‘Shamrock, Rose and Thistle’ is an appropriate metaphor for the mixed Irish, English and Scottish strands that make up the English-language song tradition of the north of Ireland, and it is also the title of an important collection-study made of this tradition by Hugh Shields: the book Shamrock, Rose and Thistle: Folk Singing in North Derry, which was first published in Belfast in 1981 and is long out of print.
It contains lyrics and meticulously detailed musical transcriptions for seventy-four English-language songs, several in multiple versions, collected in the field from 1961 to 1975 in the coastal area of Magilligan in north Co Derry, and presented with extensive musical, linguistic, social and bibliographic documentation. The physical region is described, its history outlined, and an account given of its singers – chief among them being Eddie Butcher – and of their singing practices and songs.
Courtesy of the Shields family, this classic volume is now made available once again on this site of the Irish Traditional Music Archive, greatly expanded by multimedia enhancements made possible by online technology.
Adam in Paradise, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
Alexander, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
Another man’s wedding, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
The Arranmore disaster, song / John Butcher junior, singing in English
The banks of Kilrea, song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
The banks of Newfoundland, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
The banks of the Bann, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
Barbro Allen, song / Charlie Somers, singing in English
The blazing star of Drung, song / Robert Butcher senior, singing in English
The bonny Irish boy, song / Lizzie O’Hagan, singing in English
The bonny moorhen, song / Hugh Somers, singing in English
The braes of Strathblane, song / Annie Sweeney, singing in English
Carrowclare, song / Robert Butcher junior, singing in English
The close of an Irish day, song / Charlie Begley, singing in English
The cocks is crowing, song / John Butcher senior, singing in English
Come all you rakish fine young men, song / John Butcher senior, singing in English
Copper John, song / Eddie Butcher ; Michael O’Hara ; Tom Anderson, singing in English
Craiganee, song / Bill Quigley, singing in English
The crockery ware, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
The dark-eyed gipsy, song / Tilly Quigley, singing in English
David’s flowery vale, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
The daysman, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
Don’t come again, song / Eddie and Gracie Butcher, singing in English
Down by the canal, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
Erin’s lovely home, song / Mary Ellen Butcher, singing in English
The fan, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
The farmer’s daughter, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
The Faughan side, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
Finvola, the gem of the Roe, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
Free and easy to jog along, song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
The good ship Cambria, song / Charlie Somers, singing in English
The green fields of America, song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
Greencastle shore, song / John Fleming, singing in English
Here’s a health to the company, song / Lizzie O’Hara, singing in English
The hillman, song / John Fleming, singing in English
I long for to get married, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
India’s burning sands, song / Bill Quigley, singing in English
The Inniskilling dragoon, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
It’s just about ten years ago, song / John Butcher senior, singing in English
It’s of a young gentleman, song / Charlie Somers, singing in English
It was in the Queen’s County, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
James McKee, song / Jimmy Butcher, singing in English
Johnny Doyle, song / Charlie Somers, singing in English
The journeyman tailor, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
A lady walked in her father’s garden, song / Bill Quigley, singing in English
Laurel Hill, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
The maid of Culmore, song / John Butcher senior, singing in English
The maid of seventeen, song / Robert Butcher senior, singing in English
The Mason’s Word, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
Minnie Picken, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
Molly, lovely Molly, song / Charlie Somers, singing in English
The Moorlough shore, song / Bill and Tilly Quigley ; and others, singing in English
The mountain streams where the moor-cock crows, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
Moville along the Foyle, song / Maria Butcher, singing in English
The new tractor, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
The parish of Dunboe, song / John Butcher senior and Eddie Butcher, singing in English
Pat Reilly, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
The ploughboy, song / Robert Butcher senior, singing in English
The rakes of poverty, song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
Saturday night is Hallowe’en night, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
The ship carpenter’s wife, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
The shores of sweet Benone, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
The strands of Magilligan, song / Mary Osborne, singing in English
Three gipsies riding, song / Aughil children, singing in English
Todd’s sweet rural shade, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
Tossing the hay, song / John Butcher senior, singing in English
The Trader, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
The true lovers’ discourse, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
The wheel of Fortune, song / Tom Anderson, singing in English
When a man’s in love, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
When I was in Ireland, song / Mary Harte, singing in English
The widow’s daughter, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
Youghal Harbour, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
Another man’s wedding, song / Hugh Shields, singing in English
Shamrock, Rose and Thistle: Folk Singing in North Derry is a classic collection-study made by Hugh Shields of seventy-four traditional songs in English which he recorded in the field from 1961 to 1975 in Magilligan, north Co Derry. It was first published in Belfast by Blackstaff Press in 1981.
The volume is reproduced in facsimile below, divided into three sections: Introduction, Songs and Notes. Each section is available as a page-by-page scan and as a downloadable pdf.
A high quality pdf of the entire book (93MB) is also available for download.
