BOOKS:
Songs of England, Ireland & Scotland, A Bonnie Bunch of Roses, by Dan Milner & Paul Kaplan, Oak Pub. 1983.
Mallory & McCall's Irish Pub Songbook, by Janna McCall Geller & Mallory Geller, Mel Bay Pub. 1998.
Sodlum's Irish Ballad Book, Oak Pub., 1982.
Folksongs and Ballads Popular in Ireland. vol. 1-4. Ossian Publications Ltd. P.O Box 84, Cork, Ireland.
WEB RESOURCES:
CEOLAS. http://www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html The home of celtic music on the internet, since 1994. Ceolas houses the largest online collection of information on celtic music, and has links to hundreds of related sites.
IRISH IN AMERICA (PBS). http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/irish/music.html Irish Traditional Music And Song in America: A Brief Overview by Mick Moloney
Lesley Nelson (aka the Contemplator)'s Folk Music Site. http://www.contemplator.com/folk.html Folk and Traditional Music and Popular Songs, with Lyrics, Midi, Tune Information and History behind the folksongs and ballads. Irish, British and American Folk Music including Francis J. Child Ballads and Sea Shanties.
Legends: Ballads and Broadsides. http://www.legends.dm.net/ballads/ A great resource of web links to Child Ballads and other traditional ballad resources.
Cantaria: Traditional. http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/lists/traditional.html Over 100 traditional songs with both lyrics and mp3 or wav files of traditional singers singing these songs. A great resource.
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads. http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ Collection of images of actual broadside manuscripts; great site!
The Mudcat Cafe, Digital Tradition. http://www.mudcat.org/threads.cfm Great source of thousands of lyrics and other information; do both Digitrad and Forum Search.
Prof's
Traditional Music Pages http://www.prof.co.uk/irish/index.htm
A collection of traditional Irish tunes and songs.
OTHER SONG RESOURCES - in Gaelic and English
http://songbook1.tripod.com
- Songs collected by Donagh MacDonagh in the 40s and 50s
http://www.celticmusician.com/cgi-bin/songlkup.pl
- Lyrics for many Irish, as well as Scottish, songs
http://www.webcom.com/~liam/gaelsong/song.html
- Song lyrics in Irish
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8998/ceol.html
- Traditional songs in Irish (with some English translations), many with
historical notes. Excellent links to other music resources
http://www.martinic.nl/niessink/songbook/
- If you're looking for "Dubliners" songs, try here
http://www.cs.hut.fi/~zaphod/irish/all_titles.html
- Irish folk lyrics
RETURN TO
HENDRICKSON'S SONG PAGE http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hend/songs.html