I am just sitting here listening for the first time to a 10" LP loaned to me by my old pal, Mike Risinger. It's by Richard Hayward and called From The Irish Roads - Vol. 2.

When you say Ulster Protestant Music you bite off a big chew. There are a lot of songs in Sam Henry's Songs of the People, for example, that were made originally by Protestants that are neither religious nor political in nature... for example, songs about life situations. SH stayed fairly clear of the contoversial (and his collection is the greatest not only of Ulster songs but of all Irish songs). Now, you may know that the rebellion of the United Irishmen in 1798 was, largely, a rebellion of (mostly) Ulster Presbyterians. A really fine recording of many of those songs was made for the bicentennial by Frank Harte (not an Ulster Protestant)... 1798: The First Year of Liberty, Hummingbird HBCD0014.

I'm certainly no expert but there are some at the Mudcat. Is it specifically religious and Orange songs that you want?

All the best,
Dan Milner