Recorded by Bill Leader and TPA Studios in a two-day session in 1967;
Liner notes by Donagh McDonagh;
Cover photograph by Brian Shuel

Musicians

Frank Harte: vocals;
Alf Edwards: concertina [2, 4, 7]

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Traveller All Over the World (Roud 45609)
2. The Shamrock Shore (Roud 45609)
3. The Rag Man’s Ball (Roud 3006)
4. Henry My Son (Roud 10; Child 12; G/D 2:209; Henry H814)
5. The Bold Belfast Shoemaker (Roud 982; Laws J15; G/D 1:82)

Side 2

6. The Night Before Larry Was Stretched (Roud 37837)
7. The Twangman (Roud 45552)
8. The Finding of Moses (Roud 37679)
9. Father Murphy (Roud 3020)

Recorded by Bill Leader and TPA Studios in a two-day session in 1967;
Notes by A.L. Lloyd and Frank Harte;
Sleeve design by Ken Lees

Musicians

Frank Harte: vocals;
Alf Edwards: concertina [1, 12]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Rosemary Fair (Roud 12; Child 2; G/D 2:329)
2. Johnny Doyle (Roud 678; Henry H131)
3. Dunlavin Green (Roud 3010)
4. The Spanish Lady (Roud 542; G/D 4:746; Henry H532)
5. The Flower of Magherally (Roud 3009; Henry H220)
6. James Connolly (Roud 12495)

Side 2

7. The Ship Carpenter’s Wife (Roud 2898; Henry H226)
8. The Connerys (Roud 44840)
9. Three Weeks We Are Wed (Roud 37185)
10. Matt Hyland (Roud 2880)
11. The Row in the Town (Roud 45550)
12. He Rolled Her to the Wall (Roud 36; Child 46; G/D 4:842; Henry H681)

All tracks trad.

Produced by Dónal Lunny;
Recorded by Ciaran Byrne at Marguerite Studios;
Additional engineering by Catherine Considine and Tom Skerrit;
Digital editing by Aidan Foley at Digital Pigeons Studio and by Ivan O Shea at Totally Wired Studios;
Mixed by Ciaran Byrne at Totally Wired Studios, Dublin;
Sleeve notes by Frank Harte;
Sleeve concept by Cian Harte;
Designed by Red Dog

Musical Traditions review by Fred McCormick

Musicians

Frank Harte: vocals;
Dónal Lunny: bouzouki, guitar

Tracks

1. Henry Joy (Roud 10612) (3.55)
2. General Munro (Roud 1166) (2.42)
3. Dunlavin Green (Roud 3010) (4.15)
4. By Memory Inspired (Roud 37149) (3.38)
5. Shan Van Vocht (Roud 6529) (4.00)
6. Father Murphy (Roud 3020) (5.28)
7. Croppies Lie Down (Roud 37530) (2.58)
8. Croppy Boy (Roud 1030; Laws J14) (4.05)
9. Ballyshannon Lane (Roud 22004) (3.48)
10. Wind That Shakes the Barley (Roud 2994) (3.24)
11. Roddy McCorley (Roud 5279) (5.13)
12. Bagnal Harvey’s Farewell (Roud 12494) (4.10)
13. Bold Belfast Shoemaker (Roud 982; Laws J15; G/D 1:82) (4.03)
14. Wheels of the World (Roud 16901) (2.40)
15. Henry Joy McCracken (Roud 3008) (6.00)
16. Bodenstown Churchyard (Roud 9313) (3.35)
17. Rights of Man (Roud 29030) (4.05)

