Lillis Ó Laoire teaches Irish Folklore, language, and literature at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His essay "Irish Music 1800-2000" appears in The Cambridge Companion to Modern Ireland.

...an important and valuable publication....a work of considerable authority, perceptively written by a scholar and musician was has had a particularly close and enduring personal relationship with his subject....

• Part 1 AcknowledgmentsPart 2 Introduction: Tory Island Songs and SingersChapter 3 1. Foundations: Toward an EthnographyChapter 4 2. Ethnography: Practice and TheoryChapter 5 3. Lifting and LearningChapter 6 4. The Mechanics of the AestheticChapter 7 5. Performance of Song in ToryChapter 8 6. The Emotional Matrix of Dance and SongChapter 9 7. The Meaning of Song: An Interpretive Case StudyChapter 10 8. Song: Play, Performance, and TragedyChapter 11 9. Laughter and TearsChapter 12 10. On a Rock in the Middle of the OceanPart 13 Appendix A: Music Sheet for SongPart 14 Appendix B: Compact Disc Tracks with Song LyricsPart 15 Appendix C: List of Compact Disc Tracks with TimingsPart 16 BibliographyPart 17 Index

Lillis Ó Laoire teaches Irish Folklore, language, and literature at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His essay "Irish Music 1800-2000" appears in The Cambridge Companion to Modern Ireland.

...an important and valuable publication....a work of considerable authority, perceptively written by a scholar and musician was has had a particularly close and enduring personal relationship with his subject....

• Part 1 AcknowledgmentsPart 2 Introduction: Tory Island Songs and SingersChapter 3 1. Foundations: Toward an EthnographyChapter 4 2. Ethnography: Practice and TheoryChapter 5 3. Lifting and LearningChapter 6 4. The Mechanics of the AestheticChapter 7 5. Performance of Song in ToryChapter 8 6. The Emotional Matrix of Dance and SongChapter 9 7. The Meaning of Song: An Interpretive Case StudyChapter 10 8. Song: Play, Performance, and TragedyChapter 11 9. Laughter and TearsChapter 12 10. On a Rock in the Middle of the OceanPart 13 Appendix A: Music Sheet for SongPart 14 Appendix B: Compact Disc Tracks with Song LyricsPart 15 Appendix C: List of Compact Disc Tracks with TimingsPart 16 BibliographyPart 17 Index

Lillis Ó Laoire teaches Irish Folklore, language, and literature at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His essay "Irish Music 1800-2000" appears in The Cambridge Companion to Modern Ireland.

...an important and valuable publication....a work of considerable authority, perceptively written by a scholar and musician was has had a particularly close and enduring personal relationship with his subject....

• Part 1 AcknowledgmentsPart 2 Introduction: Tory Island Songs and SingersChapter 3 1. Foundations: Toward an EthnographyChapter 4 2. Ethnography: Practice and TheoryChapter 5 3. Lifting and LearningChapter 6 4. The Mechanics of the AestheticChapter 7 5. Performance of Song in ToryChapter 8 6. The Emotional Matrix of Dance and SongChapter 9 7. The Meaning of Song: An Interpretive Case StudyChapter 10 8. Song: Play, Performance, and TragedyChapter 11 9. Laughter and TearsChapter 12 10. On a Rock in the Middle of the OceanPart 13 Appendix A: Music Sheet for SongPart 14 Appendix B: Compact Disc Tracks with Song LyricsPart 15 Appendix C: List of Compact Disc Tracks with TimingsPart 16 BibliographyPart 17 Index