Bibliography by Margaret Ericson, Arts Librarian, Colby College, Waterville, Maine

Music Library Association Annual Meeting, Women and Music Roundtable, 28 February 2014

One Evening As I Strayed: Women Collectors of Irish Traditional Music,

A Journey Through Space, Time and Sources

Select Bibliography by Margaret Ericson, Arts Librarian, Colby College, Waterville, Maine

ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS

Ireland:

 Dublin: Irish Traditional Music Archive. Nicholas Carolan, Director. o URL: http://www.itma.ie/  Dublin: National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin. Rionach Ui Ogain, Director o URL: http://www.ucd.ie/irishfolklore/en/  Dublin: National Library of Ireland [digitized indices to Irish journals, national archives] o URL: http://www.nli.ie/  Galway: National University of Ireland, Galway. Ritchie-Pickow Photograph Collection o URL: http://archives.library.nuigalway.ie:8080/Pickow/index.jsp  For more information see: Companion to Irish Traditional Music. Ed. Fintan Vallely. Cork: Cork University Press, 2011

Britain:

 Vaughan Williams Memorial Library [English Folk Dance and Song Society]. [Lucy Broadwood, Maud Karpeles collections; Full English Digital Archive]; Roud Song Index] o URL: http://www.efdss.org/library-and-archive  British Library Sounds: Lucy Broadwood Cylinders online. o URL: http://sounds.bl.uk/

United States:

 American Folklife Center [Special Collections: Sidney Roberston Cowell, Jean Ritchie, Henrietta Yurchenco; finding aid to Maine collections] o URL: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/  New York State Library & Archives [Jean Ritchie collection: photographs, ephemera] o URL: http://www.archives.nysed.gov/aindex.shtml  Association for Cultural Equity [Digitized recordings: Robin Roberts/Alan Lomax in Ireland] o URL: http://www.culturalequity.org/  University of Maine, Maine Folklife Center [Fanny Hardy Eckstorm] o URL: http://umaine.edu/folklife/  Harvard University, Houghton Library [Phillips Barry Collection, has Eckstorm cylinders and papers] o URL: http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/

GENERAL REFERENCE

Ainm.ie Beathaisnéisí Gaeilge [Irish-Language Biographies]. Fiontar, Dublin City University. http://www.ainm.ie Accessed 21 January 2014.

Companion to Irish Traditional Music. 2nd. Ed. Fintan Vallely. Cork: Cork University Press, 2011.

Dictionary of Irish Biography Online. Cambridge University Press and Royal Irish Academy. http://dib.cambridge.org Subscription required.

Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society. 29 v. Dublin: Candle Press, 1904-1939. Reprint edition: 29 v. in 6. London: Wm. Dawson, 1967.

Ó Con Cheanainn, Ciarán. Clár Amhrάn: Maigh Cuilinn. Dublin: Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann, 2011. [and others from the “Clár Amhrάn” series]. Song index of the region Maigh Cuilinn, of material collected from the Irish Folklore Commission collection. “Bailitheoiri” index = Collectors index; look for female names. Includes Brid Ni Chollarain.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online. Oxford University Press, 2004— http://www.oxforddnd.com Subscription required.

CULTURAL / HISTORICAL STUDIES

Ancestral Imprints: histories of Irish traditional music and dance. Ed. Thérèse Smith. Cork: Cork University Press, 2012.

Bearman, C. J. "Percy Grainger, the phonograph, and the Folk Song Society,” Music & Letters, 84.3 (August 2003):434-455. JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/stable/3526314. Accessed: 26 January 2014

Brady, Erika. A spiral way: how the phonograph changed ethnography. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.

Briody, Mícheál. The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970: history, ideology, methodology. Helsinki: Finnish Literary Society, 2007

Input and output: the process of fieldwork, archiving, and research in folklore (NNF Publications 10). Ed. Ulrika Wolf-Knuts. Turku: Nordic Network of Folklore, 2001.

O’Giollain, Diarmud. “Ireland.” Companion to folklore. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, 409-426. Ryan, Louise. Gender, identity, and the Irish press, 1922-1937 : embodying the nation. Lewiston : Mellen Press, 2002.

