The Bodhran Makers
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Author | : John B Keane |
Publisher | : The O'Brien Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2017-04-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 184717941X |
Life is harsh in close-knit community of Dirrabeg, a community on the Dingle Peninsula facing extinction in the mid-1950's. Many of the young have left for England or America, where there are opportunities and chances for secure lives. Those remaining behind love their land and their independence but fear for the future as the bogs get thin, the yields are poor, and the children have little hope of success. 'We never died a winter yet.' A wickedly funny and insightful novel from the author of Sive, The Field, The Year of the Hiker, and many other classic works. In the Kerry village of Dirrabeg in the 1950s, the annual wren dance is a moment of light within the dark winter, especially for bodhrán player Donal Hallapy, whose skills are in high demand. But this paganism, and the singing, dancing and drinking that take place, are anathema to Canon Tett, who resolves to crush the old customs. Donal Hallapy, devoted father of a large family, is a bodhran player. He is always in great demand whenever the once-a-year wrendances take place, a day long festival on St Stephen's Day, which can be traced back to pagan times. This paganism, the secret nature of the celebrations, the singing, dancing and drinking that takes place, and the fact that the church has no control over them has made them anathema to "the clan of the round collar," in the person of Canon Tett, an ultraconservative and downright sadistic priest determined to bring the free spirits of Dirrabeg to bay by ending the fun of the wrendances. Wickedly funny and full of insight into age-old conflicts and a lifestyle long passed into memory.
Author | : Perseus |
Publisher | : Carroll & Graf |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 1993-01-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780941423809 |
A best-selling, award-winning novel in Ireland, this saga recounts the struggle of poor, hard-living Irish farmers, called Bodhra+a7ns, to preserve their primitive rites in the face of opposition by the Catholic Church during the 1950s. Reissue.
Author | : Colin F. Harte |
Publisher | : Charles K. Wolfe Music |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781621905554 |
"Colin F. Harte traces the bodhrán from its early origins in Irish traditional music to its present-day resurgence in Irish American folk music. Harte includes chapters on the instrument's historical and organological development, experimentation and innovation in playing styles over time, and a study of the instrument's performative practices. The central academic focus of the text is the recent, rapid developments in bodhrán design, performance practices, and teaching the bodhrán to a new generation of musicians"--
Author | : James McVeigh |
Publisher | : The O'Brien Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2022-02-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1788493524 |
Belfast, 1944: American soldier James McCann meets the beautiful and impetuous Rose Rafferty. They fall in love, but their romance is forbidden – and war separates them. Boston, present day: James's children are celebrating his life when they find a wartime letter that changes everything. They have a half-sister, born in an Irish mother and baby home, stolen by the nuns and exported to the US. Their search for justice will cross oceans and generations. It will uncover secrets and lies, revealing the abuse of the most innocent in society by the most powerful. It will pit them against Church and State and shine a light into the darkest corners of Irish history.
Author | : Steven Brust |
Publisher | : Orb Books |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429910747 |
Steven Brust's Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille is a time-traveling, science fiction thriller and a rollicking, fun read. Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille serves the best matzoh ball soup in the Galaxy, and hires some of the best musicians you'll ever hear. It's a great place to visit, but it tends to move around—just one step ahead of whatever mysterious conspiracy is reducing whole worlds to radioactive ash. And Cowboy Feng's may be humanity's last hope for survival. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : John B. Keane |
Publisher | : Mercier Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Adventure story about life in rural Ireland during the Second World War.
Author | : Patricia Polacco |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2014-08-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1442487259 |
An Irish family stays together with the help of Fiona’s talent for making one-of-a-kind lace in this heartwarming immigration story from the New York Times bestselling creator of The Keeping Quilt. Many years ago, times were hard in all of Ireland, so when passage to America becomes available, Fiona and her family travel to Chicago. They find work in domestic service to pay back their passage, and at night Fiona turns tangles of thread into a fine, glorious lace. Then when the family is separated, it is the lace that Fiona’s parents follow to find her and her sister and bring the family back together. And it is the lace that will always provide Fiona with memories of Ireland and of her mother’s words: “In your heart your true home resides, and it will always be with you as long as you remember those you love.” This generational story from the family of Patricia Polacco’s Irish father brims with the same warmth and heart as the classic The Keeping Quilt and The Blessing Cup, which Kirkus Reviews called “deeply affecting” in a starred review, and embraces the comfort of family commitment and togetherness that Patricia Polacco’s books are known for.
Author | : Steáfán Hannigan |
Publisher | : Music Sales |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
(Music Sales America). Accomplished and renowned percussionist Steafan Hannigan details all the intricacies of traditional Bodhran playing. Nothing is taken for granted or forgotten, making this a suitable manual for beginners with its gentle and careful progression through the techniques using numerous examples and exercises. Learn the many, varied bodhran techniques through expert and detailed instruction. Also included is a selection of repertoire pieces which add depth to your playing, plus sections on the history of the Bodhran and Irish music, including construction and maintenance. All clearly presented with illustrations, photographs and diagrams.
Author | : Spike Milligan |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2014-09-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0241971373 |
Puckoon is Spike Milligan's classic slapstick novel, reissued for the first time since it was published in 1963. 'Pops with the erratic brilliance of a careless match in a box of fireworks' Daily Mail In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Through incompetence, dereliction of duty and sheer perversity, the border ends up running through the middle of the small town of Puckoon. Houses are divided from outhouses, husbands separated from wives, bars are cut off from their patrons, churches sundered from graveyards. And in the middle of it all is poor Dan Milligan, our feckless protagonist, who is taunted and manipulated by everyone (including the sadistic author) to try and make some sense of this mess . . . 'Bursts at the seams with superb comic characters involved in unbelievably likely troubles on the Irish border' Observer 'Our first comic philosopher' Eddie Izzard Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.
Author | : Joyce Pye |
Publisher | : Salmon Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780948339387 |