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The flax in bloom : traditional songs, airs & dance music in Ulster

Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: TSCD677t | TopicPublication details: Topic, 2014.Description: 3 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in
Contents:
CD 1: 1. Lough Erne Shore - Paddy Tunney -- 2. The mountain streams where the moorcocks crow - Brigid Tunney -- 3 Polka - Joe Tunney -- 4. Pat Hart's [single jig) - Joe Tunney -- 5. Miss Monaghan, The green mountain, The scholar [reels] - Joe Tunney -- 6. My charming Buachall roe - Annie Lunny -- 7. Deartháirin ó mo chroi - Annie Lunny -- 8. Bundle and go [single jig) - John Doherty -- 9. Miss McLeod's reel - John Doherty -- 10. Gusty's frolics [slip jig] - John Doherty -- 11. Moorlough Mary - John Doherty -- 12. Marry when you're young [reel] - John Doherty -- 13. Boney crossing the Alps - John Doherty -- 14. The last figure of the lancers - John Doherty -- 15. The rollicking boys around Tandragee - Mick Gallagher -- 16. Buachaillin donn - Maureen Melly -- 17. Paddy Shinaghan's cow - Maureen Melly -- 18. Farewell green Erin - Maureen Melly -- 19. The blackbird - Paddy Tunney -- 20. The Loughanure tune [reel] - Neilidh Boyle -- 21. Seán sa cheo [reel] - Neilidh Boyle -- 22. Pleoid ar an fharraige is I átá morl - Neilidh Boyle -- 23. Sráid na mBúrcach (verse and air) - Neilidh Boyle -- 24. An seanduine dóite - Sheila Gallagher -- 25. In aimsir bhaint an fhéir - Sheila Gallagher -- 26. The wearing of the britches - Pat Bell Keown -- 27. The blackbird of Avondale - Maureen Melly -- 28. My dark slender boy - Maureen Melly -- 29. Bonnie Kate [reel] - Simie Doherty -- 30. Cuffe Street [reel] - Simie Doherty -- 31. The pigeon on the gate [reel] - Simie Doherty -- 32. The Tullaghan lasses [reel] - Simie Doherty -- 33. Mooney's favourite [reel] - Simie Doherty -- 34. The heathery hills - Brigid Tunney -- 35. The soldier and the sailor - Brigid Tunney -- 36. Wee Paddy Molloy - Brigid Tunney -- 37. The Atlantic roar [hornpipe] - John Doherty -- 38. Rocking the cradle - John Doherty. CD 2: 1. The Basket of oysters (highland), Jackson's rum punch [jig] - Johnny Pickering -- 2. Green grow the laurels O, Love, will you marry me [highlands] - Johnny Pickering -- 3. Biddy the bowl bife, I lost my love & I care not, King of the Cannibal Islands [jig] - McCusker Brothers Ceili Band -- 4. [untitled], [untitled], Jenny Lind [polkas] / McCusker Brothers Ceili Band -- 5. The First of May [reel], Vincent & John McCusker -- 6 -- 3 Mazurkas / Vincent & John McCusker -- 7. Monymusk, Kafoozalum, Maggie Pickens [highlands] - McCusker Brothers Ceili Band -- 8. Tatter Jack Walsh [jig] - Vincent & John McCusker -- 9. The Princess Royal [set dance] - Vincent & John McCusker -- 10. The man from Newry, The barndance (hornpipe & barndance) - McCusker Brothers Ceili Band -- 11. Jockey to the fair [set dance] - Vincnet, John & Benignus McCusker -- 12. The orange rogue [set dance] - John McCusker -- 13. McKenna's, The tinker's apron, The Antrim [reels] - McCusker Brothers Ceili Band -- 14. The sweets of May [single jig) - McCusker Brothers Ceili Band -- 15. The gosson that beat his father [reel] - John Maguire -- 16. The first house in Connaught [reel] - John Maguire -- 17. Lovely Nancy [jig] - John Maguire -- 18. The maid of the house [reel] - John Maguire -- 19. The boys of Leefive [reel] - John Maguire -- 20. The cuckoo's nest [hornpipe] - John Maguire -- 21. All the way to Galway [polka] - Paddy McLuskey -- 22. Napoleon crossing the Alps [march] - Paddy McLuskey -- 23. The cuckoo's nest [hornpipe] - Paddy McLuskey -- 24. The ewe with the crooked horn [reel] - Paddy McLuskey -- 25. Coming home from Reilly's party [jig] - Danny McNiff -- 26. The clap dance, The soldier's joy - Eddie Moor -- 27. Unidentified, Monymusk [highlands] - Philip Breen -- 28. Woodland whispers [waltz] - Philip Breen -- 29. The flax in bloom, The dairymaid, The Galway rambler - Philip Breen -- 30. The sailor's bonnet, Kiss the bride, Roaring Mary [reels] - Sean Maguire, Liam Donnelly, Tom Turkington & Bill Montgomery -- 31. The flax in bloom, The millstone, The dairymaid [reels], Sean Maguire & Bill Montgomery. CD 3: 1. The dark eyed gypsy - Christy Purcell -- 2. What brought the blood? - Mary Connors -- 3. I am a maid that's deep in love - Lal Smith -- 4. Here's a health unto all truelovers - Mary Doran -- 5. Three jolly old sportsmen - Paddy Doran -- 6. The lovely banks of Lea - Mary Connors -- 7. The bandy legged mule - Christy Purcell -- 8. Marrow bones - Mary Connors & Paddy Doran -- 9. Early, early in the month of Spring - Lal Smith -- 10. The lodging house in Carrick on Suir - Christy Purcell -- 11. The rambling Irishman - Mary Doran -- 12. Dungarvan - Paddy Doran -- 13. The bold English navvy - Lal Smith -- 14. The little beggarman [hornpipe] - Paddy Doran -- 15. Going to mass last Sunday - Winnie Ryan -- 16. Kate from Ballinamore - Paddy Doran -- 17. The miles I have rambled - Mary Connors & Paddy Doran -- 18. The fair At Spancil Hill - Christy Purcell -- 19. Come all you loyal lovers - Mary Connors -- 20. Early, early in the Spring - Winnie Ryan -- 21. Blackwaterside - Paddy Doran -- 22. I wish I was in Newross Town - Mary Connors -- 23. Nancy Hogan's goose - Lal Smith -- 24. I am a poor girl and my life it is sad - Winnie Ryan.

