Bit of a digression here, threadrift, only slightly cos it's still about Kerry music.

I can't recommend Tim Dennehy too highly. My favourite album of his is called 'Blue Green Door'. This includes some little known but very good traditional songs, like 'Carden's Wild Domain' and the totally georgeous but tragic 'Boating on Lough Ree'.

Also included are two great original songs written by Tim. I'm sure he won't mind me quoting some personal stuff about him as he has already published his lyrics in his sleeve notes.

1. 'The Parted Years' (a tribute to his mother, opening verse)

If you should come at autumn time when yellowed leaves do fall,
And the first frost glistens on the heel-trod ground,
I will hear you call...

And I will take your hand and walk,
through all the parted years,
and the rich earth lying between us shall,
drink our lonely tears.

2. 'Memorial' (dedicated to Tim's brother Pat who died in 1968, aged 17)

A cold spring wind now shoves the gate,
As it has done since sixty-eight...