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Category Archives: Irish Music Archives
A Tale of Two Irish Harps: John Egan fine-tunes the national instrument
This week’s blog post is guest written by Boston-based harpist and harp historian Nancy Hurrell, author of The Egan Irish Harps: Tradition, Patrons and Players (Four Courts Press, 2019). The Boston College Libraries helped support the volume’s publication through the … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Irish Music Archives, Researcher Posts
Tagged Egan Harp, irish music
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Illustration of a Political Campaign: Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland scrapbook
The Loyal National Repeal Association was founded in 1841 by Irish politician Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), the leader of the movement for the repeal of the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland. O’Connell fostered mass participation in the association … Continue reading
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
Irish Music Archives Visits an After-School Club in Somerville
Guest Musicians Gather at Celtic Fusion Club A couple of months ago, in the time before social distancing, music educator Kendall Driscoll invited a few Boston-area musicians to give a live, in-person presentation to East Somerville Community School’s Celtic Fusion … Continue reading
Process of a Poem: Seamus Heaney’s Funeral Rites
A poem greets its reader as a finished project. It resides there on the page, surrounded by blankness, with its line breaks and title. It is as if the poem walked out of the poet’s mind and onto the page … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Irish Studies
Tagged heaney, Ireland, irishpoetry, poetry, seamusheaney
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Keeping Time: The Sir Jimmy Shand Family’s Music Collection
Burns Library is delighted to announce the availability of a Scottish and Irish music collection from the family of the Scottish accordionist, bandleader, and composer Sir Jimmy Shand (1908-2000). Shand was known worldwide for his musicianship, strict tempos, and devotion … Continue reading
Posted in Irish Music Archives
Tagged Accordion, bagpipes, irish music, Jimmy Shand, music, Newly Available, Scottish music, Touring Groups, Tune books
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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
1916 Easter Rising
This is the last in a series of seven blog posts highlighting and summarizing important events in Irish history, and Burns Library resources which aid in further study of the topic. Burns Library holds many Irish history resources and is … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Irish Studies
Tagged 1916 Rising, easter rising, History, Ireland, irish history, irish history series, photographs
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