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IRA HAYES - comp by Peter Le Farge about Indian Vietnam war veteran -- sung by Bob DYLAN, Patrick SKY & Pete SEEGER "Acoustic Roots" Radio 2 rec 10/5/89 CASS-0428

IRAN - Persia -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

IRAQ - Recordings - see AREA Listing

IRELAND - see also EIRINN - ANTRIM - ARAN - ARMAGH - BELFAST - CARLOW - CAVAN - CLARE - CORK - DERRY - DONEGAL - DOWN - DUBLIN - FERMANAGH - GALWAY - KERRY - KILDARE - KILKENNY - LAOIS - LEITRIM - LIMERICK - LONGFORD - LOUTH - MEATH - MONAGHAN - OFFALY - ROSCOMMON - SLIGO - TIPPERARY - TYRONE - WATERFORD - WESTMEATH - WEXFORD - WICKLOW- see EMIGRATION - GREEN - POLITICAL - ZIMMERMAN p295 - ANNIE MOORE - AGHADOE - AGHALEE HEROES -BALLYTRAPEEN - BARD OF ARMAGH - BATTLE OF AUGHRIM - BLACK AND TAN GUN - BLACKBIRD OF AVONDALE - BOAT THAT FIRST BROUGHT ME OVER - BOLD FENIAN MEN - BONNY ANNE - BOOLAVOGUE - BOYS OF KILMICHAEL - BRIGHT ORANGE HEROES OF COMBER - BROCKAGH BRAE - BURNING OF ROSSLEA - BY SWEET SLANEYSIDE - CASTLEWELLAN MEETING - CAVAN BUCK - COME TO THE BOWER - CROMIE'S ORANGE BUCK - CROPPY BOY - DAN O HARA - DAWNING OF THE DAY - DOLLY'S BRAE - DUBLIN CITY - EILEEN MACMAHON - ERIN'S LOVELY HOME - ERIN'S LOVELY LEE - FAREWELL MY OWN DEAR NATIVE LAND - FATHER McFADDEN - FELONS OF OUR LAND - FENIANS OF CAHIRCIVEEN - FINE GIRL YOU ARE - FLAG OF SINN FEIN - FOGGY DEW (Easter Rising) - FOLLOW ME UP TO CARLOW - GALLOWS - GENERAL MUNRO - GOD BE WITH YE, KERRY - GRAND OLD DAME - HALF DOOR - HARE'S LAMENT - HILLS OF TANDARAGEE - IF YOU EVER GO OVER TO IRELAND - IRISH PRIVATEER - JACKETS GREEN - JAMES CONNOLLY - JAMES MAGEE - JOHN MITCHELL - JOHNSON'S MOTOR CAR - KELLY OF KILLANE - KEVIN BARRY - KNIGHTS OF ST PATRICK - LITTLE SKILLET POT - LONELY BANNA STRAND - LORD LEITRIM - MEN OF THE WEST - MERRRY PLOUGHBOY - MICHAEL DWYER - MINSTREL BOY - MOURNE MEN IN GREEN - MURDER OF WILLIAM ANSTOW - MY CHARMING BUACHAL ROE - MY GRANDMOTHER - MY ONLY SON - NATION ONCE AGAIN - NOT A WORD OF NO SURRENDER - PATRIOT GAME - PETER CROWLEY - PRATIES THEY GROW SMALL - PURPLE BOY - RIBBON BLADES - RIGHTS OF MAN - RISING OF THE MOON - RODDY Mc CORLEY - SCAN O DWYER - SEA AROUND US - SEAN SHALL MY SOUL PASS THROUGH OLD IRELAND ? - SHE LIVED BESIDE THE ANNER - SOUTH OF GARRYOWEN - SLOAN WELLESLEY - SONG OF THE DAWN - SUIT OF GREEN - THREE FLOWERS - TIPPERARY FAR AWAY - TRIP OVER THE MOUNTAIN - UPTON AMBUSH - WEARING OF THE GREEN - WILD COLONIAL BOY - WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY -- Recordings - see AREA Listing

IRELAND BOYS HURRAH - DEEP IN CANADIAN WOODS

IRELAND'S OWN - Jig - KERR MM 4 #202 p23 (D/A)

