Tour
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- 2007 Tour - Harp, Flute and Button Accordion
- 21 February 2007
From the 2007 Tour of Britain, a harp, flute and button accordion. This picture was taken at the Farewell Concert the tour group performs every year in the Cultúrlann na hÉireann.
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- 2007 Tour - Bodhran and Pipes
- 21 February 2007
From the 2007 Tour of Britain, a Bodhran player and a Uilleann piper. This picture was taken at the Farewell Concert the tour group performs every year in the Cultúrlann na hÉireann.
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- 2007 Tour Dancer
- 21 February 2007
From the 2007 Tour of Britain, a dancer on stage. This picture was taken at the Farewell Concert the tour group performs every year in the Cultúrlann na hÉireann.
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- 2007 Tour Fiddler
- 21 February 2007
From the 2007 Tour of Britain, a fiddle player. This picture was taken at the Farewell Concert the tour group performs every year in the Cultúrlann na hÉireann.
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- 2007 Tour Dancer
- 21 February 2007
From the 2007 Tour of Britain, a dancer on stage. This picture was taken at the Farewell Concert the tour group performs every year in the Cultúrlann na hÉireann.
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- Flautists on the Tour
- 21 February 2007
From the 2007 Tour of Britain, a trio of flautists. This picture was taken at the Farewell Concert the tour group performs every year in the Cultúrlann na hÉireann.
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- New Mown Meadow/Bonnie Kate
- 5 December 2006
- This first reel has long been a favourite of melodeon players, each of them finding it gave them the scope to explore the potential of their instrument. The final reel of the album,‘Bonnie Kate’, recorded with Jenny’s Chickens by Coleman in 1934, is one of the all-time favourites in the traditional repertoire.
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- The Green Island/The Lone Bush
- 5 December 2006
- The Green island, is included in O’Neill’s 1850 (No.1774) the source of the tune being Captain O’Neill himself. ‘The Lone Bush’ is another of a composition of Ed Reavy.
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- Three Slides
- 5 December 2006
- These first of these three slides is a popular one in West Limerick. The second tune has been a very popular tune for many years and was published in the Roche Collectionas ‘The Echoes of Killarney’. The third slide is most associated with the Brosna Céilí Band in North Kerry.
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- An Buachaillín Donn
- 5 December 2006
- Nora Butler has fond memories of learning this song many years ago when she was a young girl of sixteen.
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- The Old Walls of Liscarroll/The Knocknagow
- 5 December 2006
- The ‘Old Walls of Liscarroll’ appears in the Waifs and Strays No.179 and was obtained by O’Neill from the manuscripts entitled ‘Prof.of Dancing, London and Castleisland’ on donation by Prof. P.D.Reidy in 1902. ‘The Knocknagow’ became popular after it was recorded by Joe Burke on the 1970 album, Galway’s Own Joe Burke.
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- Moran’s Return
- 5 December 2006
- This slow piece is included in the Joyce 1909 Collection Old Irish Music and Songs – A Collection of 842 Irish Airs and Songs Hitherto Unpublished.
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- Single Jigs: Siobhán Ní Chonaráin
- 5 December 2006
- The first tune – referred to as a single jig was recorded by Boston based fiddler Séamus Connolly who needs no introduction to American audiences. This second single jig would be more commonly referred to as a slide.
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- The New Road/Cathal McConnell’s
- 5 December 2006
- Published as a two-part reel in O’Neill’s 'Music of Ireland 1850 Melodies Collection', the third part of The New Road that is now played is attributed to Paddy Fahey. The second reel is a composition of the Fermanagh flute-player/singer and entertainer Cathal McConnell.
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- An Buachaill Caol Dubh/The House Keeper
- 5 December 2006
- Damien learnt this setting of ‘An Buachaillín Bán’from the Baile na nGall singer and accordion player Séamus Ó Beaglaoich. The House Keeper No.82 occurs in the 1998 Publication Tunes of The Munster Pipers – Irish Traditional Music for James Goodman Manuscripts (Ed. Hugh Shields/Pub ITMA).
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- The College Groves/Down the Broom
- 5 December 2006
- The ‘College Groves’ was one of many tunes popularised by the South-Sligo fiddler, James Morrison, who was a contemporary of Michael Colman. ‘Down the Broom’ is the first reel in the well known South Sligo selection Down The Broom/The Gatehouse Maid.
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- Alice Fitzgerald’s/The Gatehouse Maid
- 5 December 2006
- ‘Alice Fitzgerald’s Reel’ was named in honour of the Dungarvan singer, whom John Kennedy enjoyed many a singing weekend with. ‘The Gatehouse Maid’ is part of the core South Sligo repertoire having been originally recorded by Paddy Killoran in America.
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- The Luachrachán’s Jig/The Miller’s Maggot
- 5 December 2006
- Both of these relaxed jigs are associated with two of the true ‘greats’ in our musical tradition,Junior Crehan and John Kelly,both from West Clare.
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- Gol na mBan san Ár/George White’s Reel
- 5 December 2006
- Gol na mBan san Ár was first recorded at the turn of the century by the Kerry piper Micí Combá Ó Suilleabháin. George White’s Reel has been a core repertoire tune for many years.
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- Tom Ward’s Downfall/The Ireland We Knew
- 5 December 2006
- ‘Tom Ward’s Downfall’ has been part of ‘core’ traditional repertoire since the legendary South Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman recorded it in April 1922. The second reel was composed by Ed Reavy (1898-1988), the fiddler and composer who emigrated from Cavan to the U.S. in 1912 and settled in Philadelphia.
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