Overview

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.

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Author:   Emma Byrne (The O'Brien Press Ltd) ,  Eoin O'Brien
Publisher:   O'Brien Press Ltd
Imprint:   O'Brien Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9781788492201

ISBN 10:   178849220
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   28 September 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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