Discover: Shamrock, Rose and Thistle
Nicholas Carolan, Maeve Gebruers & Lisa Shields, 1 April 2014
Contents — List of illustrations — Abbreviations — Foreword — 1. Preliminary — 2. Magilligan or Tamlaghtard — 3. Music and poetry in local life — 4. The singers — 5. The traditional song repertory — 6. Music and language of the songs — Notes
Shamrock, Rose and Thistle: Folk Singing in North Derry / Hugh Shields [introduction]
Contents — List of illustrations — Abbreviations — Foreword — 1. Preliminary — 2. Magilligan or Tamlaghtard — 3. Music and poetry in local life — 4. The singers — 5. The traditional song repertory — 6. Music and language of the songs — Notes
Shamrock, Rose and Thistle: Folk Singing in North Derry / Hugh Shields [notes]
Notes to the songs — References — Glossary — Index of titles, first lines etc
Shamrock, Rose and Thistle: Folk Singing in North Derry / Hugh Shields [songs]
List of the songs — Adam in paradise = Father Adam — Alexander = The rejected lover = The two true lovers = I’ll travel to Mount Nebo — Another man’s wedding = The nobleman’s wedding — The noble lord’s wedding = The laird’s wedding = An old lover’s wedding [song: music and words = The noble rich wedding = The faultless bride = The faithless bride = The unconstant lover = The love token = The bark and the tree = Orange and blue = All round my hat = Green willow = Down in my garden — The Arranmore disaster — The banks of Kilrea = The banks of Sweet Drumreagh — The banks of Newfoundland = The barque ‘Mariner’ — The banks of the Bann = The brown girl — The brown maid — Barbro Allen = Bonny Barbara Allen = Mary Ellen — The blazing star of Drung = The maid of Drim — The bonny Irish boy = My bonny Irish boy = The bonny boy = The maid’s lament for her pretty Irish boy = The maid’s lament for her bonny Irish boy = The Irish girl’s complaint in Bedlam = The Irish girl — The bonny moorhen = The mulberry bog — The braes of Strathblane = The braes of Strathdon = The bleaches so green = The beach of Strablane = The Chippewa girl — Carrowclare = The maid of Carrowclare = Killyclare / Jimmy McCurry and Eddie Butcher — The close of an Irish day — The cocks is crowing = The drowsy sleeper = Arise, arise, you drowsy maiden = Awake, awake I will put my ship in order = Awake, awake I will set my ship in order = Who’s that knocking? = Oh, who is that that raps at my window? = Who comes tapping to my window? = Let the hills and valleys be covered with snow — Come all you rakish fine young men — Copper John = Cofer John — Craiganee = The flower of Craiganee = The hills of Tandragee = Innisfree = Bonaghee — The crockery ware — The bold lieutenant [words only] — The dark-eyed gipsy = The gipsy laddie = The brown-eyed gipsies = Seven yellow gipsies = The raggle-taggle gipsies — David’s flowery vale = Young McCance = Drummond’s land = Divis mountain — The daysman = A story in rhyme of the hiring fair — Don’t come again = You shan’t come again = The rejected lover — Down by the canal = Bonny Kilwarlin — Erin’s lovely home — The fan = The bold lieutenant = The lions’ den = The den of lions = The lady’s fan = The glove and the lions = The lover’s test = The faithful lover = The hero rewarded = The distressed lady = A trial of true love = The fairest lady in London city = The Bostonshire lady — The farmer’s daughter — The Faughan side — Finvola, the gem of the Roe = The gem of the Roe — Free and easy to jog along — The good ship Cambria — The green fields of America = The emigrant’s farewell — Greencastle shore = The shamrock shore — Paddy’s green shamrock shore — Here’s a health to the company — The hillman = The Connaughtman = Our goodman = The seven drunken nights — I long for to get married = The young men = The cherry tree — The Enniskillen dragoons [song: words only] — India’s burning sands = The Paisley officer = The village pride = Henry and Mary Ann = Blithe and bonny Scotland — The Inniskilling dragoon — It’s just about ten years ago — It’s of a young gentleman = The seducer outwitted — It was in the Queen’s County — James McKee = James Magee — Johnny Doyle = The lost Johnny Doyle = Claudy town — The journeyman tailor = The jovial young sailor = The sailor and the lady = Willie bound down to Derry = It’s of a rich lady — A lady walked in her father’s garden = The young maid stood in the garden = A servant maid in the garden = The maiden in the garden = The pretty fair maid = There was a lady = The green garden = All in a garden = The sailor = The single sailor = The brisk young sailor = The young and single sailor = The sailor’s return = The cowboy’s return = The broken ring = The broken token = The test of love = Seven years since I had a sweetheart = The true lovers’ discussion — Laurel Hill = Kyle’s flowery braes — A new song called The seducer outwitted [song: words only] — The Lisburn maid [song: words only] — The maid of Culmore = The maids of Culmore = The maid of Kilmore — The maid of seventeen — The mason’s word — Minnie Picken = Maggie Picken = Maggie Pickie = Molly picking on the shore = Mary picking cockles — Molly, lovely Molly = Pretty Polly = Polly’s love = Young Willie = The cruel ship carpenter [song: music and words], The Gosport tragedy — The Moorlough shore = The maid of Mourne shore = The maid of the Mourne shore = Walmsley’s shady groves — The mountain streams where the moorcock crows — Where the moor cocks crow [song: words only] — Moville along the Foyle — The new tractor / by Eddie Butcher — The parish of Dunboe = The banished lover = Learmount grove = Claudy town — Pat Reilly = Johnny Golicher = Johnny Gallagher = Johnny Coughlan = Captain Galligan = John Gollaher’s lamentation = The sentry box — Johnny Golicher [song: words only] — The ploughboy = The lark in the morning — The rakes of poverty — Saturday night is Hallowe’en night = Tam Lin — The ship carpenter’s wife = Sale of a wife = Cabbage and goose — A new song on the sale of a wife [son: music and words] — The shores of sweet Benone = Magilligan — The strands of Magilligan — Three gipsies riding = Three dukes riding — Todd’s sweet rural shade — Tossing the hay = The turning of the hay = The new-mown hay = The female haymaker — A new song called The tossing of the hay [song: words only] — The trader = The loss of the ‘Trader’ and crew — The true lover’s discourse = The true lovers’ discussion — The wheel of fortune = Love it’s pleasing = Love it’s bonny = Fair and tender ladies = The false lover — When a man’s in love = A man in love = Young men in love = Boys in love = There is an old man in love — When I was in Ireland = The Kerry recruit = The Irish recruit = The Irish soldier = True Paddy’s song = Pat and the war = Paddy’s ramble = The boy on the land — The widow’s daughter = The widow of the West = The widow of Westmorland = The widow of Westmorland’s daughter — Youghal harbour
Foreword / Hugh Shields — Eighteenth-century tunes today [article] / Breandán Breathnach — Georgian lollipops, or, The lighter side of classical music [article] / Brian Boydell — Mr Connor [air] — The Irsh bagpipes [article] / Breandán Breathnach — Gaelic song [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Ailleacan dubh o! [air] — Ballads, ballad singing and ballad selling [article] / Hugh Shields — Dancing [article] / Breandán Breathnach — Yellow stocken’s [air] — A young virgin of 15 — years [air] — Notes — Books and articles — Abbreviations. Illustrations include: ‘Crazy crow’ the instrument porter, whose real name was George Hendrick [woodcut] — A set of uilleann pipes, c.1790 [drawing] — Turlough Carolan from Bunting’s 1840 collection [woodcut] — Wood’s halfpence [photograph] — An impression from Goldsmith’s ballad-making [woodcut].
