By Mike Stevenson
OPEN
– “Rocky Road to Dublin” (trad) from the film Sinners, 2025
Partings, Laments, Rolling Along
– Dolores Keane “Til We Meet Again” Solid Ground 1993
– Paul Geremia “I Just Roll Along” I Really Don’t Mind Livin’ 1982
– Hosier ” The Parting Glass” (trad) Live From The Late Late Show 2020
– Solas “Lament for Frankie” (S Egan) 1996
Dolores Keane 1953 – 2026
Sean-nós (Irish for “old style”)
– Dervish “Peata Beag” Live at Palma, 1997
– Solas “Ni Na La” 1996
– Kila “On Taobh Tuathail Amach”, 1997
– Liam O’ Maonlai “Sadhbh Ní Bhruinnealla” 2012
– Derek Bell “Carolan’s Variations On Cock Up Your Beaver” Carolan’s Favourite. 1979
Green Beer R&B
– Jackie Wilson “Danny Boy”
– Van Morrison & the Chieftains “Marie’s Wedding” Irish Heartbeat, 1988
– Ye Vagabonds “The Flood” All Tied Together 2026
– Ron Kavana “Waxin’ the Gaza” Alien Alert, 1999
– The Waterboys “Fisherman’s Blues” 1988
Haunted by the Ghost
– Cherish the Ladies “My Own Native Land” One and All, 1992
– Christy Moore “Missing You” (J McCarthy) 1989 Voyage, 11989
– Sinead O’Connor & Shane MacGowan “Haunted” single, 1995
– Lisa O’Neil “The Lass of Aughrim” Heard a Long Song Gone 2018
– Makem & Clancy “Ar Eireinn Ni Neosainn Ce Hi” Concert, 1977
– Sean O Riarda from Playboy of the Western World
Kate Bush “My Lagan Love”
– Kate Bush “Mna Na Eireann” (S O’Riada) Common Ground: Voices of Modern Irish Music, 1995
– Van Morrison “St. Dominic’s Preview” Sult – Spirit Of The Music, 1996
There Goes That Dream
– Kerry Condon Barry Keoughan from the film The Banshees of Inishirin, 2022
– Teada (with John C Reilly & Seamus Begley) “Eileen Og” As the Day Brightens , 2002
Meitheal (1995) Seamus Begley with Stephen Cooney
– “Máirín De Barra”
– “Bruach Na Carraige Báine”
– “Beir Me Dhúthracht”
Man of the land: As well as being a renowned musician, Seamus Begley was a farmer and silage maker; here he is checking the quality of the baling hay near Ventry, Co Kerry in 2004. Photo: Don MacMonagle
– Lisa O’Neil “Rock the Machine” Heard a Long Gone Song, 2018
– Van Morrison & the Chieftains “Cerrifurgus” (trad*) Irish Heartbeat, 1988
– Lankum “What Will We Do When We Have No Money” (trad) Between the Earth and Sky. 2017
– Steve Earle & Sharon Shannon “The Galway Girl” (S Earle)
– Black 47 “Living in America (aka “The Foggy Dew” / “Funky Ceili” (Kirwan) Fire of Freedom 1993
– The Waterboys “When Will I Be Married? (trad) Fisherman’s Blues 1988
– The Pogues “Dirty Ol Town (E McColl) Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
– The Bothy Band “Butterfly” The First Album, 1975
‘The embarrassment Irish people had about their music is long gone’ – Lankum’s Radie Peat
– Mary Black, Emmylou Harris & Dolores Keane “Sonny” (R Hynes) The Transatlantic Sessions
– Luka Bloom “Couldn’t Have Come at a Better Time” Riverside , 1990
– Lunasa “Morning Nightcap” The Merry Sisters Of Fate, 2001
– Karan Casey “The King’s Shilling” The Wind Begins to Sing, 2001
– Dolores Keane with John Faulkner “Galway Bay” Sail Óg Rua, 1983
NOTES
*Dominic Behan published the modern version of “Cerrifurgus” in 1965, often referring to it initially as “The Kerry Boatman”. The melody is derived from an 18th-century Munster Irish song, “Do Bhí Bean Uasal” (“There Was a Noblewoman”), attributed to poet Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna.
CONCERT DATES
- Teada plays Blackstone River Theater on Sunday March 22
- Dervish plays Jane Pickens Theater, Newport on Sunday March 22