IRENE, GOODNIGHT - GOOD NIGHT IRENE

IRISH AIR in "THE POOR SOLDIER", AN - Tunebook Ms 6/8 (G) #123 p219

IRISH ASTRONOMY - "O'Ryan was a man of might when Ireland was a nation" comp by Charles G Halpine (1829-1868) a NY journalist who joined the Irish 69th and fought in the American Civil War - also composed SAMBO'S RIGHT TO BE KILT & WE'VE DRUNK FROM THE SAME CANTEEN - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p75

IRISH BAGPIPES - BAGPIPES - Ireland: UILLEAN PIPES

IRISH BARBER, THE - "O there was an IB, he had a jolly tune" - LAWS #Q-15 ABBB p280 - ROUD#571 - BSs incl SBG 5:#162 "Lather em Shave em" - Preston balladsheet "The Monkey turned Barber" - SHARP Cf 2 315 - WILLIAMS #607 (w/o) "The Irishman's Shave" - MORTON FSSU 1970 p50 "The Glasgow Barber" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #227 pp510-11 Jack Weafer 1955 - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 pp153-4 John MacDonald "The Jolly Barber Lad" --- SHARP FSSA #200 (vol 2 p276)"Barber's Cry" Mrs Ellen Webb, Burnsville, NC 1918 (chorus only) - BECK Michigan Lumberjacks 1941 p225 - MORRIS FSOF 1950 pp446-7 L W LaBree Fla "Frizzle em Bum or Lather and Shave 'em" - CAZDEN AFSB 1958 2 p453 - CREIGHTON MFS 1962 p136 Sandy Stoddard 1952 "Love o' God Razor" - HENRY FSSH 1938 pp409-10 Edna Bohanan, Tenn 1929 (w/o) - MORRIS FOF 1950 pp446-7 Fla "Frizzle em bum" or "Lather and Shave em" - MEREDITH-ANDERSON Australia 1967 p211 "The Love o' God Shave" - SHOEMAKER Penn 1931 p134 - PETERS FSOW 1977 pp291-2 Rickaby: C C Talvott, N Dakota - WARNER TAFS 1984 #178 p400 Warren Payne "Lather and Shave" -- see GLASGOW BARBER - JOLLY BARBER LAD - MONKEY TURNED BARBER - - Jack WEAFER rec Seamus Ennis, Wexford Apr 1955: RPL 22373/ FTX-021 (with mel) (vs 1, 3, 5 & 7) "The Irish Barber" --- Warren PAYNE rec Warners, Hyde Co, NC 1951: FTX-926 "Lather and Shave"

IRISH BLUNDER, THE - "Dearest Captain M Granis I am going to list" - FMJ 3:2 1976 pp167-169 BS (w/o) -- Cf IRISH RECRUIT

IRISH BOY, THE - MY LOVELY IRISH BOY

IRISH BOY, THE - "A rich merchant's daughter so loving and coy" - ROUD#3334 - JFSS 8 1927 Sharp: Mrs Elizabeth Mogg, Dodington, Somerset 1906 1v/m

IRISH BULL, THE - MONKEY TURNED BARBER

IRISH CAPTAIN, THE - DOLPHIN

IRISH DRAGOONS, THE - "It fell aboot the Martinmas time" She dresses as a soldier to outwit those that had previously held her up for money - ROUD#2173 - GREIG-DUNCAN 1981 #161 p397 (17 versions) - GREIG 1909-14 #84 "It fell aboot Martinmas time" - ORD BB 1930 pp308-9 -- Alex TROUP Huntly, Aberdeensh #051, Bell DUNCAN, Insch #263 & Johnny MOWAT #314-5 Craigmaud, Strichen, Aberdeensh rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35 - Wm MATHIESON rec by Alan Lomax 1951 - Anne BRIGGS: TOPIC 12-T-135 1966 "Martinmas Time"

IRISH EMIGRANT, THE - I'M SITTING ON THE STILE, MARY

IRISH EMIGRANT'S LAMENT, THE - "Och while I live I'll never forget" - ROUD#2747 ORD BB 1930 "Written by Wm Kennedy" - HENRY SOP #235/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p203 Joseph Reilly (w), Ballymoney, Co Antrim & James Lafferty (m) Co Derry 1928 "The Shamrock sod no more" ("I never will forget the sorrows of that day") - see MUSKOKA (also known as "Irish Emigrant's Lament")

