This present ground-breaking collection and study of the highlands and associated strathspeys of Donegal by Caoimhín Mac Aoidh and the late Jack Schroevers is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the local and regional traditions of Irish music. It stands as a remembrance of the generations of migrant Irish farm-worker for whom this music mitigated the hardship of life, and of those emigrant musicians who took the music with them to the recording studios of Irish America. Importantly, it makes a body of old local traditional music available to the present generation of musicians for their own pleasure and creative use.