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Scroll Down the page at these links to find an audio recording and the music in standard notation.

Sgt Early's Dream
https://www.billtroxler.com/ireland.html

Virginia Reel
https://www.billtroxler.com/reels.html

Books

A Harvest Saved:  Francis O’Neill and the Irish Music in Chicago
Nicholas Carolan
Ossian Publications
The author is Director of the Irish Traditional Music Archive at Trinity College Dublin where he lectures on Irish traditional music.

This is the comprehensive text about the life and legacy of Chief O’Neill



Shared Notes:  A Musical Journey
Marin Hayes
Penguin Random House UK


http://www.martinhayes.com/

Considered one of the best Irish fiddlers of his generation, Martin Hayes' autobiography is a rich telling of growing up on a rural Irish farm and becoming an internationally acclaimed musician.  

Martin Hayes spent his childhood on a farm in County Clare, in a household steeped in musical tradition. After a free-spirited youth, he headed to the United States where he built a career that led to a life of musical performance on stages all over the world. Shared Notes traces this remarkable journey.

Picking up his first fiddle at the age of seven, Hayes learned that music must express feeling. No amount of technical prowess can compensate for an absence of soulfulness. His interpretations of traditional Irish music are recognized the world over for their exquisite musicality and irresistible rhythm.

Hayes has toured and recorded with guitarist Dennis Cahill for over twenty years, founded the Irish-American band The Gloaming, The Martin Hayes Quartet and The Common Ground Ensemble, and here, for the first time, tells his story of getting to the heart of the music.

Podcast

The Rest is History podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rest-is-history/id1537788786
https://shows.acast.com/the-rest-is-history-podcast/episodes/339-the-easter-rising-1916
Historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook  explore  the past.  These episodes about Ireland are excellent.  Professor Paul Rouse of University College Dublin leads the discussion in these episodes.  

336: Ireland, Cromwell and Stanley Baldwin
337: Ireland: Union, Famine and Parnell
338: Ireland: Home Rule, Mutiny – and Civil War?
339 Ireland:  The Easter Rising, 1916

Links

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann
https://comhaltas.ie/
The largest group in the world dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Irish traditional music. Comhaltas is a non-profit cultural movement with hundreds of local branches around the world.  Founded in 1951, the organization has had and continues to have an astonishing influence over Celtic music.