Introduction — Weavers’ Lamentation, The [song: words only] — Kilruddery Hunt, The [song: music and words] — New Love Song, A [song: words only] — Skewball [song: music and words] — Combat Between an Ale Wife and a Sea Crab, A [song: music and words] (air: Gentlemen’s Frolic) — Tryal and Condemnation of the Sea Crab, The [song: words only] — Dublin Privateer, The [song: words only] — Dublin Baker, The [song: music and words] — Dublin Tragedy, The [song: music and words] — Unfortunate Merchant’s Daughter, The [song: music and words] — Miss King of Dublin [song: music and words] — Country Recruit’s Description of the Military, The [song: music and words] — New Song on the Police Guards, A [song: words only] — May Bush, The [song: words only] — Humours of Donnybrook Fair, The [song: music and words] (air: Ballinafad) — Spider Kelly [song: words only] (air: Patsy Fagan) — Hannah Healy the Pride of Howth [song: music and words] (air: Ligelaw) — Bean an Fhir Ruaidh [song: words only] — Phenix of Fingal, The [song: words only] [Phoenix] — Catherine Skelly [song: words only] — Willy O [song: music and words] — Seducer Outwitted, The [song: music and words] — Sally and Johnny [song: music and words] — Tied my Toes to the Bed [song: music and words] — Dublin Jack of All Trades, The [song: words only] — True Lovers’ Trip to the Strawberry Beds, The [song: words only] — New Tramway, The [song: music and words] — Herring, The [song: music and words] — Notes — References and Abbreviations
The Folk Music Society of Ireland – Cumann Cheol Tíre Éireann – was founded in Dublin in 1971 by a voluntary group of interested individuals who felt that the 1960s revival of Irish traditional music, song, and dance performance had not been accompanied by an appropriate growth in the study of traditional music.
Their aims were to encourage interest in the music and to promote research into it. Prominent in the group from its beginning were Dr Hugh Shields, Breandán Breathnach, Tom Munnelly, Alf Mac Lochlainn, Máire Áine Ní Dhonncha, Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh, Seán Ó Baoill, Proinsias Ó Conluain, Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh, and its Chairman Professor Seóirse Bodley. Several had written from 1963 for Breandán Breathnach’s traditional music magazine Ceol.
For 30 years, from 1971 until 2001, the Society ran an annual public lecture series in Dublin, and this programme was added to periodically by recitals, exhibitions, day- and weekend-seminars, and conferences. An occasional journal Éigse Cheol Tíre – Irish Folk Music Studies was published from 1972, and later publications included monographs on bibliography, discography, popular music of the eighteenth century, Dublin songs, the local accent in traditional music, narrative songs in the Celtic languages, and international ballads. An associated audio-cassette series European Ethnic Oral Traditions was edited by Hugh Shields, who also edited most of the Society’s publications.
As the performance of Irish traditional music had reached unprecedently high levels by the beginning of the new millennium, and as the study of the music was increasingly being catered for by third-level institutions and summer schools throughout the country, it was decided that the aims of the Society had largely been accomplished. Most of its activities were discontinued in 2003, but its publishing arm remains, and those of its publications still in print are available for purchase from the Irish Traditional Music Archive here.
The Society’s newsletter Ceol Tíre was begun by its editor Hugh Shields in November 1973 and continued by him and Nicholas Carolan (who was Secretary of the Society 1977–1992) until December 1989. In its summaries of Society meetings and other activities it outlines much of the progress made in the study of Irish traditional music in those years, and it also includes songs, tunes and useful source-material. The complete run of Ceol Tíre is available for viewing or for downloading as searchable PDFs below.
In its aims and philosophy, and in many of its personnel and activities, the Folk Music Society of Ireland was a forerunner of the Irish Traditional Music Archive. The personal collection of Breandán Breathnach was the foundation collection of ITMA, and its holdings have since been greatly augmented by the personal collections of Hugh Shields, Proinsias Ó Conluain and Tom Munnelly.
For further details on the Folk Music Society of Ireland – including a list of its activities and publications – visit the FMSI website.
With thanks to Lisa Shields, Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh, & Professor Seóirse Bodley.
Nicholas Carolan & Maeve Gebruers, 1 August 2012
[Introductory article] / Hugh Shields — ‘Liaison Officers’ [article] — IFMC Affiliation [article] — Bayonne Conference [article] — D.U. Folk Music & Dance Society [article] — Annual General Meeting 1973 [article] — Secretary’s Report 1972-73 [article] / Turlough Moylan — Some Oriental Styles… [article] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh — Ernest John Moeran, 1894-1950 [article] / Tomas Ó Súilleabháin — Programme 1973-74 [article] — Secretary’s Address [article] — ‘Golden Harp’ 1973 [article] – The Anthropology of Music [article] — Na Píobairí Uilleann [article] / Breandán Breathnach — Topic Records & Irish Folk Music [article] — ‘Choros’, Magazine of Folk Music and Dance [article] — Traditional Music on RTE, Autumn-Winter 1973 [article]
Ceol Tíre 1, November 1973
[Introductory article] / Hugh Shields — ‘Liaison Officers’ [article] — IFMC Affiliation [article] — Bayonne Conference [article] — D.U. Folk Music & Dance Society [article] — Annual General Meeting 1973 [article] — Secretary’s Report 1972-73 [article] / Turlough Moylan — Some Oriental Styles… [article] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh — Ernest John Moeran, 1894-1950 [article] / Tomas Ó Súilleabháin — Programme 1973-74 [article] — Secretary’s Address [article] — ‘Golden Harp’ 1973 [article] – The Anthropology of Music [article] — Na Píobairí Uilleann [article] / Breandán Breathnach — Topic Records & Irish Folk Music [article] — ‘Choros’, Magazine of Folk Music and Dance [article] — Traditional Music on RTE, Autumn-Winter 1973 [article]
Ceol Tíre 2, March 1974
Contents — Continuatory [article] — Recent Members [article] — Black and White Stage Irish [article] / Alf Mac Lochlainn — ‘Ceol’, IV, 2 [article] / [Breandán Breathnach]? — Éigse na Tríonóide [article] — Queen’s Folk Music Society [article] / Sean McCann — Ballad Seminar [article] — ‘Mellow in the Moonlight’ [article] / Alf Mac Lochlainn — Old Choir Rhymes, selection of articles — ‘Old Times in the Barony’ / Rev. John S. Conmee [article] / Alf Mac Lochlainn — Recent Meetings [selection of articles] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh – An Edward Bunting Evening [article] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh — Instruments in the National Museum [article] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh — Bluegrass [article] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh — A Day’s Field Work, January 31, Kerry [article] / Tom Munnelly — African Music at Queen’s, Belfast, March 6 – 9 [article] — Hiberno-English Dialects, Ulster Folk Museum [article] — ‘Mo Shui na ‘Mo Sheasamh’ [article] / Hugh Shields — Mo Shui na Mo Sheasamh [song: music and words]
