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18 Jun 10 - 04:12 AM (#2930307) Subject: Tom Munnelly - Songfisher From: Jim Carroll For anybody within reach of Clare FM on Irish radio over the next two weeks, broadcaster Paula Carroll is presenting her two programmes on the work of Tom Munnelly, arguably one of the most important and prolific collectors of Irish song, story and lore in the latter half of the 20th century. Tom collected in Ireland on behalf of The Folklore Department from the sixties up to his death a couple of years ago; his treasure-trove amounts to around 22,000 songs. Examples of Tom's work can be found on the albums, 'Bonny Green Tree' (Traveller John Reilly), 'Mount Callan Garland' (Clare singer Tom Lenihan), Songs of the Irish Travellers (re-issued last year) and 'Early Ballads in Ireland' (in preparation for re-issue). 'Songfisher' will air on Clare FM Weds. 23rd and 30th June at 8 pm. Jim Carroll |
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18 Jun 10 - 01:40 PM (#2930644) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly From: GUEST No "arguably" about it Jim. He was the man!! :-) |
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19 Jun 10 - 09:10 AM (#2931017) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: GUEST,Jim Martin GUEST - Who are you? I thought this wasn't allowed!
-Joe Offer- |
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20 Jun 10 - 05:01 AM (#2931381) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lor From: Goose Gander Any chance of hearing more of those 22,000 songs on CD? |
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20 Jun 10 - 07:03 AM (#2931407) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: GUEST,John Moulden All the recordings are housed in the National Folklore Archive at University College Dublin. Unfortunately, for reasons of conservation, few of them are available for listening and, due to copyright restrictions, they may not be copied, though transcription is allowed. There are vague plans to issue some material but this awaits suitable funding; in these times we could wait a while. Does anybody have a few thousand euro spare? |
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21 Jun 10 - 12:54 PM (#2932043) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: GUEST,^&* Should be able to hear those programmes live on Clare FM. |
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21 Jun 10 - 01:48 PM (#2932074) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: The Sandman thanks for putting this up |
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25 Jun 10 - 06:11 AM (#2934460) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: GUEST,^&* Paula's item on Tom Munnelly is about 1 hr. into The West Wind program for June 23, available HERE |
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28 Jun 10 - 04:25 PM (#2936198) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: Richard Mellish For anyone who has had trouble with the link posted by GUEST,^&* here's what I've found. The link goes to http://www.clare.fm/music/ClareFM%20trad%20archive where there are further links to several programmes. The one identified as "The West Wind - wed - 23rd June 2010" goes to http://www.clare.fm/music/ClareFM%20trad%20archive/The%20West%20Wind%20-%20wed%20-%2023rd%20June%202010.mp3?l=8&m=1 which doesn't seem to do anything useful (at least on my system). So I tried deleting the last few characters, so that the link ends in "mp3", and that worked. Here it is as a blue clicky. Richard |
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28 Jun 10 - 04:41 PM (#2936209) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: GUEST,^&* Thanks for that, Richard. I hadn't the patience to wait for the download on my not-very-broadband and was waiting for a better chance to check it out! Part 2 follows this Weds. June 30th at 8 p.m. |
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28 Jun 10 - 04:44 PM (#2936214) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: GUEST,^&* Here's a press release from Paula Carroll, who produced the programmes: -------------------------------- PRESS RELEASE Travel back to 1970s Clare in song with Tom Munnelly,the Songfisher. Over the next 2 weeks on Clare FM, you can hear a 2 part radio documentary celebrating the life and work of the song collector Tom Munnelly. Songfisher airs on Clare FM (96.4 FM) on Wed 23rd and 30th June 2010 at 8 pm. The programme streams live on www.clare.fm. Tom Munnelly was the last fulltime song collector with the National Folklore Collection in UCD. He lived in Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare until his death in 2007, and collected some 20,000 song performances - a huge volume of them in West and North Clare. It is a lifetime's labour of love - one of the results of which was to capture a Co. Clare song tradition now largely disappeared. A monumental achievement - yet it is one which goes mostly unmarked, even in a county like Clare, with the richest music tradition in the country. These two programmes examine that collection, in a wide-ranging interview with Tom Munnelly, recorded some months before his death - a death he knew was imminent. He paints word-pictures of some of the Clare singers who most deeply influenced him – Tom Lenihan of Miltown Malbay, Mikey "Straighty" Flanagan of Inagh, Katie Droney from Fanore, Joe Mikey McMahon from Mullagh. Through the voices of these singers – and many others now forgotten – we do some time- travel back to 1970s Clare. Songfisher is presented by Paula Carroll. It is a Rag and Bone Production for Clare FM, and is made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. |
