Judith Davidson - Going Places

Judith Davidson from Banchory, Aberdeenshire, first appeared on a record when she won the Junior Golden Fiddle Award in 1979, and she went on to become a major talent in Scottish fiddling, winning the senior Golden Fiddle Award in 1982 at the age of 15. Her recorded output has not been overwhelming; I believe that this album and 1994's Twilight Bound are all that's available (plus a single track on 1979's Golden Fiddle Awards). She lived on Shetland for a number of years, where the legendary Willie Hunter described her as the best youngster he had ever heard. There she met accordionist Ian Nicolson, got married and the couple now live and teach music in Texas [summary from the music gatherer]
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This is first-rate stuff and very difficult to get hold of.

01 Calum Donaldson/Debbie's/Violet's Fancy/Ian Robertson's
02 Paddy O"Rafferty/Glasgow Police Pipers/Kenny Gillies, Portnalong
03 J O Forbes of Corse/The Hawk
04 Swedish Wedding March/Swedish Reel
05 Caledonia's Wail for Niel Gow
06 King Geo V's Army/Traditional Reel
07 Mt Michie/South of the Grampians/John McNeil's Reel
08 Pigeon On the Gate/The Train Journey North
09 Lament for Abercairney/Auld Willie Hunter
10 Bobbie Cuthbertson/The Braes of Melinish
11 Judith Davidson/Loch Rynoch/Kate's Coming O' Age/Eugene Stratton
12 The Brig o' Feugh/The Marquis of Huntly/Mrs Forbes Leith
13 The Blackberry Bush/The Ghlass-Ault/Drumlithie
14 Dean Brig o' Edinburgh/Madam Neruda

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Judith Davidson - Going Places

Free Padraic Colum Celtic & World Mythology [Audiobooks]

Master storyteller Padraic Colum's rich, musical voice captures all the magic and majesty of the Norse sagas in his retellings of the adventures of the gods and goddesses who lived in the Northern paradise of Asgard before the dawn of history. Here are the matchless tales of All-Father Odin, who crosses the Rainbow Bridge to walk among men in Midgard and sacrifices his right eye to drink from the Well of Wisdom; of Thor, whose mighty hammer defends Asgard; of Loki, whose mischievous cunning leads him to treachery against the gods; of giants, dragons, dwarfs and Valkyries; and of the terrible last battle that destroyed their world.

Read by Elizabeth Klett.

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The Children of Odin [by Padraic Colum]




"Because she used to herd Goats in the high places and the rocky places, she went by the name of Girl-go-with-the-Goats. But that was not the name that she herself called herself. She called herself Maid-alone..."

So begins Padriac Colum's renderation of this classical, well-known tale. He was a master story teller, and in this short book combines vivid characters and a depth of plot with the rough-hewn simplicity the story demands. If you are fond of Cinderella stories, you will enjoy this book. And if you believe you dislike all such, it may yet win you over and change your mind.

Read by Arctura, Nanacindy, Elizabeth Klett and Richard Kilmer

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The Girl Who Sat By The Ashes [by Padraic Colum]

The King of Ireland's Son is a children's novel published in Ireland in 1916 written by Padraic Colum, and illustrated by Willy Pogany. It is the story of the eldest of the King of Ireland's sons, and his adventures finding and then winning Fedelma, the Enchanter's Daughter, who after being won is kidnapped from him by the King of the Land of Mist. It is solidly based in Irish folklore.

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The King of Ireland's Son [by Padraic Colum]

Also known as "The Children's Homer," this is Irish writer Padraic Colum's retelling of the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for young people. Colum's rich, evocative prose narrates the travails of Odysseus, King of Ithaca: his experiences fighting the Trojan War, and his ten years' journey home to his faithful wife Penelope and his son Telemachus.

Read by Elizabeth Klett.

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The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy [by Padraic Colum]






  This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Golden Fleece. He also includes the stories ofAtalanta,Heracles, Perseus, 
Theseus, and others. 

Read by Elizabeth Klett.

