Fire Draw Near

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 the Suffolk Miracle aka the Holland Handkerchief aka the Lover's Ghost.

Tracklist

Nora Cleary – The Holland Handkerchief
Packie Manus Byrne – The Holland Handkerchief
Austin Flanagan – The Holland Handkerchief
Michael McGonigle – The Holland Handkerchief
John Goodluck – The Suffolk Miracle
Chris Foster – The Holland Handkerchief
Rósa Ingólfsdóttir – Djákninn á Myrká
John W. Green – The Suffolk Miracle
Mrs. G. A. Griffin – The Suffolk Miracle
Dol Small – The Suffolk Miracle
Peggy Seeger – The Suffolk Miracle
Dean Gitter – The Suffolk Miracle
Doctor Evazan – The Suffolk Miracle
Quadriga Consort – The Suffolk Miracle

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The Suffolk Miracle

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

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

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

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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