This episode looks at the ballad Long Lankin aka Lamkin aka False Lankum.

Tracklist

John Reilly Jr. – False Lankum
Helen Diamond – Long Lankin
Seán Corcoran – The Lambkin
Ben Butcher – Long Lankin
George Fradley - Lankin
A.L. Lloyd – Long Lankin
Hare and Moon – Long Lankin
Steeleye Span – Long Lankin
Robin Williamson and Lawson Dondo – Long Lankin
Alexander Robb – Lamkin
Hedy West – Beaulampkin
Frank Profitt - Bo Lamkin
Mrs Lena Barre – Bolakins
The Wainwright Sisters – Long Lankin

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Long Lankin

Fire Draw Near Episode XXIX features songs by the Watersons, songs from the north of England, a song by Lingua Ignota, songs from Scotland, songs and tunes from Ireland as well as some puerile nonsense from the 1940s.

Tracklist:

Cormac Begley – The Flogging Reel
Lick the Tins – Can’t Help Falling in Love
The Watersons – North Country Maid
The Watersons – The Broom of the Cowdeknowes
The Watersons – Rap Her to Bank
Vin Garbutt – The Hartlepool Monkey
The Wilson Family – I Am Coal
Lainey Dempsey – Haiku
Arun Sood – The Old Dictaphone
Lingua Ignota – Katie Cruel
Pádriac Keane – Old Hang You Have Killed Me / Garrett Barry’s Jig
Al O’Donnell – Lord Abore and Mary Flynn
Unidentified Singers – The Lucan Dairy
Packie Dolan – A Drink in the Morning
Packie Dolan – Saddle the Pony / The Rakes of Kildare
Unidentified – I Came in My Best Sunday Suit

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Fire Draw Near Episode XXIX

This episode looks at the ballad Sailor Boy aka All Around My Hat aka London City aka the Brisk Young Sailor aka the Brisk Young Farmer aka the Brisk Young Miner aka A Bold Fisherman Courted Me aka the Student boy aka the Maid’s Tragedy aka Maid’s Complaint aka the Distressed Maid aka the Unfortunate Swain aka There is an Alehouse  aka I Know My Love aka Apron Strings aka the Irish Boy aka Lullaby aka Knutsford Town aka in Woodstock Town aka the Effects of Love 

Tracklist

Joseph Taylor – Go Dig My Grave
Jasper Smith – Died for Love
A.L. Lloyd – Died for Love
Rachel Unthanks and the Winterset - I Wish I wish
Isla Cameron – Died for Love
Elizabeth Cronin – The Alehouse
Pops Johnny Connors – There is an Alehouse
The Dubliners – I Know my Love
Sarah Makem – The Butcher Boy
Almeda Riddle – The Butcher Boy
Elvis Costello – The Butcher Boy
Dillard Chandler – I Wish my Baby was Born
Love Has Brought Me to Despair – Berzilla Wallin 
Jean Ritchie – Go Dig my Grave
Susanna – Go Dig my Grave

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Go Dig My Grave / Died For Love / The Butcher Boy

Fire Draw Near Episode XXXVIII is a recording of the interview I did with Jack Dempsey McMahon aka DJackulate at the Dun Laoghaire Folk Festival in September 2022. We talked about many things including his musical techniques, uilleann piping, trends in traditional music, the North Strand Kontra Band, Klezmer music, trawling vinyl for samples, the Trad Rave, tradition vs innovation and lot's more. Jack performed a number of his own pieces and also brought along a few recordings to listen to and discuss. 

Tracklist:

DJackulate – Rocky’s Couch
Leo Rowsome – The Kerry Jig / The Ballintore Fancy
Packie Dolan and his Melody Boys – Lasses of Donnibrook
Naftule Brandwein – Nifty’s Freilach
DJackulate – One Year Sober
Sister Irene O’Connor – Fire of God’s Love
Willie Brady – Little Brigid Flynn
Agi Pettik and Gergely Barcza – Gan Ainm
Frank Ifield – The Wild Rover
DJackulate – An Eldritch Communion

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Fire Draw Near Episode XXXVIII

Episode XLIV takes a look at versions of the traditional songs that made their way onto Lankum's fourth album False Lankum, as well as a cello version of A Stór Mo Chroí, a song by Genoese Anarchist Fabrizio De André and a recent anti-racist ballad from New Zealand!

