Ireland's Bards
1975 - Polydor 2908 024 LP

Side One
Farewell to Carlingford
Avondale
Flower of Scotland
Christian island
Upton Ambush
Freedom walk
Crooked Jack

Side Two
Billy O'Rourke
Robert Emmet
Ar Éirinn ní h-eosfamn Cé Hí/The Hunt
Come all Ye Fair and
Tender Maidens
Boys of Barr-na-Sráide
Oh South Wind
The Gypsy Maiden

Credits

Ann Keaveny: Lead vocal, keyboard and electronic base [sic]
Diarmuid O'Leary: Vocal, guitar.
Pat Ryan: Mandolin, bozouki, vocals.

Produced by Jerry Hughes
Mixed at Dublin Sound Ltd.
Engineered by Pat Morley
Recorded live at the Heatherville Club
Photography: Roy Esmonde and Edmund Ross
Sleeve design by Des O'Meara & Partners Lid.

Sleeve Notes

The bards of long ago, when they travelled at all, went from one big house to another to play and sing for small private audiences from which the general public were largely excluded. In this more democratic age, our Bards of this record travel much more extensively and play to much wider audiences. They have been heard as far away as Canada in the west and Holland in the east. Here at home they are well known from Letterkenny to Wexford and from Dingle to Belfast.
Their selection of songs on this album reflects their travels and includes a Canadian song, Christian Island. They also feature a mixture of love songs and patriotic songs and I am glad they have included one of our own loveliest airs “Ar Eirmn m h-eosfamn Ce Hi”.

The Bards themselves represent a wide cultural mix: Diarmuid Leary [sic] from Wexford combining with Pat Ryan from Clare and with the lovely Ann Keaveny from Waterford between them.

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