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 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

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

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 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

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

This song always had a particular appeal to me as a fiddle player and a fan of John Doherty – his playing of the air is so beautiful. When I came across this version in Sam Henry’s Songs of the People collection I was immediately curious to compare the transcribed melody with that of the familiar air. I ended up liking the Sam Henry melody better even than the version I already knew. The setting of the narrative is Eastersnow, a townland in Co Roscommon.

Helen Diamond - 05 - Eastersnow

Helen Diamond

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