FTX-070 -
THE BLARNEY STONE
MARGARET BARRY - (with tenor banjo)
In the 1940s & 50s, Margaret was
cycling to fairs and football matches on both sides of the Irish border
to entertain the crowds with her unique & powerful style of street-singing
- accompanying herself on tenor banjo - recorded here by Peter Kennedy,
Dundalk, Co Louth, 1952
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Sitting on her wagon tailboard (Photo by PK)
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BLARNEY STONE - FACTORY GIRL - MOSES RI-TOORAL-I-AY - KATHLEEN
- WHERE LAGAN STREAMS - GRADH-MO-CHROIDHE - BANJO TUNE - GALWAY SHAWL - LET
MISTER MAGUIRE SIT DOWN - MANTLE SO GREEN - TURFMAN FROM ARDEE - BARD OF ARMAGH
- CYCLING CHAMPION: EDDIE RICHARDSON - MARTHA OF STRABANE - WILD COLONIAL BOY
- SHE MOVED THRO' THE FAIR
