Ó Cadhla, Seán <br/><br/>
"Then to Death wlaked, softly smiling". Violence and Martyrdom in Modern Irish Republican Ballads. 
Sean Ó Cadhla 
 - Illinois-XXU :   University of Illinois Press,   2017. 
 - páginas 262-286:  ilustraciones en blanco y negro. 
 - Tres veces al año 
 - vol. 61, no. 2 (sum. 2017) 
 - Ethnomusicology. Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology ;   no. 2 .
 - Estados Unidos.   Society for Ethnomusicology. .
<br/><br/> This article critically considers the representation of death within the song tradition of modern Irish Republicanism. I explore how such represen- tations have changed in parallel with the various ideological metamorphoses that Irish Republicanism has undergone, specifically in the twentieth century. I argue that the centrality of self-sacrifice has resulted in the development of ballad narratives that deliberately obfuscate on the issue of Republican vio- lence, resulting in the deaths of all Republican militants (regardless of cause or context), ultimately portrayed as a form of heroic self-martyrdom. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>FORMAS MUSICALES BALADAS GENEROS MUSICALES