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    <language>eng</language>
        <publisher>Journal of Irish Studies</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Estudios Irlandeses</journalTitle>
        <eissn>1699-311X</eissn>
            <publicationDate>2008-03-15</publicationDate>
        <volume>3</volume>
    <issue>3</issue>
        <startPage>132</startPage>
    <endPage>142</endPage>
    <publisherRecordId>3047</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng"><![CDATA[ Horslips in Irish Musical and Literary Culture ]]></title>

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      <author>
        <name><![CDATA[ John L. Murphy ]]></name>
        <affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
      </author>
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      <affiliationName affiliationId="1"><![CDATA[ DeVry University, Long Beach, CA, USA ]]></affiliationName>
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        <abstract language="eng"><![CDATA[ This essay examines the literary impact of a musical electric-folk band. Horslips combined psychedelic, and hard rock with Irish traditional motifs and Celtic narrative themes. Spanning the decade from 1970 to 1980, their success and decline followed the trajectory of the countercultural movement, which came late to Ireland. The band’s revival of mythic characters and historical events drawn from the Irish past attracted fans from all over the island, as well as the diaspora; many young people gained an appreciation of their Irish heritage for the first time, as Horslips became the first electric folk-rock band to fuse disparate genres, and to succeed as an Irish-based independent collective who controlled the graphics, marketing, distribution, and promotion of their music. They inspired the likes of U2 and the Irish punk and new-wave rock musicians who followed them, and without the pioneering efforts of Horslips, Irish music and culture today may never have reached its current success, three decades later.
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    <fullTextUrl format="pdf">https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/pdfJohnLMurphy.pdf</fullTextUrl>
    
          <keywords language="eng">
              <keyword>Horslips</keyword>
              <keyword>Irish popular music</keyword>
              <keyword>Irish traditional music</keyword>
              <keyword>Cheryl Herr</keyword>
              <keyword>John Kelly</keyword>
              <keyword>Patrick McCabe</keyword>
              <keyword>Paul Muldoon</keyword>
              <keyword>Gerry Smyth</keyword>
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