This week Patrick Egan (Pádraig Mac Aodhgáin) joins us on the Hour of History Podcast. He an expert musician who works in the digital humanities, ethnomusicology, and web development. He is currently fellow in digital studies at the Kluge Center (Library of Congress, Washington DC) and also a Fulbright scholar (2019). He recently completed his PhD at University College Cork, Ireland where he focused on exploring the “Seán Ó Riada Collection” at University College Cork in Ireland.

You can read more at his website patrickegan.org and follow him on twitter @mrpatrickegan. You can take his survey here: Irish Music in America Survey

Some Highlights:

Pádraig's background, growing up in Co. Wicklow

Survey and research with the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress

What is Irish Traditional Music?

Voices and Music of Irish Migration with Sara Goek

LITMUS Project  - Linked open data framework for Irish Traditional Music

Library of Congress Folk Life Center

Ethnomusicology and IT

The Story of John Harrington

Fulbright Tech Impact Scholarship

Force 11 - a community of scholars working to share knowledge

IrishTune.info

thesession.org

Connecting the Treasures of Irish Music to the Library of Congress

Irish Traditional Music Archive Dublin

Philadelphia Ceili Group Archive Villanova

Suggestions:

Pádraig: Jaron Lanier- How to remake the Internet

Steven: Spend time on YouTube and find some find some less-watched gems this.

 

Featured Image: 

Irish Folk session, The Old Dubliner Irish Pub, Hamburg-Harburg by Hinnerk Rümenapf