Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Ser. : Volume 1 1845-1945

The various Irish and London-Irish communities in London since the time of The Famine have all been involved in some way or another in making music and dancing. Each community in its time established its own music and dance practices, sometimes transferring them from Ireland, sometimes modifying them to social conditions in London, and sometimes creating new forms. Drawing on a wide range of primary written and oral sources, Reg Hall documents and analyses the nature of that music-making and dancing and discusses their significance to those communities in London, presenting the subject in terms of social systems of organisation and practice.