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2026 Zine Subscription

$120.00

Three zines over the course of 2026. Each Zine guaranteed to bring you a shift in perspective around Irish America, folk music, folklore, tradition, music history, health, wellness, time and space, racial and ethnic identity, ancestors, and MORE!

1. Close to Paradise: An Irish American Songbook From Rockaway Beach

Collections of song lyrics and lore from “Irish Town”, a bygone neighborhood on Rockaway Beach where there used to be a lot of dancehalls and clubs catering to Irish New Yorkers on vacation. This will also contain some songs from my own brain about life on Rockaway Beach, living in the energetic remnants of Irish Town.

2. Between Donegal and Ireland: An Auto-Ethnographic Songbook

This songbook contains stories and songs from Melanie Beth Curran's song collecting experiences in America and Donegal, focusing on songs that cross both borders, that exist in both lands.

The primary point of reference is the shared song "Kathleen Mauverneen", which both Melanie and her relative, 91-year-old Bridget. Carberry knows. Melanie knows it through a 1938 field recording of an Irish American singer on Beaver Island, and Carberry through her own life experience in Donegal. As Melanie travels and performs the song, she notes that not one person, except for Bridget, knows the song besides herself.

This songbook asks the question, why do both women, of the same family, but separated by ocean and generations, both know Kathleen Mauverneen? What does this say about transmission, memory, and region identity? Ghosts, spirits, and the song's own free will?

3. Melanie Beth Curran's Folklore Field Guide For The Digital Age

Anyone can be a folklorist. Here is MBC’s step by step guide to conducting folklore in the digital age. You will learn exactly how to do rogue folklore: how to find songs, build a repertoire, learn lore, meet sources, and check your facts. It also begs the question, what’s the role of folklore in the digital age? As AI and social media threatening to replace memory, we need folklorist more than ever.