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The Piping of Patsy Touhey
Type: CDs
The piping of Patsy Touhey
The historic recordings of the legendary Irish-American piper Patsy Touhey comprise one of the greatest treasures of Irish traditional music. This CD presents a new remastering of a selection of the best of these recordings. It accompanies the book The Piping of Patsy Touhey (currently out of print), a full account his life and music, by Pat Mitchell and Jackie Small
€20.00
The Girls Along the Road
Type: CDs
The girls along the road : traditional songs, ballads and whistle tunes from Co. Antrim / John Kennedy
Traditional songs, ballads and whistle tunes from Co. Antrim
€17.00
The Francis O’Neill Cylinders
Type: CDs
The Francis O'Neill cylinders : thirty-two recordings of Irish Traditional music in America circa 1904 / Patsy Touhey, John Early, and James McFadden
The music on these historic cylinder recordings offers a rare opportunity to those interested in Irish traditional music. Recorded sometime about 1904, these cylinders construct an auditory bridge to the written musical notation of traditional tunes collected by Francis O’Neill alongside his recorded musical companions. The sound recordings allow us to hear the music that is a frozen skeleton on O’Neill’s printed page coming alive in the flesh and blood of a real performance.
For the story behind these cylinder recordings please see the Dunn Family Collection online exhibition on the Ward Irish Music Archives website.
€15.00
Adam in Paradise
Type: CDs
Adam in Paradise : four songs on courtship from the Ulster Tradition / sung by Eddie Butcher
The Irish Traditional Music Archive and the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum are pleased to be able to reissue on CD Adam in Paradise, an EP released by the Ulster Folk Museum in 1969 which was the first recording to feature Eddie Butcher, one of the most important traditional singers in Ireland in the twentieth century.
Eddie Butcher was first brought to public attention by Dr Hugh Shields of Belfast and Dublin who carried out extensive field-work and research into the song tradition of the Magilligan area of north Co Derry from 1953 until the late 1970s. His…
€10.00
