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*John & William Neal, A collection of the most celebrated Irish tunes: proper for the violin, German flute or hautboy, Dublin [1724], 2nd facsimile ed. with new introduction & notes by Nicholas Carolan, Dublin: Irish Traditional Music Archive in association with the Folk Music Society of Ireland, 2010. xiv, 118 pp. ISBN 9780953270439 (hbk) Contents
The first edition (Pbk, 1986) is out of print. Only one copy of the original is known to exist.
The 49 tunes in the book are now available on line as interactive scores
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*Blas:the local accent in Irish traditional music, Ed. Thérèse Smith, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin et al. [selected proceedings from ‘ The Local Accent Conference’, University of Limerick, November 1995] Contents
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Old Dublin songs, ed. Hugh Shields (1988, out of print). ISBN 0-905733-04-5 See Contents for free pdf
A short discography of Irish folk music, by Nicholas Carolan (1987) Download free PDF
Ballad research. The stranger in ballad narrative and other topics. Papers read at the European Ballad Conference. Dublin 1985, ed. Hugh Shields, 297 pp. (1986). ISBN 0-905733-029 Contents
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Folk Music Society of Ireland (FMSI) 