Writers
Writers contributing to the Companion to Irish Traditional Music, 2nd Edition
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Surname | First Name | Writer Code | Biography |
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Ahern | Pat | PAA | Guitarist and former columnist, Cork |
Anderson | Gene | GEA | Concertina player, music promoter; Carrick-on-Shannon, Co; Leitrim |
Bazin | Fenella | FEB | Performer and chronicler of Manx music |
Bennet | Margaret | MAB | Singer and former Research Fellow at Glasgow University; from a long line of Skye singers and pipers |
Berry | Phil | PHB | Singer, songwriter, Wexford song authority |
Bicego | Daniele | DAB | Uilleann piper and pipe maker living in Rome |
Bourke | Angela | ABU | Formerly lecturer in Modern Irish at UCD; her song research has included work on 'Caoineadh na dTrí Mhuire' |
Boydell | Barra | BAB | Organologist, lecturer in music at NUIM |
Bradley | Harry | HBR | Flute and uilleann pipes player, from Belfast |
Bradshaw | Harry | HAB | Radio producer, researcher, recording technologist |
Brennan | Helen | HEB | Dance authority, author of The Story of Irish Dance, Drogheda |
Browne | Peter | PEB | Uilleann piper, radio producer |
Buckley | Angela | AGB | Researcher at WIT |
Buckley | Ann | ANB | Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, TCD |
Burn | Sarah | SAB | Oboist, Co; Wexford, her doctoral research is on A.J; Potter |
Butler | Lisa | LIB | Fiddler and music teacher in Carlow, member of the band Caladh Nua |
Carolan | Nicholas | NIC | Director of the ITMA |
Carroll | Barry | BAC | Hammer dulcimer player, Lisburn, Antrim / Dublin |
Carroll | Jim | JCA | Singer, song collector, researcher, Born Liverpool, joined Ewan MacColl's Critics Group in 1989; Clare based, he has researched songs and singing of Travellers and of west Clare |
Carroll | Paula | PCA | Broadcaster with Clare FM radio |
Coleman | Steve | STC | Piper, lecturer in Social Anthropology, NUIM |
Collins | Tim | TIC | Concertina player, Kerry; doctoral researcher at NUIG |
Comiskey | Glenn | GLC | Piper, former archivist at the ITMA; Armagh/London |
Commins | Adele | ADC | Lecturer in music at DkIT, Dundalk |
Commins | Verena | VEC | Button accordion and piano player, researcher; Mayo-Coventry/ NUIG |
Cormack | Arthur | ARC | Director of Feisean nan Gaidheal, Scotland |
Cotter | Geraldine | GEC | Piano and whistle player, tutor editor, teacher; Clare |
Cox | Gareth | GAC | Senior lecturer and head of the Department of Music at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick; co-editor with Axel Klein of Irish Music in the Twentieth Century [2003) and author of Seoirse Bodley [2010] |
Cranford | Paul | PAC | Fiddle player, music collector and publisher, Cape Breton |
Cranitch | Matt | MAC | Fiddle-player, lecturer, authority on music of Sliabh Luachra; Cork |
Crowley | Jimmy | JIC | Singer and songwriter; Cork |
Cullinane | John | JOC | Dance researcher and archivist; Cork |
Cunningham | Eric | ERC | Flute and whistle player; director of the World Fleadh; Headford |
Daly | Gregory | GRD | Flute player, archivist at Ceolras Cholmin; Co; Sligo |
De La Haye | Emmanuel | EMD | Bouzouki player, Paris |
DeGrae | Paul | PDG | Guitarist, writer, researcher, author of the first guitar tutor in traditional music; Dublin/Kerry |
Desplanques | Marie Annick | MDE | Singer, folklorist, specialist on Newfoundland; Brittany/Cork |
Dillane | Aileen | AID | Piano player, lecturer at UL |
Doherty | Liz | LID | Fiddle player, lecturer in traditional music at UU; Buncrana |
Dolan | Brendan | BRD | Flute and piano player, based in New York; archivist at NYU |
Douglas | Sheila | SHD | Singer, storyteller and an editor of the Greig Duncan collection; Perth, Scotland |
