Best-Loved Irish Ballads - Emma Byrne, Eoin O'Brien

Best-Loved Irish Ballads

Great Songs from the Irish Folk Tradition
Buch | Hardcover
160 Seiten
2020
O'Brien Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78849-220-1 (ISBN)
30,85 inkl. MwSt
Songs to stir the soul and move the feet, raise a roar or bring a tear to the eye.

From Danny Boy to Boulavogue and more, this book celebrates the cream of Irish ballads, explaining the origins of each song, along with words, melodies and chords. Illustrated with evocative photographs and  woodcuts..
A collection of Ireland’s greatest and best-loved ballads, including the lyrics, music and chords, along with an introductory piece on each song. Illustrated with photographs and woodcuts. A beautiful guide to the cream of the Irish ballad tradition.



Songs of love, yearning, revolution, celebration, emigration, mourning, fun, famine, drinking and more. A collection of powerful yet beautiful ballads of Ireland, placed in and reflecting historical events and traditions. All have stood the test of time and present to the world the uniqueness of Irish history and her musical and revolutionary traditions.



Including:





Are You Right There Michael?
Danny Boy
Kevin Barry
I’ll Tell Me Ma
The Irish Rover
Molly Malone
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
The Rocky Road to Dublin
The Rose of Tralee
Whiskey in the Jar


Best-Loved Irish Ballads celebrates the songs and tradition of Irish music.

Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Children’s Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books, including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best Loved Yeats, The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl O’Neill, a special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairéad Ashe Fitzgerald. Her other books are Irish Thatch and, with Eoin O’Brien, Best-Loved Irish Ballads. Eoin O’Brien is a songwriter and musician, a writer and illustrator. He enjoys nothing more than a good old singsong around a kitchen table or a bonfire. He lives with his fantastic wife, two beautiful children and a dog, in historic Glasnevin in north Dublin.

Introduction 6



Craic and Drink 9

Are Ye Right There Michael? 11

Finnegan’s Wake 17

I’ll Tell Me Ma 21

The Irish Rover 25

Lanigan’s Ball 31

The Rare Old Mountain Dew 37

The Waxies’ Dargle 41



Revolution and Nationalism 45

Arthur McBride 47

Boulavogue 53

Follow Me Up to Carlow 57

Kevin Barry 61

A Nation Once Again 65

The Wearing of the Green 69



Love and Tragedy 73

As I Roved Out 75

Danny Boy 79

The Dawning of the Day 83

Down By the Sally Gardens 87

The Galway Shawl 91

The Rose of Tralee 95

She Moved Through the Fair 98

The Star of the County Down 101



Home and Emigration 105

The Banks of My Own Lovely Lee 107

Carrickfergus 111

Molly Malone 115

The Mountains of Mourne 119

Muirsheen Durkin 123

Spancil Hill 127



Adventure and Misadventure 131

The Black Velvet Band 133

The Rocky Road to Dublin 137

Weela Weela Walya 141

The Well Below the Valley 145

Whiskey in the Jar 149

The Wild Colonial Boy 153

The Wild Rover 157

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 34 Printed music items; 40 Illustrations, color; 37 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Dublin
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 196 mm
Gewicht 385 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Singen / Musizieren
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
ISBN-10 1-78849-220-X / 178849220X
ISBN-13 978-1-78849-220-1 / 9781788492201
Zustand Neuware
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