IRISH EYES - WHEN IRISH EYES

IRISH FAMILY, THE - MY FATHER HAD A KNIFE

IRISH FREE STATE, THE - "I went to see David, to London" - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p109

IRISH GIANT, THE - Jig - CRANITCH #17 p131

IRISH GIRL - O COME WITH ME, MY IRISH GIRL

IRISH GIRL, THE - "As I walked out one May morning down by a riverside " - "I wish I was in - Town" - ROUD#308/ #1425/ #3110 - SHARP-KARPELES 1974 #127 pp496-500 Henry Corbet, Snowshill, Gloucestersh 1909/ Robert Parish, Exford, Somerset 1907 (w/o)/ Edward Harrison, Langport, Somerset 1908/ John Bradley, Armscote, Warwicksh 1911 1v/m - JIFSS 3 1905-6 pp26-8 Edith Wheeler: Michael Devlin, Rosapenna, Co Donegal - JIFSS 14 1914 p35 Patrick Gregory (c) NI 2v/m - JFSS 1:1 1899 p25 Kate Lee: Mr Copper, Rottingdean, Sussex "As I walked out" - JFSS 1:4 1902 pp190-1 Lucy Broadwood: Mr Bromham, Dunsfold, Surrey 1896 "The New Irish Girl" - BROADWOOD ETSC 1908 pp60-65 & pp120-121 James Bromham, Dunsfold, Surrey 1896 (notes on song) - GARDINER FSFH 1909 Hampsh - GRAINGER #334 A Lane & #353 Mr Tandy, Winchcombe, Gloucestersh 1908 - GREIG FSNE 1909-14 #68 - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #946 pp25-30 7v/11m - JOYCE OIFM 1909 p190 & p303 Co Limerick - HENRY SOP #711/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp234-5 James Currie (w) & Valentine Crawford (m), Bushmills, Co Antrim 1937 "The Manchester Angel" - JFSS 35 1931 p263: Sharp Ms: John Bradley, Armscote sang tune several times in Dorian mode then sang it again with F# to bring it into Mixolydian (modern) mode - O'LOCHLAINN MISB 1965 p4 "The New IG" - COPPER SESB 1971 pp246-7 Family, Rottingdean, Sussex "As I walked out" - TUNNEY SF 1979 p155 "Bonnie Tavrin Green" - SHARP SG 2003 p37 Wm Brister from Sharp Ms with text from Henry Corbet of Snowshill, Glos - DOWN BY BLACKWATERSIDE - MANCHESTER ANGEL --- SHARP FSSA #180 (Vol 2 pp254-5) Mrs Frances Richards, St Peters School, Callaway, Va. 1918/ Mrs May F Gross, Peaks of Otter, Bedford Co., Va 1919 (1v/m)/ Mrs Ellen Webb, Cane River, Burnsville, NC 1918 (1v/m) - DEAN FC 1922 p109 (w/o) "Molly Bawn" - BELDEN Mo 1940 p292 - BROWN 1952 2 & 4 #131 - CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 pp175-7 Muriel Henneberry, NS 1929+ "My Irish Polly" - GREENLEAF NFL p198 - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p32 (no source given) -- Jim COPPER rec by PK, Rottingdean, Sussex 1951: FTX-082 - Bob (solo with conc) FTX-239/ LEADER LEA-4047 (boxed) 1971 "As I walked out" - Cecilia COSTELLO, rec by PK, Birmingham 11/8/51: FTX-098 (3v only) - Charles BOYLE rec by PK, Belfast 7/7/52: 7"RTR-0543 "I wish I was in America" - Mary CONNORS (tinker) rec by PK, Belfast 1952 RPL 18585/ FTX-168 "I wish I was in New Ross town" - Winnie RYAN (tinker) rec by PK, Belfast 1952: RPL 18301 talk aft/ FTX-166 "Banagher Town"- Robert Cinnamond rec by Sean O Boyle, Belfast 1955: RPL LP 24839/ FTX-159 "I wish my love was a red red rose" - Victor "Turp" BROWN rec by Bob Copper Nov 1957, Cheriton, Hampsh: RPL 26349/ FTX-426 "It's abroad as I was walking" (contains ON TOP OF OLD SMOKY verses) - Paddy TUNNEY rec by PK, London 14/10/58: 7"RTR-0557/ FTX-164/ rec by Sean O Boytle 1958: 7"RTR-0565/ TOPIC 12-T-139 1965/ TOPIC TSCD-665 1998 "Bonny Tavern Green" - Walter PARDON, Knapton, Norfolk rec by Bill Leader & Peter Bellamy 1974: LEADER LEA-2063 1975/ TOPIC TSCD-660 1998 "Let the wind blow high or low" - Levi SMITH (gypsy): TOPIC 12-TS-304 1977 - DAMBUSTER DAM-003 CASS- 0348 - Triona McDomhnaill with THE BOTHY BAND rec Kilburn National 24/7/78: RPL/ Strange Fruit SFRSCD-063 1996 "I wish my love was a red red rose" - Bill SMITH, Shropsh (23v) rec by his son Andrew May 1982: CASS 1359 r/cd May 2000 "I wish I was in Manchester"

