FDN LXI

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   26 May 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

   The Dark Eyed Sailor

   This episode looks at the ballad The Dark Eyed Sailor aka Fair Phoebe and Her Dark Eyed Sailor Tracklist Phil Tanner – Fair Phoebe and Her Dark Eyed Sailor Fred Jordan – The Dark Eyed Sailor Walter Pardon – The Dark Eyed Sailor Lou Killen – The Dark Eyed Sailor Steeleye Span – The Dark Eyed Sailor Kate Doherty (Denery) – Dark Eyed Sailor Christy Moore – The Dark Eyed Sailor Luke Kelly – The Dark Eyed Sailor Michael Barden – The Dark Eyed Sailor Andrew King and Brown Sierra – The Dark Eyed Sailor The Norman Luboff Choir – The Dark Eyed Sailor https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

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   27 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

   FDN LXV

   Episode LXV (and not LXX!!!) has songs and tunes, old ones and new ones, drink and meat, hares and pigs, parties and funerals, sacrifices and tributes. Tracklist Bryan O'Leary – I’ll meet you on a day that never ends / The Ballinahulla Butterfly / Tranquility in Tureencahill Tim Lyons and Fintan Vallely - The Price of the Pig Vidd – Stor sak om världen hatar mig Sarah Makem – I Courted a Wee Girl Cormac Cannon, Lamond Gillespie and John Blake – Bunker Hill / The Hare's Paw Nellie Weldon – My Love is a Well Seamus Heaney and Liam O’Flynn – The Given Note / Port na bPúcaí Jimmy Crowley –…

3. 

   20 Dec 2025 · 1 hr 19 min

   FDN LXIV

   This one features more gems from my recently unearthed music collection, songs of protest, songs of love, songs of dark magic, as well as more proggy folk rock than you've ever heard in one single episode. It is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Margaretta D'Arcy who sadly passed away last month. Rest in Power. X https://www.mickmoloneyfilm.com/ Tracklist Margaretta D'Arcy - The Great Gas Giveaway Jimmy O’Brien Moran – Slip Jigs / Kiss In The Shelter / Jig Polltog / Cuma Liom Barry Gleeson – Love's Old Sweet Song Arbete Och Fritid – Ganglat Efter Lejsme Per Larsson, Malung Folk Och…

4. 

   15 Sep 2025 · 1 hr 15 min

   FDN LXIII

   FDN LXIII is a special episode focusing on shape note singing in the United States. It is based around two interviews conducted this year with Howe Pearson and Sasha Suczyk and looks at the history and evolution of shape note singing in North America, as well as various cultural and social aspects of the tradition. Tracklist NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – I Walked Abroad Wootten Family – Ortonville Cork Sacred Harp Singers – Tribulation Lee Family – While Sorrows Encompass Me Round (Tune Skeleton of Idumea) Northampton Harmony – Despair Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton – And Am I Born To Die?…

5. 

   9 Sep 2025 · 1 hr 31 min

   FDN LXII

   I have just recently gotten my vinyl and CD collections back from where they were stored for 6 months (thanks Crispo!!), an event that definitely makes itself felt in this episode. If there is a theme then it's something to do with pipers, fighters, outlaws, thieves and revolutionaries. Art by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. X Tracklist; Seán McKeon – The Salamanca / Trim the Velvet Tealeaf – Bone Lace Weaver Jason Rouse – Snug in the Blanket / The Fisherman’s Johnny Horton – The Battle of New Orleans Liam Weldon – James Connolly Seán McKeon – James Connolly Francy Devine – Sam Hall / Le Ramoneur /…

6. 

   20 Jun 2025 · 52 min

   Blackwater Side

   This episode looks at the ballad Blackwater Side aka Blackwaterside aka Down by Blackwaterside and the journey that it took from a Traveller site outside Belfast in 1952 to the first Led Zeppelin LP. A winding river of a song, this episode looks at its multiple obscure sources as well as its many meandering tributaries. Tracklist Led Zeppelin – Black Mountain Side Bert Jansch – Blackwaterside Anne Briggs – Blackwaterside Isla Cameron – Blackwaterside Mary Doran – Down by Blackwaterside Paddy Tunney – Blackwaterside Harry Upton – In Wayward Town Wash Nelson – Last May Morn Spriguns –…

7. 

   18 Mar 2025 · 1 hr 4 min

   FDN LX

   FDN LX was recorded in a bedroom in the 9th Ward in New Orleans. Upon reflection it features many friends, peers and contemporaries and that must be a good thing. Cormac Mac Diarmada – Iníon an Fhaoit’ ó’n nGleann Jim Ghedi – The Seasons Bob Hill – Pity The Downtrodden Landlord Ben Edge – Crossbones Lament Angeline Morrison – Unknown African Boy (d. 1830) Paddy McKeown – Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó Dickie Rock & Miami – Mairzy Doats And Dozy Doats Guídó Pluisce – Farewell to High Fidelity Geoff Berner — In Ale Gasn [Daloy Polizei! ⁄ A.C.A.B!] Ola Belle Reed – I've Endured Varo ft. John…

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   10 Mar 2025 · 1 hr 6 min

   Hares On The Mountain / The Knife in the Window

   This episode looks at the song Hares on the Mountain aka Blackbirds and Thrushes aka If All the Young Women aka Nancy Lay Sleeping aka The Knife in the Window aka Pretty Polly aka Shepherd So Bold aka Sally My Dear aka Lightning and Thunder aka Crawling and Creeping aka Ain't Gonna Do It No More aka Roll Yer Leg Over Tracklist Shirley Collins and Davy Graham – Hares on the Mountain Harry List – Knife on the Window AL Lloyd – Pretty Polly Harry Cox – Knife in the Window Belinda Kempster and Fran Foote – Knife in the Window The Three ‘Baccer Tags – Ain’t Gonna Do It No More Jim Garland –…

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   10 Feb 2025 · 1 hr 20 min

   FDN LIX

   Episode LVIX is an eclectic collection of traditional material arranged and performed along a wide and varied spectrum of emotion, mood and colour. Expect bombast, pomp, introspection and sensitivity with a side dish of wonktown 2000. Artwork from Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymous Bosch, 15th - 16th century. Tracklist Sam Spence – Quest For The Silver Trophy Natalie Ní Chasaide and Iarfhlaith Ó Domhnail – The Ewe with the Crooked Horn / An Mhalaidh Garbh Macdara Yeates – One Starry Night Bláth na hÓige – Seán Gabha Powtes – Green Brooms Grey Stag – Blessington Maid Cruel Mother – Down…

10. 

    9 Dec 2024 · 51 min

    The Boston Burglar

    This episode looks at the song the Boston Burglar aka Botany Bay aka the Louisville Burglar aka the New Transports Farewell aka the Transport aka Adieu to Old England Tracklist Paul Clayton – Botany Bay The Watersons – The Whitby Lad Fiddlin' John Carson August – The Boston Burglar Carl T Sprague – The Boston Burglar New Lost City Ramblers – Louisville Burglar George Pegram – The Boston Burglar Cat Mother – Boston Burglar Jean Elvin - The Boston Smuggler Jimmy MacBeath – The Boston Smuggler Delia Murphy – The Boston Burglar The Clancy Brother and Lou Killen – The Boston Burglar The…