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The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles [by Padraic Colum]

Rhymes For The Young Folk [by William Allingham]

William Allingham is famous for his simple, delicate poetry for children, this Irishman wrote these verses for his three children, Gerald, Eva and Henry, and others like them. Typically, they touch on fairies and nature.

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Rhymes For The Young Folk [by William Allingham]

Dubliners - Revolution

Released in 1970 Revolution was the title of the tenth album by The Dubliners. It was their second to be produced by Phil Coulter. This was a landmark in their career. Their sound had developed and Coulter, as well as playing piano on the record, had brought in other instrumentalists as well. The album featured "Scorn Not His Simplicity", a song that Coulter had composed about his own son, who had Down's syndrome, as well as a poem penned by Luke Kelly entitled "For What Died The Sons Of Róisín?".

Alabama '58
The Captains and the Kings
School Days Over
Sé Fáth Mo Bhuartha
Scorn Not His Simplicity
For What Died the Sons of Róisín?
Joe Hill
Ojos Negros
The Button Pusher
The Bonny Boy
The Battle of the Somme/Freedom Come-All-Ye
Biddy Mulligan
The Peat Bog Soldiers

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Dubliners - Revolution

Dead [by James Joyce] [Audiobook]

A group of Dubliners gather together for a Christmas celebration in James Joyce's transcendent tale of the mundanity and magic in life and death. "The Dead" is from Joyce's collection of short stories entitled Dubliners.

This is a Librivox recording of The Dead by James Joyce.

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Dead [by James Joyce] [Audiobook]

Johnstons - Colours Of The Dawn

The Johnstons' fifth album Colours Of The Dawn released in 1971 was the last to include Mick Moloney in the lineup, and is devoted half to original material (composed by Paul Brady and Chris McCloud) and half to covers of songs by Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen, Peggy Seeger, and Ian Campbell.

Band

Adrienne Johnston – female vocals
Mick Moloney – vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin
Paul Brady – vocals, guitar, piano
Brian Brocklehurst – bass
Mal White – bodhrán

01. Hello, Friend (Peggy Seeger)

02. Crazy Anne (Chris McCloud)

03. Brightness, She Came (Paul Brady)

04. If I Could (Gordon Lightfoot)

05. Angela Davis (Chris McCloud)

06. Colours Of The Dawn (Paul Brady/Chris McCloud)

07. I’ll Be Gone In The Morning (Chris McCloud, Paul Brady)

08. Seems So Long Ago, Nancy (Leonard Cohen)

09. The Old Man’s Tale (Ian Campbell)


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Johnstons - Colours Of The Dawn

Ron Gonella - Ron Gonella Plays the Fiddles of Gow, Marshall and Skinner (1982)

An intriguing concept, this: Ron Gonella plays the compositions of Niel Gow and his family on Gow's own fiddle, the compositions of William Marshal on his own fiddle, and James Scott Skinner compositions on one of the fiddles belonging to the 'Strathspey King'. The music is first class - Gonnella in his prime - and I believe this is a rather special album.

01 Introduction by Duke of Atholl
02 Niel Gow's Fiddle/Duke of Atholl's Reel/Mrs MacDouall Grant
03 Niel Gow's Lamentation for Abercairney
04 Sir Walter Scott/Pennycuik House
05 MacPherson's Lament
06 The Countess of Dalhousie/Admiral Nelson's Hornpipe
07 Cam Ye By Atholl/Here Awa There Awa Wandering Willie/Bessie Bell and Mary Gray/Flora MacDonald's Lament
08 Niel Gow's Lament for the Death of his Second Wife
09 The White Cockade/Mount Stewart House/Miss Mary Douglas
10 The Duchess Tree/The Kirrie Kebbuck/E M Ross's Welcome to Kiltarlity Cottage
11 Miss laura Andrew/The Laird of Drumblair/Bonnie Banchory
12 Ashton Gonnella of Shreveport, Louisiana/Loius Gonnella of Muirhead
13 Ron Gonnella's Homage to the Gows, Marshall and Skinner
14 Miss Gordon of Park/Miss Hannah's Jig
15 Lament for Sir Harry Niven Lumsden
16 Capt Cameron's Volunteer's March/The Marchioness of Huntly's Jig/Craigellachie Lasses
17 Mrs Major Stewart of the Island of Java/The Deil Among the Mantua Makers

