Music

Music and songbooks

The Four Provinces Bookshop stocks a large number of CDs, tape cassettes, music books, songbooks and books about Irish music. For a full list return to the Bookshop page of the website and download the catalogue, or telephone the shop on ++ 44 (0)20 273 8182.

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Songbooks

Music from Ireland: A treasury of old Irish songs and tunes £2.95

Songs and Ballads of Ireland: A first collection of 40 Irish songs £2.95

More Songs and Ballads of Ireland: A second collection of 40 Irish songs £2.95

The Irish Pub Songbook: 36 of the very best Irish pubsongs £2.95

Songs and Dances of Ireland £7.50

The Wolfe Tones Song Book (in 2 volumes) £4.95 ea

The James Connolly Songbook £2.00

Songs of 1798 £2.50

Soodlum's Irish Ballad Book (158 ballads, illustrated in b&w) Good, comprehensive collection of Irish songs. £10.95

The Dubliners'; songbook £12.95

The Christy Moore Songbook £5.99

Ireland the Songs (in 4 volumes and illustrated with photographs from the Father Brown collection) £2.95 ea

An Irish Tunebook: airs and dance tunes (in 2 volumes) £5.95 ea

Irish Ballads (Illustrated in colour; coffee-table style book with background information on each song) £10.99

The Irish National Anthem (The Soldier’s Song)/Amhran Naisiunta na h-Eireann (Amhran na bhFiann) £1.95

Bell, Derek & O Conchubhair, Liam Traditional Songs of the North of Ireland (songs in English and Irish £9.99

Doyle, Danny & Folan, Terence The Gold Sun of Irish Freedom: 1798 in song and story £7.99

Greaves, C Desmond (ed) The Easter Rising in Song and Ballad £5.95

Books about Irish music

Boullier, Dianna Exploring Irish Music and Dance (suitable for young people) £7.99

Breathnach, Breandan Folk Music and Dances of Ireland (Traditional account first published 1971) £6.99

Folk Music and Dances of Ireland CD £9.99

Carolan, Nicholas A Harvest Saved: Francis O'Neill and Irish Music in Chicago £10.00

Carson, Ciaran Irish Traditional Music £3.99

Hickey, Donal Stone Mad for Music: The Sliabh Luachra Story £9.99

Irish dance

Ar Rinncidhe Foirne: Thirty Popular Figure Dances, Leabhair 1, 2, 3 £6.95

Murphy, Pat Toss the Feathers: Irish Set Dancing £8.99

The Flowing Tide: More Irish Set Dancing £9.99

Robb, Martha Irish Dancing Costume (illustrated b&w and colour) £5.95

instruction books and demo tapes/CDs

Cotter, Geraldine Traditional Irish Tin Whistle Tutor (includes appendix of 100 tunes) £7.95

Tin Whistle Demo Tape £5.99

Tin Whistle Tune Tape £5.99

Cranitch, Matt The Irish Fiddle Book £15.00

The Irish Fiddle Book Demo Tape £6.99

CDs and cassette tapes

Artists include:

Altan, Athenrye, The Chieftains, Joe Joe Heaney, Andy Irvine, Paul Brady, Luke Kelly, The Dubliners, Donal Lunny, Michael McGoldrick, Christy Moore, Moving Hearts, Maighread Ni Dhomhnaill, Sean O Riada, Patrick Street, Planxty, Sharon Shannon, The Wolfe Tones and many more.

For children

Cantairi Oga Atha Cliath Trup, Trup, A Chapaillin (children’s songs in Irish) £5.99

Rabhlai Rabhlai: Book and tape set - 31 traditional rhymes in Irish for children set to music £14.00

Bliain na hAmhran/The Year of Song: fun songs in Irish for children £7.99