Donal OSullivan
Life 1893-1973 [D. J. OSullivan; Donal J. OSullivan]; President of Irish Council of Eur. Movement; Dir. Stud. in Irish Folk Music and Song, UCD; author of OCarolan: Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper (1958); also ed., Songs of the Irish (1960; 1967). DIB DIW
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Works
- The Bunting Collection of Irish Folk Music and Songs, ed. from the original manuscripts by D. J. OSullivan [Journal of Irish Folk Song Soc.] 6 vols. (1927-39), and Do (Cork UP 1983), xvii, 226pp.
- Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper, 2 vols. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1958; rep. Lincolnshire, England: Celtic Music 1983) [Vol. 1: The Life and Times; The Music, pp.165-285; Vol. 2: The Notes to the Tunes; Memoirs of Arthur ONeill].
- Irish Folk Music and Song [Cultural Relations Committee of Ireland] (Colm OLochlann 1952) , 62pp., ill. Muriel Brandt.
- Songs of the Irish: An Anthology of Irish Folk Music and Poetry with English Verse Translations (Dublin: Browne & Nolan 1960), and Do. [rep. edn.] (Cork: Mercier Press 1981), 199pp..
- The Spice of Life and Other Essays (Dublin: Browne & Nolan [1948]), ix, 126pp. [prev. in [Irish] Times Pictorial, pseud. “Outis”].
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See also his Handbook of Iris Folklore, (1942).
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Auction: Catalogue of auction sale of antique furniture, silver and miscellaneous effects: at Cairn Hall, Westminster Road, Foxrock, Co. Dublin. Wednesday, 30th September, 1959 (Jackson-Stops & McCabe 1959).
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Criticism Patrick Morrissey, Dúchas: A Personal Essay, in Éire-Ireland, 4, 2 (Summer 1969), pp. 117-27.
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Quotations Irish music: Knowledge without enthusiasm may be cold and forbidding, but enthusiasm without knowledge can be a dreadful thing, and it has too often plagued this subject of Irish music. (Quoted in Gerry Smyth, Amateurs and Textperts: Studying Irish Traditional Music, in Irish Studies Review Autumn 1995, pp.2-10; pp.4-5.)
The Irish in love: The Irishman or Irishwoman in love is almost invariably a sad person, and so the vast majority of our love songs are mournful. (Songs of the Irish, Dublin, 1960, p.62; quoted in George-Denis Zimmerman, Thematique de lamour dans les ballades traditionelle irlandaises, cited in Études irlandaises, ed. Patrick Rafroidi, et al., Lille 1979.)
Esoteric Irish?: [W. B. Yeatss notion that] the genius of Gaelic Ireland possesses some peculiar occult or esoteric quality. Indeed, the very term Celtic Twilight is now commonly accepted as expressive of this supposed characteristic [...] It must here be stated categorically that a survey of Gaelic literature as a whole discloses no ground whatever for such a belief. (Intro. to Songs of the Irish, Browne & Nolan, 1967, p.11; quoted in James Flannery, W. B. Yeats and the Idea of A Theatre, Yale UP, 1976, p.71.)
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References Hyland Books (Cat. 224) lists Songs of the Irish [1st edn.] (1960). [ top ] Notes Máire Mac an tSaoi cites Donal OSullivan, Thaddeus Connellan and His Books of Irish Poetry [monograph; n.d.] in her Introduction to the James Hardimans Irish Minstrelsy [facs. edn.] (IUP Edn. 1977), p.vii. Namesake: among sundry others, The Irish Free State and its senate: a study in contemporary politics (London: Faber 1940: NY), and Do. [facs. edn.] ; Arno Press 1972), xxxi, 666pp.
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