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Ron Gonella - Ron Gonella Plays the Fiddles of Gow, Marshall and Skinner (1982)

Fifty One Tales [by Lord Dunsany] [Audiobook]

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878 – 1957) was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, including many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. Fifty One Tales are very brief, well-crafted stories, many having surprise endings, all steeped in the dye of myth and calling to every reader's neglected imagination. 

Narrated by Thomas Copeland


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Fifty One Tales [by Lord Dunsany] [Audiobook]

In The Seven Woods [by William Butler Yeats] [Audiobook]

In the Seven Woods (1904) was Yeats's first twentieth-century poetry collection. Its fourteen poems show him moving steadily away from the decisively Romantic diction of his earlier work. Here we hear a poetic voice that is at once more individual, colloquial and dramatic than previously. In addition, several poems sound a note of bitter lamentation over the marriage in 1903 of Maud Gonne, Yeats's great love and muse, to John MacBride. 

Read by Kasper Nijsen.

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In The Seven Woods [by William Butler Yeats]

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The Children of Odin [by Padraic Colum]

Master storyteller Padraic Colum's rich, musical voice captures all the magic and majesty of the Norse sagas in his retellings of the adventures of the gods and goddesses who lived in the Northern paradise of Asgard before the dawn of history. Here are the matchless tales of All-Father Odin, who crosses the Rainbow Bridge to walk among men in Midgard and sacrifices his right eye to drink from the Well of Wisdom; of Thor, whose mighty hammer defends Asgard; of Loki, whose mischievous cunning leads him to treachery against the gods; of giants, dragons, dwarfs and Valkyries; and of the terrible last battle that destroyed their world.

Read by Elizabeth Klett.

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The Children of Odin [by Padraic Colum]

Saw Doctors - New Year's Day [Live]

Although the Saw Doctors have released a number of studio albums over their career, their live shows have brought them international renown. In 2004, the band recorded its show before a crowd at the Black Box Theatre, Galway, and released a live audio CD and a concert DVD, both titled Live in Galway. The DVD also contained a 50-minute documentary, "A Different Kind of World," following the Saw Doctors around their favourite locales in the West of Ireland (including a trip to Clare Island) and showing them on tour in Brooklyn, New York. A follow-up live album, New Year's Day, again featured the band in the Black Box Theatre, this time on New Year's Day 2005. The band donated profits from this album to victims of 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

1 High Nellie / Intro

2 Exhilarating Sadness

3 To Win Just Once

4 Never Mind the Strangers

5 Green and Red of Mayo

6 Villains

7 I Useta Lover

8 Tommy K

9 Michael D. Rocking in the Dail

10 N17

11 Galway and Mayo Including Maroon and White

12 Joyce Country Ceili Band

13 That's What She Said Last Night

14 It Won't Be Tonight

15 What a Day

16 Hay Wrap

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Saw Doctors - New Year's Day [Live]

Dublin City Ramblers - Craic and the Porter Black

The Craic and the Porter Black is one of The Dublin City Ramblers best albums in their long and illustrious career — basically it;s a very pleasant excursion through some of the best known Irish pub songs.

1 All For Me Grog
2 Irish River
3 Liverpool Lou
4 Bould O'Donoghue
5 Spanish Lady
6 Polkas
7 Molly Malone
8 Dicey Riley
9 The Craic And The Porter Black
10 Whiskey In The Jar
11 Whiskey On A Sunday
12 The Hot Asphalt
13 Pub With No Beer
14 Away Sandy
15 The Wild Rover
16 The Waxies Dargle

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Dublin City Ramblers - Craic and the Porter Black

Alias Acoustic Band - Irish Songs of Rebellion, Resistance and Reconciliation

A talented songwriter, Ron Kavana [aka Alias Acoustic Band] has written songs exploring history and politics, as well as drinking, dancing, and playing music. The Village Voice has called him a "hard-hitting, no-nonsense realist". A lot of the tracks here are very well known but as usual Ron has arranged them in his own unique style and added a few of his own compositions. 

