‘Bhíodh muid ag damhsa go maidin’: dance, music, and community in Árainn

Deirdre  Ní Chonghaile

‘Bhíodh muid ag damhsa go maidin’: dance, music, and community in Árainn

Deirdre Ní Chonghaile

Elphinstone Institute

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For many people, Aran is, as Tim Robinson observes, ‘Ireland to the power of two’. It is for this particular reason that the islands are often assumed to have sustained over time a rich music tradition. In song, they certainly have, but in instrumental music, not so much, largely for two related reasons: access to instruments; and the nature of music transmission. Access to instruments came much later to Aran than to other parts of Ireland because of its island location and shortage of local materials such as timber and metal; but primarily it was because of poverty, particularly in the nineteenth century, a period defined by recurrent famine and population decline.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ón gCos go Cluas
Subtitle of host publication	From Dancing to Listening
Editors	Liz Doherty, Fintan Vallely
Publisher	Aberdeen University Press
Chapter	23
Pages	195-206
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	978-1-85752-073-6
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	North Atlantic Fiddle Convention Conference - Northern Ireland, Derry/Londonderry, United Kingdom Duration: 27 Jun 2012 → 1 Jul 2012

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Name	Fiddle and Dance Studies from around the North Atlantic 5

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Conference	North Atlantic Fiddle Convention Conference
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Derry/Londonderry
Period	27/06/12 → 1/07/12

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Ní Chonghaile, D 2019, ‘Bhíodh muid ag damhsa go maidin’: dance, music, and community in Árainn. in L Doherty & F Vallely (eds), Ón gCos go Cluas: From Dancing to Listening. Fiddle and Dance Studies from around the North Atlantic 5, Aberdeen University Press, pp. 195-206, North Atlantic Fiddle Convention Conference, Derry/Londonderry, United Kingdom, 27/06/12.

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