The Poets of Ireland

The Poets of Ireland
Author: David James O'Donoghue
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1912-01-01
Genre:
ISBN:

Songs of Irish Rebellion

Songs of Irish Rebellion
Author: Georges Denis Zimmermann
Publisher: Hatboro, Penn, Folklore Associates
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1967
Genre: Ballads, English
ISBN:

The Stars of Ballymenone, New Edition

The Stars of Ballymenone, New Edition
Author: Henry Glassie
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2016-09-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0253022622

In the time of the Troubles, when bombs blew through the night and soldiers prowled down the roads, Henry Glassie came to the Irish borderland to learn how country people endure through history. He settled into the farming community of Ballymenone, beside Lough Erne in the County Fermanagh, and listened to the old people. For a decade he heard and recorded the stories and songs in which they outlined their culture, recounted their history, and pictured their world. In their view, their world was one of love, defeat, and uncertainty, demanding the virtues of endurance: faith, bravery, and wit. Glassie's task in this book is to set the scene, to sketch the backdrop and clear the stage, so that Hugh Nolan and Michael Boyle, Peter Flanagan, Ellen Cutler, and their neighbors can tell their own tale, which explains their conditions and converts them into a tragedy of conflict and a comedy of the absurd. It gathers the saints and warriors, and celebrates the stars whose wit enabled endurance in days of violence and deprivation. With patience and respect, Glassie describes life in a time and a place exactly like no other, and yet Ballymenone is like a thousand other places where people work on the land during the day and tell their own tales at night, forgotten, while the men of power fill the newspapers and history books by sending poor boys out to be killed. The Stars of Ballymenone is an integrated analysis of the complete repertory of verbal art from a rural community where storytelling and singing of quality remained a part of daily life.

Notes and Sources for Folk Songs of the Catskills

Notes and Sources for Folk Songs of the Catskills
Author: Norman Cazden
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1983-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0791498646

Notes and Sources to Folk Songs of the Catskills, also published by the State University of New York Press, is the companion volume to Folk Songs of the Catskills. It contains extensive reference notes that exemplify and support detailed citations in the commentary preceding each song. The book also includes a comprehensive list of sources, including books, broadsides or pocket songsters, disc recordings, music publications, periodicals, tape archives, and other miscellaneous material, as well as information on variants, adaptations, comments or references, texts, and tunes. These notes are designed to provide succinct reference information.