1. Easter 1916

2. To Welcome Paddy Home

3. Boolavogue

4. Shan Van Vocht

5. Erin's Lovely Lee

6. Boys Fo Barr Na Sraide

7. Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya

8. Brennan On The Moor

9. Wind That Shakes The Barley

10. Reconciliation

11. Grand Auld Dame Britannia

12. Glory O To The Bold Fenian Men

13. Pursuit Of Farmer Michael Hayes

14. James Connoly

15. Roddy Mccorley

16. Dunlavin Green

17. Medley: Robert Emmett's Last Words/ Scaffold Passage

18. Cry, Cry, Cry

19. Medley: Kitty/ Taddy O'neil

20. Force Of Argument/ Laments Of Limerick

21. Wearing Of The Green

22. Patriot Game

23. Skibereen

24. Medley: Home Fire/ Beyond The Pale

25. Foggy Dew

26. Boys Of The County Cork

27. Follow Me Up To Carlow

28. Four Green Fields

29. God Bless England

30. Boys Of Mullaghbawn

31. Praties They Grow Small

32. Truth And Understanding

33. Mountains Of Pomeroy

34. Medley: Sands Of Time/ Kesh Jig

35. Rocks Of Bawn

36. Sea Around Us

37. Medley: A Nation Once Again/ Amhran Na Bhfiann

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Alias Acoustic Band - Irish Songs of Rebellion, Resistance and Reconciliation

Chamber Music [by James Joyce] [Audiobook] or [Book]

Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, first published in May of 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication ("All day I hear the noise of waters" and "I hear an army charging upon the land").

Although the poems did not sell well, they received some critical acclaim. Ezra Pound admired the "delicate temperament" of these early poems, while Yeats described "I hear an army charging upon the land" as "a technical and emotional masterpiece". In 1909, Joyce wrote to his wife, "When I wrote [Chamber Music], I was a lonely boy, walking about by myself at night and thinking that one day a girl would love me."

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Chamber Music [by James Joyce]

The Girl Who Sat By The Ashes [by Padraic Colum]

"Because she used to herd Goats in the high places and the rocky places, she went by the name of Girl-go-with-the-Goats. But that was not the name that she herself called herself. She called herself Maid-alone..."

So begins Padriac Colum's renderation of this classical, well-known tale. He was a master story teller, and in this short book combines vivid characters and a depth of plot with the rough-hewn simplicity the story demands. If you are fond of Cinderella stories, you will enjoy this book. And if you believe you dislike all such, it may yet win you over and change your mind.

Read by Arctura, Nanacindy, Elizabeth Klett and Richard Kilmer

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The Girl Who Sat By The Ashes [by Padraic Colum]

Roger Sherlock - Memories of Sligo

A beautiful recording of Sligo-born flute player Roger Sherlock, subtly accompanied by Mary Conroy on guitar. Sherlock's tune selection seems a fairly accurate representation of North Connaught musical tastes, with reels predominating, followed by polkas, and only one set of jigs. The most interesting tune selection is the eleventh track: two well known slip jigs played in 3/2 time, in the style of north-east English triple hornpipes. Rarely heard in Irish music, these are the elusive and, now, contentiously-titled hop jigs known throughout Ireland before the decline of the triple hornpipe as a popular dance tune in the late-Eighteenth Century [source Ceolalainn]..

