Eoin McKiernan Library

Recent Publications & Acquisitions Jul-Dec 2021

Newly Published Online Content:

Records added to our Online Catalog during this period:

  • Books: 68

New Acquisitions: Archival Items

Morin-McDonough Family Photos: One photo of accordion player Johnny Powell during a visit to St. Paul. Scans of five additional photos featuring Margaret “Sis” McDonough, Johnny Powell and other members of the McDonough family.

Pat and Denis Dee Family Photos: 5 photos from the early 1950s featuring members of the Twin Cities Irish American Club.

Ethna McKiernan and Grania McKiernan Oral History Interview: Oral history interview conducted by McKiernan Library Director Brian Miller in September.

New Acquisitions: Library Items

Books Purchased by Celtic Junction Arts Center:Anton Treuer. The Language Warrior’s Manifesto. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2020.

  • Mary Lethert Wingerd. Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul. Cornell University Press, 2003.
  • Vaughan, W. E. (ed.). A New History of Ireland, Volume V: Ireland Under the Union, I: 1801-1870. Oxford University Press, 2010.
  • Vaughan, W. E. (ed.). A New History of Ireland, Volume VI: Ireland Under the Union, II: 1870-1921. Clarendon Press-Oxford, 1996.
  • Hill, J. R. (ed.). A New History of Ireland, Volume VII: Ireland, 1921-84. Oxford University Press, 2010.
  • Moody, T. W., F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne (eds.). A New History of Ireland, Volume IX: Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History Part II. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1984.

Maureen Makens: 110+ books including many Irish language titles, folklore books and Irish literature including 8 books by author John B. Keane.

Pat and Denis Dee Donation: 35 LPs and nine 78 RPM records of Irish music. Three books.

78rpm records from the Dee family:

  • Tommy Reck: The Scholar — Salamanca — Tom Steele / Alexander’s & O’Higgins’
  • The All Star Ceilidhe Band:  When the Kettle Boils Over & The Leg of the Duck. Jigs / The Blackberry Blossom & Bonnie Kate. Reels
  • Joe Derrane, Piano: John Connors: The Merry Blacksmith & The Limestone Rock. Medley of Reels / The Fisherman’s Widow & Devine’s Favorite
  • Connie Foley:   Bold Jack Donahue /  My Irish Jaunting Car
  • The All Star Ceilidhe Band:  Haste to the Wedding & The Connaughtman’s Rambles. Jigs / The Londonderry Hornpipe
  • Dorothy Hayden / Mickey Carton’s Orchestra: Ireland’s 32 / The Jim Hayden Polka
  • Johnny Powell and His Irish Band Of The Year: Galway Bay and Martha, The Flower of Sweet Strabane. Medley of Irish Waltzes / The Colleen Bawn and the Galway Rogue. Irish Polkas
  • Frank Lee’s Tara Ceilidh Orchestra: Irish Hornpipes: Intro. The ?????e, Kildare Fancy, Dunphy’s / Irish Set Dance: The Blackbird
  • Patti Page: Boogie Woogie Santa Claus / The Tennessee Waltz

Anonymous [Nolan? Dropped off at Irish on Grand and passed on to EML]: Nine 78rpm records of Irish music.

78rpm records from Nolan:

  • Ennis, Morrison & Muller: Medley of Irish Reels- 1. The Bag of Potatoes 2. Temple House Reel 3. Pigeon on the Gate /   The Blackbird
  • Peter J. Conlon: The Humors of the Whiskey, Irish Jig / The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Reel
  • John Mcgettigan & His Irish Minstrels:    The Roving Galway Boy / Miss Monahan and The Haymaker
  • Flanagan Brothers: Jenny Picking Cockles, Intro: Drowsy Maggie, Medley of Irish Reels / The Maid on the Green, Intro: The Frost is All Over, Medley of Irish Jigs
  • John J. Kimmel: Irish Reels–Medley No. 3: Cuckoo’s Nest — Mason’s Apron / Irish Reels — Medley No. 4: Salamango — Off Key
  • Frank Quinn:  Green Grow the Rushes (Fiddler, Piano Acc., Ed Geoghegan) / The Four Courts (Accordion)
  • The Four Provinces Orchestra:    The Pride of Leinster — The Hole in the Wall — The Dublin Jig / If You’re Irish (James J. Mullan, High Chief Ranger U.S.A. Irish National Foresters Accomp. by the Four Provincs [sic] Orchestra)
  • John Mcgettigan: The Irish Jaunting Car /  My Mother’s Last Goodbye
  • John Kimmel / Patrick J. Touhey:  Medley of Irish Jigs (Haleys Favorite) / Medley of Irish Reels: Steam Packet — Morning Star — Miss McCleod

Sian Nelson: 3 LPs from The Pogues, Horslips and Planxty

John Kline: 5 books.

James Moriarty: six books.

Mary Murray Delaney: 90 books from the personal library of Mary Murray Delaney, author of the well-loved book Of Irish Ways and former vice president of the Delaney, Joyce and O’Dell travel agency