Dr. Sara Goek is an expert on Ireland and a historian of music and migration. She plays in Irish sessions and has written about them as well. You can read her work and follow her blog here. Her dissertation, which she completed at University College Cork is Voices and Music of Irish Migration, a project that shows the potential of the digital humanities. You can follow her on Twitter @SaraGoek

Some Highlights:

The basics of the Irish Session

What Irish Traditional music means to different people

Experience at an Irish University

The difference between music culture in the US and Ireland

Dr. Goek's interview with Danny Meehan

Emigration from Ireland en masse between 1945-1970

Irish Communities in Britain

The Economist: "Irish Britain is Blooming- and Shrinking"

Returned Migrants

Rural and Urban communities

Sessions in Ireland

Weekly Suggestion:

Steven: Last Night's Fun, Ciaran Carson

Sara: RTE's new FREE Documentary The Irish Revolution(Based on The Atlas of the Irish Revolution )

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