num_pages: 353
description: A saga of the struggle between hard-living farmers and the Church, The Bodhran Makers is set in rural Ireland in the 1950s. The Bodhran (pronounced bough-rawn), makers of the title are "poverty stricken people who never lost their dignity." Every January, they celebrate their Celtic ancestry with a festival of singing, drinking, and music making with the Bodhran, a drum made from goat skin.
language: English
title: The Bodhran Makers
titlecomplete: The Bodhran Makers
genres: Fiction, Ireland, Literature, Irish Literature, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 332
publisher: Roberts Rinehart