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This episode looks at the ballad Fair Margaret And Sweet William aka Lady Margaret And Sweet William aka Sweet William and Fair Margaret aka Knight William aka Lady Margaret aka Little Margaret aka The Old Armchair

Tracklist

Tom Munnelly – Talking about Knight William

Martin Howley – Knight William

AL Lloyd – Fair Margaret And Sweet William

The Hare and the Moon – Sweet William and Fair Margaret

Justus Begley – Lady Margaret

Emma Shelton – Fair Margaret and Sweet William

Almeda Riddle – Lady Margaret

Sheila Kay Adams – Little Margaret

Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi – Little Margaret

Amps for Christ – Sweet William and Lady Margaret

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“Margaret’s Ghost” by Gwen Raverat, 1909

Fire Draw Near Episode LVI turns a focussed ear to the liminal weirdos at the very fringes of traditional and folk music. And Nioclás Tóibín. Pictured are the Belgian duo Tabernis, who open the episode.

Tracklist

Tabernis – Carmen Reginarum

Róis – Caoine

Charanjit Singh – Raga Bhairav

Isa Gordon – What a Voice

Seamas Hyland – Navan Road

Nioclás Tóibín – Eochaill

The Deadlians – Return to Fingal / Lord Mayo

Dawn Ray'd – Requital

Córas – George White’s

Ancient Hostility – Immigration Van

Greet – John Barleycorn

This episode looks at the ballad the Suffolk Miracle aka the Holland Handkerchief aka the Lover's Ghost.

Tracklist

Nora Cleary – The Holland Handkerchief

Packie Manus Byrne – The Holland Handkerchief

Austin Flanagan – The Holland Handkerchief

Michael McGonigle – The Holland Handkerchief

John Goodluck – The Suffolk Miracle

Chris Foster – The Holland Handkerchief

Rósa Ingólfsdóttir – Djákninn á Myrká

John W. Green – The Suffolk Miracle

Mrs. G. A. Griffin – The Suffolk Miracle

Dol Small – The Suffolk Miracle

Peggy Seeger – The Suffolk Miracle

Dean Gitter – The Suffolk Miracle

Doctor Evazan – The Suffolk Miracle

Quadriga Consort – The Suffolk Miracle

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Fire Draw Near Episode LV is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Heather Wood ' - outstanding singer, tank driver and wit'. It features her singing with the Young Tradition alongside some anti-marriage songs, a little look at Oró Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile, some traditional tunes by Rory Gallagher, some north American goodness and a bit more besides.

Tracklist

Jim Williams – Finger Scene

The Young Tradition – Lyke Wake Dirge

Rory Gallagher – She Moved Through the Fair

Darach Ó Catháin – Oró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile

Sinéad O’Connor – Oró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile

Natalie Ní Chasaide and Iarfhlaith Ó Dohmnaill – Welcome Home Gràinne

The Kossoy Sisters – I Never Will Marry

Lukas De Clerck – Sacrifice of a Reed

The Dubliners – Don’t Get Married

West of Roan – Let No One Steal Your Thyme

Abner Jay – I’m So Depressed

Rory Gallagher – Bratcha Dubha

Paul Clayton – Johnny's Gone To Hilo

Iris Dement – Pretty Saro

The Young Tradition – The Innocent Hare

The Rheingans Sisters – Devils

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This episode looks at the ballad Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man aka An Old Man Came Courting Me aka Never Wed an Old Man aka The Foolish Old Man.

Tracklist

The Dubliners – Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man

The Clancy Brothers – An Old Man Came Courting

Pat McNamara – Never Wed an Old Man

Sam Larner - Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man

Danny Brazil – An Old Man Came Courting Me

Peggy Seeger – An Old Man Came Courting Me

Killy Country – An Old Man Came Courting Me

Ashley Hutchings – Black Joke

Jeanie Robertson – An Old Man Came Courting Me

Alex Beaton – Maids When You're Young

Alasdair Roberts and Mairi Morrison – Never Wed an Old Man

Alan Mills and Jean Carignan – The Foolish Old Man

Edna Ritchie – An Old Man Came Courting Me

Frank & James McCravy – Get Away, Old Man, Get Away

Joni Mitchell – Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man

Paul Gwynne Phillips – An Old Man Came A-Courting

Jon Kennedy – Never Wed an Old Man

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Fire Draw Near Episode LIV features wrens, bitterns and cailleachaí.

