Category Archives: Irish Music Archives

Process of a Poem: Seamus Heaney’s Funeral Rites

Posted on March 9, 2020 by

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 →

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Keeping Time: The Sir Jimmy Shand Family’s Music Collection

Posted on December 2, 2019 by

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 →

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Digitized Irish Music Now Includes Unpublished Fiddle Playing by Michael Coleman

Posted on June 10, 2019 by

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 →

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1916 Easter Rising

Posted on May 6, 2019 by

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 →

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Offbeat, Irreverent, and DIY: The Poetry of Mass Transit

Posted on April 29, 2019 by

For many of us, the political protest, music, and fashion of the 1960s and 1970s are the most recognizable aspects of the countercultural revolution. But the literature of that era can provide a window into that movement’s values, its struggles, … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Great Famine, An Gorta Mór

Posted on April 22, 2019 by

This is the sixth 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 →

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Uncovering Irish Attitudes to Shakespeare

Posted on April 1, 2019 by

This week we feature a guest post by our current Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies, Patrick Lonergan, Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway On 23 April 1916, the British academic Israel Gollancz … Continue reading →

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