Dear far voiced-veteran: Essays in honour of Tom Munnelly, edited by Anne Clune,
The Old Kilfarboy Society, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, 2007, 404pp

Tom Munnelly at the opening of the Irish Traditional Music Archive at the Guinness Hop Store, 19 November 1991. Photo: MacInnes Photographers, courtesy Irish Traditional Music Archive.

This collection of essays, twenty-three in all, was presented to Tom Munnelly shortly before his death last August. As Nicholas Carolan notes in his introduction to the festschrift, it is ‘an acknowledgement of valued decades of achievement in the field of Irish traditional music, collection and study. There has long...