Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1 The 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’: The Songs of the Hedge Schoolmaster
- 5 The Eighteenth-Century Printed Ballad in Ireland
- 6 The Eighteenth-Century Irish Ballad and Modern Oral Tradition
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
CONTENTS
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1 The 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’: The Songs of the Hedge Schoolmaster
- 5 The Eighteenth-Century Printed Ballad in Ireland
- 6 The Eighteenth-Century Irish Ballad and Modern Oral Tradition
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014