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29 Nov 00 - 03:13 PM (#348422) Subject: Revolution and Irish Song From: MartinRyan 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. |
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29 Nov 00 - 03:24 PM (#348426) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: MartinRyan Ha! Let's try that again: Lilliput Press Regards |
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29 Nov 00 - 03:28 PM (#348429) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: MartinRyan No - it's not my fault, I reckon. Something is screwing up the HREF entry by adding part of the Mudcat address. Regards |
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29 Nov 00 - 05:44 PM (#348525) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: Snuffy Is this any better? Lilliput Press |
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29 Nov 00 - 07:38 PM (#348597) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: MartinRyan Yes, snuffy, it is..! Regards |
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30 Nov 00 - 04:09 AM (#348754) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: Wolfgang 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 |
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30 Nov 00 - 06:20 AM (#348772) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: MartinRyan Wolfgang Yes - you'll certainly enjoy this one! Regards |
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30 Nov 00 - 06:44 AM (#348777) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: GUEST,John in Brisbane 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 |
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30 Nov 00 - 06:53 AM (#348783) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: MartinRyan 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 |
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30 Nov 00 - 07:01 AM (#348786) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: MudGuard 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 |
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30 Nov 00 - 07:18 AM (#348792) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: MartinRyan Gotcha, Mudguard! I usually copy and paste links - but didn't this time. Thanks Regards |
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30 Nov 00 - 09:10 AM (#348847) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: GUEST,Liam's Brother 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, |
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30 Nov 00 - 05:26 PM (#349190) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: GUEST,Walrus "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
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
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30 Nov 00 - 05:31 PM (#349193) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: GUEST,Walrus 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 |
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30 Nov 00 - 06:20 PM (#349237) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: Noreen Walrus, I believe you need to 'reset your cookie': on the drop-down menu under Quick Links, above. |
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01 Dec 00 - 06:46 PM (#349894) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: MartinRyan 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 |
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07 Dec 00 - 09:25 AM (#353014) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: GUEST,Liam's Brother 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! |
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07 Dec 00 - 09:37 AM (#353021) Subject: RE: Revolution and Irish Song From: MartinRyan Dan You beat me to it! Regards |