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FTX 435 - SLIEVE GALLON BRAE - VOICES RAISED IN ULSTER

A patchwork of rebel-rousing and more compassionate love song from the North of Ireland - from Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone reecorded 1952-4. The lampoon on the exploits of Lord Leitrim, recorded by Peter Kennedy and Sean O Boyle, from Miles Duggan at Belleek was considered unsuitable for radio broadcasting in the 1950s, though Frank Card's "Ribbonman's Wife" and "Moira ni Kelly", learned from his grandmother, Mary Waits of Dungannon Co Tyrone, managed to get through the net. The oldest with the most prized ballads was Pat Kelly, 78, recorded in Newry, reared at Mullaghbawn in South Armagh, the youngest 12 year-old Joe Moran with his outstanding version of "Willie Lennox drowning in the Lake of Coolfinn"

FATHER McFADDEN - LORD LEITRIM - THE RIBBONMAN'S WIFE - MOIRA NI KELLY - SLIEVE GALLON BRAE - WILD SLIEVE GALLON BRAE - THE JUG OF PUNCH - MURRAY'S CONVOY - THE MAID OF BUSH MILLS - THE MAID OF THE SWEET BROWN KNOWE - THE BANKS O THE BANN - WILLIE LENNOX (LAKE OF COLLFINN) - THE JOLLY PLOUGHBOY - CASTLEWELLAN MEETING - THE PARLIAMENT SONG - WELL SOLD THE COW or THE YORKSHIRE BITE - THE THRERE BLADES - RISE UP LOVELY SALLY - THE TREES ARE GROWING TALL - TA ME MO SHUIDHE

 

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