Tracklist

Finn – A Stór Mo Chroí
Fabrizio De André – Un Blasfemo (Dietro Ogni Blasfemo C'è Un Giardino Incantato)
Jean Ritchie – Go Dig My Grave
Died For Love – Jasper Smith
Gordon Bok – Clear Away in the Morning
Cormac Begley – Master Crowley's / The Roscommon
Francie and Mickey Byrne – Master Crowley's (Miss Patterson's)
The Deadlians – Newcastle
Luke Cheevers – The Waterford Sea Captain
Frank Feeney – Lord O’Bore
Beanie Entwistle and Joe Yorke – Monday Morning
Sammy from New Zealand – The Battle of Wellington

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Fire Draw Near Episode XLIV

This episode looks at the song Eggs and Marrowbones aka Marrowbones aka The Old Woman from Wexford aka The Old Woman from Oxford aka The Old Woman from Boston aka The Old Woman of Slapsadam aka An Old Woman’s Story aka The Rich Old Lady aka The Auld Man and the Churnstaff aka Tippig it Up to Nancy. Artwork by Carol Roe - https://youtu.be/laBE2X5tBMw

Tracklist:

John Reilly  – Tipping it up to Nancy
Joe Heaney – Old Woman of Wexford
Red Mick McDermott – Marrowbones
Sarah Makem – Canny Ould Lad
Janet Gibson Lynch – The Old Woman from Kelso 
George Inglis Fraser – The Toon O’Kelso
Jimmy Knight – Marrowbones 
Ken Peacock – Old Woman from Dover
Helen Fultz – Holy Boly
Horton Barker – There Was An Old Lady
Hedy West – Johnny Sands
Peggy Seeger – Rich Old Lady
Dorothy Olsen - Marrowbones

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Eggs And Marrowbones

This episode looks at the ballad Santiano aka Santiana aka Santy Anno aka Santy Anna aka The Plains of Mexico.

Tracklist

Henry Lundy and David "Pappie" Pryor – Bay of Mexico
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem – Santy Anno
The Watersons – The Plains of Mexico
Pusser's Rum ft. Stan Hugill – Santiano
Meredydd Evans – Santiana
The Weavers – The Bay of Mexico
Odetta – Santy Anno
The Kingston Trio - Santy Anno
Dave Van Ronk – Santy Anno
The Men Of The Robert Shaw Chorale – Santy Anna
A.H. Rasmussen – Chantey interview
Hugues Aufray – Santiano
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire – Aim Spirente
Sea Shanty Metal – Santiana

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Santiano

This episode looks at the song Paddy Works on the Railway aka Paddy on the Railway aka Poor Paddy aka Fillimiooriay aka Paddy Works on the Erie aka Pat Do This, Pat Do That.

Tracklist

That Clancy Children – Paddy on the Railway
The Pogues – Poor Paddy
Salty Dick – The Shaver
Mark Page – Paddy Works on the Railway
Ewan MacColl – Paddy Works on the Railway
Dominic Behan – Paddy Works on the Railway
Louisa Jo Killen – Paddy Works on the Railway
Keith Kendrick - Paddy Works on the Railway
The Wolfe Tones – Paddy Works on the Railway
Michael Cassius Dean – To Work Upon the Railroad
The American Ballad Singers – Pat Works on the Railway
Pete Seeger – Paddy Works on the Railroad
The Highwaymen – Pat Works On The Railway
Cisco Houston – Pat Works On The Railroad
Stuart M. Frank – Paddy on the Railway
Barbara Moncure – The Bluestone Quarries
Sam Amidon – Pat Do This, Pat Do That
Ben Miller Band – Paddy on the Railway

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Paddy Works on the Railway

This episode looks at the ballad Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man aka An Old Man Came Courting Me aka Never Wed an Old Man aka The Foolish Old Man.

