1st Edition
Musical Culture and the Spirit of Irish Nationalism, 1848–1972
Introduction: "Ballads Have Long Lost Their Revolutionary Powers"
Part I: Nationalism, 1848–1913
1. "Oh, What Matter, When for Erin Dear We Fall?": Fenianism, Radical Nationalism and the Irish Soundscape
2. Appropriating Radicalism: Nationalist Music and Home Rule
3. Gaelicising "The Seonín Maids of Eirinn": The Politics of Ireland’s Musical Revivals
Part II: Revolution, 1913–1923
4. "Great Men and Straight Men"?: Music, Radicalisation and Revolution, 1913–1921
5. "Oh, How We Worship Our Dora": Seditious Singing and British Laws
6. "We Thought We Fought for Ireland": Music and the Civil War
Part III: Independence, 1923–1972
7. "Three-Quarters of a Nation Once Again": Music and Party Politics
8. "Folk Music Alone Will Not Supply Our Needs": Music and Cultural Nationalism
Part IV: Partition, 1923–1972
9. "This Morning a Man Was Hanged. This Evening We Had a Concert": Music, Nationalism and Northern Ireland, 1923–1967
10. "For the Most Part We Played Rebel Songs": Music and Civil Rights
11. "Ireland for the Irish, We Shall Not Be Moved": Music and the Troubles
Part V: Dance
12. Inventing the Irish Dancer, 1848–1923
13. "Jazzing the Soul of the Nation Away": Dance and Dissent, 1923–1935
14. Modernising Irish Dance, 1935–1972
Conclusion: Nationalist Communities, Revolution and Musical Mischief
Biography
Richard Parfitt, based at the University of Oxford, is a historian of political music and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
