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1. Folk Music

Creator:
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA)
Dates:
1971-09-1972-09 — 1971-09
Type/Formats:
Collection — Sound
Contributor:
National Folklore Collection
Abstract:
Digitally reformatted audio recordings from the song collection of Tom Munnelly.The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
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2. Scholarcast 7: Globalising Irish Music

Type/Formats:
Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
Publisher:
University College Dublin
Contributor:
Whelan, Bill (Bill Whelan)
Abstract:
Over the last three decades Bill Whelan has been at the heart of many exciting moments of extraordinary innovation in Irish music across the genres from traditional to rock. Here he documents and considers his varied career to date, from jobbing session musician in the early 1970s to Grammy Award... [ … ]
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3. Jig - The Geese in the Bog, played by Mickey Connors, a Traveller, who was camped at Clonegal, County Carlow

Type/Formats:
Harmonica — Sound
Media type:
audio/aiff
Contributors:
Connors, Mickey — Munnelly, Tom — Galvin, Rónán
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4. The Harvest Home, played by Jim Prendergast, in O'Connor's Pub, Blackwater, County Wexford

Type/Formats:
Accordion music — Sound
Media type:
audio/aiff
Contributors:
Prendergast, Jim — Munnelly, Tom — Galvin, Rónán
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5. Hornpipe - The High Level, played by Michael Connors, a Traveller, who was camped at Holylands, Dublin

Type/Formats:
Accordion music — Sound
Media type:
audio/aiff
Contributors:
Connors, Michael — Munnelly, Tom — Galvin, Rónán
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6. Slow air - Sé fáth mo bhuartha, played by Sean Seery in Tionól na bPíobairí Uilleann, An Gríannán, Termonfeckin, County Louth

Type/Format:
Sound
Media type:
audio/aiff
Contributors:
Seery, Sean — Munnelly, Tom — Galvin, Rónán
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7. The Rocks of Bawn/The Sea, oh the Sea, sung and played by Tom Berry in Labre Park Travellers Camp, Ballyfermot, Dublin

Type/Formats:
Song followed by harmonica — Sound
Media type:
audio/aiff
Contributors:
Berry, Tom — Munnelly, Tom — Galvin, Rónán
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8. Tonight is our last night together, sung by Bridie Whelan, housewife, at Chapel, Clonroche, County Wexford

Type/Formats:
Song with fiddle accompaniment — Sound
Media type:
audio/aiff
Contributors:
Whelan, Bridie — Munnelly, Tom — Galvin, Rónán
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9. Reel - The Maid of Lough Arrow, played by Larry McDonagh, a small farmer, in Cosgrove's Pub, Gurteen Road, Boyle, County Roscommon

Type/Format:
Sound
Media type:
audio/aiff
Contributors:
McDonagh, Larry — Munnelly, Tom — Galvin, Rónán
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10. Reel - Paddy Cronin's reel, played by Seán Ward, in Grehan's pub, Boyle, County Roscommon

Type/Format:
Sound
Media type:
audio/aiff
Contributors:
Ward, Seán — Cronin, Paddy — Munnelly, Tom — Galvin, Rónán