Dowling | Martin | MAD | Fiddle player, lecturer at QUB; Chicago/Belfast |
Dromey | Paul | PAD | Music columnist with Cork newspapers |
Duffy | Paddy | PDU | Former professor of geography, NUIM; Castleblayney/Kildare |
Duggan | Bryan | BDU | Flute player, music-software developer; deviser of the 'Tunepal' music-search 'app' |
Farrell | Eibhls | EIF | Composer; head of Music and Creative Media, DkI |
Fegan | Tommy | TOF | Uilleann piper and community music worker; Camlough, Co; Armagh |
Flood | Pauline | PAF | CC organiser and teacher, Edgeworthstown, Co; Longford |
Foley | Catherine | CAF | Dancer, musician, collector, choreographer, writer, lecturer in Ethnochoreology and Irish traditional dance, UL; Cork/Limerick |
Garvin | Wilbert | WIG | Uilleann piper and bag piper; author of 'The Irish Bagpipe' |
Gebruers | Maeve | MAG | Harp player; archivist with the ITMA |
Graham | Len | LEG | Singer and song collector; Antrim/Armagh |
Granville | Aoife | AOG | Flute and Fiddle player, ethnomusicologist; Dingle |
Gunn | Douglas | DOG | Recorder player, writer, broadcaster, teacher, composer and choral conductor [Douglas Gunn Ensemble] |
Hall | Reg | REH | Melodeon and piano player, record producer, historian of Irish dance music in London |
Hamilton | Hammy (Colin) | HAH | Flute-player and maker, researcher and writer; Coolea |
Hammond | David | DAH | Singer, raconteur, film producer |
Hannan | Robbie | ROH | Uilleann piper, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum |
Harbison | Janet | JAH | Harper, director of the Irish Harp College; Co; Limerick |
Harte | Frank | FRH | Singer, collector, song author |
Hastings | Gary | GAH | Flute player, author of With Fife and Drum; Belfast/Connacht |
Hatton | Freda | FHA | Harp/concertina player, arts administrator, Irish-language translator; Westmeath/Galway |
Hayes | Martin | MHA | Fiddler player, Co; Clare |
Hayes | Nuala | NUH | Actor, storyteller, broadcaster, folklore collector and festival organiser; Dublin |
Henegan | Julie | JUH | Singer and researcher, specialist in traditional Irish song and southern American folk music; Missouri |
Hessian | Carl | CAH | Pianist and keyboard player; Co; Galway |
Heymann | Ann | ANH | Wire-strung harp performer, writer and researcher; Minneapolis |
Hitchner | Earle | EAH | Writer and radio broadcaster; Wall Street Journal and Irish Echo, USA |
Johanson | Mats | MAJ | Fiddle player, music researcher and teacher; Karlsborg [Sweden)/Oslo and Telemark [Rauland) University College, Norway |
Johnston | Thomas | THJ | Uilleann piper, research at UL on traditional music in education in Ireland; Monaghan/Limerick |
Kearney | Daithí | DAK | Banjo player, dancer, music geographer; lecturer at DkIT; Tralee |
Keegan | Niall | NIK | Flute player, lecturer at UL; St Albans/Limerick |
Keller | Thomas | THK | Editor of FolkWorld webzine [folkworld.eu]; Salzgitter, Germany |
Kelly | Ita | ITK | Music journalist and broadcaster, Co; Galway |
Kiley (1st ed.) | Brendan | BRK | Writer, publisher: Kilkenny |
Kinnaird | Alison | ALK | Harper, teacher, lecturer and writer; Scotland |
Kinney | Phyllis | PHK | From the USA, she has published extensively in English and Welsh |
Kinsella | Mick | MIK | Harmonica player; Dublin |
Kjeldsen | Svend | SVK | Bodhrn player, music researcher and promoter; Denmark/Galway |
Lalor | Helen | HEL | Harper, researcher, music lecturer at DkIT; Co; Dublin |
Langan | Julie | JUL | Fiddle player, teacher; Co; Mayo |
Lanier | Sara | SAL | Writer, neo-antiquarian, harper; Co; Antrim |
Larson Sky | Cathy | CAL | Fiddle player, writer, folklore researcher; Rhode Island/North Carolina |
Lawler | Brian | BRL | Cil band founder, composer, archivist; Kildare/Cork/ Dublin |
Lethert | Nick | NIL | Artist, designer, compere; St Paul/Minneapolis |
