WRITINGS BY MÍCHEÁL Ó
SÚILLEABHÁIN

Selected Bibliography

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'The Bodhrán 1'. Treoir 2 (1974) 4 - 7.

'The Bodhrán 2'. Treoir 3 (1974) 6 - 10.

Gnéithe de Cheardaoicht Phadraig Ui Cheallaigh' [ Aspects of the Fiddle Style of Patrick Kelly], Comhar 38 (10): 26-27 (Dublin 1977)

'Irish Music Defined'. Crane Bag 5:2 (1981): 83-87 (Dublin 1981)

'Contemporary Developments in Bodhran Performance Technique', International Council for Traditional Music: UK Chapter Proceeding 27 (1981): 12-14.

The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music (Cork: Ossian Publication 1982)., Introduction by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.

'My Love is in America: Melodic Deviation and the Programmatic in the Music of Tommie Potts', An Fhidil Ghaelach, 1 (1):17-22. (1982)

Bunting's Ancient Music of Ireland, Edited from the original manuscripts by Donal O'Sullivan with Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. (Cork:Cork University Press 1983)

'The Art of Listening'. Crane Bag 6 (1): 59-61

The Bodhrán: A Practical Introduction. (Dublin: Waltons 1984)

Out of Tune With Reality: Music and the School in Ireland. Irish Educational Studies, Vol 5, No. 1, 1985 [PDF document]

Innovation and Tradition in the Music of Tommie Potts. PhD dissertation. Department of Social Anthropology, Queens University Belfast. 1987.

'Creative Process in Irish Traditional Dance Music', in Irish Musical Studies 1: Musicology in Ireland. G. Gillen and H. White (eds). ) Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1990)

'All our central fire: Music, Mediation, and the Irish Psyche'. The Irish Journal of Psychology. 15: 2 and 3. (Dublin 1993) 331 - 353

'Crossroads or Twintrack? Innovation and tradition in Irish traditional music'. In The Crossroads Conference 1996. F. Vallely et al (Eds).(Dublin: Whinestone Music 1996) 175 – 199  

Sources of Irish Traditional Music c.1600-1855. Two volumes. Aloys Fleischmann (ed), Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Assistant Editor. (New York and London:1998) with an Introduction by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Vol. 1, XI - XIV

'Around the House and Mind the Cosmos - Music, Dance and Identity in Contemporary Ireland, Music in Ireland 1848-1998, Richard Pine (ed) (Cork: Mercier Press 1999)

'The Singing Body: Music, Spirit, and Creativity' in Anail De: The Breath of God - Music Ritual and Spirituality, H. Phelan (ed). (Dublin: Veritas Publications 2001) 140-150.

'An Island Sound: reflections on music, politics and identity in contemporary Ireland' in Ireland in the New Century: Politics, Culture and Identity. Robert J. Savage Jr (ed). (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003) 189 - 197.

'Listening to Difference: Ireland in a World of Music' in Global Aspirations and the Reality of Change. H Bohan and G. Kennedy (eds). (Dublin: Veritas 2004) 20 - 35.

'The Irish World Music Centre: cultural strengths and contemporary issues' in University Education in Irish: Challenges and Perspectives. C. Nic Phaidin and D ui Bhraonain (eds). (Dublin: Fiontar DCU) 39 - 42.

'The New, the Old, and the Learned: issues of innovation, tradition, and education in traditional music in our times' in Preservation of Traditional Music - Proceedings of the Asia-Europe Forum in Beijing, China 2003. (Singapore: Asia-Europe Forum 2004) 199 - 201

'The Truth of Beauty: Towards a Global listening'. Sabhal Mor Ostaig Annual Lecture, Isle of Skye. Broadcast as live on Scottish National Television. (Isle of Skye: Sabhal Mor Ostaig Publications 2004)

Ceol na nUasal: Seán Ó Riada and the search for a native Irish art music. Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. Published Jointly by The Traditional Music Archive, The Irish Traditional Music Society, University College Cork. Printing Office UCC, 2004.

Northern Voices: A Southern Perspective. Proceedings of the McGlinchey Summer School , 2004. Issue No. 7. pp 5/6.

'The Litany of the Saints: Musical Borrowing in the Music of Tommie Potts'. In West Along the Road. Mick Moloney (ed). (New York: New York University Press: in press)

Fírinne na hÁilleachta: i dTreó Éisteachta Domhanda Lch. 79 - 93. Daonscoil ne Mumhain: Imeachtai 2005 Seamus de hIde a chuir in eagar Coisceim 2006.