Irish Minstrels and Musicians. With Numerous Dissertations on Related Subjects

The eagle and the harp: the enterprising Byrne Brothers of County Monaghan

“…8 9 and, indeed, the Shirley Estate lies in the old barony of Farney, which in the nineteenth century encompassed the parishes of Donaghmoyne, Magheross, Magheracloone, Killanny, Inishkeen, and surrounding townlands. Farney was one of the most populous regions of Ireland at the beginning of the nineteenth century.…”

Elias Howe, William Bradbury Ryan, and Irish Music in Nineteenth-Century Boston

“… 32 Capt. Francis O'Neill, Irish Minstrels and Musicians, with Numerous Dissertations on Related Subjects (1913; reprint with a new introduction by Barry O'Neill, Darby, Penn. : Norwood Reprints, 1973).…”