Essays and Journal Articles

Academic articles, essays and journal writing by Fintan Vallely.

2020 - 'Trauma and Prejudice, Conflict and Change as Reflections of Societal Transformation in the Modern-Day Consolidation of Irish Traditional Music', in Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Culture (Re-imaging Ireland Vol 94), Oxford: Peter Lang.

2014-03 – ‘Playing, paying and preying: cultural clash and paradox in the traditional music commonage’; essay, pp 53-67, in in O’Connell, Tom & O’Donovan, Orla (eds.), Community Development Journal, Vol. 49 No S1 January 2014; Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2013 12 – 'The hind teat: strategic misassumption in the promotion of Traditional song in the English language'; pp. 53-68 in Béaloideas 81 (Journal of The Folklore of Ireland Society, Dublin).

2013 - 10 – Entries in the flute in Irish music in EMIR – The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. Dublin: UCD Press.

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

2007 08 'Singing the Ancestors', in Journal of Music in Ireland (JMI) November/December 2007 : Volume 7, Number 6

2007 03 Tiger Ireland, Turd Sniffers & Meta-Trad: People, Power and the Pursuit of Privileged Status in Music in Ireland : Fintan Vallely Journal of Music in Ireland (JMI) March/April 2007 : Volume 7, Number 2

2006 05 Song, Music and Dance in Star of the Sea : Fintan Vallely Song, Music and Dance in Star of the Sea Journal of Music in Ireland (JMI) May/June : Volume 6, Number 3

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

2004 03 Vallely, F. - ‘Singing the boundaries: regional distinctiveness expressed through Traditional music, essay in ESRC proceedings, 2002, LIT Verlag (Berlin & London).

2004 02 Invention Of Tradition, Imagined Community And The Ulster Scots Quest For Identity Through Music. Proceedings of Society for Musicology in Ireland Conference 2003 (web publication).

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.

2002 03, Vallely, F. - ‘The Music of Breaking glass- the Classicisation of Irish Traditional Music’, essay in International Society for Music Education (ISME) Conference Proceedings, 2002 USA/Europe.

2002 10 Vallely, F. “Knocking on the Castle Door – a place for traditional music in third-level education?”, in The Journal of Music in Ireland, Quinn, T. (ed.), Vol. 2, No. 5, (pp. 12-15).

2002 03 Vallely, F. “Heads up! The Traditional Music Revival, Irish National Identity and Cultural Cringe”, in Brady, S. (ed.), Foilsiú, The Grian Association, New York; Vol. 2, No. 1, (pp. 7-18).

2001 Vallely, F. ‘Temple Barcodery and Tiger Stripes – commercialism, and Traditional music's resistance to incorporation in education’, in Potts, S. and McNulty, L. (eds.) Ceol Na hÉireann, 4,Dublin: Ma Piobairi Uilleann, (NPU).

2000 Vallely, F. ‘The Making of the Companion to Irish Traditional Music’, in Redshaw, T. (ed) New Hibernia Review, St. Paul, Minnesota.

1998 Vallely, F. ‘The Migrant, the voyeur, the Tourist, and the Leprechaun – music and locality’. In Ó Súilleabháin, M., Keegan, N., and Joyce, S. (eds.), Blas - the Local Accent, Folk Music Society of Ireland (FMSI), Dublin.

1998-09 Vallely, F. ‘GUCCI-Paddy Points the 'Purist' Finger - the mutual contradiction of 'innovation' and 'tradition’. In Sirr, P., Ó Seaghdha, B., Conlon, E. and Cronin, M. (Eds.) Graph magazine, Dublin.

1997-04 Vallely, F. '’Traditional Music - ascribed Fenianism'. In Fortnight (music supplement), Belfast.

1997 Vallely, F. Irish Traditional Music, in de Sainte Phalle, C., and Brennan, P. (eds.) Arguing at the Crossroads, (eds.) (English translation of Désirs D'Irlande. New Island, Dublin.

1996 Vallely, F. La Musique Irlandaise. In de Sainte Phalle, C.. and Brennan, P. (eds.) Désirs D'Irlande, Actes Sud, Paris, pp. 105-123.

1995-01 Vallely, F. ‘The Bucks of Montrose - change and its inevitability in Traditional Music’. In Sirr, P., Ó Seaghdha, B., Conlon, E. and Cronin, M. (Eds.) Graph Magazine, Dublin.

1992 Vallely, F. comment in Traditional Music - Whose Music? QUB Irish Studies, Belfast.

 

Critical Reviewing of Music books

  • 2021-03, on Tes Slominski's Trad Nation. Béaloideas.
  • 2021-01, on Richard Parfitt's Musical Culture and the Spirit of Irish Nationalism, 1848–1972 [Routledge, 2020], for Folk Music Journal, Journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, London, Vol. 12, No. 1.
  • 2019, on Desi Wilkinson's Call to the Dance: An Experience of the Socio-Cultural Wrold of Traditional Breton Music and Dance [Pendragon, 2016], for Folk Music Journal, Journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, London, pp. 115-117, Vol. 11, No. 4.
  • 2018, on Reg Hall’s “It was mighty!” The Early Days of Irish Music in London, and his “It was great altogether!” The Continuing Vision of Irish Music in London, for Folk Music Journal, Journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Vol. 11, No. 3, London, pp. 173-4.
  • 2018, on Reg Hall's A Few Tunes of Good Music: A History Of Irish Music And Dance In London, 1800-1980 & Beyond. [Topic flip-book & ebook, London, 2016], for Folk Music Journal, Journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, London, Vol. 11, No. 3.
  • 2018, on Howard Marshall's Out of Darkness: The Blind Piper of Inagh [Cottier Press 2016], for Folk Music Journal, Journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, London, pp. 155-157, Vol 11, No.3.
  • 2018, on Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin's Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape [Oxford, New York, 2016], for Folk Music Journal, Journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, London, pp. 131-132.
  • 2017, pp. 85-87, on Tom Munnelly's and Hugh Shields' Early Ballads in Ireland [CD] for Folk Music Journal, Journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Vol. 11, No. 2, London.
  • 2017, pp. 71-75, on Mark Fitzgerald's and John O'Flynn's Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond [Asgate, 2014], for Folk Music Journal, Journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Vol. 11, No. 2, London.
  • 2017, on Terry Moylan's The Indignant Muse - Poetry and Songs of the Irish Revolution 1887 - 1926 [Lilliput, Dublin, 2016] for Saothar 42, Journal of the Irish Labour History Society, pp. 131-133.
  • 2017, on Jimmy Crowley's Songs from the Beautiful City: the Cork Urban Ballads, for Dublin Review of Books web-mag.
  • 2016, pp. 88-90, on Martin Dowling's Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives; for Folk Music Journal, Journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Vol. 11, No. 1, London.
  • 2016, on Sara C. Lanier's edition of Annals of the Irish Harpers, by Charlotte Milligan Fox [Ardrigh, 2014], for Dublin Review of Books webmag.
  • 2016, on Helen O'Shea's The Making of Irish Traditional Music [Cork, 2016], for Dublin Review of Books web-mag.
  • 2015, pp. 652-653, on Susan Motherway's The Globalization of Irish Traditional Song Performance; for Folk Music Journal, Journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Vol. 10, No. 5, London.
  • 2013, on Paul Muldoon's The Word On The Street [Faber and Faber], for
  • 2011, pp. 238-240, on Sean Williams' Focus: Irish Traditional Music; for Irish Studies Review 19/2.
  • 2006, on Joe O'Connor's Star of the Sea, for JMI.