IRISH GIRL, THE - CAILIN GAELACH, AN

IRISH GIRL, THE - Jig (Bb) - KERR MM 2 #279 p30

IRISH GIRL, THE - Reel - BREATHNACH CRE 3 #151 p70 (D) from James Morrison

IRISH GIRL, THE - DROPS OF BRANDY (Triple Jig)

IRISH HAUTBOY, THE - PETRIE AMOI 1855 1 p135

IRISH HIGHLAND, THE - FELDMAN p108 (Am) from Simon Doherty

IRISH HOP PICKERS, THE - Triple Jig - WILSON p27

THE IRISH HOP-POLE PULLER - "I'm Coster Joe from down our street" Ch: "She was a modern laundry girl was blue-eyed Mary Fuller - till she went and sloped from Kent with an IHPP" - Fight - police - gaol - regrets - Kent gypsy composition - ROUD#1709 -- George MAYNARD rec at his home by PK, Copthorne 23/3/56: (not copied onto RPL)/ FTX-279 - George SPICER rec by Mike Yates: TOPIC 12-T-235 1974

IRISH HUT, THE - Jig - KERR MM 3 #269 p29 (G)

IRISH JAUNTING CAR, THE - ROUD#13464 -- Cyril Poacher rec by Ginette Dunn, Grove Farm, Blaxhall, Suffolk 1975: MT-CD-303 "The Irish Jolting Car"

IRISH JAUNTING CAR, THE - Song tune used as a waltz -- Alec BISSET (mel) with Jimmy ANDREWS & Bob SMITH (ham dulcimers) rec 1930: TOPIC 12- T-320 1977 incl in selection of Irish Waltzes - THE FONTANAS: PICKWICK Allegro ALL-868 1967

IRISH JIG, THE - "One night in my ramble I chanced to see a thing like a spirit" - Seduction Ballad - D'URFEY \1698-1720 5 p109 6v & music

IRISH JUBILEE, THE - "A short time ago, boys, an Irishman named Doherty" - elected to Senate - O Rafferty - about a feast - detailing all the food - music by O Rafferty assisted by bagpiper - dancing with band played hornpipes, gas-pipes etc ends with "Auld Lang Syne" - ROUD#2916 - MORTON FSSU 1970 p88 - CROININ 2000 #166 pp252-3 -- BOYS OF THE LOUGH: (TOPIC 12-T-290) / Robin MORTON (unacc) : on Radio 2 "Folkweave" 24/8/78: CASS-0412

IRISH LABOURER, THE - "I am an IL, both hearty stout and strong" - Battle of Waterloo - ROUD#1137 - PALMER SOM 1972 p100 Pam Bishop/ Charles Parkewr: Cecilia Costello, Birmingham 1967 "No Irish need apply" - MOULDEN TAS 1994 p36 "No Irish Wanted Here" Canadian version --- DEAN FC 1922 p65 (w/o) "No Irish wanted here" - CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 pp266-7 Patrick Williams, Devils Island, Nova Scotia, Canada 1929 - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p63 "No Irish wanted here"

