Packie Dolan - Lark In The Morning

Fiddle player, singer and band leader, Packie Dolan from Ballinamuck, Co.Longford, was one of the outstanding but forgotten figures from the golden age of Irish Traditional music recording in America in the 1920s. We are fortunate that Packie's music survived on 78 records as his life and promising career were tragically cut short by his untimely death in New York in 1932. So enjoy this sole surviving collection of Packie Dolan's majestically played repertoire.

01 - mcfadden's (the ewe reel, mcfadden’s favourite)

02 - the grove hornpipe (the liverpool hornpipe)

03 - mother malone

04 - miss ramsey (stirling castle, lady mary ramsey’s strathspey)

05 - fitzmaurice’s flight (the heather breeze)

06 - (jigs) the fair at drumlish. (saddle the pony, rakes of kildare)

07 - the windy gap (ah! surely)

08 - a drink in the morn

09 - the woman of the house, ballinasloe fair)

10 - the duke of leinster, the ladie’s pantalettes

11 - erin's green shore

12 - the steampacket, the flogging reel

13 - the cavan lasses (the humours of ennistymon, delaney’s drummers)

14 - mullin's fancy

15 - (highland flings) lasses of donnybrook (the keel row, love will you marry me)

16 - the blackhaired lass, the dublin reel

17 - one, two, three

18 - royal charlie (behind the bush in in the garden)

19 - the royal stack of barley, bantry bay

20 - (schottische) the killarney wonder

21 - the first of may hornpipe

22 - the kilkenny reel (the reel of mullinavat)

Link to the free album

Packie Dolan - Lark In The Morning