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THE Songs

Leinster

Offaly - "Reynard The Fox" - Fox hunt, magic

Kildare - "The Curragh Wrens" - True story of women who lived in ‘nests’ in ditches in the Curragh (Written by Cathy Jordan)

Kilkenny - "Buried In Kilkenny" - Murder by poisoning - Child Ballad 

Carlow - "The Girl I left Behind Me" - Soldiers lament, love and separation - with Donal Clancy

Meath - "Lough Sheelin’s Side"- Eviction 

Wexford - "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" - 1998 rebellion, featuring Realta 

West Meath - "Donal Kenny" - Emigration 

Laois - "100 Snow White Horses" - The history of Laois (words and music, John Spillane)

Dublin - "Spanish Lady" - Mysterious woman

Louth - "The Turfman from Ardee" - Comic, occupation

Wicklow - "The Meeting Of The Waters" - Thomas Moore - poetic view of Co Wicklow

Longford - "Pat Reilly" - Recruitment 

Ulster

Antrim - "Ard Tí Chuain" - (The Quiet Land Of Erin) - The beauty and tranquility of Ireland through the eyes of an exile

Cavan - "The Rocks Of Bawn"- Featuring duet with Lisa O’Neill - The struggles of being a tenant farmer

Down - "The Dear Little Town In The Old Co. Down" - Memory of childhood 

Armagh - "The Rollicking Boys Around Tanderagee" - Fun and frolics in Armagh featuring Andrew Hendy and Gino Lupari

Derry -  "The Banks of the Foyle" - Longing for home and a beautiful girl

Donegal - "Fill a Ruin O" - Mother begs son to return to Catholicism

Tyrone - "Sliabh Gallion Brae" - Eviction and emigration

Fermanagh - "The Blooming Bright Star Of Belle Isle" - Lover returns from the war in disguise

Monaghan - "The Patriot Game" - The Troubles - Featuring duet with Donal Clancy

Connaught

Mayo - "The Banks Of The Moy" - Michael Davitt, historical, praise of hero 

Roscommon - "Eileen Óg" - Comic, unrequited love

Galway - "Bogs Of Shanaheever" - Hunting with dogs

Sligo - "The Sligo Murder Ballad" (Pat O’Brien) - Man murders woman who comes back from the grave to avenge her death.

Leitrim - "Plúirín Na mBan" - Unrequited love

Munster

Clare - "Paddy The Cockney And The Ass" - Comic satire

Limerick - "Dreathrathrín O Mo Chroí"- Pain of separation due to war, lost loved one

Tipperary - "Johnny Carey" - Comic, trickery

Cork - "The Boys of Fairhill" - Pride of place

Waterford - "The Lakes of Coolfin" - Tragic drowning

Kerry - "Bog Braon" - Lullaby

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