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Thread #66390   Message #1110647
Posted By: GUEST,Boston Joe
06-Feb-04 - 07:57 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Thug me ruide / An Caiseadach Ban (Irish
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Thug me ruide / An Caiseadach Ban (Ir
Yes, those are the words. Thanks. A friend in Boston has a CD of Grand Airs of Connemara which was reissued in Ireland but the words aren't with the CD. He gave me a loan of it last week and it brought me back. That singing of this song by Pádraic Ó Catháin is unbeatable. I never heard of this Antaine Ó Faracháin before. He might be good too but hearing POC brings such a great memory back to me. Is there any chance that there are more recordings of that man? There are just four songs by him on Grand Airs and there was one on a record called More Grand Airs of Connemara which we used to have here too. That was Liam Ó Reilly. Johnny Joe Phatcheen is on the two records too. Thats all I need to bring me back across the Atlantic. Those two had the songs and they had the singing. Johnny is dead now, but is Pádraic alive do people know?