IRISH LABOUERS, THE - "To England we resolve to come" - WILLIAMS #605 (w/o)

IRISH LASSES - Jig - HAYWOOD #28 p15 (low D)

IRISH MERRY MAKING - Triple Jig - HAYWOOD #3 p3 (D) - WESTROP #5 pp2-3 (C)

IRISH MOLLY-O - "O who is this poor foreigner who's lately come to town?" Ch: "She's charming young and beautiful - the fairest that I know - she's the only one entices me - she's Irish Molly O" - Scottish youth - Macdonald - heart breaking - ROUD#2168 - BSs incl BG 2:#232/ 9:#60 - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1088 pp21-8 (11var) 9v/8m - JOYCE OIFMS 1909 pp213-4 Co Limerick - KERR MM 1 #60 p41 (Em) m/o - GRAINGER ONS#71/RNS#42 Wm Hilton, Keelby, Lincolnsh 1905 - KIDSON EPS 1929 - WILLIAMS #606 - ORD BB 1930 p131 (w/o) - HEALY OISB 1 1967 pp257-8 BS (w/o) --- MORRIS FSOF 1950 pp440-1 Mrs C W Hall, Citra, Fla (w/o)

IRISH PATRIOT, THE - "No surrender were the last words of Calum Brugh" - CALUM BRUGH -- Sean McDONAGH: COLUMBIA tape

IRISH PATRIOT, THE - "As I strayed below those lofty paths on India's burning (?)" - meets old man - English Lord Kitchener (?) - ROUD#1960 - IVES FSNB 1989 pp142-144 James Cameron 1961

IRISH PEASANT GIRL, THE - "Nut brown maid - lily of the mountainside" -- Kathleen McPEAKE with family, Belfast: FONTANA STL-5433 1967

IRISH PIPES - BAGPIPES - Ireland: UILLEAN PIPES

IRISH PRIVATEER, THE - (American) privateer engagement with Spanish schooner the goes to Belfast - HENRY SOP #560 "The French Privateer" see also THE WILD PRIVATEER -- Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast, July 1955: RPL LP 24840/ FTX-159

IRISH RECRUIT, THE - "A few years ago I was digging the land" - Comic Recruiting Song of Crimean War. This would seem to be a song originating at the time of the Irish Rising in 1798. Wexford was defeated at Vinegar Hill, near Enniscorthy on 21st June of that year - LAWS #J-8 ABBB p132 "The True Paddy's Song" - ROUD#520 - BSs incl SBG 2:#233 - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p183 (3var) "Paddy turned soldier" - WILLIAMS #189 nn, Aston, Oxfordsh (w/o) "The Irish Soldier" - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp2-3 Clonmel, Co Cork "The Kerry Recruit" - HEALY OISB 1 1967 pp105-106 Bs (w/o) "The Kerry Recruit" - ARTHUR 1970 p19 "The Oxford Recruit" - FMJ 2:5 1974 pp337-9 Grainger: George Gouldthorpe, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1905-6 (Ms #295)/ George Leaning, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1906 (#296) "Digging Turf Land" - FMJ 3:2 1976 p168 Pitts (London) Bs of similar song (w/o) "The Irish Blunder" ("Dearest Capt M Granis I am going to list") - SHIELDS SRT 1981 pp159-160 Mary Harte, Derry 1961 (European Ethnic SRT-3) "When I was in Ireland" --- SHARP FSSA #164 vol2 p228 Ben Finlay, Little Goose Creek, Manchester, Clay Co., Ky 1917 "The Boy on the Land" ("O there once was a little boy working on the land") - LOMAX OSC 1941 p200 "The True Paddy's Song" Michigan - LOMAX FSNA 1960 p45 coll Frank Warner "Felix the Soldier" - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p162-3 Jack Turple, NS 1952 "Pat & the War"/ George Burrill, NS (w/o) "Paddy Enlisted" - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 pp26-7 12v no source given -- see also FELIX THE SOLDIER - MY SON TED -- William REW rec by PK, Sidbury, Devon 1950 / CAEDMON TC-1164/ TOPIC 12T-196/ rec by Jean Ritchie 1952 (Maxell tape) "The Recruiting Song" - Tim "Paddy" WALSH rec by Cyril Tawney, Devonport 4/5/60: RPL LP 26310/ FTX-206 "A Short Time Ago" (Enlistment Song with "Erin-go-bragh" chorus) - Con SCULLY, rec Jean Ritchie & George Pickow, Kilkenny "Field Trip" 1951 FOLKWAYS FW-8872/ OSSIAN/ CASS-0797/ DAT "The Kerry Recruit" - Seamus ENNIS: TRADITION TLP-1013 1958 [?]/ EMBER EMB-2054 1964 - in Martin Carthy's Song Workshop on Radio 2 12/6/91 CASS-1019 "The Kerry Recruit" - John REAVEY Birtley Durham 1963: RPL LP 29982 - Noel MURPHY (+ gtr, bass & ch): FONTANA FJL-505 1966 - THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS: PICKWICK Allegro ALL-869 1967 - Ian CAMPBELL with chorus: EMI MFP-1349 1969

