Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song

Taylor & Francis

Focusing on several distinct genres of eighteenth-century Irish song, Henigan demonstrates in each case that the interaction between the elite and vernacular, the written and oral, is pervasive and characteristic of the Irish song tradition to the present day. > Focusing on several distinct genres of eighteenth-century Irish song, Henigan demonstrates in each case that the interaction between the elite and vernacular, the written and oral, is pervasive and characteristic of the Irish song tradition to the present day. > Introduction 1 Th e Medieval Background 2 Songs of the Dispossessed: Eighteenth-Century Irish Song-Poetry 3 \u2018\u00C9irigh i do Sheasamh\u2019: Oral and Literary Aspects of the Irish Lament Tradition 4 \u2018For Want of Education\u2019: Th e Songs of the Hedge Schoolmaster 5 The Eighteenth-Century Printed Ballad in Ireland 6 The Eighteenth-Century Irish Ballad and Modern Oral Tradition