Fire Draw Near

This episode looks at the ballad Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight aka the Gowans Sae Gae aka The Water o' Wearie's Well aka The Outlandish Knight aka May Colvin aka Along the North Strand

Tracklist

Angus Mohr – Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight

Polly Paulusma - Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight

Judith Weir - Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight

Freb Hunt-Bull - The Water of Wearie’s Well

Corny McDaid – False Lover John

Kitty Cassidy – Along the North Strand

Jumbo Brightwell – The False-Hearted Knight

Shirley Collins – The Outlandish Knight

Charles S. Brink – Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight

Tim Eriksen – Castle by the Sea

JE. Mainer and the Mountaineers – Six King’s Daughters

Rum – Heer Halewijn

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Episode XXXI looks at possible influences for the tune to a Ewan MacColl song and features piping, fiddling, singing, tunes that sound like other tunes, the Cradle ov Filth and more!

Tracklist:

Peat and Diesel – Western Isles

Joe Byrne – Snowy Breasted Pearl

Luke Kelly – The Bonnie Shoals of Herring

Ewan MacColl – The Famous Flower of Serving Men

Matt Cranitch, Paul De Grae & Jackie Daly – Sliabh na mBan

Mama’s Broke – Just Pick One

Unknown Suonata For Bagpipe And Triangle

Rättviks Spelmanslag - Gärdebylåten, gånglåt (Marching Tune from Gärdeby)

Elizabeth Cronin – Níl Mo Shláinte ar Fónamh

Elizabeth Cronin – Ten Weary Years

Early Grave Band – Nuke Power

C.B. Fernando & H.D Manuel – Manaram Sidevi

The Clovers – Rotten Cocksucker’s Ball

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This Episode looks at the ballad The False Knight Upon the Road, aka The False Knight, aka The Smart Schoolboy, aka The False False Fly, aka The Child Upon the Road aka False Fidee, aka Où Vas-tu, Mon P’tit Garcon?

Tracklist

Norman Kennedy – The False Knight Upon the Road

Bella Higgins and Andrew Stewart – The False Knight Upon the Road

The Bitter Withy – The False Knight Upon the Road

Barry Gleeson – The False False Fly

Frank Quinn – The False Knight Upon the Road

Tim Hart and Maddy Prior – The False Knight Upon the Road

Phillip Langridge – The False Knight Upon the Road

Mary Eppler – The Knightman

Edmund Henneberry –The False Knight Upon the Road

Helene Baillargeon and Alan Mills - Où Vas-Tu, Mon P'tit Garçon?

Amps For Christ –The False Knight Upon the Road

Fleet Foxes –The False Knight Upon the Road

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Episode XXX is one for the weirdos featuring new tracks by Junior Brother, D.C Cross, the Deadlians, Brìghde Chaimbeul as well as hurdy gurdys, didgeridoos, throat singing, cheeky mash-ups and your oul one.

Tracklist

DJ Dolphin Boy - Bazouki Fuckers

Junior Brother - No Country for Young Men

Topette - Winstanley's / Le Trois Canards

Pól Ó Ceallaigh and Jimmy O'Brien-Moran - An Laib Scapithe / Íoc an Cúntas

D.C. Cross - South Albury Take-Away Before the Big Rip-off

Sally Sloane - I've Been a Wild Boy

Reconciliation - Kerry Polka

Dinny 'Jimmy' Doyle and Larry Griffin - Tommy Murphy Was a Soldier Boy

Oidupaa Vladimir Oiun - A Thin Mountain Ash

Yat Kha - Go Lassie Go

David Watson - Glossal

Brìghde Chaimbeul and Dimcho Enchev - S/T

Barney Grubbs - Pigeon on the Gate

The Deadlians - I Don't Want to Ride Your Oul One Anymore

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This episode looks at The Gosport Tragedy aka The Cruel Ship's Carpenter aka Pretty Polly

Tracklist

The Gosport Tragedy - Ethel Findlater

Sam Larner – Pretty Polly

Trees – Pretty Polly

The Dublin Murder Ballad - Jeannie Robertson

Miss Brown - Frank Harte

Miss Brown – Joe Heaney

Richard Dawson – The Cruel Ship’s Carpenter

Ted Ashlaw – The Cruel Ship’s Carpenter

Pretty Polly - Addie Graham

The Coon Creek Girls – Pretty Polly

Congo Cowboys – Pretty Polly

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Fire Draw Near Episode XXIX features songs by the Watersons, songs from the north of England, a song by Lingua Ignota, songs from Scotland, songs and tunes from Ireland as well as some puerile nonsense from the 1940s.

