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Category Archives: Digital Projects
Streaming Audio: Joe Lamont Irish Music Recordings, reel 9, side 1
Audio in reel 9, side 1 includes Paddy O’Sullivan (Baltygarron) on fiddle and the Paddy Killoran Club of New York City. Continue reading
Streaming Audio: Joe Lamont Irish Music Recordings, Reel 6, Side 2
Audio in reel 6, side 2 includes James Morrison, Dan Sullivan’s Shamrock Band, Tom Cawley, Paddy Killoran, John McKenna, Michael Gaffney, Pat Gaffney, Brian O’Donnell, Mike Flynn, Andy Conroy, and others. Continue reading
Streaming Audio: Joe Lamont Irish Music Recordings, Reel 6, Side 1
Audio in reel 6, side 1 includes fiddle legends Michael Coleman, Lad O’Beirne, Tom Cawley, Denis Murphy, and Hugh Gillespie. Continue reading
Hearing the Past
The term “archives” may call up images of vellum pages covered with beautiful cursive (or indecipherable scribbles) but, as previous blog posts on material culture highlight– see What’s in a Game? Some Examples of Board Games at Burns Library and … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Digital Projects
Tagged archival formats, audio, digitization, recordings
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Sound Innovations: Howard Belding Gill and Robert W. Bullock Recordings
Many unique or rare archival audio recordings in Burns Library collections have been unavailable to researchers due to the fragility of their storage media (think: cassette tapes, vinyl records, and their predecessors). Any time a recording is played might be … Continue reading
Digitized Irish Music Now Includes Unpublished Fiddle Playing by Michael Coleman
During a review of recently-digitized audio in John J. Burns Library’s Joe Lamont Irish Music Recordings, we asked our friend and former BC colleague Séamus Connolly to listen to a fiddle segment on tape reel #6 that Joe Lamont’s tracklist … Continue reading
Sounds of Mid-20th Century Irish America: Irish Traditional Music in Boston and New York
Two collections of open-reel tapes of Irish traditional music in Boston and New York (1950s-1960s) have been digitized by Boston College Libraries. Continue reading
Traditional Music, Old and New: The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music
Irish traditional music followers worldwide can now access hundreds of music tracks in The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, a digital collection produced and published by the Boston College Libraries. This collection of tunes and songs was compiled over fifteen … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Digital Projects, Irish Music Archives, Irish Studies
Tagged Audio playlists, Boston College Libraries Digital Collections, Burns blog, burns library, burns library boston college, irish music, Irish traditional music, Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, seamus connolly
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From the Dubliners Bookshelf
The current James Joyce exhibit, now on display through October 8th at the Burns Library, focuses on Joyce’s Dubliners and the books referenced in Dubliners. Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories about the inhabitants and environment of Dublin … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Projects, Exhibits & Events, Irish Studies, Rare books
Tagged arthur machen, bloomsday, bulwer-lytton, burns library, catechism, Catholic Church, dubliners bookshelf, friedrich nietzsche, grant richards, irish collections, james joyce, Last Days of Pompeii, Lord Lytton, Nietzsche, publication history, unhemmed as it is uneven
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