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Condition: New

Published 1999: First Edition / Hardcover / Brand New / Beautifully Illustrated throughout

Original white laminated boards. 120 new pages. Another very scarce and much sought after publication. (PT84)

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John B. Vallely is a highly respected Northern Irish visual artist based in Armagh, with a distinguished career spanning over 65 years. He studied at Belfast College of Art before continuing his education at Edinburgh College of Art, and has since become one of Ireland's most recognisable and celebrated painters.

Dr Fintan Vallely is a musician and writer on Traditional music. He was a critic with The Irish Times and The Sunday Tribune, and has been a university lecturer on Traditional music in Ireland and abroad. He compiled the first-ever tutor for the Irish flute in 1986 (new edition in 2013--The Complete Guide to Playing the Irish flute), and in 2008 published Tuned Out--Traditional Music and Identity in Northern Ireland. Among his numerous edited books is the 1999, 2011 and (t.b.p. 2024) encyclopedia Companion to Irish Traditional Music--which has a related touring show and CD, Compánach, and a DVD, Turas. Just completed is Beating time--the story of the Irish bodhrán, a unique, substantial history of the Irish drum. He is an Adjunct Professor with University College Dublin, and in 2023 was awarded the TG4 lifetime achievement award, Gradam Saol. Google Books.