1. The Turnpike Gate/The Killavil Fancy [Reels]

2. Dowd's 9/Jack Maguire's [Reels]

3. The Duke of Leinster/The Duke of Leinster's Wife [Reels]

4. Morrison's/The Trip to Sligo [Jigs]

5. Fred Finn's/The Sailor on the Rock/Gan Ainm [Reels]

6. The Return of Spring/The Mountain Spring [Polkas]

7. The Queen of May/Anderson's [Reels]

8. The Pinch of Snuff/The Ships are Sailing [Reels]

9. The Dairymaid/The Rising Sun/Tom Billy's/Callaghan's [Reels]

10. The Galway Rambler/The Boys of the Lough [Reels]

11. The Foxhunter's/Comb your Hair and Curl it [Hop Jigs]

12. The Lads of Laois/Mama's Pet [Reels]

13. Dash to Portobello (Seán Ryan's)/The Pigeon on the Gate [Reels]

14. Tripping to the Well/The Kiss Behind the Door [Polkas]

15. The Flowers of the Red Mill/The Sreetplayer [Reels]

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Roger Sherlock - Memories of Sligo

William Butler Yeats Free Audiobooks

The Wild Swans at Coole [Version 2] [by William Butler Yeats]

A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady Gregory. The poems display Yeats' use of symbols (cat, hare, moon, etc), his attachment to the supernatural and Irish folklore, and his recourse to alter egos (Aherne and Robartes). They also exemplify his distinctive style of expression.

Read in English by Peter Tucker

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The Wild Swans at Coole [Version 2] [by William Butler Yeats]





John Sherman and Dhoya [by W.B. Yeats]

In 1891, Yeats published "John Sherman", a novella, and "Dhoya", a Celtic mythologic story. Ganconagh, Yeats’s nom de plume for this work, is the name of a male faerie in Irish mythology that is known for seducing human women. This is a LibriVox recording of John Sherman and Dhoya, by William Butler Yeats. Read by David Wales.

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John Sherman and Dhoya [by W.B. Yeats]

Celtic Twilight [by WB Yeats]

The Celtic Twilight consists of 42 Irish and Celtic folklore tales. Read by Shakira Searle; Arie; Russell Hughes; Jordan Heron; John O'Riordan; Luna Pierson; KHand; Tim Rainey; Anusha Iyer; Robert Dixon; John Van Stan; Simon Smoke; Kathy Wright; JamesMcAndrew; Glenn O'Brien; MaryAnne; ImkeStevens; Max Wainer; MaryAnn; and Erin B. Lillis.

Yeats makes no secret of his fascination and even belief in the world of the occult and the existence of faeries. His passion in these tales comes forth through the pages and adds a new dimension to these age-old tales.

"Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet". W. B. Yeats

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Celtic Twilight [by WB Yeats]

Crossways [by W. B. Yeats]

Crossways [1889] was the first collection of poetry by Irish-born poet William Butler Yeats. Many decades before his mysterious and austere Modernist verse earned him a nobel prize, Yeats achieved renown as one of the last major poets in the High Romantic tradition. These poems showcase his Celtic imagination, his love for Irish folk-tales, and his commitment to the Romantic ideal of love.

01 - The Song of the Happy Shepherd

02 - The Sad Shepherd

03 - The Cloak, The Boat and The Shoes

04 - Anashuya and Vijaya

05 - The Indian Upon God

06 - The Indian To His Love

07 - The Falling of the Leaves

08 - Ephemera

09 - The Madness of King Goll

10 - The Stolen Child

11 - To an Isle in the Water

12 - Down by the Salley Gardens

13 - The Meditation of the Old Fisherman

14 - The Ballad of John O'Hart

15 - The Ballad of Moll Magee

16 - The Ballad of the Foxhunter

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Crossways [by W. B. Yeats]

In The Seven Woods [by William Butler Yeats]

In the Seven Woods (1904) is Yeats's first twentieth-century poetry collection. Its fourteen poems show him moving steadily away from the decisively Romantic diction of his earlier work. Here we hear a poetic voice that is at once more individual, colloquial and dramatic than previously. In addition, several poems sound a note of bitter lamentation over the marriage in 1903 of Maud Gonne, Yeats's great love and muse, to John MacBride. 

Read by Kasper Nijsen.

