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Best-Loved Irish Ballads, 9781788492201
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Timeless Irish ballads: history, revolution, love, and the soul of Ireland.

Best-Loved Irish Ballads

Great Songs from the Irish Folk Tradition

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  • Hardcover

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    27 September 2020

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Summary

A collection of Ireland’s greatest and best-loved ballads, including the lyrics, music and chords, along with an introductory piece on each song. Illustrated with photographs and woodcuts. A beautiful guide to the cream of the Irish ballad tradition. Songs of love, yearning, revolution, celebration, emigration, mourning, fun, famine, drinking and more. A collection of powerful yet beautiful ballads of Ireland, placed in and reflecting historical events and traditions. All have stood the test …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781788492201
ISBN-10:178849220X
Author:Emma Byrne, Eoin O'Brien
Publisher:O'Brien Press Ltd
Imprint:O'Brien Press Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:27 September 2020
Weight:385g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 17mm
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About The Author

Emma Byrne

Emma Byrne

Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist, a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design, including:

  • The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year
  • IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning
  • Children’s Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets

Byrne has illustrated many books, including:

  • Best-Loved Oscar Wilde
  • Best-Loved Yeats
  • The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl O’Neill
  • A special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce
  • A Terrible Beauty by Mairéad Ashe Fitzgerald

Her other books include:

  • Irish Thatch
  • Best-Loved Irish Ballads (with Eoin O’Brien)

Eoin O’Brien

Eoin O’Brien is a songwriter, musician, writer, and illustrator. He enjoys a good singsong around a kitchen table or a bonfire. He lives in north Dublin and has two children.

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