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Irish Music : On the Net!

© Deborah Jeter

During the month of March, I generally try to cover subjects in my class on Railroad Songs, Irish Folk songs and then dance a gig or two. However, since I left all my resource materials at school and I wanted to get my article done before the deadline, a great idea popped into my head, (desperation does that to me) and VOILA! This week's article is Irish Music on the Internet!

My "NET" journey started by trying to find Irish Work Songs, such as "Paddy Works on the Railway", but after about the first site or two, I was completely swept away, (short attention span) by the fascinating sites that contained "oodles" of Irish Music.

Let the journey unfold:

Ceolas was one of the first sites that I found. I thought, hmmm, I've never heard of her before. But then as I read further, Ceolas is just the name of the site. If anyone should know if it has some other meaning, I'd be interested in hearing from you. (see the discussion for the meaning of Ceolas.) Ceolas turns out to be a well regarded site of Celtic music.

Next on the list was, of course,Bagpipe Web. Bagpipe Web is mostly a links site, but it does have some doozies, like bunches of links to pipemakers' sites which provides information on everything you'd want to know about bagpipes. Here's a picture of one offered by a proud owner. And just in case you have your own bagpipe, here's an Alexander Duff's or figure this one out, "Anchors Aweigh". This was mind blowing to me. I had never seen music like this before. Care to enlighten me, anyone?

How about dancing a jig to some of the great music found at this site! There is some wonderful information about Irish dances and some helpful history on Ireland as well. This site would make a great addition to any lesson on Ireland.

Celtic Music.com has a Virtual Tunebook. This site has some great polkas.

Another quickie, before my final site is Irish Music Centre has a wealth of Celtic Resources and is well worth the visit. At this particular site, there is information on the Irish Chamber Orchestra and The University of Limerick.

Irish Schools on the Internet seemed like a good spot to end the journey for now, due to the fact, that I have my "own" 200 little leprechauns to sing with in about 8 hours.

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