Tracklist

The Dubliners – Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man
The Clancy Brothers – An Old Man Came Courting
Pat McNamara – Never Wed an Old Man
Sam Larner - Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man
Danny Brazil – An Old Man Came Courting Me
Peggy Seeger – An Old Man Came Courting Me
Killy Country – An Old Man Came Courting Me
Ashley Hutchings – Black Joke
Jeanie Robertson – An Old Man Came Courting Me
Alex Beaton – Maids When You're Young
Alasdair Roberts and Mairi Morrison – Never Wed an Old Man
Alan Mills and Jean Carignan – The Foolish Old Man
Edna Ritchie – An Old Man Came Courting Me
Frank & James McCravy – Get Away, Old Man, Get Away
Joni Mitchell – Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man
Paul Gwynne Phillips – An Old Man Came A-Courting
Jon Kennedy – Never Wed an Old Man

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Maids When You're Young Never Wed An Old Man

This episode looks at the ballad Fair Margaret And Sweet William aka Lady Margaret And Sweet William aka Sweet William and Fair Margaret aka Knight William aka Lady Margaret aka Little Margaret aka The Old Armchair

Tracklist


Tom Munnelly – Talking about Knight William
Martin Howley – Knight William
AL Lloyd – Fair Margaret And Sweet William
The Hare and the Moon – Sweet William and Fair Margaret
Justus Begley – Lady Margaret
Emma Shelton – Fair Margaret and Sweet William
Almeda Riddle – Lady Margaret
Sheila Kay Adams – Little Margaret
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi – Little Margaret
Amps for Christ – Sweet William and Lady Margaret

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“Margaret’s Ghost” by Gwen Raverat, 1909

Fair Margaret And Sweet William

Episode LII is dedicated to the memory of Shane McGowan. It features some of my favourite Pogues songs as well as tracks by John Francis Flynn, Andy the Doorbum, Dulcidrone, Of the Clay and more. 

Tracklist

The Pogues – Boys from County Hell
The Pogues – The Old Main Drag
Mick Moloney and Frank Harte – Conversation, June 1982
Pandy Corporation – Polly Vaughan feat. Sive
Sestri Koushlevi – Da Znaesh, Maicho, Da Znaesh 
Andy the Doorbum – Little Deaths: the dirge of renewal
Dulcidrone – Winter Bracken
John Francis Flynn – Kitty
Of the Clay – Geordie
The Pogues – A Pair Of Brown Eyes

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FDN LII

This episode looks at the song the Boston Burglar aka Botany Bay aka the Louisville Burglar aka the New Transports Farewell aka the Transport aka Adieu to Old England

Tracklist

Paul Clayton – Botany Bay
The Watersons – The Whitby Lad
Fiddlin' John Carson August – The Boston Burglar
Carl T Sprague – The Boston Burglar
New Lost City Ramblers – Louisville Burglar
George Pegram – The Boston Burglar
Cat Mother – Boston Burglar
Jean Elvin - The Boston Smuggler
Jimmy MacBeath – The Boston Smuggler
Delia Murphy – The Boston Burglar
The Clancy Brother and Lou Killen – The Boston Burglar
The Pubcrawlers – Boston Burglar

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The Boston Burglar

FDN LIII has been a long time coming...Included therein are songs of resistance, songs of magic and songs of being human. Life, Death, Love, Rage, Joy and Suffering. You know the drill. Sit by the Fire Draw Near. Free Palestine. Artwork designed by Palestinian artist Abdal Latif Muhanna and published by the Foreign Information Department of the PLO in 1982. X

Tracklist

Zeinab Shaath – The Urgent Call Of Palestine
Marcel Khalife Oumeima El Khalil – My Teacher
Palestinian Student Karmel Group – Al Intifada Was Jabal Al Thawra
Robert Sarazin Blake – Don’t Use Our Death and Pain
Daniel Kahn, Psoy Korolenko – Oh you Foolish little Zionists
Rola Azar – Ya Teir Elsnono
Áit Ait – Henry Martin
Gazelle Twin & NYX – Fire Leap
Wailing Sídhe – Corrag
Derrick Morgan – Three Drunken Night
Mark Lanegan – The Cherry Tree Carol
Richard Bégin – Lavrador
Jack Sheehan & Isa Gordon – My Heart Biological (Loch Erne’s Shore)
Doyle & Andersson – Baffled Knight
Leonard Barry – Tom Busby's / The Humours of Ballingary
Ian Lynch - The Rocks of Palestine

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FDN LIII

Fire Draw Near Episode LIV features wrens, bitterns and cailleachaí.

