Dr Martin Dowling. 1 Terry Moylan, The Age of Revolution: 17761815 in the Irish Song Tradition (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2000). 2T.K Hoppen, Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland, 18321885 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), pp.
... Spanish Netherlands during the 1650s, recorded that he had been entertained with the Catholics Lord Dillon and Lord and Lady Taaffe, and that 'we are all civilly merry, ... The nicholas Papers (London: Camden Society, 1897), iii, p.
I remarked in Chapter 1 on the paucity of evidence for an Irish fiddle tradition in the eighteenth century, and the stark contrast with ... The extent to which fiddle players in northeast Ulster participated in this Scottish phenomenon, ...
and sing one of the songs given there, rendering the melody as it is written, pronouncing the Irish words correctly, and infusing into our singing such feeling as words and tunes suggest, have we not then true Irish singing?
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