Research and academic writing

Journal Books and chapters

  • 2011 08 (tbp) The Leitrim Thrush – Ben Lennon of Kiltyclogher (ethnography of a Leitrim fiddle player), with photographer Jacque Pirapez.
  • 2011 07 (tbp)The Companion to Irish Traditional Music (second ed.). Cork 780pp) Cork: Cork University Press.
  • 2011 10 – Vallely, F. Learn to Play The Irish Flute (instrument tutor, 178pp). Dublin: Waltons Music.
  • 2008 Vallely, F., Tuned Out – Traditional Music and Identity in Northern Ireland. Cork: Cork University Press
  • 2008 – Vallely, F., JB Vallely Retrospective: Painting, music and sport in the life of the Armagh painter (350pp, large format Art edition). Belfast: Emer Gallery.
  • 2008 – Vallely, F. Sing up! Comic Songs and Satires of Modern Ireland. Dublin: Dedalus Press.
  • 2004 – Vallely, F. (ed.) The Companion to Irish Traditional Music (paperback ed.). Cork (478pp) Cork: Cork University Press.
  • 2004 Vallely, F. From fifth column to pillar of society – observations on the political implications of popular revival and education in Irish Traditional music in modern Ireland. Cork: University College Cork Traditional Music Society.
  • 2004 03 Vallely, F. -  ‘Singing the boundaries: regional distinctiveness expressed through Traditional music, essay in ESRC proceedings, 2002,  LIT Verlag (Berlin & London).
  • 2003 12. Vallely, F. – ‘The Apollos of Shamrockery: Traditional Musics in the Modern Age, chapter in Bohlman, P. and Stokes, M. (eds.) Europe Inside Out: Ethnomusicology and Modernities, Vol. 1, ’Celtic Modern’ , New York: Scarecrow Press.
  • 2001 Vallely, F. ‘Together in Time, the life times and music of John Kennedy of Cullybackey’. , Magherafelt: Lough Shore Traditions Group.
  • 2000 Vallely, F. A Work of Art – the life and work of painter JB Vallely. Belfast: The Emer Gallery.
  • 1999 Vallely, F. Crosbhealach an Cheoil – The Crossroads Conference Papers (ed., with Hamilton, H., Doherty, L. and Vallely, E.) Dublin: Whinstone Music.
  • 1998 Vallely, F. The Blooming Meadows – the  Soul of Traditional Music. (with Piggott, C. and Nutan). Dublin: Townhouse.
  • 1986 Vallely, F. [and reprints up to 2009] Timber – the concert flute tutor. Dublin: Walton’s Publishing; New Edition tbp. Waltons, Dublin, 2008.

Reference

  • 2010 09 The Companion to Irish Traditional Music (second ed.). Cork (650pp) Cork: Cork University Press.
  • 2009 – Entries for EMIR – The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. (Tbp 2011) Dublin: Four Courts Press.
  • 2004 – Vallely, F. (ed.) The Companion to Irish Traditional Music (paperback ed.). Cork (478pp) Cork: Cork University Press.
  • 2004 02 Vallely, F. Ed., Ireland Encyclopaedia (Traditional music contributor, 10,000 words), Ruckenstein, L. and O’Malley, J. (eds.), New York, Ballantine Books.
  • 2003 08. Vallely, F. Ed., The Encyclopaedia of Ireland (Traditional music editor of this publication [entries on traditional music c. 40,000 words]), Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
  • 1999 Vallely, F. (ed.) The Companion to Irish Traditional Music (ed). Cork (478 pp) Cork: Cork University Press, with New York University Press. 2nd Edition (650 pp) tbp. Cork University Press, 2010.

Academic Articles – Journals

  • 2009 10 Traditional Music Support in the Irish Arts System. Essay in Craig, Cairns (ed.), Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies. Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen Press.
  • 2008 06 Fiddlesticks in the closet: Ulster Protestant suspicions of traditional music.  (Chapter) in Tonge Jon & Neal Frank (eds.)  Irish Protestant Identities (proceedings from conference at Salford University, 06 2008). Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • 2005 06 Vallely, F. Authenticity to Classicisation: the Course of Revival in Irish Traditional Music. In Cronin, M., Graham, C. & O’Halloran, C (eds.) The Irish Review, No. 33. Cork: Cork University Press.

Research

  • 2011 08 Research and writing of The Leitrim Thrush – Ben Lennon of Kiltyclogher (ethnography of a Leitrim fiddle player), with photographer Nutan Jacques Pirapez.
  • 2010 –08 Full time research on information-based, 500k-word encyclopaedia and support website project ‘Companion to Irish Traditional Music’
  • 2008 – 09 Assessing the history of the Irish Bodhrán Drum – work undertaken at The Department of Irish Folklore, University College Dublin, the National Library of Ireland, Trinity College Manuscripts Dept., National Museum of Ireland, Castlebar, and the Royal Irish Academy
  • 2008 – Cataloguing the Irish American, Tin Pan Alley song sheets at the Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco
  • 2006 – Richard Henebry – Irish Ethnomusicologist of the early 20th century’ – research at Phonogrammarchiv, Berlin.
  • 2006 Strand 1 award to fund The Shapes of Melody – Music and Movement (completion 2008 11). Researcher,  Oisín Mac Diarmada (BA Hons)
  • 2004 03      Completion of PhD Flute research project – title Flute Routes to 21st Century Ireland
  • 2003 03 Observation of Fasnacht flute ritual in Basel, Switzerland
  • 2003-01 – Observation of turn-of-year Community flute ritual in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
  • 2002 02      Assessment of fife and drum museum at Ivorytown, Connecticut, USA.
  • 2002 03      Interviews with flute players in Co. Sligo and Mayo.
  • 2001 08      Researching fife and drum social practice at Westbrook, Connecticut, USA;
  • 2001 08      assessing of Dayton Miller Flute Archive at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC., USA.
  • 2001 10      Research and compilation of teaching-learning CD representing all educationally-required elements of Traditional Irish music.
  • 2000 Cultural Commissar of Popular Political Ideology – The Entry Of The Flute To Irish  Traditional Music – initiation of PhD research project on flute in political and recreational life.
  • 1995-2002 Compilation of database of performance venues and occasions, and professional service facilities, related to Traditional music in Ireland (for Arts Council of Northern Ireland).
  • 1995 Field trip to Bulgaria to assess Traditional music educational facilities (for Siamsa Tíre, Tralee, Co. Kerry and Co. Cork Vocational Education Committee).
  • 1992 Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia: comparative observations on Scottish Traditional Music In Exile – Its Practice Today.
  • 1991 Bulgaria: investigation of Folk Music teaching structures in first, second and third level education (An Comhairle Ealaíon – Arts Council of Ireland part sponsorship).