FTX 435 - SLIEVE GALLON BRAE - VOICES RAISED IN ULSTER

A patchwork of rebel-rousing and the more compassionate love songs from the North of Ireland - from Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh and Co Tyrone recorded 1952-4. The lampoon on the feudal 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 radio net. The oldest informant with the most prized ballads was Pat Kelly, 78, recorded in Newry, reared at Mullaghbawn in South Armagh, and the youngest informant was 12 year-old Joe Moran with his outstanding version of "Willie Lennox drowning in the Lake of Coolfinn"

1. FATHER McFADDEN sung by Frank Lunney, Carrick, Co Donegal (talk before) - 2'54"

2. LORD LEITRIM - Miles Duggan (with chorus), Belleek, Co Fermanagh - 3'56"

3. THE RIBBONMAN'S WIFE - Frank Card, Belfast - 2'16"

4. MOIRA NI KELLY - Frank Card - 3'32"

5. SLIEVE GALLON BRAE - Mary Murphy, Draperstown, Co Derry - 3'17"

6. WILD SLIEVE GALLON BRAE - Mary Murphy - 4'00"

7. THE JUG OF PUNCH - Edward Quinn, Castlecaulfield, Co Tyrone - 2'27"

8. MURRAY'S CONVOY composed & sung by Michael McGuigan, as previous - 6'08"

9. THE MAID OF BUSH MILLS - Michael McGuigan - 3'23"

10. THE MAID OF THE SWEET BROWN KNOWE - Michael McGuigan - 2'16"

11. THE BANKS O THE BANN - Joseph Higgins - 5'20"

12. WILLIE LENNOX - Joe Moran, Antrim - 2'51"

13. THE JOLLY PLOUGHBOY - John McIlwee, Antrim - 3'50"

14. CASTLEWELLAN MEETING - Pat Kelly, Newry, Co Down - 4'33"

15. THE PARLIAMENT SONG - Pat Kelly - 3'27" -

16. WELL SOLD THE COW or THE YORKSHIRE BITE - Pat Kelly - 5'16"

17. THE THREE ENGLISH BLADES - Pat Kelly - 5'15"

18. RISE UP LOVELY SALLY - 3'05"

19. THE TREES ARE GROWING TALL - Pat Kelly - 2'45"

20. TA ME MO SHUIDHE - Frank Lunney - 4'25"