Leyden | Maurice | MAL | Journalist, writer, singer; Belfast |
Loughnane | Kathleen | KAL | Harper, composer, seventeenth to eighteenth-century harp music specialist; Nenagh/Galway |
Lynch | Cathal | CAL | Singer, teacher; Tyrone |
Mac Aoidh | Caoimhín | CAM | Fiddle player, writer, specialist in Donegal fiddle; Ballyshannon |
Mac Con Iomaire | Liam | LIM | Singer, journalist, and broadcaster, from Casla, Connemara |
Mac Manúis | Clement | CLM | Author of 'Éamonn Ó Gallchobhair - An Annotated Catalogue of Works' {MA}; Dundalk/Belfast |
MacDiarmada | Oisín | OMD | Fiddle and piano player; plays with Tiada; Sligo |
MacGabhann | Antóin | AMG | Fiddler, music organiser; from Cavan; Meath |
Madden | Angela | AMA | Orchestral administrator; her MA ethnomusicology research at QUB was lilting |
Maguire | Cyril | CYM | Flute player from Garrison, Co; Fermanagh; editor of Hidden Fermanagh |
Matthews | Ceri | CEM | A piper, he lives and works in Wales |
McBride | Jimmy | JIM | Singer, collector, organiser of the the lnishowen Traditional Singers' Circle and annual seminar; Buncrana |
McCann | Anthony | ANM | Writer, singer, bodhrn player, his PhD research was on copyright in traditional music; lecturer at UU, Derry city |
McCarthy | Johnny | JMC | Flute and fiddle player, music teacher; Cork |
McCreanor | Brendan | BRM | Uilleann piper; Dunleer |
McCullough | Laurence P | LAM | Tin whistle player, writer, researcher and composer; Chicago |
McDermot | Joan | JMD | Singer, archivist with the ITMA; Wexford/Dublin |
McElwain | Seán | SME | Member of the group Tada; PhD researcher in the music of north Monaghan |
McEniry | Caitrona | CME | Piano and flute player, lecturer in music at DkIT |
McEvoy | Jacinta | JAM | Concertina player and dance tutor compiler; Meath |
McGettrick | Paul | PMG | Flute player; lecturer in music technology at DkIT |
McGrath | Vincent | VIM | Accordion player, community activist; biographer of composer John McGrath; Mayo |
McKerrill | Simon | SIM | Piper and researcher of Scottish music at Newcastle University |
McLeod | Ken | KML | Uilleann piper, pipes researcher |
McNamara | Brian | BRN | Uilleann piper, flute player and specialist in the music of Leitrim |
Meade | Don | DOM | Harmonica player, fiddler, organiser, writer; New York |
Meek | Bill | BIM | Singer, journalist, traditional music commentator |
Mercier | Mel | MEM | Bodhrán and bones player; head of School of Music at UCC |
Mitchell | Mary | MAM | Uilleann piper, lecturer at UCC, music collector; Cork |
Mitchell | Pat | PMI | Uilleann piper, specialist on pipes music; Dublin |
Moloney | Colette | COM | Musician, researcher, author, lecturer at WIT; Charleville/Tramore |
Moloney | Mick | MIM | Singer, banjo and mandolin player, lecturer and researcher; Limerick/New York |
Morrissey | Lisa | LMO | Musician, researcher at WIT; Tramore |
Morton | Frances | FRM | Flute player, traditional music researcher; Glasgow |
Motherway | Susan | SUM | Concertina and flute player; lecturer at ITT, Tralee |
Moulden | John | JOM | Singer, researcher, lecturer and writer |
Moylan | Terry | TEM | Uilleann piper, set dancer, writer |
Mulkere | Brendan | BMU | Fiddle player; lecturer, writer and teacher |
Mulvey O'Leary | Maureen | MOL | Céilí, set and step dance teacher and caller of Céilís in Ontario |
Munnelly | Tom | TOM | Singer, song collector, writer, lecturer and commentator; Dublin/Clare |
Murphy | Pat | PAM | Set dancer and teacher, from Tipperary |
Ní Chathasaigh | Máire | MAN | Harp player, singer; from Bandon, Co; Cork |
Ní Chonaráin | Siobhán | SIN | Flute player, from Co; Limerick, staff worker with CC |
Ní Chormaic | June | JUN | Flute player and teacher; Co; Sligo |
Ní Fhloinn | Bairbre | BNF | Lecturer in Irish folklore at UCD |