Compact disc.

Selected by Reg Hall, in the Voice of the People series.

Musical instruments: Accordion, fiddle, tin whistle, flute.

CD 1: 1. Lough Erne Shore - Paddy Tunney -- 2. The mountain streams where the moorcocks crow - Brigid Tunney -- 3 Polka - Joe Tunney -- 4. Pat Hart's [single jig) - Joe Tunney -- 5. Miss Monaghan, The green mountain, The scholar [reels] - Joe Tunney -- 6. My charming Buachall roe - Annie Lunny -- 7. Deartháirin ó mo chroi - Annie Lunny -- 8. Bundle and go [single jig) - John Doherty -- 9. Miss McLeod's reel - John Doherty -- 10. Gusty's frolics [slip jig] - John Doherty -- 11. Moorlough Mary - John Doherty -- 12. Marry when you're young [reel] - John Doherty -- 13. Boney crossing the Alps - John Doherty -- 14. The last figure of the lancers - John Doherty -- 15. The rollicking boys around Tandragee - Mick Gallagher -- 16. Buachaillin donn - Maureen Melly -- 17. Paddy Shinaghan's cow - Maureen Melly -- 18. Farewell green Erin - Maureen Melly -- 19. The blackbird - Paddy Tunney -- 20. The Loughanure tune [reel] - Neilidh Boyle -- 21. Seán sa cheo [reel] - Neilidh Boyle -- 22. Pleoid ar an fharraige is I átá morl - Neilidh Boyle -- 23. Sráid na mBúrcach (verse and air) - Neilidh Boyle -- 24. An seanduine dóite - Sheila Gallagher -- 25. In aimsir bhaint an fhéir - Sheila Gallagher -- 26. The wearing of the britches - Pat Bell Keown -- 27. The blackbird of Avondale - Maureen Melly -- 28. My dark slender boy - Maureen Melly -- 29. Bonnie Kate [reel] - Simie Doherty -- 30. Cuffe Street [reel] - Simie Doherty -- 31. The pigeon on the gate [reel] - Simie Doherty -- 32. The Tullaghan lasses [reel] - Simie Doherty -- 33. Mooney's favourite [reel] - Simie Doherty -- 34. The heathery hills - Brigid Tunney -- 35. The soldier and the sailor - Brigid Tunney -- 36. Wee Paddy Molloy - Brigid Tunney -- 37. The Atlantic roar [hornpipe] - John Doherty -- 38. Rocking the cradle - John Doherty. CD 2: 1. The Basket of oysters (highland), Jackson's rum punch [jig] - Johnny Pickering -- 2. Green grow the laurels O, Love, will you marry me [highlands] - Johnny Pickering -- 3. Biddy the bowl bife, I lost my love & I care not, King of the Cannibal Islands [jig] - McCusker Brothers Ceili Band -- 4. [untitled], [untitled], Jenny Lind [polkas] / McCusker Brothers Ceili Band -- 5. The First of May [reel], Vincent & John McCusker -- 6 -- 3 Mazurkas / Vincent & John McCusker -- 7. Monymusk, Kafoozalum, Maggie Pickens [highlands] - McCusker Brothers Ceili Band -- 8. Tatter Jack Walsh [jig] - Vincent & John McCusker -- 9. The Princess Royal [set dance] - Vincent & John McCusker -- 10. The man from