Flute: Séana Agnew
Piano Accordion: Maeve Close
Harp: Eoghán O’Brien
Guitar: Paul McSherry
Voice: Mary Dillon
Music Selected:
TRACK 2:
John O’Reilly / Charles McHugh (The Wild Boy) - (jig / march)
Trad Arr: Síle Boylan, IMRO. Duration / Fad: 3 mins 20 secs
There isn’t much information on John O’Reilly but there is some speculation that he was from the Cavan area. Charles McHugh was a one-time highwayman who operated in the Ballinderry area.
TRACK 3:
Uilleagán Dubh Ó (The Song of Sorrow) – song
Trad Arr: Mary Dillon, IMRO. Duration / Fad: 4 mins 30 secs
Yet another song relating to enforced separation.
TRACK 4:
Planxty James Betagh – O’Carolan
Trad Arr: Síle Boylan, IMRO. Duration / Fad: 4 mins 10 secs
The Betaghs were one of the old Irish families transplanted from Leinster to Connacht under the Cromwellian Settlement. James Betagh of Drimhill for whom this air was composed,
married Fanny Dillon. He succeeded to Mannin after the death of her brother John Dillon, 22nd April 1731. Mannin is in the barony of Costelo and parish of Aghamore, County Mayo, a few miles north-west of Ballyhaunis.
Danny Boy Festival
Danny Boy Festival
Does anyone know the name of/more info about the song from sheila boylan's set at last years competition? Is it from the Edward Bunting Collection?
# Posted on August 16th 2006 by It's the 21st Century!
GRUPA CHEOIL SÍLE BOYLAN
GRUPA CHEOIL SÍLE BOYLAN
Musicians:
Fiddles: Síle Boylan
Kate McSherry
Flute: Séana Agnew
Piano Accordion: Maeve Close
Harp: Eoghán O’Brien
Guitar: Paul McSherry
Voice: Mary Dillon
Music Selected:
TRACK 2:
John O’Reilly / Charles McHugh (The Wild Boy) - (jig / march)
Trad Arr: Síle Boylan, IMRO. Duration / Fad: 3 mins 20 secs
There isn’t much information on John O’Reilly but there is some speculation that he was from the Cavan area. Charles McHugh was a one-time highwayman who operated in the Ballinderry area.
TRACK 3:
Uilleagán Dubh Ó (The Song of Sorrow) – song
Trad Arr: Mary Dillon, IMRO. Duration / Fad: 4 mins 30 secs
Yet another song relating to enforced separation.
TRACK 4:
Planxty James Betagh – O’Carolan
Trad Arr: Síle Boylan, IMRO. Duration / Fad: 4 mins 10 secs
The Betaghs were one of the old Irish families transplanted from Leinster to Connacht under the Cromwellian Settlement. James Betagh of Drimhill for whom this air was composed,
married Fanny Dillon. He succeeded to Mannin after the death of her brother John Dillon, 22nd April 1731. Mannin is in the barony of Costelo and parish of Aghamore, County Mayo, a few miles north-west of Ballyhaunis.
# Posted on August 18th 2006 by Murrough
Re: Danny Boy Festival
Was talking to Sile Boylan and Track 4 has been named wrongly. It's actually Planxty Thomas Burke!
# Posted on August 19th 2006 by Shtrum