All tracks trad. except
Track 10 Robert Dwyer Joyce;
Track 17 John Sheil

Notes by Frank Harte

Musical Traditions review by Geoff Wallis

Musicians

Frank Harte: vocals;
Dónal Lunny: bouzouki, guitar

Tracks

CD 1

1. The Isle of St Helena (Roud 349) (4.50)
2. The Nightingale (Roud 32290; Henry H75b) (2.45)
3. The Bonny Light Horseman (Roud 1185; G/D 8:1584; Henry H122a) (4.55)
4. Sweet Laurel Hill (Roud 2917; Henry H8) (6.30)
5. My Son Tim (Roud 678; Henry H131) (2.25)
6. Napoleon’s Farewell to Paris (Roud 1626) (5.15)
7. King’s Shilling (3.50)
8. The Bonny Bunch of Roses (Roud 664; Laws J5; G/D 1:155) (5.30)
9. The Eighteenth of June (Roud 2539) (3.50)
10. The Grand Conversation on Napoleon (Roud 1189) (5.00)
11. Lonely Waterloo (Roud 622; Laws N31) (3.50)
12. The Green Linnet (Roud 1619) (4.55)
13. The Wounded Hussar (Roud 2699) (3.50)

CD 2

14. The Mantle of Green (Roud 714; Laws N38; G/D 5:1033; Henry H76) (4.55)
15. The Love Token (Roud 604; Laws N29; Henry H581) (4.50)
16. My Love at Waterloo (Roud 622) (4.05)
17. Armagh Volunteer (Roud 9046, 2784; Henry H724) (4.45)
18. Plains of Waterloo (Roud 960; Laws N32) (4.40)
19. Deartháirín Ó Mo Chroí (Roud 2360) (4.20)
20. Napoleon’s Lamentation (Roud 2547) (2.45)
21. Welcome Napoleon to Erin the Green (Roud 5329) (2.30)
22. Granuaile (Roud 3034) (5.00)
23. You Sons of Old Ireland (Roud 2357) (2.00)
24. Napoleon Bonaparte (Roud 3084) (3.55)
25. Whiskey in the Jar (Roud 21715) (2.40)
26. Saxon’s Shilling (3.50)

All tracks trad. except
Track 7 Ian Sinclair;
Track 26 Kevin T. Buggy (1842)

Produced by Dónal Lunny;
Recorded by Trevor Hutchinson at Marguerite Studios;
Mastered by Tim Martin;
Notes by Frank Harte;
Layout by Dave Turner;
Sleeve concept by Cian Harte;
Photos by Orla Harte;
Cover image “Exiles” by Patrick Hennessy, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

Musical Traditions review by Geoff Wallis

Musicians

Frank Harte: vocals;
Dónal Lunny: bouzouki, guitar

Tracks

1. Skibbereen (Roud 2312) (4.28)
2. Edward Connors (Roud 39653) (6.05)
3. Sailing Off to the Yankee Land (Roud 45708) (3.39)
4. Pat Maguire (Roud 16887) (5.37)
5. The Green Fields of America (Roud 2290) (6.10)
6. Erin’s Lovely Home (Roud 5175) (5.31)
7. Poor Pat Must Emigrate (Roud 2558) (6.20)
8. The Shamrock Shore (Roud 45609) (5.21)
9. By the Hush (Roud 2314) (3.36)
10. Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore (Roud 1419; Henry H192) (6.17)
11. No Irish Need Apply (Roud 1137) (4.06)
12. Rigged Out (Roud 39384) (3.25)
13. Lone Shanakyle (Roud 8138) (4.21)
14. Thousands Are Sailing to America (Roud 2904) (3.13)
15. Lough Sheelin Side (Roud 9488) (3.38)
16. My Own Dear Galway Bay (Roud 9306) (4.16)
17. City of Chicago (Roud 45611) (2.59)

All tracks trad. arr. Frank Harte, Dónal Lunny except
Track 11 John F. Poole;
Track 16 Francis A. Fahy;
Track 17 Barry Moore

A compilation of all but the first track of Dublin Street Songs and Through Dublin City.

