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Martin Walton: Irish popular song

09/02/2008

Historically, music printing and publishing in Ireland have been more concerned with satisfying demand for Irish and other music than with the promotion of works by indigenous composers. The first record of music printing specifically in Ireland dates from 1686 and rose to a peak in 1820 when more than twenty music printers, publishers and sellers operated in Dublin. From the early 1920s Walton’s and An Gum served the burgeoning demands of post-independent Ireland by publishing much Irish music,…

Irish Golden Age: High Crosses

05/17/2008

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The principal resources for dating events in medieval Irish history are the Annals that provide a continuous year-by-year cryptic summary of Irish political and ecclesiastical events from c.313 to A.D 1590. In the 1630s a group of four Franciscans compiled many of these texts into one enormous compendium, now known as the Annals of the Four Masters. While they sometimes modified the chronology and content of some of these records, they saved for posterity material that would otherwise have…