Ceol Tíre 3, October 1974
Contents — Irish Folk Music Studies = Éigse Cheol Tíre [article] — Festival [article] — Tradition Club Evening [article] — Recent Members [article] — Secretary’s Report [article] — Annual General Meeting : 24 June 1974 [article] — Oíche Cheoil [article] — Irish Music on BBC NI [article] — Musicians or …? [article] / Edith Oenone Somerville — Scoil Shamhraidh Willie Clancy [article] – An Píobaire [article] — Discography [article] — Ceolta Uladh [article] — New Appointments : University College Cork [article] — New Appointments : Ulster Folk Museum [article] — Members Expatriate [article] — New Development in Folk Music Research [article] — Mo shuí na mo sheasamh [article] — Programme of Meetings 1974-1975 [article] — Irish Folk Music Studies [article]
Ceol Tíre 4, March 1975
Contents — Exhortatory [article] — Scéala Aniar [article] — Irish Folk Music and Europe [article] — Ballad Research [article] — Meetings [selection of articles] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh — Teaching Folk Music [article] — Folk Music as Vernacular Culture [article] – The Broadside Ballad [article] — Collecting Folk Music [article] — Scottish Gaelic Folk Song and Literary Culture [article] — Publications and Music by Members [article] — Confrontation of Cultures [article] / Ann Buckley — [The Life and Labours in Art and Archaeology of George Petrie, London 1868, pp.317-318] : The Stamp of Purity [article] / William Stokes — Ceol Rince ar Cheann Bhré [article] / Seán Ó Súilleabháin — Sandy McConnell [article] — Folk Music in UCD [article] — Ethnomusicology at Queen’s [article] — Ulster Folk Music and Song [article] — Mumming [article] — [Recollection, Irish Times 27 June 1968] : The Song Maker [article] / Padraic Colum — Country Chapmen 1708 [article] – The Singers’ Workshop [article] – An Píobaire [article] — Sam Henry Collection [article] — Coshering et alia [article]
Ceol Tíre 5, October 1975
Contents — National Archive of Folk Music [article] — Annual General Meeting, June 1975 [article] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh — Recent Meetings [selection of articles] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh — Eddie Butcher [article] — Lapps and Lappish Singing [article] — Publications and Music by Members [article] — Teaching Folk Music? [article] – The Instrument Tradition [article] — Kodaly Method [article] — Traditional Singing [article] — Secondary School Syllabus [article] — Pilot Studies [article] — Manipulation [article] — Amhráin i dToraigh [article] / Eoghan Ó Colm — Folk Music in Education [selection of articles] / Fionnuala Scullion — Folk Song Values for Human Education [article] — Non-European Instruments [article] — Folk Dance [article] — Revivals [article] — Scots Experience [article] — IFMC Conference, Regensburg, Bavaria [article] — Éigse na Tríonóide [article] — Study Group on Folk Music Instruments [article] / Ann Buckley – The Conniving House [article] — Folk Music Society of Ireland = Cumann Cheol Tíre Éireann [article]
Ceol Tíre 6, April 1976
Contents – An Chéad Chruinniú Eile [article] — Éigse Cheol Tíre [article] — Ceol [article] — USA Bicentenary [article] — Piping Weekend and Summer School [article] / Muiris Ó Rócháin — Willy Clancy’s Music [article] — Recent Meetings [selection of articles] — Songs in Irish from Tory, Donegal [article] / Lisa Shields – The Medieval Tiompán [article] — Bunting, 1840 [article] – The Irish Girl [song: music and words] — The Irish Girl [article] / Hugh Shields — An Píobaire ba Mho Clu in Albain [article] / Uinsin Ó Donabháin — Seanamhráin Uladh & Oirghialla [article] — Keening [article] — A’ Bhean Eudach [article] / Hugh Shields — A’ Bhean Eudach [song: music and words] — Folklore Competition [article] — Slow Air [article] — Éigse na Tríonóide [article] — [Domestic Industry in Ireland. The Experience of the Linen Industry Dublin 1972] : The Weaver’s Authority [article] / Crawford, W.H. — Songs of Hungarian Seasonal Workers [article] / A. L. Lloyd
Ceol Tíre 7, November 1976
Contents — The Tradition Club [article] — The Newsletter [article] / [Hugh Shields] — The Journal [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Pat Barron, Dancing Master [article] / Proinsias Ó Conluain — Mind Yourself of the Turkeycock or the Turkeycock Will Bite You, jig — Native & Foreign Elements in the Sean-Nós Tradition [article] / Annual General Meeting [article] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh — Folk Singing in England : a Garland from Topic [review article] / Tom Munnelly — New Collections : A Half Thousand Tunes, Nil Ceol is Binne na Ceol an Mhala, The Irish Song Tradition [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Appointments U.C.C. [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Maud Karpeles (1885-1976) [article] / Hugh Shields
Ceol Tíre 8, December 1976
Tradition Club Evening [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Meetings in 1977, Jan.- April [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Report on Proinsias O Conluain, `Songs from Tory, Co Donegal’ [article] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh — Traditional Air [article] / Alex Kerr — The bold lieutenant : Traditional Air / [Hugh Shields] — Hibernian Journal, 14 January 1793 [article] — Irish Musicians Visit the United States [article] / Tom Munnelly — Dirge or Keen in Baroney Forth [article] / Hugh Shields — Athbheochaint na mBailéad? [article] / Ailfrid Mac Lochlainn — Bean an Fhir Ruaidh [song: words only] — Folk Music from Scotland [article] / Douglas Sealy — The National Archive of Irish Folk Music and Song [article] / Breandán Breathnach — Éigse Cheol Tíre 2 [article]
Ceol Tíre 9, April 1977
