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Anyone know about these albums

Anyone know about these albums

By De Danann?

No Home Is Real
Banks of the Nile
The Irish RM

Are they still for sale in shops? I can't buy them off the internet so if there's a good shop in Ireland somewhere let me know.

# Posted on October 12th 2009 by fedorastain

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Search Vinyltap, and GEMM, and if you can't find them, keep an eye on Ebay. They'll turn up sooner or later, but you'll have to shell out for them.

# Posted on October 12th 2009 by Dragut Reis

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Are these unofficial releases, never heard of any of them.

# Posted on October 12th 2009 by Henk Bos

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The Irish R.M. exists. It was an RTE/BBC TV series in the late 80s, I think. "De Danann" didn't appear as a band - the bouzouki would have been a bit incongruous to say the least, but Messrs Gavin, Daly and McDonagh appeared as a band playing for a ceili. I'm sure I have it on video tape still.
I don't think the other 2 exist, at least not officially, unless perhaps they were releases in the USA.

# Posted on October 12th 2009 by Kenny

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I don't know The Banks of the Nile was released on Decca which is a London based label for classical music. Maybe I should ask them. Anyhow what I mean by not being able to get it off the internet is I don't have a credit card. By the way, you should get that video converted and put it up on youtube, I'm sure it would be fun to watch before it gets taken down by RTE/BBC!

# Posted on October 12th 2009 by fedorastain

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'Banks of the Nile' was released by Decca in 1980.

'The Irish RM' wasn't a De Dannan album, but extracts from the soundtrack to a BBC TV series. It was issued by Release Records some time in the 1980s

I've too have never heard of 'No Home is Real' and think it's a Net-created confusion. The cover of 'The Star-Spangled Molly' includes the words 'No Home is Really Happy Without Them'.

# Posted on October 12th 2009 by MacCruiskeen

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This 'Banks of the Nile' seems to be the phantom album, I cannot find it anywhere on the internet. I wonder did Frankie find every copy and burn it?

# Posted on October 12th 2009 by fedorastain

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Perhaps an alias of the album The Mist Covered Mountain , which contains the song 'The Banks of the Nile'?

# Posted on October 12th 2009 by Henk Bos

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I think you're definitely right, Henk. Gael-Linn licensed 'The Mist-Covered-Covered Mountain' to Shanachie in the US and probably did the same with Decca in the UK.

# Posted on October 12th 2009 by MacCruiskeen

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