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In The Seven Woods [by William Butler Yeats]

The Wild Swans at Coole [by William Butler Yeats]

The Wild Swans at Coole is a collection of poems by William Butler Yeats, first published in 1917. It is also the name of a poem in that collection. The Wild Swans at Coole is in the "middle stage" of Yeats' writing and is concerned with, amongst other themes, Irish nationalism and the creation of an Irish aesthetic.

Read by Nicole Lee.

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The Wild Swans at Coole [by William Butler Yeats]

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He studied poetry in his youth and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. One of his works, 'The wind among the reeds', published in 1899, by critics' opinion is the main achievement of his early works. Imagery of Yeats' poetry at this time is filled with characters of Celtic mythology and folklore.

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The Wind Among the Reeds [by William Butler Yeats]

Chieftains - Year Of The French

In 1981 Paddy Moloney was commissioned to write a joint score for The Chieftains and the RTE Symphony Orchestra for an Irish television mini-series called 'The Year of the French'. Based on the novel by Thomas Flanagan, the story follows a wandering poet called Owen McCarthy on his travels through Ireland at a time when the French had volunteered some military assistance against the British in Ireland. The album was critically acclaimed when released, and The Chieftains even made their acting debut on the series, playing 18th century musicians.

Killala: The Main Theme
The French March
The McCarthy Theme
Treacy's Barnyard Dance
The Irish March: March of the Mayomen, Uilleann Pipes Lament
Killala: The Main Theme
Cunla, The Yearling Fair Reel
Killala: The Opening Theme, Killala: The Coach Ride
The Bolero: McCarthy's Arrest
The McCarthy Theme/The Wandering
The French March/Cooper's Theme
The Hanging/ Seán Ó Dí
Killala: The Main Theme

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Chieftains - Year Of The French

The Wild Swans at Coole [Version 2] [by William Butler Yeats] [Audiobook]

A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady Gregory. The poems display Yeats' use of symbols (cat, hare, moon, etc), his attachment to the supernatural and Irish folklore, and his recourse to alter egos (Aherne and Robartes). They also exemplify his distinctive style of expression.

Read in English by Peter Tucker

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The Wild Swans at Coole [Version 2] [by William Butler Yeats]

Eithne Ní Uallacháin - Cosa Gan Bhróga

Eithne Ní Uallacháin was an Irish traditional singer and song-writer, from County Louth, Ireland. Eithne left us only a brief but superb legacy of her music, which began with the 1987 release of Cosa Gan Bhróga. The exquisite vocals of Eithne Ní Uallacháin on Cosa Gan Bhróga are paired with the dynamic playing of Gerry O’Connor on fiddle and Desi Wilkinson on flute and tin whistle. Sadly Eithne Ní Uallacháin died much to young in 1999, She once said of her life
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"I was born into a passionate, 

intelligent family, 

whose passion for the Irish language, 

for literature and for learning, 

was the foundation stone on which all my music was based. 

My father’s love of song steered the course and purpose of my life."

Eithne Ní Uallacháin, 

The Coachman's Whip / Paddy Carty's (Reels)
The Shelf / Charlie O'Neill's (Polkas)
Is Fada Mo Chosa Gan Bhróga
Contentment Is Wealth / The Beer Drinker (Ports)
Molly What Ails You? / The Monymusk / Neil Gow's (Highlands)
Ag Bruach Dhún Réimhe
The Pikeman's / Down the Glen (Marches)
The Maid of Mullagh / The Mohill (Reels)
Bádaí na Scadán (Song)
Jim Coleman's / Paddy Cronin's / Scotch Mary (Reels)
Neillí Nic Dhónaill (Song)
The Arkle Mountain / Considine's Grove (Reels)

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Eithne Ní Uallacháin - Cosa Gan Bhróga

Doom Castle [by Neil Munro] [Audiobook]

Doom Castle is the story of young Count Victor's journey to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, searching for a traitor to the Jacobite cause as well as a mysterious man under the name of "Drimdarroch", whom he swore revenge. After a perilious journey, Count Victor arrives at Doom Castle as a guest of the enigmatic Baron of Doom, his two strange servitors and his beautiful daughter

