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Reviews
Reviews of more than 480 releases,
including several cassettes and LPs!
The latest additions can be found by
searching for the word ‘new’.
Singers and musicians are listed
by their surname. When looking for bands or groups ignore 'The' or 'Na' (e.g.
The Chieftains would be found under 'C', Na Dórsa under 'D').
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CD-Roms Soundtracks Various
Artists
Altan – 3 CDs:
The Best of Altan: The Songs, The Blue Idol + Local Ground
At the Racket –
Mirth-making Heroes
Duck
Baker, Maggie Boyle, Ben Paley – The Expatriate Game
Allison Barber
– Travelling Home
Barefield
Céilí Band – Between the Sets (click here for a
shorter review)
Christy Barry,
Conor McCarthy, Cyril O’Donoghue – Late... in the Night
Séamus Begley
& Jim Murray –
Ragairne
Border
Lord – Bonny Brave Boys
Paul Brady – The Liberty Tapes
Harry Bradley
– As I Carelessly Did Stray…
Paul Brock
and Enda Scahill - Humdinger
Ronan Browne –
The Wynd You Know
Ronan Browne
& Peadar O’Loughlin – Touch Me If You Dare
Joe Burke
with Charlie Lennon – The Morning Mist
Joe
Burke, Brian Conway, Felix Dolan – A Tribute to Andy McGann
Kevin
Burke and Cal Scott – Across the Black River
Eddie Butcher
– Adam in Paradise
C (49)
Angelina Carberry and Martin Quinn
Liz Carroll and John Doyle – In Play
John Carty - Yeh, that’s all it is
Bobby Casey – The Spirit of West Clare
Karan Casey – 2 albums: Distant Shore + Chasing the Sun
Nollaig Casey – The Music of What Happened
Seán Casey – The Porthole of
the Kelp (click here for another review of this CD)
Con Cassidy – Traditional
Fiddle Music from Donegal
Céide - Like a Wild Thing + Out of Their Shell
Celtic Fiddle Festival – Play on ...
Ceoltóirí Coleman – The Killaville Sessions
Cherish the Ladies – Woman of the House
The Chieftains – Down the Old Plank Road
The Chieftains – Water from the Well
Clannad – In a Lifetime: The Best of Clannad
Michael Coleman – The Enduring Magic
The Coleman Country Céilí Band
Tim Collins – Dancing on Silver
The Tom Collins Band – Dublin
Was Your Home NEW
Colman Connolly, Tobi Kurig, Franziska Urton – Blue
Coilín Conneely – The Last Irishman
Johnny Connolly - An Mileoidean Scaoilte
Johnny B.
Connolly – Bridgetown
Brian
Conway – First Through the Gate (click
here
for another review of this CD)
Éamonn Coyne – Through the Round Window
Cran – 3 Albums: Black Black Black + Lover’s Ghost + Music
from the Edge of the World
Kevin Crehan - An Bhábóg sa Bhádóg: Music from West Clare
Elizabeth Crotty – Concertina Music from West Clare
P.J. Crotty, Carol Cullinan & James Cullinan – Happy to
Meet
Mary Custy & Quentin Cooper – Barr Trá
D (36)
Jackie Daly
– Traditional Accordion and Concertina Music from Sliabh Luachra
Patricia Daly
– The Rolling Wave
Damp in the
Attic – I was... flyin’ it
De Dannan – A Jacket of Batteries
Niamh de Búrca – Where Your Heart Lies
Tim Dennehy –
Between the Mountains and the Sea
Joe Derrane, Frankie Gavin
and Brian McGrath – Ireland’s Harvest
Joe Derrane, Séamus
Connolly and John McGann – The Boston Edge
Dervish - Spirit + Travelling Light
Cara Dillon – 2 albums: Cara Dillon
+ Sweet Liberty
John
Doherty – 5 albums: Pedlar’s Pack (LP) + Johnny Doherty (LP) + John Doherty (a.k.a. Taisce) + Bundle and Go + The