Ní Shúilleabháin | Eibhlís | EIN | Singer, from Cil Aodha, Co; Cork, she has researched songs and singers of Gaeltacht Mhscra |
Ní Uallacháin | Padraigín | PAN | Singer and researcher, author of Hidden Ulster |
Ní Uarthan | Méabh | MEN | Lecturer at IWAMD |
O Baoill | Colm | COO | Singer; Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Aberdeen |
O Beirne | Joe | JOB | Flute player, researcher, folklorist, pbulisheer, Mayo |
O Bróithe | Eamonn | EAB | Uilleann pipes, singer; Dublin/Galway |
O Callanáin | Niall | NIO | Bouzouki player, Dublin |
O Conluain | Proinsias | PRO | Radio producer and scriptwriter, he produced many documentaries on figures in traditional music |
O Dubháin | Siubhán | SID | Choral conductor, writer and lecturer in music at DkIT, her research is on ceoldrama.; Rostrevor |
O Dubhghaill | Aodán | AOO | Fiddler, producer and sound engineer with RT |
O hAllmhuráin | Gearóid | GEO | Concertina player, historian, lecturer and ethnomusicologist; Clare/ St Louis / Montral |
O Laoire | Lillis | LIO | Singer, lecturer at NUI Galway, writer |
O Liatháin | Dónal | DOL | Singer and songwriter, an authority on the lore and music of west Cork |
O Muirithe | Diarmuid | DIO | Lecturer, writer on dialectology; he has done major research on the macaronic song |
O Nualltáin | Breandán | BRK | Flute; Projects Officer at CC working on archival digitization; USA/ Dublin |
O Riada | Peadar | PEO | Concertina player, singer, composer; living Cil Aodha, Co; Cork, the director of Cir Chil Aodha since 1971 |
O Snodaigh | Pádraig | PAO | Irish language activist and former Uachtarn of Conradh na Gaeilge |
O'Brien Minogue | Eileen | EIO | Fiddle player, teacher, from Co; Tipperary, she has published the music of her father, accordionist Paddy O'Brien |
O'Brien-Moran | Jimmy | JIO | Uilleann pipes, saxophone, lecturer in music at WIT |
O'Connell | Bridget | BRO | Fiddle player, lecturer, researcher of Newfoundland fiddle music; WIT |
O'Connell | Roxanne | ROO | Singer, associate professor; Massachusetts/Rhode Island |
O'Connor | Gerry | GOC | Fiddle player, maker and teacher; music researcher and publisher |
O'Connor | Mick | MIO | Uilleann piper and Flute player, book research, photography and publishing |
O'Connor | Nuala | NUO | Writer, documentary and film producer; Kerry |
O'Doherty | Eamonn | EOD | Flute player, architect and sculptor; from Derry, he is joint author of The Northern Fiddler |
O'Dwyer | Simon | SIO | Ancient Irish horn player, researcher, and innovator |
O'Hanlon | Gerry | GOH | Singer; One of the organisers of the Forkhill Singers festival through the 1980s and 1990s |
O'Keeffe | Máire | MAO | Fiddle player, from Co; Kerry, her PhD research is on the accordion |
O'Regan | John | JOR | Journalist specialising in Irish music, he contributes to many publications, including Irish Music magazine |
O'Shea | Helen | HEO | Fiddle player, researcher; author of The Making of Irish Traditional Music; Melbourne |
Ochs | Bill | BIO | Tin whistle player, author of tutors for the instrument and an authority on the Clarke whistle; New York |
Olsen | Ian | IAO | Singer and lecturer, editor of the Aberdeen University Review; an authority on Scottish music and song of the north-east |
Quinn | Bob | BOQ | Writer, film-maker, photographer and member of Aosdán |
Quinn | Sean | SEQ | Accordion player, from Newcastle, Co; Down; A founder of the Antrim Glens Traditions Group, he has written extensively for Treoir |
Quinn | Toner | TOQ | Fiddle player, he is the founder and editor of the Journal of Music |
Rees | Stephen | STR | Lecturer and researcher, University of North Wales at Bangor |
Robb | Martha | MAR | Author of Irish Dancing Costumes [Country House, 1998] |
