), pp. 26–31
Joyce, Sandra, ‘Round top wagon / Tommy McCarthy (Tin Folk Music ITCD 001) ; Herself and myself / Tommy McCarthy (Tin Folk Music ITCD002)’ in Ethnomusicology Ireland as above. Review Online article
Kader, Emily, ‘Shared tradition: Irish and Appalachian ballads and whiskey songs’ in Bryan Albin Giemza ed., Rethinking the Irish in the American South: beyond rounders and reelers, Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2013 (hbk & ebk), pp. 122–39
Kaiser, Linda Pembroke, Pulling strings: the legacy of Melville A. Clark New York: Syracuse University Press, 2010. xxi+185 pp. ISBN 9780815609506 (hbk). Contains references to the Clark Irish Harp
Mac Aoidh, Caoimhín, ‘The hidden note: sweet air or hot air?’ in Fiddler magazine vol. 23, no 3 (Fall 2016), pp. 44–45
MacCafferty, Joyce Ann, The deep green pool: the life, work and legacy of Patricia Mulholland Derry: Guildhall Press, 2007. 202 pp. ISBN 9781906271015 (hbk)
Mac Craith, Nioclás, ‘Amhráintí den sean-saol’, An linn bhuí: iris Ghaeltacht na nDéise no 20 (2016), pp. 134–49
McIntyre, Thérèse, ‘Who fears to sing of 1916?: a search for the Galway songs of the Rising’ in Farming and country life 1916: history talks presented at Teagasc Athenry 10th and 11th June 2016, Carlow: Teagasc, 2016 (pbk), pp. 185–92
Mac Mahon, Tony, Potts Dublin: Paul O’Connor, 2014. [iv]+5 pp. (pbk)
Marshall, Howard, & Ben Taylor, Out of darkness: the blind piper of Inagh Norfolk: Cottier Press, 2016. 424 pp. ISBN 9780995505407 (hbk). About piper Garrett Barry
[Mitchell, Pat], ‘Technical: reed-making notes’ in An píobaire as above, pp. 22–25
Moylan, Terry, ‘Seanchas: Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (Micí ‘Cumbá)’ in An píobaire as above, pp. 26–28
Ní Fhlanagáin, Irene, ‘Ceol na gComarach’, An linn bhuí as above, pp. 56–61. About contemporary musicians
Noone, Matthew ‘Mattu’, ‘Reclaiming the mongrel: a practice-based exploration of the sympathies between Irish and Indian music’ in Desmond Bell ed., Mind the gap!: working papers on practice-based doctoral research in the creative arts and media, Dublin: Distillers Press, 2016 (pbk), pp. 226–39
Ó Gealbháin, Ciarán, ‘Risteard de Hindeberg agus a chomhluadar ceoil, samhradh 1905’, An linn bhuí as above, pp. 151–78
Ó hAllmhuráin, Gearóid, Flowing tides: history and memory in an Irish soundscape New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiv+311 pp. ISBN 9780199380084 (hbk)
Ó hAllmhuráin, Gearóid, ‘The place of sound – the sound of place: Irish music and cultural memory in rural Quebec’ in Margaret Kelleher & Michael Kenneally eds, Ireland and Quebec: multidisciplinary perspectives on history, culture and society Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2016 (hbk), pp. 183–196
Ó M[acháin], P[ádraig], ‘Ceol ár sinsear’, An linn bhuí as above, pp. 359–62. About contemporary musicians in the Déise
Quinn, Sean, Key notes: the traditional dance music compositions of Sean Quinn Antrim: Glens Music, 2016. 88 pp. (pbk)
Smith, Christopher J., ‘Blacks and Celts on the riverine frontiers: the roots of American popular music’ in Rethinking the Irish in the American South as above, pp. 140–60
Spinney, Ann Morrison, ‘Kitchen racket, céilí, and pub session: traditional Irish music in Boston, Massachusetts’ in Kip Lornell & Anne K. Rasmussen, eds The music of multicultural America: performance, identity, and community in the United States Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016 (pbk), pp. 54–86
Tóibín, Nioclás (†1966), ‘Amhráin Ghaeilge agus bailéidí Béarla’, An linn bhuí as above, pp. 264–74
uí Ógáin, Ríonach, ‘Bailitheoirí Béaloidis sa Rinn’, An linn bhuí as above, pp. 117–32
White, Harry, ‘Courtyards in Delft’: identity, originality and the culture of musical practice in Quebec and Ireland’ in Margaret Kelleher & Michael Kenneally eds, Ireland and Quebec: multidisciplinary perspectives on history, culture and society as above, pp. 197–210