Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire

Subject: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 05:24 AM

I've been looking all over Dublin for a CD of Mise Eire, Sean O Riada's stupendous music from the 1960s film about the 1916 Rising.

Not a sign of it in any shop - and one shop-owner foamed at the mouth and said that he was ordering this and other CDs regularly from Gael-Linn and it was impossible.

This is the most important work of Irish music of the 20th century, by the country's premier composer. It's disgraceful that it should be unavailable.

Does anyone know where I can buy a copy of the CD? It's listed on various websites, but having tried a couple, it's the same story with them.

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: Ed.
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 05:43 AM

Try Amazon

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From:
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 06:42 AM

Dont know if its any use but I have a 45rpm black vinyl copy of it ??

Mail me for more data, not listened to it yet. Might be able to work out a deal ????

David [e-mail] Telford, UK

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: Paddy Plastique
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 06:57 AM

Ed,

Was going to post the URL of the Gael Linn website - but it's bloody well
non-operational at the moment. It's referenced as http://www.gael-linn.ie/
anyway by Google - no guarantee that's not out of date though. Funny they
should be badly distributed - as I seem to remember that Gael Linn ran a
small scale distribution sideline at one time - importing folk/world music stuff.
Now, let's not get onto RTÉ - when it comes to honouring the memory of Ó Riada..
Had you heard about them having erased all but 5 minutes of archive video footage
of programmes involving the man ? Now that IS a national disgrace..

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 09:58 AM

That's awful news about RTE - what idiots.

It seems that any state-financed organisation has a remit of being incompetent idiots, from these stories.

Vinyl - thanks, David, but I don't have a record-player, so it's no use to me.

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 10:33 AM

The erased footage at RTE isn't that unusual a thing to have happen at TV stations, and they aren't idiots at all.

Guest, JTT have you tried working with Finbar Boyle at Claddagh Records?

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 10:37 AM

Have not tried working in Claddagh, why? Would they be able to get a copy?

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 10:47 AM

They're probably your best chance in Dublin - unless Finbar is in a bad mood after spending twenty minutes with some tourist who asks him dozens of questions, then hesitates between two tapes of pub ballads for a further twenty minutes before deciding to buy neither.

Celtic Note used to be the other reliable shop for trad, but with the improved economic situation they can no longer be relied on to employ knowledgeable staff, and they've expanded the U2/cranberries etc. department at the expense of the trad stuff.

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 10:58 AM

Nope, I've tried Claddagh now and they don't have it; nor do Tower, HMV, Golden Disks, the shop in George's Street Arcade or Tower.

I suppose I'll have to cross the river to the northside and try there.

This is bleeding ridiculous.

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: Paddy Plastique
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 11:05 AM

JTT,
I have a CD copy which a friend of mine gave me, as far as I can make out,
as the result of a Gael-Linn freebie. E-mail me at [e-mail]
(take out the obvious bit) & we'll see how we can get it to ye...

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 11:09 AM

ed above had it right, Amazon has it, as well as used copies, on Shanachie, not Gael-Linn,

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 11:31 AM

Doesn't Claddagh Records stock Shanachie? I have to say I'm surprised they don't have a copy of it.

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 12:01 PM

Paddy - I've emailed you. Thanks! - JTT

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST,Ard Mhacha.
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 01:29 PM

Have the Mise Eire and Saorise films accompanied by O`Riada`s music, an absolute gem. Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: Jimmy C
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 05:33 PM

Ardmacha, I also have the Mise Eire film, just watched it again the other night. get a knot in my throat at parts of it still. A real gem as you say.

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 19 Jul 02 - 06:10 AM

Are the films still available on cassette? I saw them as a kid when they came out and relished them. I'd love to see them again as an adult who has read quite a lot more history than I did when at school.

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 19 Jul 02 - 12:27 PM

I googled "mise eire" and "dvd" and came up with nothing.

Called in today to An Realta, now rebranded as "Star Bingo", where they just told me Mise Eire was "as clo" (out of print) and that this was a wholesalers and not open to the public.

I'm getting seriously pissed off about an organisation funded by the Irish State letting this seminal work go out of print - they should instead be selling the DVD of the film.

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST,Nerd
Date: 19 Jul 02 - 01:34 PM

Claddagh may not be able to get the Shanachie release because of international licencing. It seems likely that Mise Eire was only licenced to Shanachie for North America, and that Europe would be covered by Gael-Linn; certainly Eire would be covered by Gael-Linn! if Gael-Linn falls apart, Irish shops might find materials unavailable that are easy to obtain in the US.

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Jul 02 - 02:10 PM

MusicScotland.com appears to have it for 13.49 (20 something US).

Gael Linn's website is currently being reconstructed. If the CD truly is unavailable (and I should think it would be worth a phone call to them), you could always ask them why it has gone out of print. Of course, it is always easier to whinge around about a thing, rather than get accurate information about it.

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 04:58 AM

I did ask them; they were vague. Guest, would you mind using your name if you're going to talk about whinging?

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 05:03 AM

Or... wait a minute... did I miss a signal there...?

Have you some information about why it's out of print, Guest?

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 07:01 PM

I finally joined the 21st century and got a DVD player. Having sated my desire for obscure Chinese and Japanese films, I asked for Mise Éire, and was astounded that (a) the young lad in the video shop had never heard of it, and (b) it isn't availabe on DVD anyway. Bleagh.

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST,Cattail (Cookieless)
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 02:55 PM

Hi all, you could try gael-linn on this address, I've just been there
and it works O.K. I hope it's the one you want.

Sorry but clickies don't work for me.

http://www.gael-linn.ie/homeirish.aspx?&lang=En

Cheers for now.

Cattail !

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 03:17 AM

Gael-Linn aren't very helpful when you go to them with queries, at least that's been my experience in Dublin.

Subject: RE: Help: Gael-Linn and Mise Eire
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 05:37 PM

But look - run out and get Seoltaí Séidte, Gael Linn's double CD re-issue of the 78 rpms issued from 1957-61. Unaccompanied singing and unaccompanied solo instrumentalists. Like it was!

Is it in fact a karaoke thing for guitarists to play along to? Is that what happened in 1957?