Fire Draw Near Ian Lynch
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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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Paddy Works on the Railway
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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Santiano
This episode looks at the ballad Santiano aka Santiana aka Santy Anno aka Santy Anna aka The Plains of Mexico.
Tracklist
Henry Lundy and David "Pappie" Pryor – Bay of Mexico
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem – Santy Anno
The Watersons – The Plains of Mexico
Pusser's Rum ft. Stan Hugill – Santiano
Meredydd Evans – Santiana
The Weavers – The Bay of Mexico
Odetta – Santy Anno
The Kingston Trio - Santy Anno
Dave Van Ronk – Santy Anno
The Men Of The Robert Shaw Chorale – Santy Anna
A.H. Rasmussen – Chantey interview
Hugues Aufray – Santiano
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire – Aim Spirente
Sea Shanty Metal – Santiana
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FDN LIII
FDN LIII has been a long time coming...Included therein are songs of resistance, songs of magic and songs of being human. Life, Death, Love, Rage, Joy and Suffering. You know the drill. Sit by the Fire Draw Near. Free Palestine. Artwork designed by Palestinian artist Abdal Latif Muhanna and published by the Foreign Information Department of the PLO in 1982. X
Tracklist
Zeinab Shaath – The Urgent Call Of Palestine
Marcel Khalife Oumeima El Khalil – My Teacher
Palestinian Student Karmel Group – Al Intifada Was Jabal Al Thawra
Robert Sarazin Blake – Don’t Use Our Death and Pain
Daniel Kahn, Psoy Korolenko – Oh you Foolish little Zionists
Rola Azar – Ya Teir Elsnono
Áit Ait – Henry Martin
Gazelle Twin & NYX – Fire Leap
Wailing Sídhe – Corrag
Derrick Morgan – Three Drunken Night
Mark Lanegan – The Cherry Tree Carol
Richard Bégin – Lavrador
Jack Sheehan & Isa Gordon – My Heart Biological (Loch Erne’s Shore)
Doyle & Andersson – Baffled Knight
Leonard Barry – Tom Busby's / The Humours of Ballingary
Ian Lynch - The Rocks of Palestine
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Eggs And Marrowbones
This episode looks at the song Eggs and Marrowbones aka Marrowbones aka The Old Woman from Wexford aka The Old Woman from Oxford aka The Old Woman from Boston aka The Old Woman of Slapsadam aka An Old Woman’s Story aka The Rich Old Lady aka The Auld Man and the Churnstaff aka Tippig it Up to Nancy. Artwork by Carol Roe - https://youtu.be/laBE2X5tBMw
Tracklist:
John Reilly – Tipping it up to Nancy
Joe Heaney – Old Woman of Wexford
Red Mick McDermott – Marrowbones
Sarah Makem – Canny Ould Lad
Janet Gibson Lynch – The Old Woman from Kelso
George Inglis Fraser – The Toon O’Kelso
Jimmy Knight – Marrowbones
Ken Peacock – Old Woman from Dover
Helen Fultz – Holy Boly
Horton Barker – There Was An Old Lady
Hedy West – Johnny Sands
Peggy Seeger – Rich Old Lady
Dorothy Olsen - Marrowbones
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FDN LII
Episode LII is dedicated to the memory of Shane McGowan. It features some of my favourite Pogues songs as well as tracks by John Francis Flynn, Andy the Doorbum, Dulcidrone, Of the Clay and more.
Tracklist
The Pogues – Boys from County Hell
The Pogues – The Old Main Drag
Mick Moloney and Frank Harte – Conversation, June 1982
Pandy Corporation – Polly Vaughan feat. Sive
Sestri Koushlevi – Da Znaesh, Maicho, Da Znaesh
Andy the Doorbum – Little Deaths: the dirge of renewal
Dulcidrone – Winter Bracken
John Francis Flynn – Kitty
Of the Clay – Geordie
The Pogues – A Pair Of Brown Eyes
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Bonus Episode - The Maid On The Shore
This episode looks at the ballad The Maid on the Shore.
Tracklist:
A.L. Lloyd – The Maid on the Shore
Peggy Seeger – The Fair Maid by the Shore
Isla Cameron – The Maid on the Shore
Tom Kines and Jean Price – The Maid on the Shore
Frankie Armstrsong – The Maid on the Shore
John Lyons – The Maid on the Shore
Hedy West and Bill Clifton – The Maid on the Shore
John Roberts and Tony Barrand – The Maid on the Shore
John Kirkpatrick – The Maid on the Shore
Niamh Parsons – The Maid on the Shore
Eliza Carthy – The Maid on the Shore
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Customer Reviews
A love note from Ireland
Thank you for this! The excitement you have for music is contagious.
Probably My Favorite Podcast, These Days
A modern and eclectic exploration of traditional ballads and songs and their migration from Ireland, Scotland and England. Essential listening. The bonus episodes are a great perk if you support the project.
Incredible listening
I’ve been listening to FDR since 2020 and by now it feels like I took a college elective in traditional song/singing but with pints instead of papers - funny, informative, and covers a lot of history that gets overlooked in the States even as we so often share it. Superb podcast.