Live in the Seminar Room, National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin City,  19th December, 2013 as part of the Man, Woman and Child Project.

Man, Woman and Child was a research and performance project devised and co-ordinated by Michael Fortune and featuring traditional singers, Luke Cheevers, Niamh Parsons, John and Brigid Tunney, Mick Fowler,  Rosie Stewart, Tim Lyons, Aileen Lambert and Jerry O'Reilly.

Supported by the Arts Council, the National Library of Ireland, the Irish Traditional Music Archive and Age and Opportunity, this project was based on The Child Ballad Collection: a collection of traditional songs collected by the American collector Francis J Child in England and Scotland between 1882 and 1898. Although many of the songs, or variants of them, are sung in the Irish tradition, no comprehensive study and performance of the ballads has been undertaken in Ireland prior to this. 

More information available at www.manwomanandchild.ie

Captain Wedderborn (Tim Lyons, Child 46)

Jimmy Whelan (Aileen Lambert, Child 78)

Eyed Gypsy (Brigid Tunney, Child 200)

Love Henry (Brigid Tunney, Child 68)

Lord Donegal (Brigid Tunney, Child 75)

Live in the Seminar Room, National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin City, 26th November, 2014 as part of the Man, Woman and Child Project.

Man, Woman and Child is a research and performance project devised and co-ordinated by Michael Fortune and in 2014 features traditional singers, Sandra Joyce, Grace Toland, Jim McFarland, Hammy Hamilton, Róisín Gaffney, Fergus Russell, Roisín White and Len Graham.

This is the second strand to this project, which began in 2013 and is based around The Child Ballad Collection: a collection of traditional songs collected by the American collector Francis J Child in England and Scotland between 1882 and 1898. Although many of the songs, or variants of them, are sung in the Irish tradition, no comprehensive study and performance of the ballads had been undertaken in Ireland prior to this project beginning. In each instance, a male singer was paired with a female singer, giving rise to the project title - Man, Woman (the performers) and Child (the Ballad Collection).

This project is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, The National Library , The Irish Traditional Music Archive, Age and Opportunity and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.   

Recorded and produced by Michael Fortune for the project website - www.manwomanandchild.ie

Willie O’ Winsbury (Jim MacFarland, Child No. 100)

Fine Flowers In The Valley (Jim MacFarland, Child No. 20)

The Prickly Bush (Jim MacFarland, Child No. 95)

The Holland Handkerchief (Grace Toland, Child No. 272)

The False Fly (Jim MacFarland And Grace Toland, Child No. 3)

Sir Eglamore (Grace Toland, Child No. 18)

Mary Hamilton (Grace Toland, Child No. 173)

Hughie The Graham (Jim MacFarland, Child No. 191)

Geordie (Grace Toland, Child No. 209)

False Lover John (Jim MacFarland, Child No. 4)

A Bhean Udaí Thall (Grace Toland, Child No. 10)

Man, Woman and Child

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