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29 Jun 10 - 05:17 AM (#2936507) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: GUEST,^&* Finally downloaded and listened to the first programme.Anyone interested in the nature and sources of traditional singing in Ireland really should make a point of downloading the two parts for repeated listening! Great stuff. |
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30 Jun 10 - 04:13 AM (#2937087) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: GUEST,^&* Part 2 will be broadcast tonight at 8 p.m. local time on Clare FM |
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05 Jul 10 - 03:41 AM (#2939941) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: GUEST Hi all, I just donwloaded the podcast from the 30th June but as per Clare FM's webadmin whims they've deleted the podcast for the 23rd of Junes. I'm wondering if anybody knows where I might get a copy of June 23rds program? I've tried Paula Carrols' Rag & Bone site but there is nothing listed, and I'm awaiting a reply from the folks at Clare FM, if I have any succes I will post here. Mike |
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05 Jul 10 - 03:55 AM (#2939944) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: Jim Carroll Mike riddlesjim at g mail dot com Jim Carroll |
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10 Jul 11 - 05:45 PM (#3185080) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: GUEST I recently acquired a Cd of various music from County Clare on which a woman Paula Carroll sang one song. do you know of other cd's which carry her work ? thanks billmitch |
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18 Feb 17 - 06:05 PM (#3839820) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: AmyLove There are a couple of radio documentaries about Tom Munnelly on RTÉ Radio 1: Song Collector House of Song And here's a somewhat related verse (found here - which includes an interview, with Jim Carroll being one of the individuals featured) from Gleesons of Coore: Tom Munnelly a collector of stories and songs, If you asked him to sing, it won't take him too long. Next in the line is Dennehy, Tim. He does a great job in the Clare FM. |
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19 Feb 17 - 07:35 AM (#3839915) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: GUEST,Guest - Rabee As the "pirate" referred to near the beginning of House of Song when Tom plays Lord Levett I am pleased to let folk know that the collection referred to in the programme is now avaible legally The Collection is "Early Ballads in Ireland" and the original cassettes have been remastered and should be available from An Goilin in Dublin as a double CD. A marvellous collection. It gave me great pleasure to work on the cassettes for Tom and Annette - a shame that Tom didn't live long enough to see it issued legally. BB |
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19 Feb 17 - 04:52 PM (#3840016) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: AmyLove Unless I went to the wrong place (I went here: An Góilín - CD Catalogue ) Early Ballads in Ireland isn't available at An Góilín. However, it's available at ITMA: Early ballads in Ireland 1968-1985 edited by Tom Munnelly and Hugh Shields Related Mudcat thread: Review: Early Ballads in Ireland 1968-85 new CD |
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13 Feb 20 - 02:01 PM (#4034063) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: FreddyHeadey A few minutes on him from RTE, 1973 https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2007425786036159&id=1916419671803438 |
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13 Feb 20 - 02:19 PM (#4034067) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: GUEST,henryp Folk Season; To mark the inaugural RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards which took place in Vicar Street on 25 October 2018, RTÉ Radio 1 presents an accompanying five part feature series exploring some of the myriad strands that make up the world of Irish folk music. In Search of Song; English singer and song collector, Sam Lee, meets some of the Irish traveller families from whom the late Tom Munnelly collected songs in the 1970s. The programme includes original recordings by Tom Munnelly from the National Folklore Collection UCD and archive material from the RTÉ Archives - listen here. |
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13 Feb 20 - 10:42 PM (#4034141) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: Jim Martin Thks Joe! |
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13 Feb 20 - 10:57 PM (#4034143) Subject: RE: Tom Munnelly-collector of Irish song/story/lore From: Jim Martin My much belated response to your guidance re my post of 18 June 2010! |