Revolution and Irish Song

Subject: Revolution and Irish Song
From: MartinRyan
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 03:13 PM

A guy called Terry Moylan, with part sponsorship from teh the Goleen SIngers Club in Dublin, has just published a magnificent book called "The Age of Revolution in the Irish SOng Tradition 1776-1815". Its a collection of songs (and some poems and tunes) relevant to the time between the American War of Independence and the death of Napoleon. Plenty of relevant illustrations and historical notes - tunes for all the songs etc. Well worth getting.

The publishers have a website Lilliput Press . Mind you, there's no mention of the book there yet! It was launched in Dublin last night by the inimitable Frank Harte (an occasional visitor to Mudcat shores!) and was followed by a great session of songs. Among those present was Michael O'Riordan, who faought in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.

Regards

p.s. No doubt John Moulden will have stock before long also.

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: MartinRyan
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 03:24 PM

Ha! Let's try that again: Lilliput Press

Regards

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: MartinRyan
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 03:28 PM

No - it's not my fault, I reckon. Something is screwing up the HREF entry by adding part of the Mudcat address.

Regards

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: Snuffy
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 05:44 PM

Is this any better?
Lilliput Press

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: MartinRyan
Date: 29 Nov 00 - 07:38 PM

Yes, snuffy, it is..!

Regards

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: Wolfgang
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 04:09 AM

What a pity that I have already this year's Christmas present. On second thought, I could do with two presents. Thanks for that info.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: MartinRyan
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 06:20 AM

Wolfgang

Yes - you'll certainly enjoy this one!

Regards

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: GUEST,John in Brisbane
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 06:44 AM

Martin, the Aussie $ is in freefall at the moment, about 1:3.5. Do you have a rough idea of the price of the book. Regards, John

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: MartinRyan
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 06:53 AM

John

Cover price is £16.50 Irish. Being in euro-land, our currency is probably falling faster than yours! Drop an email to the publisher re postage, I guess.

Regards

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: MudGuard
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 07:01 AM

Martin, you have to use an absolute link (one starting with //).
If you don't put a slash at the start of the address (i.e. after the protocol (http:, ftp:, mailto: ...) which is http: by default), the address is interpreted as relative to the current file.
If you put one slash at the start of the address it is interpreted as relative to the webserver-root of the current file.
MudGuard

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: MartinRyan
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 07:18 AM

Gotcha, Mudguard! I usually copy and paste links - but didn't this time. Thanks

Regards

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: GUEST,Liam's Brother
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 09:10 AM

I have looked at a pre-publication working copy of this book and can only echo Martin Ryan's kudos. It is excellent, unique and invaluable.

All the best,
Dan Milner

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: GUEST,Walrus
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 05:26 PM

"The Age of Revolution in the Irish SOng Tradition 1776-1815". Its a collection of songs .... relevant to the time between the American War of Independence and the death of Napoleon. Plenty of relevant illustrations and historical notes ......"

Might I be horribly pedantic and point out that in 1815, Napoleon was alive and (more or less) well and causing problems for much of Western Europe (he didn't pop his clogs until 1821).

Does the book only feature American Revolutionary & UI songs or are there and "foreign" entries (The Irish had a habit of fighting for almost anybody, especially if there was the chance of a slap against the English).

Walrus

nb: Can anyone help me, for some reason I'm coming up as "Guest" again and the system won't let me re-register as myself. W

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: GUEST,Walrus
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 05:31 PM

The "foreign" entries bit in the last post was qualified by mentioning King Louis'Irish Regiments (Lally, Dillon, Barclay, Claire etc), Napoleon's Legion Irlandaise and the Spanish King's Irish Regiments, but the entry never came through (that'll teach me not to put things in triangular brackets)

Walrus

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: Noreen
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 06:20 PM

Walrus, I believe you need to 'reset your cookie': on the drop-down menu under Quick Links, above.

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: MartinRyan
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 06:46 PM

Walrus

Apologies - I should have said , as does the author, "from the American declaration of Independence to final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo" ! Too rushed, I'm afraid.

I'll come back to the more general question when I've had a good read!

Regards

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: GUEST,Liam's Brother
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 09:25 AM

Well, now, take a look at...

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2000/1207/fea1.htm

This is a write-up about Terry book and The Goilin Singers Club in The Irish Times newspaper!

Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song
From: MartinRyan
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 09:37 AM

Dan

You beat me to it!

Regards