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NTS Guide To: Le guth amháin - Unaccompanied Singing From The Irish Tradition
Le guth amháin - 'with one voice'.
An hour of Sean-nós, lilting, funeral keens, migrant working ballads, rebel songs, songs of the Irish travelling community, Dublin street songs and other tunes from the Irish tradition, without instrumental accompaniment.
“If you're asked to sing a song in a country house, you'll make sure or try and make sure that nobody sees you while you're singing it - don't you see anybody - you turn your back. Not through disrespect, but out of shyness - I don't know how you call it - and if you have a cap on, you pull it over your eyes, so you won't see or hear or listen to anybody else, except for the song you're singing… …You’ll find the man what they call dhorais dúnta (closed door) in the back door, what they call the cúinneach; the man who goes into the corner and sings a song, the song is heard but he’s not seen… …You'll hear the song, but you don't know where it's coming from half the time. You know, they don't stand up or face an audience at all.” - Joe Heaney in conversation with Ewan McColl
Image Credit: “The Photographic Collection, N120.29.00134” by Dúchas © National Folklore Collection, UCD is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.
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Tracklist
- Seamus EnnisThe Farmer's Cursed Wife
- Joe HeaneyExplains The Meaning Of Sean-Nós
- Thomas MoranThe Cruel Mother (Fragment)
- Elizabeth CroninSiúil A Rún (Go My Love)
- John Reilly JrThe Jolly Tinker
- Molly DineenInterview With An Irish Tunneller At Angel Tube Station, London
- The JohnstonsThe Tunnel Tigers
- Luke KellyThe Hot Asphalt
- Margaret BarryI Sang Through The Fairs
- Joe HeaneyWife Of The Bold Tenant Farmer
- Elizabeth CroninInterview With Alan Lomax About Singing
- Mrs Sarah MakemI Courted A Wee Girl
- Rita And Sarah KeaneA Stór Mo Chroí (Treasure Of My Heart)
- AodhánThe Custom Of Keening At Irish Funerals
- Kitty GallagherKeen For A Dead Child
- Paddy TunneyThe Old Man Rocking The Cradle
- Ewan MacColl, Dominic BehanHome, Family, Neighbors, Streets & Oaths
- Brendan BehanThe Zoological Gardens
- Margaret Barry, Michael GormanThe Flower Of Sweet Strabane
- Christy MooreJames Connolly
- Dainí Maidchi Ó SúilleabháinJohn Twiss (Live From St. Patrick's Cathedral)
- Diarmuid Ó SúilleabháinA Ógánaigh An Chúil Chraobhaigh (The Unquiet Grave)
- Liam WeldonThe Blue Tar Road
- Luke CheeversUlysses (Introduction)
- Mary DoranWhen I Was In Horseback
- Ronnie DrewThe Dunes