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    The full complement of recordings from The Furls of Music – The Michael McNamara Collection

    • 70 Tracks
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    John Brennan's reel / Charlie Mulvihill, button accordion, & Michael NcNamara, flute

    Charlie Mulvihill, Michael McNamara, Pee Fitzpatrick, Pat Reilly, Fr. John Quinn, John Blessing, Michael Reilly, Josephine McNamara, Brian McNamara, Ray McNamara, Charlie Lennon,

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    • John Brennan's reel / Charlie Mulvihill, button accordion, & Michael NcNamara, flute

    • The mountain road, reel ; The hunter's house, reel / Charlie Mulvihill, button accordion, Michael McNamara, flute, & Pee Fitzpatrick, fiddle

    • These are my mountains, song [composed by James Copeland] / Josephine McNamara, speech in English, singing in English

    • Logier's hornpipe / Enda McNamara, fiddle ; Reilly, Pat, speech in English ; Quinn, Fr. John, speech in English ; McNamara, Michael, speech in English

    • The kesh jig / John Blessing, flute

    • Michael Creamer's reel / John Blessing, flute

    • Buckley's fancy, reel / John Blessing, flute

    • Fermoy lasses, reel / John Blessing, flute

    • Mary from Dungloe, song [composed by Pádraig Mac Cumhaill] / Josephine McNamara, singing in English

    • [unidentified tune] / Ben Lennon, fiddle

    • [unidentified tune] / Charlie Mulvihill, concertina

    • Billy Brocker's, reel [Morrison's reel] / Charlie Mulvihill, button accordion

    • Charlie Mulvihill's reel / Charlie Mulvihill, button accordion, composer

    • Biddy McGrath, song / [unidentified woman], singing in English

    • The tempest, reel / Denis Ryan, fiddle

    • The Collier's reel / Denis Ryan, fiddle, & Cathal McConnell, flute

    • The Connacht reel ; Cooley's reel ; The bucks of Oranmore, reel / Denis Ryan, fiddle, & Cathal McConnell, flute

    • Cock and hen, slip jig / Denis Ryan, fiddle

    • The Desmond, hornpipe ; Pride of Erin, hornpipe / Green Linnet Ceili Band, instrumental group

    • Sligo pinch of snuff, reel ; Doolin reel ; Shepherd's daughter, reel / Green Linnet Ceili Band, instrumental group

    • Stop the bus, jig [Paddy Taylor's, jig] ; The frost is all over, jig ; The Leitrim jig, jig / The Leitrim Trio, instrumental group

    • The Dunmore lasses, reel ; The youngest daughter, reel ; The Aughavas reel / The Leitrim Trio, instrumental group

    • Copperplate, reel / Cathal McConnell, flute

    • Drowsy Maggie, reel / Cathal McConnell, flute

    • Fisher's hornpipe ; Brigid of Knock, hornpipe / Ben Lennon, fiddle, & Michael NcNamara, flute

    • The concert reel / Mike Flynn, flute

    • O'Reilly's greyhound, reel / Mike Flynn, flute

    • The joys and sorrows of Ireland, reel ; [Ceili House capers], reel ; The moving bog, reel / Michael McNamara, flute, & Pee Fitzpatrick, fiddle

    • Cut the sod, reel / Michael McNamara, flute, & John Blessing, flute

    • Farewell to Ireland, reel ; The flowers of Red Hill, reel / Michael McNamara, flute

    • [unidentified tunes] / Michael NcNamara, flute, & John Blessing, flute

    • The Drummond lasses, reel / John Blessing, flute

    • Bonny Irish boy, song / John Blessing, singing in English

    • The dawn reel / John Thomas Gray, fiddle

    • [unidentified], reel / John Thomas Gray, fiddle

    • Top the candle, hop jig ; Do it fair, hop jig / Frank Reilly, fiddle, & Pat Reilly, fiddle

    • Fraulein, song / Larry Cunningham, singing in English

    • He'll have to go, song / Larry Cunningham, singing in English ; J. Allison, words and music

    • Terry of my heart, song / Marie Reilly, singing in English, & Michael Reilly, fiddle

    • Blessing's delight, jig ; Mug of brown ale, jig ; Unfortunate rake, jig / Conmhaicne Ceili Band, instrumental group

    • The Glen of Aherlow, reel ; Maudebawn Chapel, reel / Maura Connolly Hynan, fiddle

    • John Blessing's delight, jig [Jackson's Mistake, jig] / John Lee, flute

    • O'Connell's reel ; Mary of the grove, reel ; The Drummond lasses, reel / Michael NcNamara, flute, & John Lee, flute

    • The Edenderry reel ; Over the bridge to Peggy, reel ; Master Henry's reel / Michael NcNamara, flute, & John Lee, flute

    • The blackthorn stick, reel ; [unidentified], reel / Ben Lennon, fiddle, Michael NcNamara, flute, & John McGuinness, bodhrán

    • Up Sligo, jig ; [unidentified], jig / Ben Lennon, fiddle, & Michael NcNamara, flute

    • The ash plant, reel ; The merry harriers, reel / Mick Carroll, tin whistle

    • The rainy day jig / The Leitrim Ceili Band, instrumental group

    • The home I left behind, song / Fr. O'Flynn, speech in English ; Josephine McNamara, singing in English

    • Larry the beer drinker, jig / John Blessing, flute

    • The broken pledge, reel / [Jimmy McKiernan], fiddle

    • The Curragh races, reel / [Jimmy McKiernan], fiddle

    • The Ballyoran, hornpipe [composed by Seán Ryan] / Michael Reilly, fiddle

    • O'Donnell's, hornpipe / Michael Reilly, fiddle, & Michael McNamara, flute

    • The bird in the bush, reel ; The gravel walks, reel / Frank Kelly, fiddle, & Michael McNamara, flute

    • Drunken sailor, hornpipe / Frank Kelly, fiddle

    • Road into Sligo, song / Josephine McNamara, singing in English

    • Shanagolden, song [composed by Sean McCarthy] / Josephine McNamara, singing in English

    • Bonnie Kate, reel ; Jenny's chickens, reel / Michael Reilly, fiddle

    • The high level, hornpipe ; Bantry Bay, hornpipe ; The showman's fancy, hornpipe / Eugene Leddy Ceili Band, instrumental group

    • [unidentified tune] / St. Joseph's Pipe Band, Aughavas, instrumental group

    • The cottage groves, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

    • The green fields of Glentown, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

    • The Long Note, radio programme / Michael McNamara, flute, speech in English ; Brian McNamara, uilleann pipes ; Ray McNamara, uilleann pipes ; John Blessing, singing in English

    • Dr. Gilbert's, reel ; The Queen of May, reel / Ben Lennon, fiddle ; Charlie Lennon, fiddle ; [unidentified performer], bodhrán

    • The Leitrim bucks, reel ; unidentified, reel / Pee Fitzpatrick, fiddle, speech in English

    • The high part of the road, jig ; unidentified, jig / Pee Fitzpatrick, fiddle

    • Jim Coleman's, reel / John Blessing, flute

    • The Callan Lasses, reel / Pee Fitzpatrick, fiddle

    • Miss Simple's, reel ; The humours of Bolton Street, reel ; Bring her to the shelter, reel ; Miss Gunning's reel / The McNamara Family

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