Floating Bow (not so much a review as an introduction – includes full
track listings)
Liz Doherty – Quare Imagination
Maeve Donnelly and Peadar O’Loughlin – The Thing Itself
Martin Donohoe – Tasty Touches
Johnny Doran – The Master Pipers:
Volume 1
Na Dórsa -
The Wild Music of the Gael
John Doyle -
Evening Comes Early
Draíocht
(Michael Rooney & June McCormack) – Draíocht + Land’s End
Chris
Droney – Down from Bell Harbour
The Dubliners – Spirit of the Irish
Con Durham -
Champions of Ireland: Uilleann Pipes
Richie
Dwyer – In a Creative Mood
E (4)
Tim Edey –
Music from the Dingle Peninsula and Beyond
Róisín
Elsafty - Má Bhíonn
Tú Liom Bí Liom
Ennis
Céilí Band – Traditional Dance Music from County Clare
Erne – Traditional
Irish Music
F (8)
Liam
Farrell & Joe Whelan – They Sailed Away from Galway Bay
Flook
– 2 albums: Haven + Rubai
The
Four Star Trio – The Square Triangle
Fromseier Rose - Contradiction
G (13)
Pat Gallagher and Goats Don’t Shave - Tór
Seán Garvey – The Bonny Bunch of Roses
Frankie Gavin – The
2003-2004 Collection
Sarah Ghriallais – Connemara Sean-Nós
Goats Don’t Shave – 2 albums: The Rusty Razor + Out in the Open
Michael Gorman - The Sligo Champion
Carmel Gunning – 2 albums: Around St. James’ Well + The Sligo Maid
H (21)
Rachel Hair –
Hubcaps & Potholes
Hammy Hamilton – The Moneymusk
Hammy Hamilton, Séamus Creagh, Con Ó Drisceoil – It’s No
Secret
Geordie Hanna – The Fisher’s Cot
Frank Harte
& Dónal Lunny – The Hungry Voice
Frank Harte
& Dónal Lunny - My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte
Frank Harte
& Dónal Lunny – 1798: The First Year of Liberty
Cathal Hayden - Cathal Hayden and Live in Belfast
NEW
Kitty Hayes
- A Touch of Clare
Martin
Hayes and Dennis Cahill – Welcome Here Again
Hugh and
Colm Healy – Macalla na hÓige
Seamus
Heaney, Liam O’Flynn – The Poet and the Piper
Matt &
Shannon Heaton - Dearga
Noel Hill –
The Irish Concertina 2 + article
Noel Hill and Tony Mac Mahon – I gCnoc na Graí
Winifred
Horan – Just One Wish
Peter Horan and Gerry Harrington – Fortune Favours the
Merry and The Merry Love to Play
David
Hyams with The Miles to Go Band – Knowing the Place
Michael Hynes and Denis Liddy – Waifs and Strays
(click here for a shorter review)
I (1)
J (1)
The
Johnstons – Colours of the Dawn
K (22)
Liz
& Yvonne Kane – The Well Tempered Bow
Dolores
Keane – Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
James Keane – 2:
albums: Live in Dublin + Sweeter As the Years Roll By
Rita and Sarah Keane – At the Setting of the Sun
Sarah
and Rita Keane – Once I Loved
Seán
Keane – A Portrait: Best of 1993-2003
Tommy
Kearney – The Master Pipers: Volume 2
Josephine Keegan – The Fairy Bridges + The Nightingale and
Other Lesser Spotted Tunes
Kevin Keegan – The Music of Kevin Keegan
Paddy Keenan/Tommy O'Sullivan - The Long Grazing Acre
Alan & John Kelly - Fourmilehouse
Grainne Kelly & Ciarán Marsden - Champions of Ireland:
Tin Whistle
Patrick Kelly – Patrick Kelly from Cree
Éilís Kennedy – One Sweet Kiss
The Kilfenora Céilí Band – Live in Lisdoonvarna
L (10)
Bill
Laswell – Emerald Aether: Shape Shifting
Ben Lennon & Friends – The Natural Bridge
Charlie
Lennon – Turning the Tune
Loud Whisper – Baroque and
Traditional Music of Ireland and Scotland
Lúnasa – The Kinnitty Sessions + Sé + The Story So Far
Lúnasa
– The Merry Sisters of Fate (more of an interview
