"Focuses on County Meath in a study of clashes in the early 1890s between parliamentary candidates who were suppoerse of the Irish nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell and candidates promoted by an anti-Parnellite clergyman, Bishop Thomas Nulty."

- The Chronicle of Higher Education

"Norris's monograph on the cinematic 'Ulysses' is a penatrating to Cork's series."

- Joseph Kestner, University of Tulsa , James Joyce Quarterly

"This is a breathtaking book. It returns to Irish folk material the emotional depth and imaginative meaning which it always contained in its natural context but of which it has often been stripped by the more utilitarian and commonplace interpretations long in fashion. It reminds me once again why I am charmed and enchanted by this material, and more than that, why I regularly find in it answers to the deep-seated obsessions of my own. A real gem of a book, containing an exemplary methodology showing how the Irish folk tradition can be interrogated to find answers which are vitally important to our age and times."
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"The new book makes for enjoyable reading for the serious student of Irish music, or for those who want to get a historical perspective on that period from a primary source."