Popular music in eighteenth-century Dublin. Contents

Popular music in eighteenth-century Dublin, [ed. Hugh Shields], Dublin, Na Píobairí Uilleann & FMSI, 1985. A booklet produced for the exhibition with the same title, organised in the Dublin Civic Museum 27 August–31 October 1985 as an event of European Music Year, by the FMSI and Na Píobairí Uilleann (society of uilleann pipers).
(See report of the exhibition  in Ceol Tíre 29) Free pdf here

Foreword Hugh Shields

Eighteenth-century tunes today Breandán Breathnach

Georgian lollipops Brian Boydell

The Irish bagpipe Breandán Breathnach

Gaelic song Nicholas Carolan

Ballads, ballad singing and ballad selling Hugh Shields

Dancing Breandán Breathnach

Notes and references

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