Free Spirits: Irish Travellers and Irish Traditional Music - Tommy Fegan & Oliver O'Connell
	Quantity in Basket: none Code: 02147-BK Price: $38.00 Shipping Weight: 0.00 ounces
	Quantity:
Fegan, Tommy & Oliver O'Connell Free Spirits: Irish Travellers and Irish Traditional Music - Tommy Fegan & Oliver O'Connell Paperback Publisher: MPO Promotions Ltd (Sep 2011) "Free Spirits" chronicles the life and times and the influences of the famous Irish travelling families on Irish traditional music over many decades, The Doran brothers, Johnny and Felix, the blind Dunnes, the world famous Fureys, the legendary Keenan family, the Doherty and Rainey families in Donegal and Galway.. Detailed accounts of the life and times of all colourful traveller musicians, such as the Pecker Dunne and Maggie Barry, are also central to this riveting story. The colourful, coffee- table style book contains, 150 photographs, some never published before, 50,000 words and 32 transcriptions of tunes- including many with regulator accompaniment-which are closely associated with the Travellers repertoire. A special highlight is the handwritten manuscripts from the Ted Furey Collection, donated by Finbar to The Irish Folklore Commission, UCD, and published here in public for the first time. From P.J. Curtis: "Having just read the recently launched 'Free Spirits', I believe it to be one of the most significant publications on Irish traditional music of this or any decade. A meticulously researched, gloriously illustrated and powerfully written account (by Tommy Fegan & Oliver O'Connell) the work celebrates the several generations of Irish Traveler dynasties of Irish musicians - in particular the legendary Cash, Doran, Keenan, Furey, Dunne and Rooney families -past and present. This book addresses finally - and with great detail - the deep and rich vein of traditional Irish music and song as carried down the generations by these rightly famous traveling singers, fiddlers and especially Uilleann pipers. A lovingly compiled celebration of Irish music and of the men and women who carry it with great dignity, passion and pride. A milestone!"

Related Item(s)

Code Name Price   00017-CS Master Fiddler of Donegal - John Doherty - cassette $2.00 00354-BK Notes from the Heart - A Celebration of Traditional Irish Music by PJ Curtis $12.00 00478-CD Travellin' People from Ireland - Margaret Barry & Pecker Dunne $24.00 00642-CD The Floating Bow-John Doherty $18.00 00650-CD Johnny Doran - Master Pipers Volume 1 $22.00 00111-BK The Music of Ghosts - PJ Curtis $20.00 00794-CD Legacy - The Dunne Family $18.00 00863-2CD From Puck to Appleby $30.00 01045-CD Poirt an Phiobaire - Paddy Keenan $18.00 01178-CD Travellers and Fellow Travellers - Keepers of the Flame $20.00 01568-BK Irish Travellers : Representations & Realities - Michael Hayes $36.00 01601-BK The Lightning Tree - PJ Curtis $23.00 01613-CD Songs Of The Irish Travellers - Tom Munnelly $22.00 01894-CD Oldtime Records Vol 3 - Piping Rarities $22.00 01958-DVD Piper's Choice - volume 3 - M.Coyne, N. Mac Carthaigh, P. Keenan $38.00