ah, minimal tunes and a great voice on this track!

I came to know the song via Pentangle; to me that's been *the* version for years

So great when one of these has a happy ending!

This episode looks at Irish versions of the ballad Bonny Barbara Allen aka The Ballet of Barbara Allen aka Barbara Allen's Cruelty aka Barbarous Ellen aka Edelin aka Hard Hearted Barbary Ellen aka Sad Ballet Of Little Johnnie Green aka Sir John Graham aka Barbry Allen.

Tracklist:

Norman Candler – Barbara Allen
Tom Lenihan – Barbry Allen
Elizabeth Cronin – Barbara Allen
Sarah Makem – Barbara Allen
John Byrne – Barbara Alen
Joe Heaney – Barbary Allen
De Danann – Barbara Allen
Andy Cash – Barbary Allen
Dolly Parton and Altan – Barbara Allen
Ye Vagabonds – Barbara Allen
Paddy Keenan – Barbara Allen
Norman Candler – Barbara Allen

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Barbara Allen

This episode looks at the ballad Prince Robert aka Lord Abore and Mary Flynn aka Harry Saunders.  

Tracklist:

Frank Feeney – Lord O’Bore and Mary Flynn
Jim Kelly – Lord Abore and Mary Flynn
Al O’Donnell – Lord Abore and Mary Flynn
Ewan MacLennan – Prince Robert 
Peggy Seeger – Harry Saunders

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Artwork by Anthony Van Dyck c.1630

Prince Robert

Episode XXXVI was made in the North Woods of Minnesota and features songs recorded along the way by Summer Newman and Katee Rose as well as tracks by FDN favourite Marlais, West of Roan, Swan Arcade, Frank Harte Liam O'Flynn, Gay, Conor and Seán McKeon and more!

Tracklist

Gay, Conor and Seán McKeon – The Humours of Lisheen / The Gallowglass / The Cordial
The Dubliners – Three Lovely Lassies from Kimmage
Frank Harte – The Twangman
Swan Arcade – Go From My Window
Liam O’Flynn and Catherine Ennis – Easter Snow
Summer Newman Katee Rose – I Saw A Blackbird
West of Roan – The Grieving Hour
Summer Newman – Single Girl
Summer Newman – January Man
Katee Rose – Three Babes
Katee Rose – Henry Lee
Marlais - Prae

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Fire Draw Near Episode XXXVI

This episode looks at the ballad Willie O’Winsbury aka Lord Thomas of Winsbury aka Johnnie Barbour aka the Rich Shipowner’s Daughter aka Tom the Barber aka John Barlow from the Isle of Man aka O Will You Marry My Daughter Janet aka Fair Mary aka What Aileth Thee

Tracklist:

Sweeney’s Men – Willie O’Winsbury
Joe McCafferty – John Barbour
Robert Cinnamond – There was a Lady Lived in the West
Fran MacPhail – John Barber
Mary McGrath – Johnny Barden
Sally Connors – Johnny Barnes
Anita Best and Pamela Morgan – John Barbour
Peggy Seeger – John Barbour
Betsy and Bryce Whyte – Willie O’Winsbury
Pentangle – Willie O’Winsbury
Paul Giovanni and Magnet – Procession

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Bonus Episode - Willie O'Winsbury

Episode XXXVII features over one hour of audio hallucinatory magick stemming from the world of traditional folk and slowly creeping into other spheres, eldritch tendrils maintaining their core DNA even as they mutate and transform. Old tunes, comedic verses, devilish songs and poppy bleeps, from the wonky to the whimsical, the woeful to the wacky, the wondrous to the wocious. Let it ooze into your eager earholes like a gallon of molten Kerrygold.

Tracklist: 
 
Buntús Rinnce – The King of the Fairies
Tom Morrison and John Reynolds – Kregg's Pipes / The Boys From Mayo
Barney Flynn – There’ll Be Murder There Tonight
Brighde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie and Steven Byrnes – Irish
Sweet Willliam – Devil’s Nine
Jim Ghedi – What Will Become of England?
Peter Sellers – Suddenly It’s Folk Song
Enza Pagliara & Dario Muci – Canto Alla Spiga
Daniele Sepe – Tarantella del Gargano
Betsy Whyte – Yellow on the Broom
Benjamin Britten (arr.) – Newcastle
The Broadside Band - Newcastle
Bob Dylan – Easy and Slow
The Seedy Seeds – Grace
Century Steel Band – Fields of Athenry

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Fire Draw Near Episode XXXVII

Episode XL is a big Christmas special full of dead heros, secret guests, strange dreams, folk weirdos, camp highwaymen, throat-singing cowboys, young girls drinking ale straight from the barrel, Finno-Hibernian cryptids, and people who spend Christmas in Jail. 

