{"product_id":"last-nights-fun-a-book-about-irish-traditional-music-9780865475311","title":"Last Night's Fun: A Book about Irish Traditional Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLast Night's Fun's\u003c\/i\u003e is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemic captures the sound and vigor of a ruthlessly unsentimental music. \u003ci\u003eLast Night's Fun\u003c\/i\u003e is remarkable for its liveliness, honesty, scholarship, and spontaneous joy; certainly there has never been a book about Irish music like this one, and few books ever written anywhere about the experience of music can compare with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCiaran Carson\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1948 in Belfast and works for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Pocket Guide to Irish Music, The Star Factory\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as five collections of poetry, one of which, \u003ci\u003eFirst Language\u003c\/i\u003e, was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"North Point Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50647513334034,"sku":"9780865475311","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/last-nights-fun-a-book-about-irish-traditional-music-9780865475311","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}