IRISH ROVER, THE - "In the year of our Lord 1806" - Canal Boat nonsense song about craft sailing from Cork - New York - CLANCY Brothers & Tommy Maken Songbook p96 -- Tommy MAKEM (with whistle) & Eric WEISBERG (gtr/banjo): TRADITION TLP-1044 1961- CLANCY BROTHERS (Pat, Tom & Liam) & TOMMY MAKEM: HALLMARK SHM 729 1963 - INN FOLK rec by PK, Soundpost Studios, Dartington, Totnes, Devon 1975: FTX-095 & FTX-418 - BARNBRACK Irish Party Sing-Song: CASS-60-0926 & 0927 nd - TRADLADS TLCD001 1997 (Denmark)

IRISH SEA, THE - SPACEMAN SAYS - WHEN I WAS ONE

IRISH SHORE, THE - HIGHLAND SHORE

IRISH SHOW BOY - Jig - COLE p69 (D)

IRISH SIXTY-NINTH, THE - "Ye Erin sons of hill and plain" - "the gallant 69th" - American Civil War Song - WARNER 1984 #14 p71 -- John GALUSHA, rec by Frank & Anne Warner, NY 1941 - FTX-921/ APPLESEED APR-CD-1035 2000

IRISH SOLDIER & THE ENGLISH LADY, THE - NIGHTINGALES SING

IRISH SOLDIER BOY, THE - "At a cottage door one winter night as the snow lay on the ground" - ROUD#376 - HENRY SOP #678/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p89 Randal Hutchinson, Giant's Causeway, Co Antrim 1936 - FAITHFUL SAILOR BOY - POOR LITTLE SOLDIER'S BOY -- Tom BRANDON, rec by Edith Fowke, Ontario, Canada: FOLK LEGACY FSC-10 1962

IRISH SOLDIERS, THE - HAVE YOU ANY BREAD AND WINE? (K)

IRISH STEW, THE - GREAT BIG IRISH STEW

IRISH STRANGER, THE - POOR IRISH STRANGER

IRISH WAKE, THE - "Times was hard in Irish town" - at his wife's suggestion Pat decides to play dead in order to collect his life insurance - however he is unable to remain motionless when he smells the whisky and when the hearse driver demands payment - only when the sods are falling on his coffin does he jump out and flee - LAWS #Q-18 ABBB 1957 pp281-2 - ROUD#1008 - RANDOLPH OFS 3 pp236-7 Charles Ingenthron Mo 1941/ Mrs J F Trail, Ark 1941 1v/m

