A song gets the academic treatment

Barry was recently delighted to learn that the song “I Fell into Old Ways”, from his 2006 album “Last Night, As I Was Wandering”, is included in the book “Lazy Idle Schemers: Irish Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Idleness” by University of California Davis literature professor Gregory Dobbins.

Dobbins uses the song to illustrate how “Irish modernism still has the capacity to jar conventional positions about work and propriety”.

The book, published by the legendary Field Day, is available here