Seigel, Nancy-Jean Ballard. “Ballad collectors in the Northeast.” The Ballad collectors of North America: how gathering folksongs transformed Academic thought and American identity. Ed. Scott B. Spencer. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2012, 103-120.

White, Harry. “Nationalism, colonialism and the cultural stasis of music in Ireland.” Musical constructions of nationalism: essays on the history and ideology of musical culture. Ed. Harry White and Michael Murphy. Cork: Cork University Press, 2001, 257-271.

Women and tradition: a neglected group of folklorists. Ed. Carmen Blacker and Hilda Ellis Davidson. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2000

INDIVIDUAL STUDIES

Broadwood, Lucy, 1858-1929. [British, collected in Waterford, Ireland in 1907]

 Broadwood, Lucy. “On the collecting of English folk song,” Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 31 (1904-5):89-109. Important speech given to the RMA on her collection work.  Broadwood, Lucy. “Songs from County Waterford,” Journal of the Folk Song Society 3.10 (1907):3-38  de Val, Dorothy. In search of song: the life and times of Lucy Broadwood. Surrey: Ashgate, 2011.  Access to Archives: Lucy Etheldred Broadwood http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=176-broadwood&cid=0#0

Brooke, Charlotte. 1750-1793. [Irish, Cavan]

 Brooke, Charlotte. The Reliques of Irish poetry, consisting of heroic poems, odes, elegies and songs translated into English verse, with notes explanatory and historical and the originals in Irish character, to which is subjoined an Irish tale, by Miss Brooke. Dublin : George Bonham, 1789  Charlotte Brooke’s ‘Reliques of Irish Poetry.’ Ed. Lesa Ni Mhunghaile. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2009.  Caird, D. A. R. "Brooke, Charlotte". Dictionary of Irish Biography Online. Ed. James McGuire, James Quinn. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2011. http://dib.cambridge.org/quicksearch.do;jsessionid=6DE96B93B0D0560968F1472755C63103#  O’Halloran, Clare. “'Better without the ladies': The Royal Irish Academy and the admission of women.” History Ireland, 19.6 (November/December 2011): 42-45. JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/stable/41331817 Accessed: 22/01/2014 Chollerain, Brid Ní. (fl 1936).

 Munnelly, Tom. “Collectors of English-language songs for the Irish Folklore Commission, 1935– 1970.” Folk Song: Tradition, Revival, and Re-Creation. Eds. Ian Russell and David Atkinson. Aberdeen: Elphinstone Institute, 2004, 210-217 (214).

Costello, Mrs. Eileen. [Eibhlín Bean Mhic Choisdealbha ; Edith Drury, etc.], 1870-1962

 Costello, Eileen. Amráin Muige Seóla: Traditional folk-songs from Galway and Mayo collected and edited by Mrs. Costello, Tuam. London: Irish Folk Song Society, 1919 (Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society, v.16)  ______r in ui e e la ra itional folk-songs from Galway and Mayo. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1923.  ______hr in hui he e la ra itional folk-songs from Galway and Mayo. Indreabhán: Cló Iar-Chonnact, 1990.  Maigh Seóla: Beyond the Mearing Wall, Traditional Irish Songs from Galway and Mayo. Tuam: Sun Street Studios, 2004, SeoCD01. CD. Contemporary recordings of songs from Mrs. Costello’s collection, Amráin Muige Seóla, from descendants of the families collected.  MacSweeney, Joseph J. “Reviews and notes: Amráin Muige Seóla: Traditional Folk Songs from Galway and Mayo.” Irish Ecclesiastical Recor 13 (March 1919): 257-262

Cowell, Sidney Robertson, 1903-1995 [American]

 Songs of Aran: Gaelic Singing from the West of Ireland. Recorded and Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell. New York: Ethnic Folkways Library, FE4002, 1957  Ní Chonghaile, Deirdre. “In search of America: Sidney Robertson Cowell in Ireland in 1955- 1956.” Journal of American Folklore, 126 (Spring 2013): 174-200