IRISH WASHERWOMAN, THE - Jig (possibly a Jackson comp) (G) - ALLAN #14 p4 - BALMORAL #3 p23 - BAYARD HCT #58 & DTF #446 p415 13var incl words "Jim Doodle didn't know that his father was dead" & Appendix #32 p585 "Catherine's dead and her daddy don't know it" - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #19 p12 "When I was at home I was merry and frisky - My dad kept a pig and my mother sold whisky" - COLE #8 p57 - HAYWOOD #3 p25 - KENNEDY FTB 1 1951 p46/ #181 p46 - KERR MM 1 #8 p36 - Tunebook Ms #57 p22 (G) "The Washerwoman" (i e "Irish" omitted) - MITCHELL & SMALL #54 pp100-101 4pts & #58 pp104-5 4pts (##G) from Patsy Touhey (U- pipes) - O'NEILL MOI #1046/ DMI #257 "The Irishwoman" alt: "Jackson's Delight" - PHILLIPS FCTB p30 - WESTROP #82 p28 - WILSON p85 -- Bob SMITH'S IDEAL Band rec 1930: TOPIC 12-T-320 1977 - Leo ROWSOME (U-pipes) rec Dublin 1937-8: TOPIC 12-T-259 1975 with "Top of Cork Road" (see Rollicking Irishman) - Michael DOHERTY (fid) rec Irish Folklore Commission Donegal 1949: COMHAIRLE BHEALOIDEAS EIREANN CBE-002 double/cass 1990 - Agnes WHITE (fid) rec by Alan Lomax Loughrea, Co Galway 1951: 7"RTR-0590 bef "Tommy Whelans Jig" - Stephen BALDWIN (fid) rec by PK Upton Bishop, Herefordsh 13/10/52: RPL 18682/ FTX-115 "Broomstick Dance"/ LEADER LED-2068 1976 "The Broomstick" - Sheila GALLAGHER (lilting) rec by PK, Middledore, Co Donegal 24/8/53: FTX-271 - Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK, Co Donegal 1953: RPL 19535/ FTX-074/ with Frank CASSIDY (fid) playing octaves rec by PK, Carrick, Co Donegal 13/8/53: RPL 19590/ FTX-370 - Scan TESTER (conc) of Sussex rec by Reg Hall Croydon 19/8/64: TOPIC 12-T-455-6 1990 - THE GALLOWGLASS CEILI BAND: PICKWICK Hallmark HM-532 1965 aft "Siege of Carrick" & bef "Maid on the Green" - Dave SWARBRICK (fid) & Martin CARTHY (gtr): FONTANA TE 17490 1967/ B & C PEG-6 1971 mono EP/ B & C PEG-6 1971 - John BURGESS (H-pipes): TOPIC 12-T-199 1969 with "Old Wife's Dance" & "Kitchen Maid" - Jack ELLIOTT (harmonica): LEADER LER-4001 1969 - Billy COOPER (ham dulc): TOPIC 12-T-240 1974/ TSCD-659 - TEST VALLEY BAND: FOREST TRACKS FT-3008 1975 - Susan COLLEY (concertina): LARRIKIN 007 1976 Australia - Bob RUNDLE (whistle) & Tony FRANKLIN (mandolin) rec by PK 1978: FTX-124 - YETTIES on Radio 2: 18/11/87: CASS-60-0556 - Michael Mhaire GABHA (mel) Galway CIC-019 1988/ CASS 0884 - Jean REDFORD (diddling song) rec by Tom Kean, Banffsh 1996: ELLIPSIS 4070 (1997) "Celtic Mouth music" "You'll nae get a lain o my kettle again - The last time you got it, you brok' it again" -- Ciaran TOURISH, Dermot McLAUGHLIN, Tommy PEOPLES, Seamus GIBSON, Seamus & Kevin GLACKIN, Proinsias & Mairead O Maonaigh, Paula Doohan, Liz Doherty & others (fids) rec at "Fiddlesticks" Festival organised by Traditional Music Society of University College, Cork 1991: NIMBUS NI-5320 aft"Jig of Slurs" & bef "Atholl Highlanders" -- MERRYMAKERS Steel Band from Antigua rec by PK, London 1960: FTX-917 --- Pete ROBERTS rec by Mike Seeger: American Banjo tunes & songs in Scruggs style (3 finger picking) (FOLKWAYS FA-2314)/ RTR-0316

IRISH WAXWORKS SHOW, THE - "As I strolled out through Dublin town" -- Paddy GRANT rec by PK, Kilkeel, Co Down, 30/7/53: RPL 19595/ 433 (3v only)

IRISH WEDDING, THE - Song tune/ Jig 6/8 - WESTROP #26 p10 (D) Country Dance

IRISH WHISKEY - Jig - KENNEDY FTB#3 Jigs pub Mallinson 1997 #72 p18 (G/Em) - KERR MM 1 #30 p38 - O'NEILL MOI #761/ DMI #45 alt "Out with the boys"

