Two hours of music, song and dance named for each of the counties of nineteenth-century Ireland, music of the island from the pre-electric age. Fifteen different tune-types are played in thirty sets of solos, duets and trios, built out to tremendous richness by uilleann pipes drones, with rhythm marked in dance steps and historic tambourine. Older song-airs and laments are set alongside local jigs, reels and hornpipes, popular dance-forms like quickstep and barndance, continental rhythms polka and mazurka, and Scottish ‘highlands’.
Tracklist
- 1Goodman - Steamboat - An Staicín Eornan
- 2Molly St. George - Belfast Lasses - Boys Of Belfast March - Antrim Lasses (Co. Antrim)
- 3Úirchill A’ Chreagán - Sweets Of May - Curlews - Splendid Isolation (Co. Armagh)
- 4Off To California - Green Fields Of America - Chicago Reel - My Love Is In America
- 5Shamrock Shore
- 6Follow Me Up To Carlow - Come Back P. Reilly To Ballyjamesduff - Hunter’s House - Humours Of Ballyconnell (Co. Cavan).
- 7Humours Of Ennistymon - Garret Barry’s - Old Cliffs Of Moher - Otter’s Holt (Co. Clare)
- 8Banks Of Sullane - Walls Of Liscarroll - Ballyvourney Polka - Maids Of Mitchelstown - Fox On The Town (Co. Cork)
- 9Tabhair Dom Do Lámh - Mazurka - Bluestacks Highland - Green Fields Of Glentown - Gravel Walks (Co. Derry & Donegal)
- 10Líontar Dúinn An Crúiscín (Donegal Gaeltacht Song)
- 11Star Of The County Down - Bright Orange Heroes Of Comber - Girls Of Banbridge - Davy Grey’s Farewell To Kilmood
- 12Rocky Road To Dublin - Dublin Porter - Within A Mile Of Dublin - Trip To Birmingham - London Lasses
- 13The Faughan Side
- 14Bessie Of Rossinure Hill - Fermanagh Highland - Fermanagh Quickstep - Maho Snaps (Co. Fermanagh)
- 15Paddy Fahy’s Reel - Bucks Of Oranmore (Co. Galway)
- 16O’Sullivan’s - O’Callaghan’s Polkas - Brosna - Kilcummin Slide - Dingle Regatta (Co. Kerry)
- 17High Road To Kilkenny - Rakes Of Kildare - Trip To Durrow - Longford Weaver (Co. Kilkenny, Kildare, Laois, Longford)
- 18Young Kate Of Glenkeen
- 19Úrchnoc Chéin Mhic Cáinte - Drogheda Lasses - O’Rourke’s F. - Whinny Hills Of Leitrim - Kitty Come Down To Limerick
- 20Dobbin’s Flowery Vale
- 21Lord Mayo - Castlebar Races - Pretty Girls Of Mayo (Co. Mayo)
- 22Humours Of Trim - Monaghan Jig - Humours Of Mullanafawnia - Edenderry Reel (Co. Meath, Monaghan & Offaly)
- 23A Chomaraigh Aoibhinn Ó
- 24Plains Of Boyle - Humours Of Lissadell - Martin Wynne’s - Boys Of Ballysodare (Co. Roscommon & Sligo)
- 25An Sceilpín Draighneach
- 26Castle - Boys Of Lough Gowna - Old Tipperary Jig (Co. Tipperary)
- 27Travel Song - Sweet Omagh Town
- 28Mountains Of Pomeroy - Centenary March - Tirnaskea Lasses Reel (Co. Tyrone)
- 29Maids Of Tramore - Rakes Of Westmeath - Miners Of Wicklow (Co. Waterford, Westmeath & Wicklow)
- 30Boys Of Wexford - Kelly The Boy From Killane - Pretty Girls Of Gorey - Slán Le HÉirinn Reels (Co. Wexford)
Credits
- VocalsKaran Casey
- VocalsMaurice Leyden
- VocalsStephanie Makem
- VocalsRóisín Chambers
- VocalsRóisín White
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