Eckstorm, Fanny Hardy, 1865-1956. [American]

 MacDougall, Pauleena M. Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and her quest for local knowledge. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013.  Barry, Phillips ; Eckstorm, Fanny Hardy ; Smyth, Mary Winslow. British ballads from Maine: the development of popular songs with texts and airs. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1929

Fox, Charlotte Milligan, 1864-1916. [Irish, Omagh]. Editor, Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society (1904- 1916)

 Annals of the Irish Harpers. New York: Dutton, 1912.  Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society. London: Dawson Reprint, 1967. 29 v.  Williams, Fionnuala Carson. “Fox, Charlotte Olivia (née Milligan,” Dictionary of Irish Biography Online. Cambridge University Press and Royal Irish Academy. http://dib.cambridge.org Accessed 26 January 2014  O’Sullivan, Donal. “The Irish Folk Song Society.” Music in Ireland: A Symposium. Ed. Aloys Fleischmann. Cork: Cork University Press, 1952, 294-298.

Hamilton, Diane, 1924-1991 [American]

 Lark in the Morning. New York: Tradition Records, 1955. Various artists, recorded by Hamilton throughout Ireland in 1955. Includes Sarah Makem’s “In the Month of January.”  Power, Peg Clancy. Down by Glenside. Sharon, CT. : Folk-Legacy Records, [1962]. Hamilton recorded in Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland.  Singing men of Ulster. Green Linnet, 1977. Hamilton recorded various artists in Ireland, with Se n O Boyle, 1956-1962.  Tunney, Paddy. The Man of Songs. Huntington, VT: Folk Legacy, 1963. Recorded in Ireland by Diane Hamilton.  Clancy, Liam. Mountain of the Women. New York: Doubleday, 2002  Cooper, Susan. The magic maker: a portrait of John Langstaff, creator of the Christmas Revels. Somerville: Candlewick Press, 2011.  O’Brien, John Jr. Festival legends: songs and stories. Bloomington: Author House, 2006.  The Yellow Bittern: The Life and Times of Liam Clancy. Alan Gilsenan, director. DVD. Crossing the Line Films, 2009. CTLDVD01. Extensive remembrance, unreleased photos, of Diane Hamilton.

Ritchie, Jean, 1922-. USA. [American]

 Ritchie, Jean and George Pickow. From fair to fair: folk songs of the British Isles. New York : H.Z. Walck, 1966.  As I roved out (Field Trip-Ireland). Music collected by Jean Ritchie and George Pickow, and selected and edited by Jean Ritchie. Folkways FW8872. LP c1960, CD c2007. 1 disc + program notes (pdf free http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/folkways/FW08872.pdf)  Carter-Schwendler, Karen Lea. Traditional background, contemporary context: the music and activities of Jean Ritchie to 1977. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Kentucky, 1995  Clesham, Brigid. “The Ritchie Pickow Photographic Collection.” Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society. 57 (2005): 196-207. JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/stable/25535822 Access 25 February 2014.  Taft, Michael. The Work of a Great Team: AFC Acquires the George Pickow and Jean Ritchie Collection, American Folklife Center News. 33.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2011): 20-23. URL: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/news/pdf/FCN_Vol33no1-2.pdf Accessed 26 January 2014.

Roberts, Robin, ?1929-- [American, collected with Alan Lomax]

 Irish folk songs. (Columbia world library of folk and primitive music, v. 1). New York: Columbia 1954 (Columbia SL 204; ML 4941), 1960 (Columbia Special Products AKL 4941). LP.  World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, volume II: Ireland. Cambridge: Rounder CD 1742, 1998. New liner notes by Nicholas Carolan, Robin Roberts (“Recording in Ireland with Alan Lomax”, and original notes by Alan Lomax. 1 CD  Association for Cultural Equity: open access to Lomax/Roberts field recordings http://bit.ly/MgIvJv  Roberts, Robin. “First LP in Ireland: Robin Roberts on the Lomax Legacy.” BBC Radio Ulster http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012tcd4 Accessed 21 February 2014  Swed, John. Alan Lomax: the man who recorded the world. New York: Viking Penguin, 2010.