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Islands of Fiddlers / Oileáin na bhFidiléirí, 2024

Also Oileáin na bhFidiléirí · Islands of Fiddlers

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TypeBook
Date2024-04-13
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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2024-04-13
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Summary

Islands of Fiddlers / Oileáin na bhFidiléirí is a 2024 book described in a Donegal newspaper launch report as a study of Beaver Island’s Donegal-linked settlement, musicians, and tunes. The report identifies Glenn Hendrix and Caoimhin Mac Aoidh as authors and says the book would launch on Arranmore on 13 April 2024.1

Scope and evidence limits

The project holds a launch report, not the book. It can therefore model the title, stated authorship, launch, and publicly described scope, but it cannot verify every historical assertion, tune transcription, citation, or editorial method in the text. The report says the book contains 111 tune transcriptions associated with Patrick Bonner; that is a report of the book’s content, not a locally checked crosswalk to recording items.1

Open questions

  • Acquire and catalog a lawful copy of the book, including publication details, bibliography, tune index, and permissions terms.
  • Compare its 111 transcriptions against item-level recordings and catalogue notes before asserting repertoire-level relationships.

See also

Footnotes

  1. Donegal Live, 8 April 2024, book-launch report. 2

Sources

  1. Launch report identifies the title, expected 13 April 2024 Arranmore launch, publisher Cairdeas na bhFidiléirí, authors Glenn Hendrix and Caoimhin Mac Aoidh, and its stated subject. The project does not hold the book itself.
    web · donegallive_2024_islands_of_fiddlers_launch
  2. Northern Islander, November 2024, “A Beaver Island Journey – Part 1.”
    Contemporary local introduction says Mac Aoidh came to the 2024 Féile in connection with the book and its account of Patrick Bonner’s life and tunes. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Islands of Fiddlers / Oileáin na bhFidiléirí, 2024”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/islands-of-fiddlers-oileain-na-bhfidileiri-2024/, accessed [date], citing Donegal Live, “Book to be launched celebrating link between Arranmore Island and Beaver Island,” 8 April 2024. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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