Roisin El Cherif - Siúil a Rúin

David Murphy – Sean O'Duibhir a Ghleanna

Dave Van Ronk – Luang Prabang

Wire Worms – The Cutty Wren

The Young Tradition – Byker Hill

Thin Lizzy – Sitamoia

Meaigí Nic Dhonncha – Cailleach an Airgid

Stiofán Ó Cualáin – Cailleach an Airgid

David Power – The Hag With The Money / Garrett Barry's

Bexley H.S. Vocal Ensemble – 'Si Do Mhaimeo I

Seán Jeaic Mac Donncha – An Bonnán Buí

The Huntress and Holder of Hands – Rocky Coast⧸EDT

Norman MacLean – Am Bothan a Bh'Aig Fionnghuala

The Bothy Band – Fionnghuala

Toké O'Drift – Bothy Bangz

Harry Gorski-Brown – Buain na Choirce

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This episode looks at the song Paddy Works on the Railway aka Paddy on the Railway aka Poor Paddy aka Fillimiooriay aka Paddy Works on the Erie aka Pat Do This, Pat Do That.

Tracklist

That Clancy Children – Paddy on the Railway

The Pogues – Poor Paddy

Salty Dick – The Shaver

Mark Page – Paddy Works on the Railway

Ewan MacColl – Paddy Works on the Railway

Dominic Behan – Paddy Works on the Railway

Louisa Jo Killen – Paddy Works on the Railway

Keith Kendrick - Paddy Works on the Railway

The Wolfe Tones – Paddy Works on the Railway

Michael Cassius Dean – To Work Upon the Railroad

The American Ballad Singers – Pat Works on the Railway

Pete Seeger – Paddy Works on the Railroad

The Highwaymen – Pat Works On The Railway

Cisco Houston – Pat Works On The Railroad

Stuart M. Frank – Paddy on the Railway

Barbara Moncure – The Bluestone Quarries

Sam Amidon – Pat Do This, Pat Do That

Ben Miller Band – Paddy on the Railway

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This episode looks at the ballad Santiano aka Santiana aka Santy Anno aka Santy Anna aka The Plains of Mexico.

Tracklist

Henry Lundy and David "Pappie" Pryor – Bay of Mexico

The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem – Santy Anno

The Watersons – The Plains of Mexico

Pusser's Rum ft. Stan Hugill – Santiano

Meredydd Evans – Santiana

The Weavers – The Bay of Mexico

Odetta – Santy Anno

The Kingston Trio - Santy Anno

Dave Van Ronk – Santy Anno

The Men Of The Robert Shaw Chorale – Santy Anna

A.H. Rasmussen – Chantey interview

Hugues Aufray – Santiano

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire – Aim Spirente

Sea Shanty Metal – Santiana

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FDN LIII has been a long time coming...Included therein are songs of resistance, songs of magic and songs of being human. Life, Death, Love, Rage, Joy and Suffering. You know the drill. Sit by the Fire Draw Near. Free Palestine. Artwork designed by Palestinian artist Abdal Latif Muhanna and published by the Foreign Information Department of the PLO in 1982. X

Tracklist

Zeinab Shaath – The Urgent Call Of Palestine

Marcel Khalife Oumeima El Khalil – My Teacher

Palestinian Student Karmel Group – Al Intifada Was Jabal Al Thawra

Robert Sarazin Blake – Don’t Use Our Death and Pain

Daniel Kahn, Psoy Korolenko – Oh you Foolish little Zionists

Rola Azar – Ya Teir Elsnono

Áit Ait – Henry Martin

Gazelle Twin & NYX – Fire Leap

Wailing Sídhe – Corrag

Derrick Morgan – Three Drunken Night

Mark Lanegan – The Cherry Tree Carol

Richard Bégin – Lavrador

Jack Sheehan & Isa Gordon – My Heart Biological (Loch Erne’s Shore)

Doyle & Andersson – Baffled Knight

Leonard Barry – Tom Busby's / The Humours of Ballingary

Ian Lynch - The Rocks of Palestine

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This episode looks at the song Eggs and Marrowbones aka Marrowbones aka The Old Woman from Wexford aka The Old Woman from Oxford aka The Old Woman from Boston aka The Old Woman of Slapsadam aka An Old Woman’s Story aka The Rich Old Lady aka The Auld Man and the Churnstaff aka Tippig it Up to Nancy. Artwork by Carol Roe - https://youtu.be/laBE2X5tBMw

Tracklist:

John Reilly – Tipping it up to Nancy

Joe Heaney – Old Woman of Wexford

Red Mick McDermott – Marrowbones

Sarah Makem – Canny Ould Lad

Janet Gibson Lynch – The Old Woman from Kelso

George Inglis Fraser – The Toon O’Kelso

Jimmy Knight – Marrowbones

Ken Peacock – Old Woman from Dover

Helen Fultz – Holy Boly

Horton Barker – There Was An Old Lady

Hedy West – Johnny Sands

Peggy Seeger – Rich Old Lady

Dorothy Olsen - Marrowbones

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