than a review)
Lúnasa - Redwood (not
a review, but a referral to the band’s website for details of how to obtain the
official version)
Jerry
Lynch – The Dimming of the Day
M (50)
Oisín Mac
Diarmada – Ar an bhFidil
Dara Bán Mac Donnchadha - Rogha Amhrán
Jim Mac Farland – A Taste of Tradition
Seosamh Mac Grianna – Luí Na Gréine
Mac Murrough – Mac Murrough + Merry & Fine
Mary Mac
Namara, Andrew Mac Namara – Open Hearth
Dónal Maguire
– 2 albums: The Clergy’s Lamentation + Gilded Chains and Sordid Affluence
Maigh
Seola – Beyond the Mearing Wall
Claire
Mann and Aaron Jones – Secret Orders
The Josephine Marsh Band - I Can Hear
You Smiling
The McCarthys – The Family Album (click here for another
review of this CD)
Mick McAuley – An Ocean’s Breadth
Mick McAuley & Winifred
Horan – Serenade
Martin Mc
Cormack – Uilleann Pipes and Whistles
Charlie
McDonnell – The Town of Cushendall (cassette)
Catherine
McEvoy and John McEvoy – The Kilmore Fancy
Michael
McGoldrick & John McSherry - At First Light
Jim
McGrath – Melodious Accord
Seán
McGuire – Fiddle on the Fiddle + Man of Achievement
Seán
McGuire – Seán McGuire Plays (LP)
Joe McKenna – The Irish Low Whistle
Dinny McLaughlin- Play it by Ear
El McMeen – Dancing the Strings
Brian
McNamara – Fort of the Jewels
Mary McPartlan – The Holland Handkerchief
John McSherry, Dónal O’Connor - Tripswitch
Kevin &
Ellen Mitchell – Have a Drop Mair
Mick Moloney – McNally’s Row of Flats
Christy Moore – The Box Set: 1964-2004
Christy Moore with Declan Sinnott – Live in Dublin 2006
Ann Mulqueen, Odi agus Sorcha ní Chéilleachair - Briseann
an Dúchas
Mick Mulvey – Within a Mile o’ Jamestown (click here for a
shorter review)
David Munnelly – 2 CDs: By Heck + Swing
Andrew Murray – Hell or High Water
Mirella
Murray & Tola Custy – Three Sunsets
N (16)
Flaithrí & Eoghan Neff - Soundpost and Bridle
Niamh Ní Charra – From
Both Sides
Aoife
Ní Fhearraigh – 2 CDs: Loinneog Cheoil + If I Told You
Bríd Ní Mhaoileoin
with Alan Burke – Ar Mhuin na Muice
Pádraigín
Ní Uallacháin – An Dealg Óir
North Cregg – 3 albums: ...And
They Danced All Night, mi.da:za + Summer at My Feet
O (37)
Diarmuid
O’Brien – Cairde Cairdín
Mick
O’Brien & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh – Kitty Lie Over
Labhrás Ó Cadhla - Amhráin ó Shliabh gCua
Tony
O’Connell and Andy Morrow with Arty McGlynn
Gerry O’Connor & Gilles le Bigot – In Concert
Gerry O’Connor – No Place Like Home
Pat
O’Connor – The Green Mountain
Sinéad
O’Connor – Sean-Nós Nua
Colm
O’Donnell – 3 albums: Farewell to Evening Dances + The Rocks of Bawn + Heart
Strings
PV O’Donnell – Donegal Fiddler
Cyril
O’Donoghue – Nothing But a Child
Séamie
O’Dowd – Headful of Echoes
Seán O’Driscoll
and Larry Egan – The Kitchen Recordings
Dessie
O'Halloran - The Pound Road
Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin & Patrick Ourceau – Tracin’
Méabh O’Hare & Conor Byrne – Bavan
Pádraig O’Keeffe, Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford – Kerry
Fiddles
Christy O’Leary/Bert Deivert
– Song’s Sweet Caress
Iarla Ó Lionáird – I Could Read
the Sky
Iarla Ó Lionáird – Invisible Fields
Ciarán Ó Maonaigh – Ceol a’Ghleanna
Caoimhín Ó
Raghallaigh – Turas go Tír na nÓg
Mícheál Ó
Raghallaigh - The Nervous Man
Jerry
O’Reilly – Down with Your Pulpits, Down with Your Thrones!
