Breaking the Mold of Tradition: Trá Pháidín’s Cloch ’s Claí and the Avant-Garde Deconstruction of Irish Identity
Executive Overview For decades, popular culture has maintained a comfortable, heavily curated snow-globe view of traditional Irish music. To the casual listener or the cultural tourist, the genre is often expected to arrive packaged in predictable formats: the fireside session, the plaintive ballad of emigration, the frantic jig played with breathless precision, and a romanticized, … Read more