Contents — The Newsletter [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Some Forthcoming Events [article] / [Hugh Shields] – The Annual General Meeting [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Report on Sean Corcoran, `Songs of County Louth’ [article] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh — Report on Sean O’Dwyer, `The Concertina in Ireland’ [article] / Lisa Shields — Report on Short Contributions [articles] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh — Report on Hugh Shields, `Chantefable in Ireland’ [article] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh — Report on Angela Partridge, `Caoine na dTrí Mhuire’ [article] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh — Report on Nicholas Carolan, `William Beauford and Irish music’ [article] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh — Report on W.H.A. Williams paper re song tradition of Ireland in the United States [article] / Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh –Sorcha Ní Ghuairim [article] / Douglas Sealy — Collecting Folk Songs [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Irish Folk Music Studies [article] – The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcock Crows [song: music and words] / [Hugh Shields] — Féile na Bóinne [article] / Seán Corcoran and Hugh Shields — Mummers’ Festival [article] / Sean Corcoran and Hugh Shields — Thady Casey, Dancing Master [article] / transcribed by Proinsias Ó Conluain – The Heathery Breeze [reel] — French Folk Song [article] — Barántas [article] / Breandán Breathnach — `Stars of Country Music : Uncle Dave Macon to Johnny Rodriguez’ [article] / Tom Munnelly — Irish Music : Record Reviews [selection of articles] / Breandán Breathnach — Dydd Llun, Dydd Mawrth, Dydd Mercher [song: music and words] — I.F.M.C. in Wales [article] / Hugh Shields
Ceol Tíre 10, October 1977
Contents — Report on Annual General Meeting [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Georges-Denis Zimmermann, `What is an “Irish Ballad”‘? [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Festivals [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Communication [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Cumann Merriman [article] — Music as She is Spoke [article] / Hugh Shields — Review : `Songs of the Open Road’ [article] / Tom Munnelly — Breathnachas [selection of articles] — Ceol, IV 3 [article] / [Nicholas Carolan] — Folk Music and Dances of Ireland [article] — Recent Appointment [article] / [Hugh Shields] — `The Half Door’ [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Sean Ó Súilleabháin [article] / [Hugh Shields]
Ceol Tíre 11, January 1978
Contents — Report on Charles Lennon, `Traditional Irish Fiddling’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Breandán Breathnach, `James Goodman, Piper and Music Collector’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Na Píobairí Uilleann 1968-1978 [article] / [Hugh Shields] — “The Stone in the Field” [article] — Joe Holmes [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Lovely Armoy [song: music and words] / as sung by Joe Holmes — Baill ag Saothrú, New Publications by Members [selection of articles] / [Hugh Shields; Nicholas Carolan] — [Amhráin Chúige Uladh [article] — Beneath the Green Tree [article] — On the Music of the North American Indians [article] — Carolau Plygain, Plygain Carols [article] — Mass of Peace [article] — `Shetland Wedding Music’ [article] / [Hugh Shields] — U.D.R. Checkpoint [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Edinburgh Conference [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Éigse na Tríonóide, 1978 [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Cockles and Mussels [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Song from `Amhráin Thomáis Ruaidh’ [song: words only] / [Nicholas Carolan]
Ceol Tíre 12, May 1978
Contents — The Annual General Meeting [article] — Report on Séamus Mac Máthúna, `Songs of Múscraí’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Cathal Goan, `Ceolta Neillí Ní Dhomhnaill’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Short Contributions [articles] / Nicholas Carolan — [Report on Breandán Breathnach, `Párliament na mBan’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Sr Cora Gaffney, `Teaching Irish Music’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Douglas Sealy, `Ceol Mór na Píbe Albanaí’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Tom Munnelly, `Two Ballads’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Pipers’ Weekend, 5-7 May [article] / Breandán Breathnach — Religious Songs in Irish [article] — Hair of Horse to Bowel of Cat : Fiddling from Topic (`The Music of Scott Skinner’, `James F. Dickie’s Delights’, `The Cameron Men’, `Angus Grant. Highland Fiddle’ [articles] / Nicholas Carolan — Irish Music in America [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Willie Clancy Summer School [article]
Ceol Tíre 13, November 1978
Contents — Kitchen Music : Fiddling and Fiddlers in South-West Donegal [advertisement] / Allen Feldman — Annual General Meeting [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on John Moulden, `The Sam Henry Collection’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Breandán Breathnach, Riobard Mac Gorain, Ciaran Mac Mathuna, `Irish Traditional Music in the Marketplace’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Practitioners [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Decentralisation of Hon. Treasurer [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Philosphical Survey of the South of Ireland : In a Series of Letters to John Watkinson, M.D., [London: Printed For W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand. 1777] [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Paper Chase [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Sam Henry Again [article] / Hugh Shields — Record Reviews (Johnny Doughty, `Round Rye Bay for More’, `The Ling Family’) [article] / John Moulden — Members’ Activities [article] / [Hugh Shields]
Ceol Tíre 14, May 1979
Contents — Report on Allen Feldman, `Fiddling and Fiddlers in South-West Donegal’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Liam Ó Dochartaigh, `North Ulster Music on Film’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — The Daysman [song: music and words] / [Hugh Shields] — Report on Iain Montague, `Ireland and the Historic Dances of Europe’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Pat Mitchell, `The Piping of Patsy Touhey’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — The Shaskeen Reel — An Píobairí Uilleann, an Appeal [article] — Report on George Broderick, `Traditional Music and Songs of the Isle of Man’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Baill ag Saothrú, New Publications by Members (`Gneithe den Chaointeoireacht’, `Folk Music and Dances of Ireland’, `Ceolta Gael’, `Singer’s House’) [article] / [Hugh Shields; Nicholas Carolan] — Sinsear [article] — University College Cork, Music Department: Recent and Current Research in Traditional Irish Music [article] — Na Glúnta Rosannacha agus a gComharsana [article] / [Nicholas Carolan]
Ceol Tíre 15, October 1979
Contents — Next Meeting : Collecting Songs in West Clare by Tom Munnelly [advertisement] — Annual General Meeting [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Martin Talty, `Musical Life in County Clare’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Scots Ballad Influences in Ireland. 1 [article] / Hugh Shields — [Scots Ballad Influences in Ireland]. 2 [article] / Tom Munnelly — Raggle-taggle Gipsy [song: music and words] / [Hugh Shields] — Seacht nDólás na Maighdine Muire [song: music and words] / [Hugh Shields] — Braes of Yarrow [song: music and words] / [Hugh Shields] — John Moulden’s `Sam Henry’ [article] / [Hugh Shields] — An Píobaire [article] / [Hugh Shields]
