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This book is the first comprehensive examination of the history and evolution of Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann (All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil). As a transformative cultural phenomenon, the Fleadh was central to the revival for Irish traditional music during from 1951 to 1969. Reflecting broader patterns of Irish life and society, this book charts the genesis and development phases of the Fleadh in the 1950s and the challenges of identity which the Fleadh experienced in the 1960s.

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""Méabh gives context to that first Fleadh and to Comhaltas, and paints a fascinating picture of the festival's evolution in its early years, with competitions and other events being added, removed or adapted until the celebration came to more closely resemble today's Fleadh.""--Judy Murphy ""Connacht Tribune"" ""Skillfully critiquing a broad range of scholarship on Irish traditional music, drawing on international comparisons, engaging with archival sources, and through many interviews, Ní Fhuartháin brings together important insights on Irish musical culture through a focus on the origins and development of Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann that informs our understanding of the event in the present.""--Daithí Kearney ""The Journal of Music""

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Meabh Ni Fhuarthain is Head of Irish Studies at the Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway, specializing in Irish Music and Dance Studies. Meabh has contributed articles and reviews to a variety of journals and was also Popular Music subject editor of the landmark Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (UCD Press, 2012). She co-edited a special issue of Eire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies (2019) and also, the special issue on 'Women and traditional/folk music' in Ethnomusicology Ireland (March, 2021). Currently editor of Ethnomusicology Ireland, recent publications include research on commemorative representations of Ireland through music; pop music and emigration; masculinities and Irish popular music; dance genealogies in Galway, and institutionalisation of traditional music and dance in Ireland.

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