Roisin El Cherif - Siúil a Rúin
David Murphy – Sean O'Duibhir a Ghleanna
Dave Van Ronk – Luang Prabang
Wire Worms – The Cutty Wren
The Young Tradition – Byker Hill
Thin Lizzy – Sitamoia
Meaigí Nic Dhonncha – Cailleach an Airgid
Stiofán Ó Cualáin – Cailleach an Airgid
David Power – The Hag With The Money / Garrett Barry's
Bexley H.S. Vocal Ensemble – 'Si Do Mhaimeo I
Seán Jeaic Mac Donncha – An Bonnán Buí
The Huntress and Holder of Hands – Rocky Coast⧸EDT
Norman MacLean – Am Bothan a Bh'Aig Fionnghuala
The Bothy Band – Fionnghuala
Toké O'Drift – Bothy Bangz
Harry Gorski-Brown – Buain na Choirce

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FDN LIV

This episode looks at the ballad Blackwater Side aka Blackwaterside aka Down by Blackwaterside and the journey that it took from a Traveller site outside Belfast in 1952 to the first Led Zeppelin LP. A winding river of a song, this episode looks at its multiple obscure sources as well as its many meandering tributaries.

Tracklist

Led Zeppelin – Black Mountain Side
Bert Jansch – Blackwaterside
Anne Briggs – Blackwaterside
Isla Cameron – Blackwaterside
Mary Doran – Down by Blackwaterside
Paddy Tunney – Blackwaterside
Harry Upton – In Wayward Town
Wash Nelson – Last May Morn
Spriguns – Blackwaterside
Landless – Blackwaterside

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Blackwater Side

Fire Draw Near Episode LV is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Heather Wood ' - outstanding singer, tank driver and wit'. It features her singing with the Young Tradition alongside some anti-marriage songs, a little look at Oró Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile, some traditional tunes by Rory Gallagher, some north American goodness and a bit more besides.

Tracklist

Jim Williams – Finger Scene
The Young Tradition – Lyke Wake Dirge
Rory Gallagher – She Moved Through the Fair
Darach Ó Catháin – Oró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile
Sinéad O’Connor – Oró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile
Natalie Ní Chasaide and Iarfhlaith Ó Dohmnaill – Welcome Home Gràinne
The Kossoy Sisters – I Never Will Marry
Lukas De Clerck – Sacrifice of a Reed
The Dubliners – Don’t Get Married
West of Roan – Let No One Steal Your Thyme
Abner Jay – I’m So Depressed
Rory Gallagher – Bratcha Dubha
Paul Clayton – Johnny's Gone To Hilo
Iris Dement – Pretty Saro
The Young Tradition – The Innocent Hare
The Rheingans Sisters – Devils

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FDN LV

This episode looks at the song Hares on the Mountain aka Blackbirds and Thrushes aka If All the Young Women aka Nancy Lay Sleeping aka The Knife in the Window aka Pretty Polly aka Shepherd So Bold aka Sally My Dear aka Lightning and Thunder aka Crawling and Creeping aka Ain't Gonna Do It No More aka Roll Yer Leg Over

Tracklist

Shirley Collins and Davy Graham – Hares on the Mountain
Harry List – Knife on the Window
AL Lloyd – Pretty Polly
Harry Cox – Knife in the Window
Belinda Kempster and Fran Foote – Knife in the Window
The Three ‘Baccer Tags – Ain’t Gonna Do It No More
Jim Garland – Crawling and Creeping
Dan Tate – Lightning and Thunder
Oscar Brand – Roll Your Leg Over
Fine & Bawdy Wenches – Roll Yer Leg Over
Seamus Ennis – Blackbirds and Thrushes
Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy – Hares on the Mountain
Frankie Armstrong with Maddy Prior – Hares on the Mountain (feat. Maddy Prior)
Radie Peat and Daragh Lynch – Hares on the Mountain
Shirley Collins – Hares on the Mountain

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Picture shows Jack Bernard of Bridgwater Somerset. From https://cecilsharpspeople.org.uk - thank Ellie!

Hares On The Mountain / The Knife in the Window

Fire Draw Near Episode LVI turns a focussed ear to the liminal weirdos at the very fringes of traditional and folk music. And Nioclás Tóibín. Pictured are the Belgian duo Tabernis, who open the episode. 

