FTX 434 - THE TRIP OVER THE MOUNTAIN - WOMEN'S VOICES FROM NORTHERN IRELAND

The first two ladies are Maureen and Annie, daughters of the famous Belleek Co Fermanagh singer, Brigid Tunney, and both marred to husbands with similar names, Melly and Lunny! Then enter two singers, Anna Boyle and Mary Toner, recorded at Markethill in Co Armagh. Una Douglas of Derry then sings four classic love songs in Gaelic followed by "Charming Molly", known in the Appalachians as "Lovin' Hannah", a version of "Going to Mass (or Church) last Sunday". A sweet singer from Draperstown in Co Derry is Mary Murphy (aged 71) with 8 beauties including her version of "The False Young Man" sung in Ulster as "The Verdant Braes of Skrene"; finally seven more classics from Antrim from two singers recorded by Seamus Ennis in 1954, Martha Gillen and Jenny Davison.

1. THE TRIP OVER THE MOUNTAIN sung by Maureen Melly - 1'39"

2. DRIMIN DROO (talk before) - 2'04"

3. PADDY SHINEHAN'S COW - 1'35"

4. BUACHALIN DONN - 2'09"

5. FAREWELL GREEN ERIN - 1'09"

6. THE BLACKBIRD OF AVONDALE - 2'18"

7. THE DARK SLENDER BOY - 1'24"

8. THE KERRY COW - 2'07"

9. BUCHAL ROE sung by Annie Lunny - 1'59"

10. DRITHEARIN O MO CHROIDHE - 2'41"

11. THE HILLS ABOVE DRUMQUIN sung by Anna Boyle - 2'36"

12. JOGGING UP TO CLAUDY (The Sour Milk Cart) Mary Toner - 1'48"

13. FAREWELL TRUELOVE REMEMBER ME (Our Ship ready) - 3'53"

14. TA ME MO SHUIDHE (I am awake) sung by Una Douglas - 1'14"

15. AN DROIGHNEAN DONN (The Brown Thorn) - 1'50"

16. SIUBHAN NI DHUIBHIR (Susan Dwyer) - 0'59"

17. 'SE FATH MO BHUADHARTHA (The Cause of my sorrow) - 2'27"

18. CHARMING MOLLY (Going to Mass last Sunday) - 2'00"

19. THE WEE DAFT ARTICLE sung by Mary Murphy - 1'52"

20. THE WEE FAR DOWN - 1'19"

21. DAN'S NO MORE (talk before) - 2'10"

22. THE COBBLER - 0'59"

23. THE STAR OF GARVAGH TOWN - 3'42"

24. BRACKAGH HILLS - 3'32"

25. MY GENTLE COLEEN RUA - 2'32"

26. AS I ROVED OUT (The False Young Man) - 1'23"

27. PAT O FLANAGAN, THE TRAVELING CANDYMAN Jennie Davison - 1'34"

28. THE BALD-HEADED END OF THE BROOM Martha Gillen - 1'57"

29. THE BONNY LABOURING BOY Jennie Davison - 2'52"

30. THE RAMBLER FROM CLARE Martha Gillen - 2'45"

31. THE RED MANTLE - 1'26"

32. THE PRETTY MAID MILKING HER COW - 2'42"

33. THE TRIP OVER THE MOUNTAIN Martha Gillen - 2'09"

#1-10 & 14-18 recorded by Peter Kennedy, Belfast 1952, #11-13 Markethill. Co Armagh 1952, #19-26 rec Brackalislea, Draperstown, Co Derry 1953, 27-33 rec by Seamus Ennis, Antrim 1954.