{"id":133,"date":"2016-09-14T16:41:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libstaff.bc.edu\/newsletter\/?p=133"},"modified":"2016-09-16T18:11:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T18:11:18","slug":"music-to-our-ears-the-seamus-connolly-collection-of-irish-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/music-to-our-ears-the-seamus-connolly-collection-of-irish-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Music to Our Ears: The S\u00e9amus Connolly Collection of Irish Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish music followers worldwide will soon be able to stream and download hundreds of newly-released music tracks in <a href=\"http:\/\/connollymusiccollection.bc.edu\"><em>The S\u00e9amus Connolly Collection of Irish Music<\/em><\/a>, a digital collection that will be published by the Boston College Libraries on October 11. This exciting compilation features audio recordings of some of the best-known performers of Irish traditional instrumental music and song. With audio available via SoundCloud, the collection also offers music transcriptions and stories, and is fully compatible with mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Killaloe in County Clare, Ireland, master fiddle player S\u00e9amus Connolly directed Irish music, song, and dance programming at Boston College for twenty-five years, and served as the Sullivan Artist-in-Residence from 2004 until his retirement in 2015. A ten-time All-Ireland fiddle champion, Connolly is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts\u2019 National Heritage Fellowship and a Boston College Faculty Arts award.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/libstaff.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/connolly.png\" alt=\"The thirteen-arched bridge over the River Shannon in Seamus Connolly's hometown\" width=\"840\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/connolly.png 840w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/connolly-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/connolly-768x496.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The digital collection offers a window into traditional music through Connolly\u2019s long experience as a performer and teacher. Thanks to the generosity of over one hundred performers, the collection\u2019s ten playlists, containing a total of over 330 tunes and songs, will soon be made freely accessible worldwide via <a href=\"http:\/\/connollymusiccollection.bc.edu\"><em>The S\u00e9amus Connolly Collection of Irish Music<\/em><\/a> under a Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n<p>The product of a three-year collaboration between the Boston College Libraries and Connolly, the digital collection reflects the work of many departments across the libraries, with Connolly\u2019s own work on the project beginning nearly fifteen years ago. The collection complements the <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2345\/3065\">S\u00e9amus Connolly Papers<\/a>, one of several archival research collections on Irish music at the John J. Burns Library. Please feel free to contact <a href=\"mailto:burnsref@bc.edu\">Burns Library staff<\/a> for more information about the S\u00e9amus Connolly Papers, the digital collection, or Irish music resources in general. We invite you to preview the S\u00e9amus Connolly Collection of Irish Music at <a href=\"http:\/\/connollymusiccollection.bc.edu\">connollymusiccollection.bc.edu<\/a> and to visit the full site on October 11th when the full collection is launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish music followers worldwide will soon be able to stream and download hundreds of newly-released music tracks in The S\u00e9amus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, a digital collection that will be published by the Boston College Libraries on October 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"series":[12],"coauthors":[16],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-fall2016","series-fall2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}