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10 Jun 07 - 07:25 PM (#2073225) Subject: Old Irish songs at Google Book Search From: Jim Dixon I don't know why, but books of old Irish songs are harder to find than books of old Scottish songs. Maybe Ireland didn't have, until recently, such a strong tradition of singing songs in English, so there were fewer songs to collect. Or maybe the songs existed, but scholars didn't bother collecting them. Or maybe scholars collected them, but Google hasn't got around to digitizing them yet. Or maybe I'm missing something. A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue, by Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomas William Rolleston, 1900. Lays and Legends of Thomond, by Michael Hogan, 1880. Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes, by John Stephen Farmer, 1896. Popular Songs of Ireland, by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1886. Songs of Erinn, by Patrick Joseph McCall, 1899. Songs of Irish Wit and Humour, by Alfred Perceval Graves, 1884. Street Ballads, Popular Poetry, and Household Songs of Ireland, by Duncathail pseud, ed, 1865. The Blarney Ballads, by Charles Larcom Graves, 1893. The Cabinet of Irish Literature, by Charles Anderton Read, 1880. The Irish Poems of Alfred Perceval Graves, by Alfred Perceval Graves, 1908. The Lyrics of Ireland, by Samuel Lover, 1858. The Popular Poets and Poetry of Ireland, by Richard Nagle, 1887. The Song Lore of Ireland: Erin's Story in Music and Verse, by Redfern Mason, 1910. |
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11 Jun 07 - 03:45 AM (#2073377) Subject: RE: Old Irish songs at Google Book Search From: Geoff the Duck it of a difference from today when they seem to just claim EVERY song as Irish, no matter what its origins ;0) . Quack! GtD. |
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11 Jun 07 - 10:45 PM (#2074327) Subject: RE: Old Irish songs at Google Book Search From: Jim Dixon A few more: Irish Love-Songs, by Katharine Tynan, 1892. Tales & Stories of the Irish Peasantry, by William Carleton, 1860. The Celtic Records and Historic Literature of Ireland, by Sir John Thomas Gilbert, 1861. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore Complete in One Volume, by Thomas Moore, 1838. The Poets and Poetry of Munster, by James Clarence Mangan, 1850. The Spirit of the Nation, by The Nation, Dublin, 1845. |
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12 Jun 07 - 02:28 AM (#2074421) Subject: RE: Old Irish songs at Google Book Search From: MartinRyan A very useful list - thank you! Regards |
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12 Jun 07 - 02:40 AM (#2074426) Subject: RE: Old Irish songs at Google Book Search From: GUEST 'Maybe Ireland didn't have, until recently, such a strong tradition of singing songs in English, so there were fewer songs to collect.' Tom Munnelly, collector for the Irish Folklore Department, has collected 20,000 songs, mainly in English. Included in these are 50 plus of the Child Ballads, several of which have not turned up in Britain. The last major collection published was Sam Henry's 'Songs of the People'. Jim Carroll |
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29 Sep 07 - 10:51 PM (#2160237) Subject: RE: Old Irish songs at Google Book Search From: Jim Dixon A few more: Celtic Irish Songs and Song-Writers by Charles MacCarthy Collins, 1885. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy et al., 1904. The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics by Charles Welsh, 1907. |
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04 Oct 07 - 02:20 AM (#2163370) Subject: RE: Old Irish songs at Google Book Search From: David Ingerson Wow! I had no idea there were so many of the old books or collections. Thanks for the info. Cheers, David |
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04 Oct 07 - 06:58 AM (#2163480) Subject: RE: Old Irish songs at Google Book Search From: Fred McCormick There's also John O'Daly's Poets and Poetry of Munster; A Selection of Irish Songs by the Poets of the Last Century. It's a collection of songs in Irish, with English translations, rather than a set of anglo-Irish texts, but an early and important publication nonetheless. |
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04 Oct 07 - 08:46 AM (#2163544) Subject: RE: Old Irish songs at Google Book Search From: Jim Dixon And here's the link: The Poets and Poetry of Munster: A Selection of Irish Songs by the Poets of the Last Century by John O'Daly, with translations by James Clarence Mangan, 1850. By the way, about the time I started this thread, I also started 2 other threads: Old Scottish songs at Google Book Search Old English songs at Google Book Search |
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04 Oct 07 - 09:54 AM (#2163584) Subject: RE: Old Irish songs at Google Book Search From: GUEST,songster There lots of song books published by modern day collectors, usually on their own County. Jimmy McBride from Inishowen and Jim MacFarland from Derry have a book out on local songs. Jackie Boyce from County Down has a book out on songs from County Down. John Moulden has pampklets and books published also.(search 'Ulster Songs') You just have to search for them, they are still available. Songster |