BBC Archive Recordings

By Bobby Casey


  1. The Ragged Hank Of Yarn
    Dublin
    The Woman Of The House
  2. The Three Sea Captains
  3. The College Groves
    Colonel Fraser’s
  4. Bantry Bay
  5. The Cliffs Of Moher
    Brian O’Lynn
  6. Mother’s Delight
    Jenny’s Welcome To Charlie
  7. The Banks Of The Suir
  8. Sheehan’s
    The High
  9. Stranger
    Rodney’s Glory
  10. Cherish The Ladies
    Coleman’s Cross
  11. Martin Wynne’s #2
    The Moving Bog
    Jenny’s Chickens
    Reel Of Mullinavat
  12. Memories Of Ballymote
    Gurteen Cross
  13. The Roscommon
    The Hare In The Heather
  14. Chief O’Neill’s Favourite
    The Rights Of Man
  15. The Dunmore Lasses
    Gilbert Clancy’s
    The College Groves
  16. Sweet Inniscarra
  17. Jockey To The Fair
  18. The Sunshine
    The Cuckoo
  19. The Liffey Banks
    The Shaskeen
    The Boys Of Ballisodare
    The Woman Of The House
    Tansey’s Favourite
    The Graf Spee
    The Ballinasloe Fair

Two comments

Casey recordings.

This is a wonderful archive of the great Bobby Casey’s work. Although the BBC doesn’t seem to have used these recordings on air, at least they didn’t destroy them … I wonder if they have any other recordings hanging around by superb but under-recorded masters, like Paddy Canny & Joe Ryan, for example … [ ? ].