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The festival tradition of Irish dancing has played a significant part in Ulster's culture over the past century.
This historical account takes the reader on a journey from courtly ballrooms and cottage firesides across a landscape of barn dances, harvest homes, fancy dance classes, feiseanna and festivals, narrating how Catholic and Protestant children held hands in town halls, parochial halls and Protestant halls even when bombs splintered communities and deepened mistrust.
Highlighting the various provincial towns that nurtured and helped grow the festival movement throughout the 20th century, Angeline's work explores significant figures in the development of both 'feis' and `festival', the champion dancers, influential teachers and unsung community `heroes' who kept this cross-community activity alive.
Containing source and archive material drawn from newspaper reports dating back to the 1700s, Ordnance surveys, diaries, journals and interviews with more than 80 of the 20th century's festival dance teachers and pupils, this work will fill a significant gap in Irish dancing publications and appeal to the tens of thousands of current and former festival Irish dancers and Irish dancing enthusiasts in Northern Ireland and further afield.
Contents
Introduction i
Chapter 1 Once Upon a Time, There was Dancing 1
Chapter 2 Dancing Customs in Ulster 9
Chapter 3 The Dance Master 21
Chapter 4 Dancing Technique Before the Gaelic Revival 28
Chapter 5 The Gaelic Revival 40
Chapter 6 Figuring Out Irish Dancing 49
Chapter 7 The Birth of the Feis Movement 61
Chapter 8 The Growth of the Feis Movement 68
Chapter 9 Birth of the Folk Dancing Movement 89
Chapter 10 The Father of Irish Folk Dancing 109
Chapter 11 The Theatre of Miss Mulholland 119
Chapter 12 The First Musical Festivals 130
Chapter 13 Larne Irish Dancing Lineage 140
Chapter 14 Growth of Larne Festival 158
Chapter 15 Portadown Musical Festival 167
Chapter 16 Newry Feis 175
Chapter 17 Ballymena Musical Festival 188
Chapter 18 The McConnells of Ballymena 204
Chapter 19 North Antrim and the Glens 223
Chapter 20 Ballyclare Musical Festival 240
Chapter 21 The Modern Festival Tradition 251
Appendix A Differences between feis and festival Irish dancing 267
Appendix B Definitions 278
Appendix C Winners of the Cashel Bowl 281
Sources & Acknowledgements 284
Books 286
Newspaper & Journal Articles 288
Miscellaneous 302
List of Figures 304
Index 308
Index of Dances & Tunes 325
Index of Dancing Schools 327
Index of Irish Placenames 329
About the Author 334
Books by Angeline King 335
