• DADGAD and "Celtic" guitar

• Traditional Music

• Traditional Irish Music

• Irish Studies

• Poetry

• Early Music

• Friends

I. DADGAD and "Celtic" guitar

• Pat Kirtley's Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar Page

• Han Speek's DADGAD Guitar Page

• Mudcat Cafe and Digital Tradition (Devoted to discussion of traditional song, including Irish song; tends to focus on specific songs, lyrics, etc.)

• English Folk Song Bibliography

• The Bodleian Broadside Collection

• Early Ballads

• Music Parties in the Ozarks

• Evo Bluestein's Gallery of Traditional American Musicians

III. Traditional Irish Music

• Ceolas (comprehensive internet resource with many useful links)

• Ir-Trad archives (a list-serve on the subject of traditional Irish music; very useful, provided you know which threads to follow and which commentators to trust)

• Packie Manus Byrne (one of the great Donegal singers of the last century)

• Standing Stones (the website of Michael Robinson and Vicki Parrish, featuring a number of useful articles and links)

• WWW.TRADSONG.COM - Traditional Song Forum (Primarily devoted to traditional English song, but possibly of use)

IV. Irish Studies

• Medieval Irish Poetry

• Irish Gaelic Language Courses and More

• Gaelic on the Net

• Beyond the Commons (contains Anthony McCann's Ph.D. dissertation on the subject of traditional music and copyright)

V. Poetry

• Poetry (general)

• Modern American Poetry

• Bartleby.com--Great Books Online

• British Poetry (criticism)

• Irish Literature (criticism)

• Seamus Heaney

• Derek Walcott

• Lucien Stryk

• Theodore Roethke (selected poems)

• Interview with Howard Nemerov

• The John Milton-L Homepage

• The T.S. Eliot Page

• Poem by Cathal O Searcaigh

VI. Early Music

• Classical Net (Early Music Files & Links)

• Early Music FAQ

• The Cantigas de Santa Maria

• Arto Wikla's Early Music Pages.
  

VII. Friends

• Federico Marincola (great lutenist, friend, and webmaster)

• Bob Bovee and Gail Heil (one of the best duos in old-time music today)

• Kim and Jim Lansford (one of the other best duos in old-time music today!)

• The Rough Deal Stringband (great old-time band from Ireland)

• Sara Grey (great American singer and banjo player, resident in Scotland)

• Judy Cook (fine traditional American singer)

• Deb Cowan (traditional American singer and singer-songwriter)

• Tom Paley (one of the legends--he'll kill me, I know it!--of the American old-time music revival, and one of the founder members of the New Lost City Ramblers)

• Maggie Boyle (one of my favorite singers)

• Chulrua (marvellous Irish trio, headed by the great Paddy O'Brien from Co. Offaly)

• Len Graham and Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin (two great traditional Irish singers)

• Cathal McConnell (inimitable singer, flute and whistle player from Co. Fermanagh)

• Kornog (marvellous Breton band, featuring Scottish singer/bouzouki-player Jamie McMenemy and flute-player Jean-Michel Veillon)

• Steve Winick (folklorist and traditional music commentator)

• Dr. Peter McQuillan (Irish language and literature; linguistics)

• Dr. Aideen O'Leary (Medieval Irish language and history)