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(This society ceased activities in 2003, but this site has been retained for its archival interest)

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October 2010

Carolan, Nicholas, ed., A collection of the most celebrated Irish tunes proper for the violin, German flute or hautboy by John & William Neal. Dublin [1724]. Second facsimile ed. with introduction & notes by Nicholas Carolan. Dublin: Irish Traditional Music Archive in association with the Folk Music Society of Ireland, 2010. xiv, 118 pp. ISBN 9780953270439 (hbk.)

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Available from http://www.itma.ie/Publications/Publications.html

 More info at http://www.itma.ie/Publications/Neal.html

(First edition, Dublin, FMSI, 1986, ISBN 0-905733-01-0, is out of print)

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Selections from the archives (FMSI newsletter Ceol Tíre) might be added to periodically (updated 10 April 2006)

Important development: Letter from FMSI chairman to all members and supporters about the future role of the society (April 2003)

Irish Folk Music Studies / Éigse Cheol Tíre

Volumes 5–6 1986–2001

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More information about the past activities of the Folk Music Society of Ireland - Cumann Cheol Tire Eireann

Membership subscriptions payable are no longer being accepted but donations to the publications fund will be gratefully accepted by Nicholas Carolan, Hon. Treasurer, 63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.

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Letter from FMSI chairman to all members and supporters about the future role of the society (March 2003)

Dear Colleague,

The Folk Music Society of Ireland, a voluntary society, has been going through a period of revaluation after more than 30 years in existence, and after the recent publication of volumes 5-6 of its journal Irish Folk Music Studies/ Éigse Cheol Tíre. It has come to certain decisions regarding its future.

The Society was founded in Dublin in 1971 by a group of interested individuals with the aims of encouraging interest and promoting research in the traditional music, song and dance of Ireland. It was felt by its founders that the then recent revival of traditional music performance had not been accompanied by an equivalent growth in traditional music study and analysis. For 30 years the Society ran an annual series of public lectures and recitals, organised day seminars and conferences, advised researchers and answered queries, published a newsletter Ceol Tíre, a journal Irish Folk Music Studies/ Éigse Cheol Tíre, and a series of printed studies and cassette sound-recordings.

In recent years the Society has been adversely affected by various circumstances: partly the death and retirement of founding members, but also by changes in Irish social life and patterns of entertainment. On the positive side, it has been affected by the ready availability throughout the country of lectures and specialist recitals at festivals and summer schools, by the enormous increase in the publishing of traditional music, and by the number of academic courses being run in third-level education. These welcome developments, many of them initiated by members of the Society, have altered the music world in which the Society came into being and have removed some of its functions.

The Committee of the Society has accordingly decided that the Society will continue in existence only as a publishing body, and that it will cease its other public functions. Voluntary suscriptions will be gratefully received in support of its publishing activities (and may be sent to Nicholas Carolan, Hon. Treasurer, FMSI, 63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2), but membership subscriptions will no longer be accepted. A further volume of the Society's journal is now in preparation, and this will be generally advertised when it appears. The Society is grateful for the various supports it has received in the past and looks forward to a new, but different, future.

The Society's publications are listed on its website

http://homepage.eircom.net/~shields/fmsi/

Enquiries about and orders for FMSI publications in print should be addressed to the Irish Traditional Music Archive, 63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 (tel. 01-6619699, email:sales@itma.ie)

Yours sincerely,

Dr Seóirse Bodley Chairman

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