1st Edition

Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song

By Julie Henigan Copyright 2013
    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    Focusing on several distinct genres of eighteenth-century Irish song, Henigan demonstrates in each case that the interaction between the elite and vernacular, the written and oral, is pervasive and characteristic of the Irish song tradition to the present day.

    Introduction 1 Th e Medieval Background 2 Songs of the Dispossessed: Eighteenth-Century Irish Song-Poetry 3 ‘Éirigh i do Sheasamh’: Oral and Literary Aspects of the Irish Lament Tradition 4 ‘For Want of Education’: Th e Songs of the Hedge Schoolmaster 5 The Eighteenth-Century Printed Ballad in Ireland 6 The Eighteenth-Century Irish Ballad and Modern Oral Tradition

    Biography

    Julie Henigan