Both The Annals of Churchtown and The Boss Murphy Music Legacy are now
available to purchase in digital format as eBooks at www.churchtownbooks.com. While it is
hard to beat having a hard copy of a book these new digital eBooks can now be
delivered in PDF format worldwide in seconds and because the books are in PDF
format purchasers of the digital copies will be able to carry out their own
random searches for names and details in a way that is impossible with a normal
hard copy format. Both books are priced at Euro 20 each and there are no delivery or postage charges.
All Publications
Noah's Ark Press is a not-for-profit publisher. The
name was inspired by Gerry Murphy's brother John and the Press is funded
by Gerry. There are six publications to date: ISBN Title
Author Date Status
0-9524931-0-1
Yeti (hardcover) by John M Murphy / Dec 1994
(out of print) 0-9524931-2-8 Boss Murphy Musical Legacy
by Caroline Moloney / Dec 2003
(available) 0-9524931-3-6
The Annals of Churchtown / December 2005 (available) 0-9524931-4-4
Out of your Tree / hardcover / October 2005 (available)
0-9524931-5-2
Yeti (softcover)
by John M Murphy / December 1994 (available)
0-9524931-6-0
Out of your Tree 2 / hardcover / by Dominic Lee /
September 2009
The first major publication was The Boss Murphy Musical Legacy. The
original musical manuscript were completed during the three-year period
1933-35. This book published in 2003 contains 306 airs, barndances, flings, galops,
hornpipes,
jigs, marches, mazurkas, polkas, quadrilles, reels, set
dances,
schottisches and waltzes: the repertory of a traditional
musician
in rural Munster in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries.
Many of the tunes, tune-types and settings in this volume
have now
vanished from the aural tradition. This publication aims
to preserve
this valuable source, and to disseminate it to a wider
audience.
In addition to the music the volume contains biographical
detail
on John 'Boss' Murphy and an account of the musical life
in the
Churchtown area during the first half of the twentieth
century. The Boss Murphy Musical Legacy was compiled and written by Dr
Colette Moloney from Charleville, Co Cork, who s a musician
in both
the traditional and classical idioms. A graduate in music
from University
College Cork, she obtained her Ph.D. from the University
of Limerick
in 1995 on the subject of the Bunting Manuscripts. She is
currently
a lecturer in music at the Waterford Institute of
Technology. Her
reference work The Irish Music Manuscripts of Edward
Bunting (1773-1843):
An Introduction and Catalogue was published by the Irish Traditional Music Archive in
2000. For more information on The Boss
Murphy Musical Legacy please click on this link.
The two Yeti booklets are creative works by John
M Murphy. The Annals of Churchtownweighs just under
2 kilos and it includes 8 maps, details all 115
national
monuments in the parish, includes 287
photographs and
runs to 784 pages with 260,000 words.
The Annals was
compiled by
Denis J Hickey. Almost 60 local
people
contributed articles to the publication.
The Annals also
includes 12 historical essays, 300 pages of
Churchtown-related
dictionary entries, a large chronology of
Churchtown,
80 pages of tables including various censuses,
Griffith's
Valuation and Tithe Applotment for Churchtown
and a comprehensive
glossary of Churchtown terms and expressions
presented
as Lingua Bruhenny. For more information on The
Annals of Churchtown please click on this link.
Out of your tree 1 and 2 are the work of Dominic Lee of Priory Studios
and were produced in aid of Charity. Noah's Ark Press merely supplied
Dominic with the ISBN numbers and a small level of sponsorship and some
design and proofing expertise. On 10th August 2010 Dominic advised that he has now donated €20,000 to The Irish
Cancer Society from sales of Out of your Tree 2 and has now reduced the price of the book to €15 Euro. Pictured to the left is Maurice Gilbert who features in Out of your Tree 2. If you wish to buy a copy please log on to www.priorystudios.ie/publications. Well done Dominic and all in Priory Studios in Stillorgan in Dublin.
For more creative writing from
Churchtown click on this link. Postal Address
Noah's Ark Press Market House Churchtown Mallow Co
Cork, Ireland
Email
For further information
please email: gerry.murphy@markethousegroup.net.
The first major publication was The Boss Murphy Musical Legacy. The
original musical manuscript were completed during the three-year period
1933-35. This book published in 2003 contains 306 airs, barndances, flings, galops,
hornpipes,
jigs, marches, mazurkas, polkas, quadrilles, reels, set
dances,
schottisches and waltzes: the repertory of a traditional
musician
in rural Munster in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries.
Many of the tunes, tune-types and settings in this volume
have now
vanished from the aural tradition. This publication aims
to preserve
this valuable source, and to disseminate it to a wider
audience.
In addition to the music the volume contains biographical
detail
on John 'Boss' Murphy and an account of the musical life
in the
Churchtown area during the first half of the twentieth
century. The Boss Murphy Musical Legacy was compiled and written by Dr
Colette Moloney from Charleville, Co Cork, who s a musician
in both
the traditional and classical idioms. A graduate in music
from University
College Cork, she obtained her Ph.D. from the University
of Limerick
in 1995 on the subject of the Bunting Manuscripts. She is
currently
a lecturer in music at the Waterford Institute of
Technology. Her
reference work The Irish Music Manuscripts of Edward
Bunting (1773-1843):
An Introduction and Catalogue was published by the Irish Traditional Music Archive in
2000. For more information on The Boss
Murphy Musical Legacy please 
The two Yeti booklets are creative works by John
M Murphy. 