The Isolation of a Novel <em>Streptomyces</em> sp. CJ13 from a Traditional Irish Folk Medicine Alkaline Grassland Soil that Inhibits Multiresistant Pathogens and Yeasts by Gerry A. Quinn, Alyaa M. Abdelhameed, Nada K. Alharbi, Diego Cobice, Simms A. Adu, Martin T. Swain, Helena Carla Castro, Paul D. Facey, Hamid A. Bakshi, Murtaza M. Tambuwala, Ibrahim M. Banat

“…In this work we investigated the potential of a specific limestone grassland soil, associated with Irish folk medicine, as a new source of antimicrobial discovery. …”
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On an Armenian Translation of Seumas Macmanus’s ‘The Old Hag’s Long Leather Bag’ by Alvard Jivanyan

“…The study of its translation into Armenian is of interest since it is the very first Irish folk tale translated into Armenian. As many renderings of folktales of the time it is an indirect translation mediated by the Russian version. …”
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”Ortha an Ghreama“ as a Lesser-known Irish Traveller Narrative: Symbolic Inversion and Resistance by Mícheál Ó hAodha

“…Irish folk tradition includes a long-established discourse whereby the formerly nomadic or semi-nomadic group known as Irish Travellers, who comprise a tiny minority within Irish society are depicted not only as quintessential “outsiders” but also as a projective mechanism for the hates and fears of the settled (non-Traveller) community. …”
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Draw and Listen! A Sketch-Based System for Music Inpainting by Christodoulos Benetatos, Zhiyao Duan

“…We evaluate the system on a commonly used Irish folk song dataset. Objective and subjective evaluations show that this novel interaction is intuitive and effective for melody inpainting, and the proposed neural approach outperforms two baselines we developed based on previous work, in terms of musicality and fidelity to the user’s input.…”
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Silent (un)becoming song: Poetic adventures in history, memory and identity in Papusza and Song of Granite by Elzbieta Buslowska

“…Song of Granite (Pat Collins, 2017) and Papusza (Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze, 2013) could be described as unconventional film ‘biographies’ (of the Irish folk singer Joe Heaney and Polish-Roma poet Bronislawa Wajs). …”
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MUSIB: musical score inpainting benchmark by Mauricio Araneda-Hernandez, Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Denis Parra, Rodrigo F. Cádiz

“…MUSIB evaluates four models: Variable Length Piano Infilling (VLI), Music InpaintNet, Music SketchNet, and AnticipationRNN, and over two commonly used datasets: JSB Chorales and IrishFolkSong. We also compile, extend, and propose metrics to adequately quantify note attributes such as pitch and rhythm with Note Metrics, but also higher-level musical properties with the introduction of Divergence Metrics, which operate by comparing the distance between distributions of musical features. …”
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