I see we had a thread called "O'Carolan's Tribute" in July 2009.

I first heard this song on a double LP that cost me a quid at the end of the seventies. It was called All The Folk That Fits and, apart from the Fureys, it had several tracks each by the Bothies, Planxty, De Dannan and Christy, among others (including Billy Connolly!). It was the first music of its kind that I'd ever bought and I hadn't heard of any of them apart from Billy. The moment I first heard Raggle Taggle Gypsy/Tabhair Dom Do Lamh on that record was the moment I fell in love with Irish music.