Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc.
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Year Recorded |
Track #Tune? |
[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments). |
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~1919 | 28#1 | [PT] Patsy Touhey. The Piping of Patsy Touhey. Patsy Touhey (pipes). |
1969 | 10#1 | [Ch 2] The Chieftains. 2. Michael Tubridy (flute, concertina, whistle), Seán Potts (whistle), Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Martin Fay (fiddle), Peadar Mercier (bodhrán, bones), Seán Keane (fiddle). |
1987 | 5#1 | [DMeehan] Danny Meehan. Navvy on the Shore. Danny Meehan (fiddle). |
~1987 | 10#3 | [A 1] Frankie Kennedy and Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. Altan. Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (fiddle, vocals), Frankie Kennedy (flute). |
1992 | 14#1 | [DOEI] Dear Old Erin's Isle. Irish Traditional Music from America. Tom Doherty (melodeon). |
~1992 | 12#1 | [TDrty] Tom Doherty. Take the Bull by the Horns. Tom Doherty (accordion). |
~1994 | 1#1 | [NMCMM] The Northern Meeting. Celtic Music in Milwaukee. 180 and the Letter G. |
~1996 | 7#2 | [JK 3] James Kelly. Traditional Irish Music. James Kelly (fiddle). |
~1996 | 10#2 | [Sol 1] Solas. Solas. Seamus Egan (flute, whistle, guitar, pipes, bodhrán, vocals), Karan Casey (vocals), John Doyle (guitar, vocals), Winifred Horan (fiddle, vocals), John Williams (accordion, concertina, vocals). |
~2000 | 7#4 | [A AS] Altan. Another Sky. Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (fiddle, vocals), Ciaran Tourish (fiddle, whistle, vocals), Dermot Byrne (accordion), Ciaran Curran (bouzouki), Mark Kelly (guitar, vocals), Dáithi Sproule (guitar, vocals). |
~2009 | 9#3 | [PoNY] Joanie Madden, Brian Conway, Billy McComiskey, Brendan Dolan. Pride of New York. Joanie Madden (flute, whistle), Brian Conway (fiddle), Billy McComiskey (accordion), Brendan Dolan (piano). |