A Traditional Music Journey 1600-2000 - Maire Garvey

Garvey, Maire
Maire Nic Domhnaill Gairbhi
A Traditional Music Journey 1600-2000: From Erris to Mullaghban

Text in English with song lyrics in Irish

A thoughtful study of Irish music and it's history by the well known scholar Maire McDonnell Garvey.

second edition 2007 ISBN 0-9545324-1-6

from Maire's website:

"I was determined to do this project and connect the tradition in Mayo with South Armagh. It has been the most exciting time of my life. Being from Connacht I realised that this province has always been 'the poor relation' for quite a long time. But there have been hidden cultural activities down through the years in the midst of poverty, hardship, oppression and neglect. Not only in Connacht but right across the country to Sliabh Gullion, Mullaghb�n, and across to the Long Woman's Grave in Oriel, the traditional music thrived without the help of modern technology. There was an affinity with each other when the men from the West walked their cattle from Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo and Leitrim across the land of no borders, to load them for export on the cattle boats of Greenore. Those were days of hardship and achievement."