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Padraic Mac Mathúna standing in front of a bookshelf in the ITMA library.

Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | June 2023

In 2023, Pádraic Mac Mathúna began work cataloguing hundreds of hours of recordings from a variety of old collections in the Archive. Each month, he’ll pick out a special selection of tunes he’s discovered from these recordings.

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Woman of the house, reel ; Sligo maid, reel / Peadar O'Loughlin, flute ; Kathleen Harrington, fiddle

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  • Woman of the house, reel ; Sligo maid, reel / Peadar O'Loughlin, flute ; Kathleen Harrington, fiddle

  • Rakish Paddy [4 part], reel ; Girl that broke my heart, reel / Bobby Casey, fiddle

  • An páistín fionn, air ; Garrett Barry's, jig / Micho Russell, tin whistle

  • Na Connery's, slow air / Peter Browne, uilleann pipes

  • Morning dew, reel ; Woman of the house, reel ; Bird in the bush, reel / Seán Keane, fiddle

  • [Version of Amhrán an gabha], song ; Liam Ó Raghallaigh, song / Darach Ó Catháin, singing in Irish

  • The wise maid, reel / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes

  • Fairy hornipe / Séamus Ennis, uilleann pipes