Ceol Tíre 16, April 1980
Contents — Report on Tom Munnelly, `Songs of West Clare’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Dal gCais [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Report on Micheál Ó hAlmhain, `Flutes and Flute-Playing’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Ballad from Clare [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Mister Woodburren’s Courtship [song: music and words] — Flutes on St. Brigid’s Eve [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Hugh Shields, `Folk Singing in North Derry’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Killyclare [song: music and words] / [Hugh Shields] — Report on Marian Deasy, `Sources and Methods of Editing in the Petrie Collection’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — `Wet Canteen’ singing in India [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Pipes and Piping in Ireland [article] / Breandán Breathnach with Hugh Shields — The Red Herring [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Theses at University College Cork (Colm Long, `The Acoustics of the Tin Whistle’; Kevin Forde, `An Examination of the Confusion of Identity and Music of Rory Dall O’Cahan and Rory Dall Morison’; Geraldine Cotter, `Miko Russell: an Analysis of His Whistle Playing’; Aodh Óg Ó Tuama, `Ceol gan Cheol: A Study of the Instrumental Tradition in Corca Dhuibhne Over the Past 150 Years, With Special Reference to Dancing’; Reena Flynn, `Irish Dancing and Its Separation from Traditional Music’; Mary B. Devereux, `The Perception, Knowledge and Practice of Irish Traditional Music among Secondary School Students’; Donal O’Callaghan, `Trumpets of the Irish Bronze Age’ — Stephen C. Jardine, `A Study of the Composition of Tunes and Their Assimilation into Irish Traditional Dance Music’) [article] / Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin — Baill ag Saothrú : Recent Publications by Members [article] / [Hugh Shields ; Nicholas Carolan]– New Collections [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Synge Song [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Dublin Castle’s View [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Song Queries from Canada [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Ar Thaobh na Cairrge Báine [song: music and words] / [Nicholas Carolan] — Members’ subscriptions [article] / [Hugh Shields]
Ceol Tíre 17, June 1980
Contents — Report on Evening of Short Contributions (Proinsias Ó Conluain, `Ballads in English in the Gaeltacht’ ; Nicholas Carolan, `Shakespeare’s “Woollen Pipes”‘ ; Alf Mac Lochlainn, `Music of the Pontine Greeks’ / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Cathal Goan, `The RTE Archives of Irish Traditional Music’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Caisleán Uí Néill [song: music and words] — The Dove [article] / Nicholas Carolan — The Dove [song: music and words] — Mary Scott [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Wet Canteen Singing in India [article] / [Hugh Shields] — The Banks of Brandywine [article] / [Hugh Shields] — [Drogheda Express, 30 July 1979]: Out of Reach [article] / Eoghan Mortell — F. E. Dixon, [Richard Kirwan, the Dublin Philosopher. Dublin Historical Record XXIV, 1971]: Out of Hearing [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Gradam Sheáin Uí Bhaoill – The Sean O Boyle Award [article] / David Hammond, Ciarán Mac Mathuna, Proinsias Ó Conluain
Ceol Tíre 18, November 1980
Contents — Miko Russell on Video [advertisement] — Report on Annual General Meeting [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Breandán Ó Madagáin, `The Music of Irish Bardic Poetry’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Máire Áine Ní Dhonnchadha, `Smaointe faoin Sean-Nós i gConamara’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Úna Bhán [song: music and words] — Return of the Dove [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Ballad Seminar [article] / [Hugh Shields] — I.F.M.C. Conference in Britain [article] / [Hugh Shields] — An Old Friend : Eddie Butcher [article] / Hugh Shields — An Ould Friend [song: music and words] / [Hugh Shields] — Recent Publications (Breandán Breathnach, `Pipes and Piping in Ireland’ ; Dave Hegarty, `Reedmaking Made Easy’) [article] / [Hugh Shields]
Ceol Tíre 19, March 1981
Contents – Sean Donnelly, The Irish Warpipes [advertisement] — Report on Miko Russell on Videotape [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on John Kelly Playing Fiddle and Concertina [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Cill Beathach, reel / Breandán Breathnach — Dónall na Gréine, jig / Breandán Breathnach — Report on Johnny O’Leary Playing Button Accordion [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Gan Ainm, jig / Breandán Breathnach — Folk Song Weekend in Portrush [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Geographical Distribution of the Sam Henry Collection [article] / John Moulden — Pilliliú is Ambo Éara [article] / Virginia Blankenhorn — World Bagpipe Convention [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Na Píobairí Uillean [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Folk Music at Magee College, Derry [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Here’s Good Health to Asquith : Songs on the Old-Age Pension [article] / Nicholas Carolan – An Pension [song: music and words] (air: Seághan a’ Bhriste Leathair) — Times, London 1908 : [Old Age Pension] [article] – The Old-Age Pension [song: music and words] — Folk Music on Cassette [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Ceol [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Irish Folk Music Studies [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Traditional Irish Music at Queen’s University Belfast [article] / [Hugh Shields] – A National Archive of Folk Music [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Arts Council : Bursaries, Scholarships, Awards 1981 : Traditional Music [article] — Ballad Seminar [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Baill ag Saothrú : Recent Publications by Members [article] / [Hugh Shields, and Nicholas Carolan]
Ceol Tíre 20, November 1981
