Daniel Gomes

Bio

Daniel Gomes is Assistant Professor of English at Bakersfield College. He has published on the Irish literary response to the Spanish Civil War, as well as W. B. Yeats’s use of mythology, and he is working on a book about Irish politics and the ballad genre.

Contributions

Archival Airwaves: Recording Ireland for the BBC

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In 1947, Brian George, the head of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Central Programme Operations, hired Séamus Ennis to help record traditional music throughout Ireland. Ennis was ideally suited for the task. Born in Finglas, North County Dublin, Ennis had become renowned as a uilleann pipe player, a talent inherited from his father, James. [1] Ennis’s musical aptitude was matched by his scrupulousness as a collector. Over the previous five years he became one of the principal fieldworkers...