Introduction: In search of Irish music
Listening to the future : music and Irish studies
Betrayal as theme and influence in Thomas Moore's 'On Music'
Music in James Joyce's 'The Dead' : sources contexts, meanings
Paddy sad and Paddy mad : music and condition Irishness
Bringing it all back home? The dynamics of local music-making in the The Commitments
Celtic music : from the Margins to the Centre (and back again?)
Listening to the novel : the role and representation of traditional music in contemporary Irish fiction
No country for young women : Celtic music, dissent and the Irish female body
'The same sound but with a different meaning' : Music, politics and identity in Bernard Mac Laverty's Grace Notes
'Sing your melody, I'll sing along' : Mimetic and diegetic uses of music in Once.