Our Dear Dark Mountain with the Sky Over It – The Whiteside Collection (Book)

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A beautifully crafted book exploring the music collection of Sliabh Beagh collector James Whiteside. Complete with commissioned illustrations, photography, poetry archival materials, it presents a unique insight into the history and music heritage of the Sliabh Beagh region

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Following on from the award-winning album of the same name, this publication shines further light on the musical heritage of the Sliabh Beagh region of Monaghan and Fermanagh. Reproducing for the first time, the long-forgotten music manuscript of James Whiteside (1844-1916), this beautifully crafted book – complete with commissioned illustrations, photography, poetry archival materials – presents a unique snapshot pf the history and music heritage of the Sliabh Beagh region.
The Mountain’s Dark Wonders – Patrick McCabe (novelist/playwright)

There are few treasures of the tribe which can be said to compare with this extraordinary document, enhanced significantly by the magical manner of its discovery. From the sky, it would appear, dropped, high above a border. But for the fact that when it lands, we find it in a place where there is in existence no such spurious, drearily empirical demarcation.
Seán McElwain here delivers nothing short of a golden fleece – a magic box uncovered in a miracle mountain cavern. So cared-for and painstakingly curated that it evokes the response, in another context, of the commentator Andre Jolles: ‘The miraculous is the only possible guarantee that the immorality of reality has stopped.’

Upon approaching, for the first time, this extraordinary collection, let potential readers and listeners be assured of this: that beyond Sliabh Beagh, the lights have already been lit in the windows of the house – and in the deep dark forest inquiring questers can confidently begin to move. With eyes open, listening, trying to find their bearings. Because find them they will; in the company of Messrs. Murray and James Whiteside. Don’t let me delay you – step ahead and vanish, into this world of absolute wonder.

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