The Annals of the Irish Harpers. Edited by Sara C Lanier
This book is a recent newly-edited version of the precious
works of Charlotte Milligan Fox. It was first published in 1910 and written in
the language style of that era.
It is highly academic and yet compelling material for anyone
with the slightest interest in local history and culture. It is definitely
geared for the academic: particularly for the ethnomusicologist, and of course
for the serious traditional Irish musician. For the rest of us at times it can
be a laborious read, but always only momentarily, as the turn of a page or two
can quite quickly reveal yet more vivid imagery of an era seemingly more
romantic than the present.
