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With her flamboyant delivery and idiosyncratic banjo-playing
Margaret Barry brought the art of the street-singer into the pubs and
clubs of Irish London in the 1950s and '60s, frequently accompanied by
the fiddler Michael Gorman.
'To be confronted
with a past so recent, so arrestingly singular and so irrecoverable catches
alike the heart and the imagination.'- Mojo
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MANTLE SO GREEN TSCD474
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1
The Cycling Championship of Ulster
2 The Flower of Sweet Strabane
3 reel: Dr Gilbert
4 The Turfman from Ardee
5 jigs: The Rambling Pitchfork / Fasten the Legging
6 The Galway Shawl
7 polkas: Maguire's Favourite / Tralee Gaol / Maggie in the Wood
8 The Wild Colonial Boy
9 Dwyer's Hornpipe
10 My Lagan Love
11hornpipe: The Boys of Bluehill
12 reels: The Yellow Tinker / The Corner House
13 The Factory Girl
14 Her Mantle So Green
15 reels: The Bunch of Keys / The Heather Breeze
16 Our Ship is Ready |
Margaret
Barry voice, banjo
Michael Gorman fiddle
William Clancy uilleann
pipes
Paddy Breen flageolet
Tommy Maguire button accordeon
Patsy Goulding piano
Martin Byrnes fiddle |
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