Into the Woods: Irish Music and Dance in Logging Era Minnesota

CJAC's McKiernan Library 836 Prior Avenue, St. Paul, MN, United States

Franz Rickaby, one of only a handful of folk song collectors to work in Minnesota, wrote in the 1920s that "in the logging camp the hegemony in song belonged to the Irish." Eoin McKiernan Library Director Brian Miller has spent over 15 years investigating songs, singers, fiddlers, dancers and other Irish cultural expressions in logging era…