Hugh Shields in Donegal, 1979
Remember Hugh Shields

born Belfast 8 September 1929, died Dublin 16 July 2008

Numero non horas nisi serenas

(Inscription on a sundial: Andrew Marvell)

'Irish folk-song recordings, 1966–1972: an index of tapes in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum', by Hugh and Lisa Shields, originally published in Ulster Folklife Vol. 21 (1975, pp 25–54). These recordings, mainly from counties Derry and Donegal, as well as Hugh's later recordings up to 1981), are available to the public for listening in the Irish Traditional Music Archive, 73 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 . For use of this material please contact the Archive in advance at +535-1-661 9699.

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Shakespeare concertinaNarrow-bore chanter in D by Geoff Wooff

All pipers are good. Some pipers are excellent’–Seán Reid

Two reels on my  Bb anglo concertina (19th-century Lachenal)
'The Humours of Carrigaholt' (mp3, 935K)
I have no money (mp3, 446K)

Sound clips of a few of my favourite concertina and uilleann pipe tunes in 2001


Cover of Tunes of the Munster Pipers

Tunes of the Munster pipers: Irish traditional music from the James Goodman manuscripts, edited by Hugh Shields, Dublin, Irish Traditional Music Archive, 1998, A4, xxxv + 209 pp., ISBN 0-9532704-0-8 (hbk) 0-9532704-1-6 (pbk) More information
 Other ITMA Publications

James Goodman music collector 1828-1896: (revised text of a talk given by Hugh Shields to the Folk Music Society of Ireland (in Nov. 1996?)



Joe McCafferty, old-style singer

Narrative singing in Ireland: lays, ballads, come-all-yes and other songs, by Hugh Shields, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 1993, ix + 283 pp. ISBN 0716524627, 0716525003

(Reprinted in paperback, with a new foreword by Lillis Ó Laoire, 2010, ISBN 9780716525004)


Shamrock, rose and thistle: folk singing in north Derry, by Hugh Shields, Blackstaff Press, Dundonald, 1981, xii + 193 pp, ISBN 0 85640 166 8 (out of print)


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