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Song For Ireland

De Danann

Submitted on August 19th 2004 by swisspiper.

  1. The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba (In Galway)
  2. Hard Times
  3. Mulqueen's
    Jim Coleman's
    The Lobster
  4. The Turkey In The Straw
  5. Live Not Where I Love
  6. The Hearty Boys Of Ballymoate
  7. Song For Ireland
  8. The Bells Of St. Louis
  9. The Chicken
  10. Charlie Harris
    The Burren
  11. Jenny Rocking The Cradle
  12. Barney From Killarney

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1983, released as CD later.
The singer on this recording is Mary Black.

# Posted on August 19th 2004 by swisspiper

The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba (In Galway)

Frankie has stolen back this melody from G.F. Handel, the famous German which stayed some years in Dublin and stole there all these tunes from O'Carolan and the like, rearranged it for an orchestra and called the result 'Barock music'.............

# Posted on August 19th 2004 by swisspiper

The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba (In Galway)

free score of the Handel version:
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/HandelGF/HWV67/sheba/sheba-a4.pdf

# Posted on August 19th 2004 by swisspiper

De Danann with Mary Black singing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1983

That concert was stunning. After an instrumental start, Mary came up to the mike, said something very brief and just launched into a glorious, anthemic, weepy song beginning "I went to church last Sunday/my love she passed me by.." at full throttle, with the band giving it everything, especially Martin o' Connor on the accordeon. Similarly when she sang the ballad "Anachie Gordon". The way she and the band do "Hard Times" on the album gives some idea, but really, as they say, you had to be there. The rendition of her other tracks on the album is more subdued, as I remember, as is the treatment of the two above-mentioned concert songs on her first solo album "Mary Black".

# Posted on July 23rd 2006 by nicholas

TRACK 3 : Mulqueen's Reels

I figured the second reel is Jim Coleman's Reel.
Anyone have a clue about the title of the first and third reels of this medley?
F

# Posted on June 4th 2007 by f.pellerin

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/66

# Posted on June 4th 2007 by Kenny

And if memory serves...................

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3495

# Posted on June 4th 2007 by Kenny

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