Francis O’Neill’s seminal collection Music of Ireland, and Irish Minstrels and Musicians, his principal book on the subject of his collection endeavours, both contain a photograph of Chicago’s Irish Music Club (Irish Traditional Music Archive; O’Neill, 479). The photo is dated as having been taken between 1901 and 1909, and shows 26 members of this Read More
In my last probe I considered the possibility of portraying Francis O’Neill’s seminal collection Music of Ireland as a tree diagram. For this bootcamp, I tried to put this plan into action. Below is an Excel tabulation of the data I used to prepare the diagram. Name of contributor Number of tunes in the collection Read More
How may tree diagrams deepen our understanding of cultural phenomena? Are some forms of knowledge better suited than others to “tree-ish” representations? Francis O’Neill was born in 1848 in Tralibane, County Cork. He would sail the world as a crewmember on a British merchant ship before settling in Chicago, where he eventually rose to Read More
How do relative beginnings and surface relations help structure statements? In turn, how do these statements dictate the rules that structure the production of texts, objects and discourses? Cap Badge and Rulebook My research on the contributions of non-Irish people to the Irish traditional music soundscape in Montreal has led me to reflect on Read More