Robinson | Andrew | ANR | Baroque musician, former director of Maoin-Cheoil an Chlir |
Ryan | Karen | KAR | Fiddle player, band leader, organiser of Return to Camden Town festival, London |
Scahill | Enda | ENS | Banjo player; east Co; Galway |
Schiller | Rina | RIS | Born Berlin, her BA research at QUB was on gender and traditional music; her postgraduate study was published as The Lambeg and the Bodhrán |
Sheridan | Dave | DSH | Fiddle player and CC music organiser; Carlow |
Sherlock | Tom | TOS | Traditional music promoter, Dublin |
Shields | Hugh | HUS | Singer, song collector and researcher |
Sky | Pat | PAS | Uilleann piper, researcher, publisher; USA |
Slattery | Alison | ALS | Musician, teacher, researcher on the Plunkett/O'Daly MSS; Tipperary |
Sleator | Allison | ASL | Singer, songwriter, folk club and community music organiser; Kildare/Dublin |
Small | Jackie | JAS | Uilleann piper, accordion player, broadcaster, archivist, recording technologist; editor of CRÉ 4 and 5; Mayo |
Smith | Graeme | GRS | Accordion player; ethnomusicologist at Monash University, Melbourne. |
Smith | Jesse | JES | Fiddle player and Coleman researcher; USA/Dublin |
Smith | Jimmy | JIS | Ballad singer, from Co; Clare, specialising in collection and research of sporting songs |
Smith | Therese | THS | Head of the School of Music at UCD |
Somers | Ciarán | CIS | Flute player and teacher; Carlow |
Sommers-Smith | Sally | SAS | Fiddle player, from Michigan, she researches the history and growth of Irish music |
Sproule | Daithí | DAS | Singer and guitarist, performer with Altan; Derry/Minneapolis |
Stradling | Rod | RST | Singer, melodeon player, record producer, magazine editor, journalist; web editor of Musical Traditions |
Sweeney | Beth | BES | Librarian at the Burns Library Irish Music Archives, Boston College |
Trew | Joanne | JOT | A fiddler, from Montreal, of Irish parents, she lectures at UU in Belfast |
Tubridy | Michael | MIT | Flute player and set dancer, formerly with The Chieftains and Ceoltir Chualann |
Ua Súilleabháin | Seán | SEU | Irish lecturer, UCC, specialising in the traditions of Muskerry Gaeltacht |
Uí Ógáin | Ríonach | RIU | Professor, director of the National Folklore Collection at UCD |
Vallely | Caoimhín | CAV | Fiddle and piano player, he has played with North Cregg and Buille; Armagh/ Cork |
Vallely | Eithne | EIV | Fiddle player and teacher, author of the Armagh Pipers' Club tutors |
Vallely | Fintan | EDI | Editor, CITM; musician, writer, lecturer; Armagh/Dublin |
Vallely | Niall | NIV | Concertina player and composer; Cork |
Vignoles | Julian | JUV | Television and radio producer; Wicklow/Dublin |
Viitanen | Johanna | JOV | Traditional musician and journalist, writing on Irish music for Finnish Music and other magazines; Finland |
Webb | Peta | PEW | Singer, Folk Club organiser; librarian at Cecil Sharp House, London |
Wilkinson | Desi | DEW | Flute, fiddle and bagpipe player, music lecturer at University of Newcastle; Belfast/Limerick |
Williams | Sean | SEW | Ethnomusicologist, singer, fiddler; Evergreen State College, Washington State |
Worrall | Dan | DAW | Concertina player, author of The Anglo-German Concertina, A Social History; Texas |
Wright | Michael | MIW | Trump/Jew's harp player, authority and researcher, Oxford |
Wulff | Helena | HEW | Professor of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University |
Yamamoto | Takuki | TAY, RIY | Step and set dancer, researcher in body culture; Keio University, Japan |
Yamashita | Rieko | RIY, TAY | Dancer, lecturer, author of books on Irish dancing and culture, translator [English/Japanese); Tokyo/Shiga |
Yeats | Gráinne | GRY | Harpist, singer and researcher, she has written much on wire-strung harp, and made several recordings on it |