@article{dundalk339,
          number = {2/3},
           month = {July},
          author = {Daithi Kearney},
           title = {Regions, regionality and regionalization in Irish traditional music: the role of Comhaltas Ceolt{\'o}ir{\'i} {\'E}ireann},
       publisher = {ICTM Ireland},
         journal = {Ethnomusicology Ireland},
           pages = {72--94},
            year = {2013},
        keywords = {Irish Studies; Ethnomusicology; Irish Music; Traditional Irish Music.},
             url = {http://eprints.dkit.ie/339/},
        abstract = {In this paper I examine the influence of Comhaltas Ceolt{\'o}ir{\'i} {\'E}ireann on the geography of Irish traditional music and, in particular, the impact of the organisation on regions and regional identities within the tradition. Founded in 1951, CC{\'E} is the largest organisation involved in Irish traditional music and it impinges on many aspects of the study of regionality in Irish traditional music. As a powerful interest group in Irish traditional music, the organization constructs and communicates ideologies, celebrates and empowers individuals, and creates representations. A mapping of the cultural-geographic patterning of its various activities reveals CCE's construction of newly imagined administrative regions and an historical narrative of ?the way things were?.}
}