The Definitive Irish Folk Collection - Double Album

Musicians

Wilcil McDowell: Accordion
Wallace Hood, Ivan Gilliland: Guitars, Banjo, Bazookie, Bass
Patrick Davey: Whistle, Flute, Pipes
John Fitzpatrick: Fiddle
Christopher McGlone: Bodhran

Other Information

Cu Chulainn consists of some of Ireland's best musicians who have travelled the world playing Irish folk music from Carnegie Hall in New York to the Sydney Opera House in Australia. Not forgetting our own fair Ireland where they have been known to have played in Dublin. Killarney, Cork, Galway and Tralee, and occasionally Belfast.

This album represents two periods in the history of Irish folk music. Album one features songs made popular by contemporary folk artists such as Paddy Reilly/The Fields Of Athenry, The Pogues/Dirty Old Town and Back Home In Derry/Christie Moore.
Album two features unforgettable songs from the 50s and 60s.

Track Listing

Disc 1
1. Galway Races
2. Back Home In Derry
3. Hot Asphalt
4. Fields Of Athenry
5. The Ferryman
6. Irish Ways And Irish Laws
7. Hills Of Connemara
8. The West's Awake
9. Dirty Old Town
10. Four Green Fields
11. Hi For The Beggarman
12. The Holy Ground
13. Kevin Barry
14. Black Velvet Band
15. Town I Loved So Well
16. Lord Of The Dance
17. The Merry Ploughboy
18. Nancy Spain
19. Dicey Riley
20. The Wild Rover

Disc 2
1. Whiskey In The Jar
2. Sullivan's John
3. Only Our Rivers Run Free
4. Sam Hall
5. The Little Beggarman
6. Rambling Rover
7. Cavan Girl
8. Finnegan's Wake
9. Song For Ireland
10. Saint Patrick Was A Gentleman
11. The Foggy Dew
12. Grace
13. Waxies Dargle
14. I'm A Freeborn Man
15. The Irish Rover
16. Mountains Of Mourne
17. Mursheen Durkin
18. Arthur McBride
19. Raglan Road
20. Skibbereen