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A pleasure to read in its beautifully illustrated magazine format. Packed with wonderful engravings and period paintings, historical notes, music and anecdote this book is a magnificent read not just for a singer, but for anybody wanting to get to know this key period effortlessly and with pleasure.’ – Sunday Tribune ‘Scanning the pages of The Age of Revolution, I am once again forcibly reminded of the beauty and power of traditional song, its capacity to present a world to us in vivid, panoramic detail. Here are workers, peasants, soldiers, rebels, rapparees, engaged in memorable actions: poetry which ranges from the acerbic social commentary of ‘The Wheels of the World’ to the transcendental pathos of ‘The Green Linnet’. Terry Moylan has provided us with a cornucopia of linguistic and musical splendours.’ – Ciaran Carson A pleasure to read in its beautifully illustrated magazine format. Packed with wonderful engravings and period paintings, historical notes, music and anecdote this book is a magnificent read not just for a singer, but for anybody wanting to get to know this key period effortlessly and with pleasure.’ – Sunday Tribune ‘Scanning the pages of The Age of Revolution, I am once again forcibly reminded of the beauty and power of traditional song, its capacity to present a world to us in vivid, panoramic detail. Here are workers, peasants, soldiers, rebels, rapparees, engaged in memorable actions: poetry which ranges from the acerbic social commentary of ‘The Wheels of the World’ to the transcendental pathos of ‘The Green Linnet’. Terry Moylan has provided us with a cornucopia of linguistic and musical splendours.’ – Ciaran Carson

A pleasure to read in its beautifully illustrated magazine format. Packed with wonderful engravings and period paintings, historical notes, music and anecdote this book is a magnificent read not just for a singer, but for anybody wanting to get to know this key period effortlessly and with pleasure.' - Sunday Tribune 'Scanning the pages of The Age of Revolution, I am once again forcibly reminded of the beauty and power of traditional song, its capacity to present a world to us in vivid, panoramic detail. Here are workers, peasants, soldiers, rebels, rapparees, engaged in memorable actions: poetry which ranges from the acerbic social commentary of 'The Wheels of the World' to the transcendental pathos of 'The Green Linnet'. Terry Moylan has provided us with a cornucopia of linguistic and musical splendours.' - Ciaran Carson A pleasure to read in its beautifully illustrated magazine format. Packed with wonderful engravings and period paintings, historical notes, music and anecdote this book is a magnificent read not just for a singer, but for anybody wanting to get to know this key period effortlessly and with pleasure.' - Sunday Tribune 'Scanning the pages of The Age of Revolution, I am once again forcibly reminded of the beauty and power of traditional song, its capacity to present a world to us in vivid, panoramic detail. Here are workers, peasants, soldiers, rebels, rapparees, engaged in memorable actions: poetry which ranges from the acerbic social commentary of 'The Wheels of the World' to the transcendental pathos of 'The Green Linnet'. Terry Moylan has provided us with a cornucopia of linguistic and musical splendours.' - Ciaran Carson

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Terry Moylan is a music historian, piper and archivist at Dublin's Na Piobairi Uilleann. His earlier publications include Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra: Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border (Dublin 1994, 2014), and The Age of Revolution in the Irish Song Tradition 1776-1815 (Dublin 2000).

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