ABSTRACT
Musical Culture and the Spirit of Irish Nationalism is the first comprehensive history of music’s relationship with Irish nationalist politics. Addressing rebel songs, traditional music and dance, national anthems and protest song, the book draws upon an unprecedented volume of material to explore music’s role in cultural and political nationalism in modern Ireland. From the nineteenth-century Young Irelanders, the Fenians, the Home Rule movement, Sinn Féin and the Anglo-Irish War to establishment politics in independent Ireland and civil rights protests in Northern Ireland, this wide-ranging survey considers music’s importance and its limitations across a variety of political movements.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|36 pages
Nationalism, 1848–1913
chapter 1|15 pages
“Oh, What Matter, When for Erin Dear We Fall?”
chapter 3|10 pages
Gaelicising “The Seonín Maids of Eirinn”
part 2|40 pages
Revolution, 1913–1923
part 3|39 pages
Independence, 1923–1972
part 4|38 pages
Partition, 1923–1972
chapter 9|18 pages
“This Morning a Man Was Hanged. This Evening We Had a Concert”
part 5|43 pages
Dance