Tracklist

Tabernis – Carmen Reginarum
Róis – Caoine
Charanjit Singh – Raga Bhairav
Isa Gordon – What a Voice
Seamas Hyland – Navan Road
Nioclás Tóibín – Eochaill
The Deadlians – Return to Fingal / Lord Mayo
Dawn Ray'd – Requital
Córas – George White’s
Ancient Hostility – Immigration Van
Greet – John Barleycorn

FDN LVI

Episode LVII is a grim Halloween special featuring some creepy favourites! Artwork is a German painting of the Danse Macabre, creator unknown.

Tracklist

John Carpenter – Tommy Tells Of Ghost Ships
Richard Dawson – Ghost of a Tree
Paddy Glackin and Robbie Hannan – The Young Tom Ennis / The Maid at the Well
John Goodluck – The Lover’s Ghost
Pentangle – The Cruel Sister
Harry Bradley and Michael Clarkson – The Geese in the Bog / The Jig of the Dead
Roky Erickson – I Walked with a Zombie
Dimlaia – Goodnight Sweet Ghost
Eddie Butcher – Saturday Night is Halloween Night
Shane McGowan and Sinéad O’Connor – Haunted
The Kipper Family – All on the Shore
Blood Axis & In Gowan Ring – Dead Men’s Slip-Jig
Tom Lehrer – The Irish Ballad
Jeannie Robertson – The Dublin Murder Ballad

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FDN LVII

Episode LVIII is a spotlight on the Appalachian region of the USA, based around an interview with the one and only Andy the Doorbum and focusing on the relief work that he is currently carrying out there. If you would like to support him in his efforts you can do so here - https://campsite.bio/andythedoorbum The episode also features an unreleased track from Andy, namely Young Emily / Edmund in the Lowlands Low

Tracklist

Andy the Doorbum - Young Emily / Edmund in the Lowlands Low
Maggie Hammons - When this World Comes to an End
Michael and Carrie Cline - Bangum and the Wild Boar
Margaret Winter - Cockle Shells and Silver Bells Riddle Song
Harold and Margaret Winter - Loving Henry
Hazel Dickens - Black Lung
Sarah Ogan Gunning - Dreadful Memories
John Snipes - Going Where I've Never Been Before
Cherokee Singers - One Drop of Blood (Trail of Tears Song #2)
Frank Proffitt - Tom Dooley
Frank Proffitt - I'm Going Back to North Carolina

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FDN LVIII

Episode LVIX is an eclectic collection of traditional material arranged and performed along a wide and varied spectrum of emotion, mood and colour. Expect bombast, pomp, introspection and sensitivity with a side dish of wonktown 2000. Artwork from Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymous Bosch, 15th - 16th century.

Tracklist

Sam Spence – Quest For The Silver Trophy
Natalie Ní Chasaide and Iarfhlaith Ó Domhnail – The Ewe with the Crooked Horn / An Mhalaidh Garbh
Macdara Yeates – One Starry Night
Bláth na hÓige – Seán Gabha
Powtes – Green Brooms
Grey Stag – Blessington Maid
Cruel Mother – Down the Greenwood Side
Espers – Rosemary Lane
Isa Desmet – The Prickle Holly Bush
Hieronymus Bosch Butt Music
The Kipper Family – The Losing Of The Whale
Paul Denman & Jennifer Reid – Life's Spinning Song
Green Ribbons – The Well Below The Valley
Tom Lehrer – I Got It From Agnes
Scafell Pike – The New York Trader
Dubz Ft Ronnie Drew – The Last Leviathan

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FDN LIX

FDN LX was recorded in a bedroom in the 9th Ward in New Orleans. Upon reflection it features many friends, peers and contemporaries and that must be a good thing.