Contents — Welsh Folk Music [advertisement] / W. Roy Saer — Retrospect [introduction by Hugh Shields] [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Sean Donnelly, `The Irish Warpipes’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Festival of Traditional Singing [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Songs from Irish Islands [article] / Nicholas Carolan = [Cape Clear Island, Co Cork / Proinsias Ó Conluain], [Clare Island, Co Mayo / Tom Munnelly], [Tory Island, Co Donegal / Noel Hamilton] — The Gramaphone [Glimpses of My Life in Aran, Some Experiences of a District Nurse, Bristol 1917 / B. N. Hedderman] [article] / [Lisa Shields] — Máire Bhruinneall [song: music and words] / Nollaig Ó hUrmoltaigh — Notes on the Statistics and Natural History of the Island of Rathlin in Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy XVII (1837) [article] / J. D. Marshall — Report on Annual General Meeting [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Songs from Tom Lenihan [article] / Nicholas Carolan — The Dewy Dens of Yarrow [song: music and words] / [Hugh Shields] — Baill ag Saothrú : Recent Publications by Members [article] / [Hugh Shields and Nicholas Carolan] — Ceol vol. V, no 1 [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Religious Folk Song, a Seminar [advertisement] / [Hugh Shields] — I.F.M.C. Conference at Durham [advertisement] / [Hugh Shields] — Oriental Music at Durham [advertisement] / [Hugh Shields] — Féile na Bóinne 1981 [advertisement] — Folk Music on Cassette. 2 [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Revival or Survival : a Ten-Year Record [article] / [Hugh Shields]
Ceol Tíre 21, May 1982
Contents — Report on videotape of Pipers in London [article] / Nicholas Carolan — [Holinshed’s Chronicles (in Ceol V i, 1981, 22)] [article] / Breandán Breathnach — [Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, Dublin 1794, p. 287] [article] / [Nicholas Carolan] — Report on D. Roy Saer, `Welsh Folk Music’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — [Faulkner’s Dublin Journal, 31 July – 4 August 1750] [article] / [Nicholas Carolan] — [Faulkner’s Dublin Journal, 20-23 February 1768] [article] / [Nicholas Carolan] — Report on Breandán Breathnach, `Music on Two Flutes’ (recital by Frank Jordan, Frank Conneely) [article] / Nicholas Carolan — [Dublin Courant, 10 Oct. 1721] / [Nicholas Carolan] — The Commercial Recording of Irish Traditional Music 1900-1980 [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Welsh Folk-Song Society [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Discography [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Report on Religious Folk Song seminar [article] / Hugh Shields — Report on Nóirín Ní Riain, `The Music of Religious Songs in Irish’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Caoine Mhuire [song: music and words] / [Nóirín Ní Riain] — Report on Terence McCaughey, `The Scottish Gaelic Psalms’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Easter Play [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Donatien Laurent, `A Breton Nativity Song’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Breandán O Madagáin, `A Bardic Religious Poem and Its Music’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on seminar discussion [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Broadside Ballads [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Songs by Paddy Tunney [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Report on The Real Tradition, a Concert of Irish Traditional Music [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Ceol vol. 2 [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Willie Clancy Summer School [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Na Píobairí Uilleann [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Arts Council [article] / [Hugh Shields] — War Songs of the O’Byrne Clan [article] / [Hugh Shields] — The Long Note [article]/ [Hugh Shields]
Ceol Tíre 22, October 1982
Contents — Report on Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh, `An Introduction to the Forde Collection’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Breandán Breathnach, `The Feis Ceoil and Irish Music’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Annual General Meeting [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Christmas Carols: Ballad Sheet Reprints [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Report on Brian and Eithne Vallely, `The Teaching of Irish Traditional Music’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — A Discography of Irish Traditional Music [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Irish Folk Music on Cassette [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Ballad Seminar [article] /[Hugh Shields] — Seamus Ennis [article] / Hugh Shields — Dal gCais, The Journal of Clare [article] / [Hugh Shields] — Shavian Tirade [article] / [Nicholas Carolan and Hugh Shields]
Ceol Tíre 23, February 1983
Contents — Report on Angela Partridge: Songs in English from the Connemara Gaeltacht [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on James Kelly, Fiddle, Paddy O’Brien, Button Accordion, a recital [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Cartlann Cheoil, Raidio na Gaeltachta : The Raidio na Gaeltachta Archive of Music [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Persian Traditional Music [article] / Nicholas Carolan — [Leaves from a Journal, Or Sketches of Rambles in North Britain and Ireland, Edinburgh 1824, pp118-22, 138-9] : Harpers, Welsh and Irish – 1824 [article] / Andrew Bigelow — Cumann Cheol Tíre Éireann = Folk Music Society of Ireland : Ballads in Ireland [article] — Geordie and Sarah Ann: Record Reviews [article] / Hugh Shields — Lisburn Town [song: music and words] — The West’s Awake [article] — The North’s Awake [article] — Celtic Music Studies [article] / D. Ellis Evans — A Taste of Ulster [article] — The Stone Fiddle [article]
Ceol Tíre 24, November 1983
Contents — Report on Folk Music of Finland : a Presentation [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Songs in English from the Connemara Gaeltacht [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Father Henebry’s ‘Handbook of Irish Music’ [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Ballads in Ireland : a Seminar [article] — Report on Breatnach, Padraig : Irish Narrative Poetry After c.1200 AD [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Hugh Shields : The Music of Irish Narrative Song [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Lady Margaret [song: music and words] — Report on Georges-Denis Zimmermann : Cross-cultural Influences in Irish and Australian Ballads [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Tom Munnelly : Ballads in Field Research of the Seventies [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Ballads by Frank Browne [article] — Ballad-Singing on Video [article] — Report on Panel Discussion : Narrative Folk Song Today [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Display of Ballad Sheets [article] — Songs of the Irish Travellers [article] — Ballad Reprints on Broadsides [article] — New Secretary [article]
Ceol Tíre 25, February 1984
Contents — Report on After the Revival – What Next : a Discussion with Finbar Boyle and Pat Mitchell [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Annual General Meeting [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Biography and Traditional Music [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Johnny Leary : Button Accordion [article] Breandán Breathnach — As I Went Out Upon the Ice [jig] — Dancing Classes [article] — Folk Music of Finland [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Feaghan Geleash [article] / Sean Donnelly — Feaghan Geleash, or, Try If It Is In Tune [reel] — Arts Council 1984 [article] — Archives over the Water [article] — On the Wran in Dingle [article] / Tom Munnelly — Sully’s Irish Music Book / Anthony Sullivan [review article] / Terry Moylan