IRISHMAN'S BLACKTHORN, THE - Reel - BREATHNACH CRE 2 #244 p126 (Am)

IRISHMAN'S EPISTLE, THE - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p60 (no source given)

IRISHMAN'S HEART TO THE LADIES - BIDDY DALY

IRISHMAN'S RETURN FROM AMERICA - BRAVE RODNEY'S GLORY

IRISHMAN'S SHAVE - IRISH BARBER

IRISHMEN NOW GOING TO AMERICA, THE - "When we came to sweet Philadelphia it happened to be in the Fall" - mentions "digging upon the canal" - MOULDEN TAS 1994 p38 (dated 1880) from Madden Coll, Cambridge

IRON - CAST IRON INVENTIONS

IRON DOOR, THE - DAUGHTER IN THE DUNGEON

IRON FETTLER - comp by Grame MILES nd

IRON GATES A' BEEN CLOSED, THE - Song comp about industrial recession of 1961-2 -- Graeme MILES (with gtr): FTX-228

IRON HORSE, THE - "Come Highlandmen, come Lowlandmen" - train ride from Dundee to Perth - FORD 1899 p158 (w/o) - GREIG- DUNCAN 2 1983 #291 p364 (3var)

IRON MAKER, THE - comp 1962 -- Graeme MILES

IRON MAN, THE - Strathspey comp by Scott-Skinner - BRODY 1983 p141 (A) - PHILLIPS FCTB p31 (from Winston Scotty-Fitzgerald: CELTIC 17) -- Jimmy GARSON Trio, rec by PK, Dounby, Orkney 12/7/55: RPL 22722/ FTX-064 aft "Money Musk" - Willie Macpherson (fid) rec 21/5/59: RPL LP 24770 bef Reel: "David Adams" - Jimmy PALLISTER (fid) rec Cambo, Northumberland: TOPIC 12-TS-267 1975

IRON MASTER, THE - BILLY THE STEEL MAN

IRON MEN, THE - or "The Coming of the Iron Men" - comp by GM -- Graeme MILES: FTX-228

IRON MERRIMAC - CUMBERLAND CREW

IRON MOULDERS WEDDING, THE - comp by Graeme Miles 1961 - see also BALLAD TO EVERYMAN - THE SWAN-NECKED VALVE -- Ewan MacCOLL: ARGO ZFB-12 1972 - Graeme MILES: FTX-228 1977 -

IRON PEEL, THE - "Good Christian people pray now lend an ear" - Kent - labouring man - poor - grief - took to bed - died - ROUD#2117 - JFSS 2 1905 pp136-7 nn, St Leonards, Sussex 1904

IRON PEEL, THE - "Good Christian people, pray now lend an ear" - mother murders her babies for lack of food. Baker brother kills his wife for not giving bread to his sister-in-law and shoots himself - JFSS 7 p136 coll St Leonards-on-sea, Kent 1904

IRON ROAD, THE - comp for "Ballad of John Axon" -- Ewan MacCOLL: ARGO SPA-A-216 1972

IRON WORKER'S SONGS - BALLAD OF AN IRONMINER - DOODBYE TO ANDOS - HEWIN FOR THE ORE - I'M A FOUNDRYMAN BY TRADE - JACK IRONSIDE - OLD JACK - RING OF IRON - SIX o'CLOCK ON A WINTER'S MORNING - WHEREVER YOU MAY BE

IIRONOPOLIS - "Often I've stood on the river's north shore - I've said to myself a right place to live" - comp by GM 1965 about shipbuilding on Teesside -- Graeme MILES: FTX-225

IRONSIDES - OLD IRONSIDES

IROQUOIS LULLABY -- Alan MILLS (Canadian) accomp Steve BENBOW (gtr) rec by PK, London 15/6/59: RPL LP 24897

IRTHING WATER HOUNDS, THE - "On the 11th of October 1873" -Irthington Hunting Song comp by Isaac Pattinson of Gilsland, Carlisle, Cumberland who also composed "The Opening Meet at Blenkinsopp 1892" -- Willie SCOTT rec by PK, Haltwhistle, Northumberland 1953/ rec by Bill Leader, Angus Hotel, Blairgowrie 1967: TOPIC 12-T-181 1968/ TSCD-668 1998

 
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