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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)

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

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