Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh LuachraOriginally published in 1994, this stunning collection of Irish music from Johnny OLeary is re issued here in a new, entirely re set edition, containing an additional 29 tunes, and new photographs. Sliabh Luachra, in the heart of Munster, is home to a unique style of traditional Irish music. The great fiddle player Padraig OKeefe (1887 1963) lived and taught there, passing on a vibrant musical tradition to Denis Murphy and his daughter Julia Clifford,

Both help to determine the precise nature of this triangle

banal consumerism

recording street scenes

he led an intense and productive life

by mediocrity

and 1908 election to senator in the new National University of Ireland

offering a vivid slice of 20th-century history

hedge-school masters and literary lesbians seem to dance through 400 years of Irish history

John McColgan

from London to Leipzig and Bilbao

trees hung obsessively

and land purchase