Cormac Mac Diarmada – Iníon an Fhaoit’ ó’n nGleann
Jim Ghedi – The Seasons
Bob Hill – Pity The Downtrodden Landlord
Ben Edge – Crossbones Lament
Angeline Morrison – Unknown African Boy (d. 1830)
Paddy McKeown – Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó
Dickie Rock & Miami – Mairzy Doats And Dozy Doats
Guídó Pluisce – Farewell to High Fidelity
Geoff Berner — In Ale Gasn [Daloy Polizei! ⁄ A.C.A.B!]
Ola Belle Reed – I've Endured
Varo ft. John Francis Flynn – Green Grows the Laurel
Jim Ghedi – Sheaf & Feld
Danny Diamond – A Dream of Home
 
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FDN LX

Episode LXI is a lengthy heady blast through all of the amazing music that has come my way over the last month. There's so much really quality interesting stuff coming out in the wider traditional - folk - weirdo music scenes these days and this is just a taster. The draft is full and rich. Drink deep and be let contentment be your wealth. Artwork by Louis le Brocquy for the Thomas Kinsella translation of the Táin Bó Cuailnge.

Tracklist

Cormac Begley & Liam O Connor – Ryan’s Rant
Sweet William – Keep your Garden Clean
David Murphy – The March of The King of Laois
Duck Baker and Molly Andrews – Bad Girl
Current 93 (feat. Shirley Collins) – Idumæa
Gout – Newcastle
Mother's Favourite Tongue - Oidhche na mo Chadal Dhomh
Bridget and Kitty - The Cruel Mother
Ottilie Paterson – The Bitterness of Death
The Standing Stones feat. Alasdair Roberts – Twa Brothers
Ultan O’Brien – The Boyne Hunt
Tom & Ben Paley – Follow The Band
Junior Brother – Welcome To My Mountain
Milkweed – Exile of the Sons of Uisliu
Milkweed – The Milk-Fed Calf
Poor Creature – We’ve Run Out Of Tomorrows

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FDN LXI

I have just recently gotten my vinyl and CD collections back from where they were stored for 6 months (thanks Crispo!!), an event that definitely makes itself felt in this episode. If there is a theme then it's something to do with pipers, fighters, outlaws, thieves and revolutionaries. Art by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. X

Tracklist;

Seán McKeon – The Salamanca / Trim the Velvet
Tealeaf – Bone Lace Weaver
Jason Rouse – Snug in the Blanket / The Fisherman’s 
Johnny Horton – The Battle of New Orleans
Liam Weldon – James Connolly
Seán McKeon – James Connolly
Francy Devine – Sam Hall / Le Ramoneur / Skarzhour Chiminalieu
Luke Cheevers –  Abe Carman
Daoirí Farrell – Valentine O' Hara
John Faulkner and Dolores Keane – Allan Tyne Of Harrow
Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick – Sovay
The Kipper Family – The Male Female Highwayman
A.L. Lloyd –  Jim Jones at Botany Bay
Jerry O'Reilly –  The Carmagnoles
Ruth Hazleton – Tri-Coloured House
Beau James Wilding – The Lowlands of Holland
RL O'Mealy – Donegal Reel
Jason Rouse – The Maid at Mourneshore

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FDN LXII

Episode I looks at the folk motif that connects an Irish Traveller song, an obscure uilleann piping tune and a song by London Oi merchants Cock Sparrer.

Tracklist:

Willie Clancy – The Connaught Heifers / Corney is Coming
Jimmy Crowley – The Pool Song
Neillidh Boyle – The Moving Clouds talk and tune
Séamus Ennis – I’ll mend your pots and kettles O!
John Reilly Jr. – The Jolly Tinker
Cock Sparrer – I Fit Central Heating
Pat McNamara – I Left My Hand
The Castle of Dromore – Leo Rowsome
Bob Dawson - Don’t Take Me Drugs Away
Pat Usher – Wild Rover
Louth Mouths – Wild Rover
John and Paddy Killourhey – Sporting Paddy / Jimmy Mulqueaney’s 
Kayne – The Lucky Elopement
Tommy Reck – Top it Off
Tom Lenihan – Truth in Songs / The Christmas Letter
Nora Cleary – Maggie in the Wood


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Fire Draw Near Episode I

Episode II looks at a musical motif that started off life in Scotland, made its way over to Ireland as a piping tune then travelled to America before ending up being recorded by anarcho punk band the Subhumans.

