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Ulstersongs:
promoting the social singing tradition of (mainly the north of) Ireland
Mail Order Catalogue
July 1998
Stories, and the vernacular poetic
tradition
BOOKS
Ulstersongs Publications
Songs of Hugh McWilliams, Schoolmaster, 1831: (ISBN 1 898437 00 9):
selected, set to music and annotated by John Moulden (Ulstersongs, Portrush)
(24 pages, card cover, A5)
Price: £2.00
Seventeen songs with music, notes, an introduction and references. Hugh
McWilliams was born in Glenavy Co Antrim c 1783, taught near Newtownards
Co Down from 1800 to 1815 and in Clough, Co Antrim from 1819. He published
two books, each entitled "Poems and Songs on Various Subjects" in 1816 and
1831. Uniquely among Ulster Folk Poets a substantial number of his songs
entered the oral tradition; others of them are worth singing today.
Adare Press
Doreen McBride (ed): Great Verse to stand up and tell them modern Ulster
vernacular verse; a tradition updated £5.00
Seán McElgunn
Songs of the Winding Erne Vol 2: Songs from the Cavan Fermanagh border
collected by Seán McElgunn -very good; vol 1 out of print; words only
but Seán has recordings of some items and will provide them, perhaps
for a nominal charge. £6.00
Roger Millington
Packie Manus Byrne: My Friend Flanagan: tall tales told by PMB outrageously
funny £5.00
Packie Manus Byrne: Recollections of a Donegal Man autobiography of
a living cultural treasure £7.00
Books of Local Poetry
Ulster has a tradition of local poetry reaching back into the late 18th
Century, in parallel to, but somewhat more recent than that in Scotland.
Little books are still being published, some frankly awful but some of quality
and some showing a real affinity with the song tradition. Here are three
which I like, all second hand, I am considering keeping stock of some
of those currently available.
John (Paul) Kelly (1884-1944) In Crockmore's Shade This is
the second selection of John Paul's verse to be published by Ballinascreen
(Draperstown, South Londonderry) Historical Society. Kelly was a self taught
man, with a particular interest in folklore, whose work combines keen local
observation and a keen appreciation of the past as it affects the
present.
56 pages £5.00
Patrick McQuillan: The Tenth Glen and other ballads. (Impact,
Coleraine, 1978) McQuillan, from Glenravel, often called the tenth glen of
Antrim, was a schoolmaster who died in 1963. His poems were extracted from
the newspapers in which they (like the work of many another country poet)
were published. Closer to literature than most of their kind, these poems
are yet very close to the ground from which they sprung.
£6.00
Liam McAllister and Mick McAtamney: Honey to the Ear (South Derry
Poets of the past) (Maghera, Irish World Citizen Organisation, nd - Foreword
by Seamus Heaney) I'm proud to have helped with some of this - Mickey McAtamney
was a friend of Sam Henry's who preserved many of his poems and numbers of
photographs. A "returned Yank" he wrote one of the best short poems about
Irish politics in more innocent times:
At the time I was a Yankee
My heart was full of joy;
You wouldn't call me swanky
But a rather nifty boy.
And the worst was in my noodle,
Against any King or Queen,
Was to whistle Yankee Doodle,
And The Wearing of the Green.
Liam McAllister set out to study medicine but circumstances required his
return to the family farm and he farmed the rest of his life. His poems are
well founded in his own experience and interests if slightly more formal
than McAtamney's. Both men provide a deal of pleasure and an interface between
the oral song tradition and the vernacular written tradition of (especially)
the north of Ireland.
£6.00
RECORDINGS
Arts Council of Northern Ireland Harvest Home
series
HH3 Here's a Health Recorded by Seán Corcoran in Fermanagh (Booklet
and 1 cassette) (one story) £ 7.00
Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann
CBÉ002 Mickey Doherty: The Gravel Walks fiddle tunes and stories
to go with them; 2 cassettes & notes £10.00
European Ethnic Traditions £7.50 each save as
marked
Essentially the label operated by the Folk Music Society of Ireland under
the direction of Hugh Shields, it comprises field recordings, mainly by Hugh
Shields and Tom Munnelly with contributions from Cathal Goan and others.
All very well documented many with accompanying booklets. Only just still
available; prices standard!
EECS Joe McCafferty: Ceolta agus Seanchas Thír Chonaill: stories and songs (Donegal)
Folktracks (Prices:for 30(C30) - £7.50; for 60(C60)
- £8.00; for 90 (C90) - £8.50)
All except 178 recorded by Alan Lomax, Seán OBoyle, Seamus Ennis,
Peter Kennedy c 1955; important
60-073 Michael/John Doherty fiddle tunes, stories: fairies, St Columkille,
airs, songs, reels,
60-170 Neil Boyle, the wonderfully opinionated almost unrecorded but
very highly regarded composer of "The moving clouds"
Spring Records cassette £7.50 each
CSP1002 Crawford Howard: The Diagonal Steam Trap wonderfully funny Belfast
centred poems and songs
CSP1012 Crawford Howard: The Sloping Beauty more by Crawford who makes
them up himself
CSP1020 John Campbell: On the hip of Slieve Gullion, stories from
a legend; how does Mullaghbawn breed them?
CSP1039 Patsy OHagan: A Lick at the Bucket, amusing poems and stories
from the Shores of Lough Neagh.
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library set (cassette and booklet)
£8.00 each
VWML001 Early in the Spring songs and a story from Irish Travellers in
London - very interesting £8.00
VWML001 And that's my story: stories from Scotland, England and Ireland
(inc. Junior Crehan) - different £8.00
Ulstersongs was established to promote the personal, the local and the regional. If you have made, or know of any privately or locally made recording of Irish traditional singing or music, please let me know.
John Moulden
The full catalogue with is available by e-mail to: John Moulden or may be downloaded.
The address for orders or to be sent a catalogue is:
Ulstersongs
10 Apollo Walk
Portrush
Co Antrim
Northern Ireland
BT56 8HQ
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Revised: 3rd July1998
Other elements of the Catalogue
Ballad Sheets
by the Bogside Ballad Company c. 1990
Books for singers,
story tellers and students
Popular items
in fact and in form (accompanied singing, groups etc.
Recordings containing
music
Recordings
containing performances of traditional unaccompanied singing in
English
Recordings
containing singing in Irish
Unplayed or next
to unplayed vinyl lps of Ulster singers or musicians
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