Fig.1 - Poitín Making © WineMag.com
A friend has asked if there are any songs or tunes about Poitín / Potcheen / The Crathur-Creatúr / Moonshine / Illegal Whiskey in Irish traditional music.
"... if you know any Irish trad tunes connected with [it] beyond the familiar Tommy Makem like tunes we hear all the time. (Including tunes connected by ...
Digital Ethnomusicology
My blog posts cover a broad range of topics, from ethnomusicology research methods, to instrument classification to digital research.
Patrick Egan
Ethnomusicologist, musician, digital humanist and web developer, currently an early career researcher at University College Cork. PhD in Digital Humanities with Ethnomusicology. Current research interests include; classification and classificatory thinking.

Seasons greetings from Outreach - here is Labrini Gioti singing on the Irish Traditional Music Archive's advent calendar, day 20.
Travel the world with ITMA. Meet musicians, singers and dancers from different countries & traditions who have made Irish traditional music their own.
Day 1
Mykolas Gricka (Lithuania), Dy...




Dear Outreach friends,
Perhaps you may like to know of two new websites which I recently built.
The first, at
https://www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk/whalsay/
This could be helpful to anyone interested in singing traditions and British/irish ballad and song repertories. It features over 100 recordings made in the Shetland island of Whalsay during my rese...