Newry, The barndance (hornpipe & barndance) - McCusker Brothers Ceili Band -- 11. Jockey to the fair [set dance] - Vincnet, John & Benignus McCusker -- 12. The orange rogue [set dance] - John McCusker -- 13. McKenna's, The tinker's apron, The Antrim [reels] - McCusker Brothers Ceili Band -- 14. The sweets of May [single jig) - McCusker Brothers Ceili Band -- 15. The gosson that beat his father [reel] - John Maguire -- 16. The first house in Connaught [reel] - John Maguire -- 17. Lovely Nancy [jig] - John Maguire -- 18. The maid of the house [reel] - John Maguire -- 19. The boys of Leefive [reel] - John Maguire -- 20. The cuckoo's nest [hornpipe] - John Maguire -- 21. All the way to Galway [polka] - Paddy McLuskey -- 22. Napoleon crossing the Alps [march] - Paddy McLuskey -- 23. The cuckoo's nest [hornpipe] - Paddy McLuskey -- 24. The ewe with the crooked horn [reel] - Paddy McLuskey -- 25. Coming home from Reilly's party [jig] - Danny McNiff -- 26. The clap dance, The soldier's joy - Eddie Moor -- 27. Unidentified, Monymusk [highlands] - Philip Breen -- 28. Woodland whispers [waltz] - Philip Breen -- 29. The flax in bloom, The dairymaid, The Galway rambler - Philip Breen -- 30. The sailor's bonnet, Kiss the bride, Roaring Mary [reels] - Sean Maguire, Liam Donnelly, Tom Turkington & Bill Montgomery -- 31. The flax in bloom, The millstone, The dairymaid [reels], Sean Maguire & Bill Montgomery. CD 3: 1. The dark eyed gypsy - Christy Purcell -- 2. What brought the blood? - Mary Connors -- 3. I am a maid that's deep in love - Lal Smith -- 4. Here's a health unto all truelovers - Mary Doran -- 5. Three jolly old sportsmen - Paddy Doran -- 6. The lovely banks of Lea - Mary Connors -- 7. The bandy legged mule - Christy Purcell -- 8. Marrow bones - Mary Connors & Paddy Doran -- 9. Early, early in the month of Spring - Lal Smith -- 10. The lodging house in Carrick on Suir - Christy Purcell -- 11. The rambling Irishman - Mary Doran -- 12. Dungarvan - Paddy Doran -- 13. The bold English navvy - Lal Smith -- 14. The little beggarman [hornpipe] - Paddy Doran -- 15. Going to mass last Sunday - Winnie Ryan -- 16. Kate from Ballinamore - Paddy Doran -- 17. The miles I have rambled - Mary Connors & Paddy Doran -- 18. The fair At Spancil Hill - Christy Purcell -- 19. Come all you loyal lovers - Mary Connors -- 20. Early, early in the Spring - Winnie Ryan -- 21. Blackwaterside - Paddy Doran -- 22. I wish I was in Newross Town - Mary Connors -- 23. Nancy Hogan's goose - Lal Smith -- 24. I am a poor girl and my life it is sad - Winnie Ryan.

Recorded 1952 and 1953.

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