Music in Modern Irish Literature

Co-edited with University Institute of Research in Irish Studies and Universidade da Coruña

Music and literature have always been closely associated in Ireland to an extent unknown in western countries.
The case of Irish literatura is a clear instance of the range of the presence of music in literature, from the popular to the most sophisticated. From the old legends up to contemporary Irish literature the overwhelming presence of music is apparent in poems, novels, and drama in most if not all Irish writers, and this is an outstanding feature not to be found in other European literatures.
This book is an aattempt to trace the tracks of Irish music and classical and popular music in modern Irish literature in English, but at the same time some chapters try to explore to what an extent a similar association of music and literature is possible in Galicia, and the contributions that follow try to provide different insights into a number of works from different critical viewpoints.

CONTENIDO:

- Introduction (Antonio R. de Toro Santos)
- Identity as Performance: The Irish Language and the Sean-Nós Tradition in the Muskerry Gaeltacht, West Cork (Adrián Ó h-Éalaithe)
- Music, Narration and Reality in Joyce: Sexual Significance
of "The Croppy boy" in "Sirens" (José-Miguel Alonso-Giráldez)
- Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty: Music as Emotion beyond Words (José Manuel Estévez-Saá, Margarita Estévez-Saá)
- "The Given NoteŽ: Seamus Heaney, Liam OŽFlynn. The Poet and the Piper (Antonio R. de Toro Santos9
- Lightening the Load in a Divided Northern Ireland: The Role of Humour in the Songs of Tommy and Colum Sands (Anita Morgan)
- Rage Against the Tiger: The Songs of Damien Dempsey (David M. Clark)
- Performative Spaces: Irish and Galician Women Poets (Eduardo Barros-Grela)
- Music References in the Shakespearean Works of Álvaro Cunqueiro: The Uncertain Lord Don Hamlet, Prince of Denmark and "The Play of Romeo and Juliet, Famous Lovers" (Rubén Jarazo Álvarez)
- The Literary Myth of a Celtic Galicia in Folk Music: Building Bridges with Ireland, Scotland and Brittany (Marco Vélez Barreiro)
- Bagpipes adn Digital Music: The Re-mixing of the Galician Identity (Xelís de Toro)