Irish Music Downloads - Music From Donegal

Since 1993 the Irish Traditional Music Archive has been involved in a programme of audio and video field and studio recording of singers, musicians and dancers. The resulting recordings are being systematically transferred to CD or DVD and catalogued, and many (but not yet all) are available for consultation within the Archive. The rights to these recordings are held by the performers.

The Archive has regularly recorded at the Inishowen International Folk Song and Ballad Seminar, which has been held annually in Ballyliffen, Inishowen, Co Donegal, since 1990. Seven songs recorded at the Seminar in the Ballyliffin Hotel in 2008 are freely made available for listening here, with the generous permission of each of the singers

Maurice Leyden

ITMA Refno.

Song Title

Performer

2034-ITMA-DAT

Michael Dwyer's Lament

Jim MacFarland

2034-ITMA-DAT

The Bleacher Boy

Maurice Leyden

2033-ITMA-DAT

The Greenstone Midge

Brian Doyle

2033-ITMA-DAT

Larry Morgan 

Miceal Ned Quinn

2033-ITMA-DAT

Caroline of Edinburgh Town

Mícheál Quinn

2033-ITMA-DAT

The Blooming Maid of Galway Town

Grace Toland

2034-ITMA-DATThe Factory MaidGerry Cullen

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