Doom Castle [by Neil Munro]

Sklof - Folk Celtic

Sklof were a Celtic band from Brittany, France, who played a fine mic of traditional music from the Celtic nations with some of their own original arrangements. All of the new tracks on Folk Celtic where written by Alain Leroux. This classic 1975 album is unavailable to buy though i did see a used copy this morning for sale for $69....So here is a copy for free.....enjoy

Band
Flute [Irish], Bodhrán, Organ, Dulcimer – Jacques Leroux
Guitar – Serge Groizeau
Vocals, Double Bass – Yves Minassian
Vocals, Violin – Dominique Leroux
Vocals, Violin, Guitar, Mandolin, Mandola, Bouzouki, Dulcimer – Alain Leroux

La Bastringue

Noce À Quehelo

Lord Inchiquin

Ha Penaoz Ober Krampouez - Comment Faire Des Crèpes

Dall Korle - L'aveugle De Corlay

La Marche De Gwenc'Hlan

Young Roddy M'Corley

Tan Ha Dour - Feu Et Eau

Laou Druilleg - Laou Des Guenilles

Bonni Prince Charles

Dieux Vivants

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Sklof - Folk Celtic

The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich [by Arthur Hugh Clough]

The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich [by Arthur Hugh Clough] 

Arthur Clough provides us with a timeless coming of age story involving a young Englishman studying in Scotland who falls in love.

Read by Liam Brady

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The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich [by Arthur Hugh Clough]

A House Of Pomegranates [by Oscar Wilde]

A House of Pomegranates (1891) is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public."

This collection is often seen as a much darker and sinister twin to The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Behind these tales are deeper themes portraying Wilde's subtle cynicism of the world and his love of aesthetics. Each story has a valuable moral lesson at the end, which makes re-reading (or re-listening) all the more rewarding.

The stories included in this collection are as follows:
The Young King
The Birthday of the Infanta
The Fisherman and his Soul
The Star-Child

Read by Alex Lau

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A House Of Pomegranates [by Oscar Wilde]

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Various Artists - Folk Philosophy

Folk Philosophy released in 1971 was the result of a Scottish Folk Group Championship held that year. There were an astonishing eighteen heats, with semi finals being held in Glasgow and Dundee, and the grand final in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, with The Corries as guest artists. All proceeds went to local Scottish charities.

01 Chorda Cleich:-Until It's Time for You to Go
02 The Galloways:-Dainty Davy
03 Town Choice:-Kid's Colour Bar
04 Ailsa Craig:-Peggy Gordon
05 Eggplant:-Whiskey On a Sunday
06 Chordah Cleich:-Three Score and Ten
07 Ailsa Craig:-Johnnie Cope
08 The Gowries:-Call On Me
09 Pert & Dobbie:-Bogie's Bonnie Belle
10 Town Choice:-For Bobbie

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Various Artists - Folk Philosophy

In Freedom's Cause [by G.A. Henty] [Audiobook]

Another stirring tale from the master of historical fiction set in the time of Robert Bruce and William Wallace and their struggle for Scotland's independence.

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In Freedom's Cause [by G.A. Henty]

Various Artists - Folk Song Today

Folk Song Today was released in 1955 and is the first known recording of folk singer Shirley Collins, along with some great songs by the likes of Frank McPeake, Davy Stewart & John MacDonald. The songs were collected from across Britain and Ireland by Peter Kennedy under the auspices of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.

01 Rory & Alex McEwan-Bonnie George Campbell
02 John MacDonald-The Haughs of Cromdale
03 Jeannie Robertson-My Son David
04 Davy Stewart-The Barnyards o' Delgaty
05 Frank McPeake-Will Ye Go, Lassie
06 Fred Lawson-Dance to Your Daddie
07 Bob Roberts-High Barbaree
08 Shirley Collins-Dabbling In the Dew
09 Harry Cox-The Foggy Dew
10 Bob & Ron Copper-The Twelve Days of Christmas

link to the free album

Various Artists - Folk Song Today