Ceol Tíre 26, September 1984
Contents — Report on Vincent Campbell, fiddle will play for the Society … [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Conall Ó Domhnaill Amhrain Rinn na Feirste [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on After the Revival – What Next? [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on The Orange Ball, Fionnuala Prosser [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Amhránaíocht & Amhráin i nGaeilge [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Cathal Ó Háinle: Tomás Ó Criomthain agus Caisleán Uí Néill [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Caisleán Uí Néill [song: music and words] — Report on Seóirse Bodley : Ornáidíocht agus an Líne Ceoil i nGnéithe den Amhránaíocht Traidisiúnta [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Cathal Goan : Amhráin ón gCartlann [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Angela Partridge : An tAmhrán, an tAmhránaí agus an Bailitheoir : Séamus Ennis i gCarna [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Breandán Breathnach : Foinn Amhráin ar Ghléasannaí Ceoil [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Painéal [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Val Ó Flatharta [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Annual General Meeting [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Work at 15 Henrietta Street [article] — Mo Cheol Thú [article] — Irish Dances [article] — Fifth Ulster-American Heritage Symposium [article] — Sean-Amhráin i gClo 1716-1855 [article] — Edmon [sic] an Chnoc [air] — Singing at Miltown [article] / Kitty Shields — Proinsias Ó Conluain [article] — The Wedding of Ballyporeen [article] / Leslie Shepard — Balinamona Ora [jig] — Wedding of Ballyporeen [song: words only] — Ceolta agus Seanchas Thir Chonaill [article] — Other Publications [article]
Ceol Tíre 27, January 1985
Contents — John Joe Gannon, Button Accordion will play for the Society… [article] — Report on Vincent Campbell : Fiddle [article] / Nicholas Carolan — The Cutty Lon [cotillion] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Songs of Newfoundland, Aidan O’Hara [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Ceol : Twenty-One Years / Breandán Breathnach [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Irish Songs and Airs in John Clare’s Manuscripts [article] / Hugh Shields — Ballad Conference : August 1985 [article] — Popular Music in Eighteenth-Century Dublin [article] — Aisling an Deoraí [song: music and words] — New Record Shop [Claddagh] [article] — Irish-American 78s [article] — Publications of the Society [article]
Ceol Tíre 28, November 1985
Contents — Denis Doody, Button Accordion and Donal O’Connor, Fiddle [article] — Breandán Breathnach (1912-1985) [article] / Hugh Shields — Proinsias Ó Conluain [Breandán Breathnach] [article] — [Breandán Breathnach] [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Tarraing agus Sáith Arís [jig]
Ceol Tíre 29, February 1986
Contents — Dermot McLaughlin [article] — Report on John Joe Gannon : Button Accordion [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Recital : Packie Diugnan, Brendan Farrelly, Ciaran Emmett [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Annual General Meeting [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Fifteenth Ballad Conference of the Societe Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore [article] — Other Activities [article] — Exhibition and Music Sessions [article] — Events in Trinity College [article] — Lahinch Weekend [article] — The Kommission fur Volksdichtung [article] / Hugh Shields — Popular Music in Eighteenth-Century Dublin : an Exhibition [article] / Nicholas Carolan — An Evening of Music and Dance [article] / Nicholas Carolan — My Parents Reared Me Tenderly [article] / Hugh Shields — A Song Manuscript from County Down / John Moulden [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Gary Hastings on Orange Music [article] — Blas Meala [article] / Hugh Shields — Untitled Fling — European Ethnic Oral Traditions : 3 New Cassettes ; Scealamhráin Cheilteacha; Early Ballads in Ireland 1968-1985; German Ballads from Oral Tradition [article] — Seminar : Ethnomusicology and Irish Music [article] — Willie Clancy Summer School [article] — ICTM UK Conference [article] — Irish Musicology Conference [article] — Publications of the Society [article]
Ceol Tíre 30, January 1987
Contents — The Orange Musical Tradition [article] / Gary Hastings — Report on Dermot McLaughlin : Donegal Fiddle Playing [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Untitled March — Report on Caoimhín Mac Aoidh : Padraig O’Keeffe and His Music Manuscripts [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Ethnomusicology and Irish Music : Seminar, 9-10 May 1986 [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Virginia Blankenhorn : Teaching about Singing [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Peter Crossley-Holland : Archaic Streams in Irish Traditional Music [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on John Blacking : Aspects of Ethnomusicology [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Donncha Ó Maidin : The Computer and Traditional Dance Tunes [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Aine Bean Uí Laoi : Annie Eoghain Éamoinn. Amhráin agus Amhránaithe Dobhair [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Proinsias Ó Conluain : Edward O’Reilly, Collector, and His Manuscripts [article] / Nicholas Carolan — New Set-Dance Recordings [article] / Nicholas Carolan — The Last `Ceol’ [article] — Miscellany [article]
Ceol Tíre 31, November 1987
Contents — Report on Sean Corcoran : Traditional Singing in a Fermanagh Community [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Colin Neilands : Irish Broadside Ballads : Their Social and Historical Contexts [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Ceol-Fhéile Phádraig : Johnny O’Leary, Button Accordion [article] / Nicholas Carolan — The Lonesome Jig — Report on Music Traditions & Media: a Seminar at Trinity College Dublin, 8-9 May 1987 [selection of articles] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Malachy O’Higgins : How to Make a Videotape : Techniques and Equipment [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Hugh Shields : Printed Aids to Singing : the Functioning of Ballad Sheets [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Sean Donnelly : Published Music Collections and the Traditional Player [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Cathal Goan : Traditional Music on Irish Television : an Illustrated Presentation [article] / Nicholas Carolan — Report on Agnes Cogan : Televising Tradi
Ceol Tíre 32, December 1988
Ceol Tíre 33, December 1989
