Full List of tracks:

CD One 1

Lady in Her Father's Garden: Mary Cash 5:15 2 Early in the Month of Spring: Mikeen McCarthy 3:24 3 There is an Alehouse: Pop's' Johnny Connors 2:26 4 Donnelly : Mary Delaney 2:53 5 Town of Linsborough: Mary Delaney 5:40 6 The Half Crown: Andy Cash 1:28 7 Charming Blue Eyed Mary: Mary Delaney 5:45 8 Gum Shellac: Pop's' Johnny Connors 2:34 9 Constant Farmer's Son: Josie Connors 7:21 10 Sam Cooper: Bill Cassidy 3:38 11 If Ever You Go to Kilkenny: Mary Delaney 1:51 12 Go for the Water (Story): Mikeen McCarthy 2:38 13 The Sea Captain: Jean 'Sauce' Driscoll 2:40 14 Fourteen Last Sunday : Mary Delaney 4:09 15 Biscayo ; Bill Cassidy 6:44 16 Appleby Fair: Rich' Johnny Connors 1:34 17 Peter Thunderbolt: Mary Delaney 4:06 18 Going to Clonakilty the Other Day: Mary Delaney 1:14 19 Buried in Kilkenny: Paddy Reilly 3:45 20 Flowery Nolan : Mikeen McCarthy 3:22 21 Poor Old Man : Pop's' Johnny Connors 1:37 22 In Charlestown there Lived a Lass: Mary Delaney 3:37 Total time: 79:23

CD Two

1 The Blind Beggar: Paddy Reilly 4:32 2 Selling the Ballads: Mikeen McCarthy 2:36 3 The Factory Girl: Bill Cassidy 4:48 4 I've Buried Three Husbands Already: Mary Delaney 1:43 5 John Mitchel: Pop's' Johnny Connors 4:48 6 Maid of Aughrim: Peggy Delaney 2:38 7 My Brother Built Me a Bancy Bower: Mary Delaney 2:59 8 Marie (Maureen) from Gippursland: Bill Bryan 3:06 9 Pretty Polly: ** Bill Cassidy 7:13 10 Rambling Candyman: ** Rich' Johnny Connors 1:50 11 Green Grows the Laurel :** Mary Delaney 3:52 12 Barbary Ellen: Andy Cash 4:51 13 The Kilkenny Louse House: Mary Delaney 3:07 14 Malone (The Half Crown): Mikeen McCarthy 1:02 15 Finn MacCool and the Two-Headed Giant: Mikeen McCarthy 4:54 16 Mowing the Hay: ** Andy Cash 2:56 17 Phoenix Island: Mary Delaney 2:05 18 Navvy Shoes: Mary Delaney 3:54 19 Dingle Puck Goat: Mikeen McCarthy 2:46 20 Enniscorthy Fair: ** Bill Cassidy 3:59 21 New Ross Town: ** Mary Delaney 3:03 22 One Fine Summer's Morning: Mikeen McCarthy 2:49 23 What will we do when we'll have no Money?: ** Mary Delaney 2:01 Total time: 78:21

The Singers

The circumstances in which we were working, in our spare time, in the evenings and at week-ends, and the transient nature of Travellers' life styles, meant that the time we spent with individual singers varied considerably. It also meant that the amount of background information we were able to gain from themwas sometimes minimal. Some we were able to record on only the one occasion, while with others we spent a greater length of time. Bill Bryan, Gorey, Co Wexford. Andy Cash, Co Wexford. Mary Cash (nee Berry, Andy Cash's sister-in-law), Co Wexford. Bill Cassidy, ('Pop's' Johnny's brother-in-law), Co Wicklow. 'Pop's' Johnny Connors, (related to the famous family of traditional musicians, the Dorans), Co Wexford. 'Rich' Johnny Connors, Co Waterford. Mary Delaney, Co Tipperary. Peggy Delaney, Cahirciveen, Co Kerry. Jean 'Sauce' Driscoll, (Mikeen McCarthy's daughter), Co Cork. Josie Moorhouse, (nee Connors), Co Wicklow. Mikeen McCarthy, (Peggy Delaney's brother), Cahirciveen, Co Kerry. Paddy Reilly, (Mary Delaney's brother), Co Tipperary. Many recordings were not made in ideal conditions, hence the sound of trains, cars, dogs, children, etc. Copyright in all material resides with the performers. Jim Carroll and Pat Mackenzie - 1.2.03

The Songs

Roud Numbers quoted are from the databases, The Folk Song Index and The Broadside Index, continually updated, compiled by Steve Roud. Currently containing almost 232,000 records between them, they are described by him as "extensive, but not yet exhaustive". Copies are held at: The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, London; Taisce Ceoil Dúchais Eireann, Dublin; and the School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh. They can also be purchased direct from Steve at Southwood, Maresfield Court, High Street, Maresfield, East Sussex, TN22 2EH, UK. Child Numbers, where quoted, refer to entries in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, 1882-98. Laws Numbers, where quoted, refer to entries in American Balladry from British Broadsides by G Malcolm Laws Jr, 1957. Words shown in [square brackets] are either translations of dialect/cant words, or guesses/ suggestions from another recording or standard text where the singer's word is unclear or obviously wrong. At the end of the notes on each song is an indication of where (if at all) the song is available on CD by any other singer.