Tracklist:

Planxty Fanny Power
Rosie Stewart – Bunch of Damned Whores
Elizabeth Crotty – Touch me if you Dare / Morning Star
Nora Cleary – The Holland Handkerchief
Paddy in the Smoke - The Chorus Reel
Will Powrie – The Drunken Piper / Highland Whiskey / High Road to Linton
Paul and Jimmie McGregor - Brochan Lom, Tana Lom / Bodachan A' Mhirein
Willie Clancy – Kitty Got a Clinking
PJ Conlon – Phil the Fluter’s Ball
Subhumans – Work Rest Play Die
Brendan Behan – The Captains and The Kings
Tommy Lynch – Arada
Nonie Lynch – My Good Looking Man
Barry Gleeson – The Girls Along the Road


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Fire Draw Near Episode II

Episode V looks at a shared musical link between Ireland and the Caribbean.

Tracklist:

Mary Fuller – Oh What a Life
Seán Potts and Paddy Moloney – Did You Wash Your Father’s Shirt / The Mountain Top
Barry Gleeson – My Darling Old Bit of a Stick
Bernard Delaney – The Beauty Spot
Elizabeth Cronin – Little Pack of Tailors / What Would You Do?
Séamus Ennis – Kitty Lie Over
Brian O’Rourke – Drumsnot
The Flanagan Brothers – The Half A Crown Song
Bill Rogers – West Indian Weed Woman
The Meditations – Woman Piabba
Tom Crean – Half a Crown
Andy Cash – The Half Crown
Jimmy Crowley – Boozing
Cath and Phil Tyler – Our Captain Cried All Hands

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Fire Draw Near Episode V

Episode VIII looks at the heartwarming and sometimes grisly world of traditional children's songs.

Tracklist:

The Deadlians - Newcastle
Frank Harte – Gough’s Immortal Statue
The Clancy Children – Are You Ready for a War?
Swan Arcade – The Bright Shining Morning
Eoin Dillon – Codladh Sámh
Jimmy O’Dea – Rathgar
Leo Rowsome – My Darling Asleep / Whelan’s Jig
Ewan MacColl and Dominic Behan – Singing Games and Ring Games
Fergus Russell – It’s Whiskey I Adore
Eoin Ó Riabhaigh – Bluegrass in the Backwoods
Frank Harte – Fair Rosa
The Kipper Family – The Trunch A to Z
Florrie Forde – Oh Oh Antonio!
The Clancy Children – So Early in the Morning
Spud – The Lucan Dairy
The Clancy Children – Frosty Weather
Sweeney’s Men – Dance to Your Daddy
Judy Garland – The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow
Unknown – Táimse agus Máire
Frank Harte – Henry My Son


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Fire Draw Near Episode VIII

Episode XI. This episode features the first of a new segment looking at Alan Lomax's seminal 1951 Irish collecting trip. Alongside this are songs from Planxty, Marlais, Sarah Ghriallais, Frank Harte, Séamus Ennis, Elizabeth 'Bess' Cronin, as well as some of the earliest recordings of Irish music.

Tracklist:

Planxty – The Raggle Taggle Gypsies / Tabhair Dom do Lámh
Marlais – Meeting is a Pleasure
Sarah Ghriallais – Skibereen
Frank Harte – Building Up and Tearing England Down
Percy Ridge – Western Cowboy
Séamus Ennis – Through Dublin City
Séamus Ennis – Bain an Ceann Caol De
Séamus Ennis – The Woman of the House
Elizabeth Cronin – A Bhean Úd Thíos
Elizabeth Cronin – Siúl, a Ghrá
Elizabeth Cronin – Lanigan’s Ball
Dinny Delaney – The Last Glimpse of Erin
Mary Hoare – An Cáilín Deas Crúite na mBó
Planxty – The West Coast of Clare

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Fire Draw Near Episode XI

The Wild Rover Part I looks at the historical and sociological background of 17th century England; a culture which gave rise to a body of song known as the Alehouse Ballads. It was from this group of ballads that the song which was to become the Wild Rover emerged from in the year 1678. Featuring performances from Cormac Dermody, Adrian Edwards, Paul Denman, Beanie Entwistle, Joe Yorke, Radie Peat and Marshall Morris the Travelling Woodsman of the Fosseway. Do yourself a favour and check out Brian Peters' 2015 article The Well-Travelled 'Wild Rover'  Folk Music Journal Vol. 10, No. 5 (2015), pp. 609-636, which I relied on heavily while creating this podcast. https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

The Wild Rover Part I

Fire Draw Near is a monthly podcast and radio show which investigates Irish traditional music and song in all of its myriad forms.

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