Tracklist:

Cormac Begley – The Flogging Reel

Lick the Tins – Can’t Help Falling in Love

The Watersons – North Country Maid

The Watersons – The Broom of the Cowdeknowes

The Watersons – Rap Her to Bank

Vin Garbutt – The Hartlepool Monkey

The Wilson Family – I Am Coal

Lainey Dempsey – Haiku

Arun Sood – The Old Dictaphone

Lingua Ignota – Katie Cruel

Pádriac Keane – Old Hang You Have Killed Me / Garrett Barry’s Jig

Al O’Donnell – Lord Abore and Mary Flynn

Unidentified Singers – The Lucan Dairy

Packie Dolan – A Drink in the Morning

Packie Dolan – Saddle the Pony / The Rakes of Kildare

Unidentified – I Came in My Best Sunday Suit

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This episode looks at the ballad The Elfin Knight aka The Wind Hath Blown Ma Plaidie Awa aka Scarborough Fair The Tri-Coloured House aka Rosemerry Lane aka The Cambric Shirt aka Impossibilities.

Tracklist

Ewan Mac Coll and Peggy Seeger – The Elfin Knight

John Mac Donald – The Wind Hath Blown Ma Paidie Awa

Margaret Tait – The Wind Hath Blown Ma Paidie Awa

Ewan Mac Coll – Scarborough Fair

Martin Carthy – Scarborough Fair

Paul Simon and the Muppets – Scarborough Fair

Gershon Kingsley – Scarborough Fair

Mary Kate McDonagh – The Tri-Coloured House

Thomas Moran – Strawberry Lane

Michael Moran – Strawberry Lane

Elisabeth Jefferies – Rosemary Lane

Mrs. Clara Stevens – A True Lover of Mine

Jennie Gray – The Cambric Shirt

Anna Sandage Underhill – The Elfin Knight

Mrs. Georgia Ann Griffin - Impossibilities

Bill Bailey – Scarborough Fair

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Episode XXVIII features an in-depth analysis about how we’re all descended from the great eternal drone of the universe, recently recorded uilleann piping from Chris McMullan, Jason Rouse and Pádraic Keane, recordings from the Inishowen International Folk Song and Ballad Seminar and Café Oto, dying for love and my own personal favourite - dying for poor old Ireland.

Tracklist

FDN live podcast intro recorded at Café Oto, 11 October 2021

Chris McMullan – The Downfall of Paris

The Wolfetones – Rule Brittania

Ding Dong Denny O’Reilly – The Craic We Had the Day We Died for Ireland

Jason Rouse – Rathawaun / The Hare in the Corn / The Cock of the North / Oh Susanna

Maureen Jelks – Broom Blooms Bonny

Pádraic Keane - Rince Scioból an Ghabha / Smash the Windows

Antaine Ó Faracháin – Johnny Seoige

Jason Rouse – The Rocks of Bawn / Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Fair

Peggy Seeger – I Wish I was a Single Girl Again

Leann Toland – Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye

Amps for Christ – The Blacksmith

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Featuring all of the usual plus even more of the unusual than usual! Joyce, NO PRISONS, songs that sound like other songs, English toffs doing Irish pleb cosplay, Irish ne’er do-wells doing English farmer cosplay, English farmers singing songs that are actually plots of 1970s pornos set in the 1700s, a dramatical audio tale, people playing the taps, everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Irish rebel ballads with @rebelmatters and that’s without even mentioning what you’ve been waiting for all week - the winners of the Fire Draw Near Raucous Rebel Christmas Cock Challenge 2021!!!

Tracklist

James Stephens – The Brown and the Yellow Ale

Jim Eldon – I Wish There Was No Prisons

Gan Ainm – Triple concerto for faucet, water pipes and fiddle

Michael Lee Yonkers – Funboots

The Pogues – Thousands are Sailing

Tommy Reck – The Irish Washerwoman

Tommy Reck – The Scholar / the Salamanca / Hand Me Down the Tackle

Eimear Walshe – The Piper’s Grip

Willie Clancy – The Gander

Thomas Allen and Sheila Armstrong – Billy Boy

Aberdeen Schoolchildren – My Mother and Your Mother

The Copper Family – Dame Durden

A Feckless Pack of Ne’er-Do-Wells – Ebeneezer Goode

Rebel Matters Interview

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This episode looks at the ballad The Baffled Knight aka Blow Away the Morning Dew aka Clear Away The Morning Dew aka The New Mown Hay aka the Shepherd Lad aka Jock Sheep aka Katie Morey.

Tracklist

The City Waites – The Baffled Knight

Emily Bishop – The Baffles Knight

Sam Larner – Blow Away the Morning Dew

Assassin’s Creed – Clear Away the Morning Dew

Guildford Boy’s Choir – Blow Away the Morning Dew

Ewan Mac Coll – The Shepherd Lad

Various – Jock Sheep

John Campbell – The Baffled Knight

Ian Lynch – The Baffled Knight

Captain Pearl R. Nye – The Banks of Sullee

Doc Watson – Katie Morey

The Buffalo Silver Band – The Baffled Knight

Far From the Maddening Crowd OST – Blow Away the Morning Dew

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