Dedicated to the memory of Angelo Badalamenti.

Tracklist

Osa Mosafinn – Brurermarsj (Bridal March)
Micho Russell – Christmas Day in the Morning
Kú Killian – Kú’s Khristmas
Fiddlin’ John Carson – Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over
Hack Poet’s Guild – Daring Highwayman
Pato Banton – I Do not Sniff The Coke
Niamh Parsons and Graham Dunne – Valentine O’Hara
Adam and the Ants – Stand and Deliver
The Watersons – Holly She Bears a Berry
Elspeth Anne – When I Was a Young Girl
Máire ní Ghráda – Queen of the Rushes
Isa Gordon – When You Got it Done
Richardin Korkkijalka - Kunniallinen Nainen
Richardin Korkkijalka – Friar’s Britches
Culainin Koirat - Helmi Pohjolan
Duo Ruut – Nightingale
Johnny Brennan – Early Morning Rakija
Arthur Miles – Lonely Cowboy 1 & 2
Unnamed – The Yodelling Donkey
Hatchet Field – Run On
The Youngsters – Christmas in Jail

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Fire Draw Near Episode XL

This is an audio recording of a lecture / performance I gave in the Shriver Hall Auditorium, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore on the 6th of October 2022.

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The 'Child Ballad' in Ireland - Johns Hopkins University 06/10/2022

Fire Draw Near Episode XLII is a moody frontline assemblage of traditional folk adjacent magic with new tracks from Jonny Dillon, A Clatter and Drone, Áit Ait, Cormorant Tree Oh and Eliza Carthy, recently discovered tracks from M(h)aol and Perinne Bourel as well as old time classics from John Griffin (the 5th Avenue Bus Man), Stefan Shkimba & Co., Cyril Biddick, the Young Tradition as well as none other than the legendary J.R. R. Tolkien.

Tracklist:

Perinne Bourel – Rigodon du Château d'Ancelle
A Clatter and Drone - The Day That Broke Winter
Jonny Dillon – Rose Gardens & Requiems
Áit Ait – Miss Brown
Mhaol – Oró Sé Do Bheatha Bhaile
J. R. R. Tolkien – Sam's Rhyme of the Troll
Cyril Biddick – Old Daddy Fox
The Young Tradition – Daddy Fox
John Griffin – The Real Old Mountain Dew
Stefan Shkimba & Co. – LemkoWedding pt 11
The Kossoy Sisters – Down in a Willow Garden
Cormorant Tree Oh – All Of It
Eliza Carthy & The Restitution – Whirly Whorl
Jonny Dillon – The Corridor Of The Heart

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Fire Draw Near Episode XLII

Episode XLVI is respectfully dedicated to the memory of singer, songwriter, civil rights activist, musician, and all round legend Joe Mulheron who passed away earlier this month. It features a couple of songs by him as well as an unexpected early 80s anarcho-punk link with The Mob, new tracks from Jrpjej, Lainey Dempsey, Razen and Synth Widow, some risque slip jigs by Mary-Grace Autumn Lee alongside some classics by Pat Usher and James 'Ironhead' Baker and also a track for Seán Keane who also sadly passed away this month.

Joe Mulheron – Free State Adjudicator
Men of No Property – No Time for Love if they Come in the Morning
The Mob – Cry of a Morning
Jrpjej – Hakurıne Batmırze yi wored (feat. Myst)
Lainey Dempsey – The Lum Hat Wantin the Croon
Mary-Grace Autumn Lee – CENSORED / Come Upstairs with Me / Chloe's Passion / Hardiman the Fiddler 
Pat Usher – Wild Rover
Pat Usher – The Prayer of Sheil
James Ironhead Baker – Go Down Old Hannah
Razen – A Postcard From Olivier
Synth Widow – Wayfaring Stranger
Sean Keane with Liam O’Flynn – The Maiden That Jigs It in Style / The Girl of the Big House / Alasdruim's March

Fire Draw Near Episode XLVI

Alexis Zoumbas – Doina
Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin - Eileanóir na Rún
Unknown - Nuvenapreghiera Per La Novena di Natale
Amelia Dawley, Mary Moran – Gullah Song
Group Of Men From Andros Island – Dig My Grave
X-Seamen’s Institute – Santiano
Sarah Ghriallais – An Sceilpín Draighneach 
Pererin - Llongau Caernarfon
Maxime Martelot, Aude Giuliano – La Chanson de Craonne
Metro Radomsky – Baryshnia
A Cantata Di Li Pasturi – Pastorale
Planxty – The Well Below the Valley

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Fire Draw Near Episode XLVIII

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

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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Bonus Episode - Willie O'Winsbury

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