Produced by A.L. Lloyd;
Recorded by Bill Leader and TPA Studios in a two-day session in 1967;
Sleeve notes by Donagh McDonagh, A.L. Lloyd and Frank Harte;
Sleeve design by Frank Harte;
Cover image: detail from “Near St Patrick’s Close”, National Gallarey of Ireland, Dublin

Musicians

Frank Harte: vocals;
Alf Edwards: concertina [1, 3, 6, 9, 20]

Tracks

Dublin Street Songs

1. Henry My Son (Roud 10; Child 12; G/D 2:209; Henry H814) (2.47)
2. The Night of the Ragman’s Ball (Roud 3006) (4.18)
3. The Shamrock Shore (Roud 45609) (4.30)
4. The Bold Belfast Shoemaker (Roud 982; Laws J15; G/D 1:82) (4.22)
5. The Night Before Larry Was Stretched (Roud 37837) (5.22)
6. The Twangman (Roud 45552) (2.56)
7. The Finding of Moses (Roud 37679) (3.21)
8. Father Murphy (Roud 3020) (6.58)

Through Dublin City

9. Rosemary Fair (Roud 12; Child 2; G/D 2:329) (2.18)
10. The Forgetful Sailor (Johnny Doyle) (Roud 678; Henry H131) (4.28)
11. Dunlavin Green (Roud 3010) (3.44)
12. The Spanish Lady (Roud 542; G/D 4:746; Henry H532) (4.45)
13. The Flower of Magherally (Roud 3009; Henry H220) (2.55)
14. James Connolly (Roud 12495) (4.06)
15. The Ship Carpenter’s Wife (Roud 2898; Henry H226) (2.40)
16. The Connerys (Roud 44840) (4.02)
17. Three Weeks We Were Wed (Roud 37185) (4.02)
18. Matt Hyland (Roud 2880) (6.59)
19. The Row in the Town (Roud 45550) (1.56)
20. He Rolled Her to the Wall (Roud 36; Child 46; G/D 4:842; Henry H681) (3.30)

All tracks trad.

Produced and recorded by Dónal Lunny;
Track 13 recorded in 1967;
Track 16 recorded in 1987;
Track 17 recorded in 1995;
Track 18 recorded in 1984;
Tracks 1 recorded in 1999;
Tracks 19-20 recorded live at the Góilín Club in 2003, track 20 accompanied by West Virginia singer, Molly Andrews;
Tracks 2-12 at a concert on the theme of ‘songs on love and courtship’, accompanied by Dónal Lunny;
Tracks 14-15 recorded in 2004;
Mastered by Tim Martin;
Sleeve notes by Frank Harte;
Sleeve concept by Cian Harte;
Photos by Orla Harte

Musical Traditions review by Rod Stradling

Musicians

Frank Harte: vocals;
Dónal Lunny: bouzouki, guitar [2-12]

with
Molly Andrews: chorus vocals [20]

Tracks

1. Dónal Óg (Roud 3379) (4.42)
2. Adam in Paradise (Roud 2955) (1.50)
3. As I Roved Out (Roud 277; Laws O17; G/D 4:791; Henry H152, H793) (2.25)
4. I Am Stretched on Your Grave (Roud 41024) (3.38)
5. Síle Ní Iyre (Roud 3108) (2.07)
6. The Spanish Lady (Roud 542; G/D 4:746; Henry H532, H641) (4.50)
7. A Spailpín, A Rúin (2.05)
8. The Brown and the Yellow Ale (Roud 41143) (3.02)
9. The Lover’s Ghost (Roud 179; Child 248) (3.16)
10. The Bonny Blue-Eyed Lassie (Roud 3870) (3.54)
11. Red Roses for Me (Roud 45543) (2.22)
12. The Lambeg Drummer (Roud 45544) (4.09)
13. Matt Hyland (Roud 2880) (7.04)
14. I Wonder What’s Keeping My True Love Tonight (Roud 858; G/D 1:52, 6:1139) (4.54)
15. The Woods of Truagh (Roud 2911) (4.42)
16. The Holland Handkerchief (Roud 246; Child 272; Henry H217) (4.21)
17. Aisy and Slow (Roud 42111) (3.05)
18. True Lover John (Roud 179; Child 248; Henry H699) (2.45)
19. The Deserted Wife (Roud 2130) (1.52)
20. Sweet Sorrow in the Wind (Roud 45545) (2.47)

All tracks trad. except
Track 12 Mickey McConnell;
Track 20 Jean Ritchie