USA label which uses an analogue studio, originally established to recreate the sound of Blue Note jazz recordings from the 1950s, but nowadays branching out into other genres – www.mapleshaderecords.com.

09232 Joe Derrane, Frankie Gavin, Brian McGrath – Ireland’s

Harvest (2002)

10332 Joe Derrane, Séamus Connolly, John McGann – The Boston

Edge (2004)

Maree

Galway-based label issuing releases by members of the McCarthy family and their spouses – www.iol.ie/~marmusic

MMC CD51 Tommy Keane & Jacqueline McCarthy with Alec Finn –

The Wind among the Reeds (1995)

MMC CD52 Tommy McCarthy – Sporting Nell (1997)

MMC CD53 Jacqueline McCarthy – The Hidden Note (1999)

MMC CD54 The McCarthys – The Family Album (2002)

Mark Town

No details available.

TD 18176 Various – Airs from Eire (1976)

Market Square

No details available.

MSMCD123 The Woods Band – Music from the Four Corners of Hell (2003)

Master Collector

USA label – no further details available, except that its releases bore the lengthy prefix ‘Master Collector Series’. The release below is the only one I have been able to discover and my guess is that it was linked to Shanachie in some way since the latter’s Carty/O’Connor release bears the catalogue number 29001. John Cummins has subsequently confirmed that the label was a short-lived forerunner of Shanachie

1 Paddy Carty and Mick O’Connor – Traditional

Music of Ireland

Meadowlark

USA-based label, part of Shanachie.

101 Paddy O’Brien with Seán O’Driscoll – Hill 16 (1984)

102 Various – Traditional Irish Music from New York City (1985)

103

104 Skip Healy – Empty Pockets (1985)

Number unknown Kevin Burke – Sweeney’s Dream (1973)

Membran

No information available.

224049-321 Various – Celtic Souls (2006; 10-CD boxed set, featuring various

Outlet releases; ridiculously cheap and possibly the only way now to

acquire some of these OOP albums)

Mercier

Cork-based publishing company which released several albums in the 1970s, some later reissued by Ossian. Since Mercier was fundamentally interested in literature some of the recordings (such as Keane and Brendan Behan’s biographer O’Connor would usually be defined as ‘spoken word’). Thanks to Alastair Banfield for information on this label.

IRL 1 James N. Healy – Songs and Music of Cork and Kerry

IRL 2 John B. Keane – Self Portrait

IRL 3 James N. Healy, Denis McCarthy and Fergus Cahill –

Ballads from the Pubs of Ireland

IRL 4 Ulick O’Connor – An Evening with …

IRL 5-8

IRL 9 Na Filí – An Ghaoth Aniar /The West Wind

IRL 10 Cathal McConnell and Robin Morton – An Irish Jubilee

IRL 11 Various – Folksongs Sung in Ulster, Volume 1

IRL 12 Various – Folksongs Sung in Ulster, Volume 2

Also, Folk Music and Dances of Ireland (1971, catalogue number unknown) released in association with the original publication of Breandán Breathnach’s book of the same name

Number unknown Seán McAloon and John Rea – Drops of Brandy (1969; reissued by Topic in 1976)

Mercury

20170 SMCL Christy Moore – Paddy on the Road (1969)

MERH 124 Van Morrison and The Chieftains – Irish Heartbeat (1988)

Mint Julep

No information available

JULEP 16 Arty McGlynn – McGlynn’s Fancy (1980)

Misty

Details unknown.

MYLP 5004 Kevin Loughlin – From Glen to Glen (1977)

Morningstar

USA label – A quote from collector Philippe Varlet "Morningstar was an early label set up by Dan Collins and Rich Nevins before Shanachie. The original "Wheels of the World" LP first came out on the Morningstar label around 1974." Thanks to Alastair Banfield for tracking down this information.

45001 Various – Wheels of the World: Classics of Irish Traditional

Music

Music Box

No details available.

MB LP 1018 Pecker Dunne – The Tinker Man (1988)

Music Club

UK budget-priced reissues label (part of the Demon Music Group – www.mcimusic.co.uk – only its Irish releases are listed below.

MCCD 010 The Fureys and Davey Arthur – Best of ... (1991)

MCCD 042 Various – Dublin Songs

MCCD 048 The Chieftains – The Magic of The Chieftains (1992)

MCCD 243 Various – Celtic Spirit

MCCD 278 Various – A Treasury of Irish Song (1990s reissue of

Gael-Linn material)

MCCD 293 Finbar and Eddie Furey – The Best of ... (1997 reissue of

1960s/1970s Transatlantic material)

MCCD 351 Clannad – An Díolaim (1998 compilation of early tracks)

MCCD 409 Various – Celtic Voices (Gael Linn material)

MCCD 450 Patrick Lyons – Ireland in My Dreams (reissue of 1998 own

label release)

MCCD 463 Various – A Treasury of Irish Gold (Gael Linn & Hummingbird

material)

MCCD 528 Various – Celtic Heartbeat (2004)

MCDLX 095 Clannad – Beginnings (2CDs – 2008)

Music for Pleasure

This was a budget label and part of the UK’s EMI group. Originally known as MfP, it changed its name in the late 1980s to Compacts for Pleasure.

41 1046 3 The Dubliners – Here’s The Dubliners (1984; double LP)

7243 8276002 3 The Dubliners – Live at The Albert Hall (1993)

7243 8567002 2 The Dubliners – Essential Collection (1997)

CC 227 The Dubliners (1988 compilation, possibly reissued as CDMFP

6345)

CC 291 Various – Irish Melodies (1992)

CC 8235 The Dubliners – Dubliners Live (1987)

DL 1125 Various – Sounds of Ireland (double LP featuring loads of céilí

bands)

MFP 1058 Brendan Hogan and the Ballinakill Céilí Band (recorded live

at the Irish Club, Parnell Square, Dublin in 1958).

Musical Traditions

Offshoot of the internet magazine, producing albums of traditional song and music. Irish releases are listed below –www.mustrad.org.uk.

MTCD202 Peta Webb – The Magpie's Nest (1989 MC, 2003 CD)

MTCD315-6 Kevin and Ellen Mitchell – Have a Drop Mair (2001)

MTCD325-6 Various – From Puck to Appleby : Songs of Irish Travellers

in Britain (2003)

MTCD329-0 Various – The Hardy Sons of Dan - Football, Hunting and

Other Traditional Songs from around Lough Erne's Shore

(2004)

MTCD331-2 Various – Around the Hills of Clare (2004)

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