Padraic O’Reilly – Down the Ivory Stairs + Highly Strung!
Seán Ó Riada with Seán Ó Sé and
Ceoltóirí Cualann – Ó Riada sa Gaiety (both
original CD reissue and revised version)
Paul O’Shaughnessy & Harry
Bradley - ...born for sport
Tim O’Shea and Friends – Lake of Learning
Tommy
O’Sullivan - Legacy (click here for a shorter review) + Song Ablaze
P (17)
Niamh
Parsons with Graham Dunne – Heart’s Desire + The Old Simplicity
Tommy Peoples – 5 albums: Fiddler’s Fancy + The High Part of the Road + Master Irish Fiddle Player + Traditional Irish Music Played on the Fiddle + Waiting for a Call (also includes an almost complete discography of Tommy’s recordings)
Jimmy Power – 4 LPs: Irish Dances + Music
from The Favourite + Irish Fiddle Player + Fifty-Odd Years (includes a discography)
Sam Proctor – Natural Progression
Q (1)
Séamus Quinn & Gary
Hastings - Slán le Loch Eírne
R (13)
Ed Reavy –
The Music of Ed Reavy
The Red Hat Band –
Covering Ground
John Regan – The Slopes of
Benbulben
Tony Reidy –
2 CDs: The Coldest Day in Winter + A Rough Shot of Lipstick
Brendan Ring -
Troublesome Things
Helen
Roche – Shake the Blossom Early
Róise na nAmhrán – Songs of a Donegal Woman
Brian Rooney – From Leitrim to London
Cathie Ryan -
Somewhere Along the Road
S (30)
Shades of MacMurrough – Carrig
River
Sharon Shannon – The Sharon
Shannon Collection 1990-2005
Sharon Shannon and Friends
- Libertango
Sharon Shannon, Frankie
Gavin, Mike McGoldrick, Jim Murray - Tunes
Shantalla – Seven Evenings,
Seven Mornings
Steve Shaw and Martin Cole – Blowing Through the Reeds
Dave Sheridan & Company –
Sheridan’s Guesthouse
Denise Shiels - Champions of Ireland: Accordion
Sherburn, Bartley & Scott’s Last Night’s Fun – Tempered
P.P. Slaggart – Tales from a
Whisky Town + The Ramblings of Dangerous McDaid
Sliabh Notes – 2 albums: Along Blackwater’s Banks + Gleanntán
Sliotar – Bí Liom
Lí + Crew of Three
Ian Smith
and Stephen Campbell – Keadue Bar
Solas – 4 albums: The Edge of Silence + Another Day +
Waiting for an Echo + Reunion
Stockton’s Wing – Live: Take One
Sweeney’s Men – The Legend of Sweeney’s Men Anthology
T (15)
Séamus Tansey – 3 albums: Jigs, Reels and Airs + King of the Concert Flute Remastered + Words and Music: The Phantom Shadows of a Connaught Firelight
Nioclás
Tóibín - Rinn na nGael
Patsy Touhey – The Piping of Patsy Touhey
Ciarán Tourish – Down the Line
Martín Tourish & Luke Ward – Clan Ranald
Tulla Céilí Band – 60th
Anniversary Celebration
Pierce Turner – The Boy to Be With
Seán Tyrrell – The Best of Seán
Tyrrell
U
(No reviews so far)
V (4)
Niall
and Cillian Vallely – Callan Bridge
Niall Vallely, Paul Meehan, Caoimhín Vallely – Buílle
John Vesey and Eddie
Cahill – Two Sligo Masters
W (10)
Mat Walklate –
Harmonica & Flute
Garry Walsh –
Uncovered + article