Track listing

1. "Peggy Gordon
   Peggy Gordon (song)
   Peggy Gordon is a Canadian folk song that has become popular in many English-speaking countries. As a folk song it was first collected in the 1950s and 1960s in Canada, mainly in Nova Scotia. Versions of this song, in the form of a vaudeville song, were published in New York from 1880.It has been...
   
   " – 5:45
2. "Her Mantle So Green" – 5:42
3. "Lord Franklin
   Lady Franklin's Lament
   "Lady Franklin's Lament" is a broadside ballad indexed by George Malcolm Laws commemorating the loss of Sir John Franklin's British Arctic Expedition of 1845...
   
   " – 5:05
4. "The Singing Bird" – 4:34
5. "Óró Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile
   Oró Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile
   Óró, Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile is a traditional Irish song, that came to be known as an Irish rebel song in the early 20th century.-History:...
   
   " (in Irish (Gaelic)) – 3:25
6. "Molly Malone
   Molly Malone
   "Molly Malone" is a popular song, set in Dublin, Ireland, which has become the unofficial anthem of Dublin City....
   
   " – 3:38
7. "Paddy's Lament" – 5:30
8. "The Moorlough Shore
   The Moorlough Shore
   -Synopsis:A young man praises the beauties of the countryside and the girl he has fallen in love with. She refuses his advances on the ground that she already loves a sailor. She will wait for her true love for seven years. In frustration the boy leaves his childhood home and sails away, still...
   
   " – 5:30
9. "The Parting Glass
   The Parting Glass
   "The Parting Glass" is an Irish traditional song, often sung at the end of a gathering of friends. It was allegedly the most popular song sung in both Scotland and Ireland before Robert Burns wrote "Auld Lang Syne"....
   
   " – 4:36
10. "Báidín Fheilimí
    Báidín Fheilimí
    "Báidín Fheilimí" or sometimes "Báidín Fheidhlimidh" is a traditional Irish song which originates from the Gaeltacht region in the north-west of County Donegal, which is usually taught to young children...
    
    " (in Irish (Gaelic)) – 3:27
11. "My Lagan Love
    My Lagan Love
    "My Lagan Love" is a song to a traditional Irish air collected in 1903 in northern Donegal.The English lyrics have been credited to Joseph Campbell . Campbell was a Belfast man whose grand-parents came from the Irish-speaking area of Flurrybridge, South Armagh. He started collecting songs in County...
    
    " – 4:48
12. "Lord Baker" (with Christy Moore
    Christy Moore
    Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore is a popular Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is well known as one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts...
    
    ) – 11:44
13. "I'll Tell Me Ma
    I'll Tell Me Ma
    "I'll Tell Me Ma" is a well known children's song. It was collected in various parts of England in the 19th century and again appears in collections from shortly after the turn of the 20th century...
    
    " - 2:21
14. "Spanish Lady
    Spanish Lady
    "Spanish Lady" is a traditional Irish folk song, also found in England. The Bodleian Library has several broadsides of an English ballad with this name, one dating from the 17th century. Fragmentary or related versions from the US date from 1883. It is #543 in the Roud Folk Song Index...
    
    " (Japanese bonus track) - 3:41
15. "Marble Halls' (Japanese bonus track)

Personnel

• Sinéad O'Connor
  Sinéad O'Connor
  Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....
  
   - vocals
• Dónal Lunny
  Dónal Lunny
  Dónal Lunny is an Irish folk musician. Lunny has been at the forefront of the evolution of traditional Irish music for more than thirty-five years and has participated within the renaissance of traditional Irish music in that time period...
  
   - acoustic guitar, bouzouki, keyboard, bodhran, bodhran bass
• Steve Wickham
  Steve Wickham
  Steve Wickham is an Irish musician described by Mike Scott as "the world's greatest rock fiddle player" and by New Musical Express as a "fiddling legend." Originally from Marino, Dublin, but calling Sligo home, Wickham has appeared on recordings by Elvis Costello, the Hothouse Flowers, Sinéad...
  
   - fiddle (except tracks 7, 12 and 13), mandolin, banjo
• Sharon Shannon
  Sharon Shannon
  Sharon Shannon is an Irish musician. She is best known for her work with the accordion and for her fiddle technique. She also plays the tin whistle and melodeon. Her 1991 album Sharon Shannon is the best selling album of traditional Irish music ever released there...
  
   - accordion
• Alan Branch - percussion on track 12
• Abdullah Chhadeh - Quanun
• Nick Coplowe - Hammond organ
• Pete Lockett
  Pete Lockett
  Peter Robert Lockett is an English percussionist and recording artist. Lockett is known as a versatile and prolific percussionist, collaborating with many artists. He is well-versed in percussion traditions from music cultures around the world, including, Arabic, Japanese, Indian and...
  
   - percussion (except tracks 1, 9, 12 and 13)
• Cora Venus Lunny
  Cora Venus Lunny
  Cora Venus Lunny is an Irish violinist. Her father is the musician Dónal Lunny and she is the niece of Manus Lunny.Established as one of Ireland's leading classical musicians since her teens, Cora Venus Lunny is active as a soloist, chamber musician, interpreter of contemporary classical ...
  
   - violin on tracks 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7
• Kieran Kiely - whistle on tracks 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 13, accordion on 9
• Skip McDonald - electric guitar
• Christy Moore
  Christy Moore
  Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore is a popular Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is well known as one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts...
  
   - vocals on track 12
• Rob O Geibheannaigh - flute, strings, whistle on 5 & 10, piano on 9, guitar on 3, banjo on 1 & 4
• Carlton "Bubblers" Ogilvie - drums, bass, piano
• Bernard O'Neill - acoustic bass
• Professor Stretch - drum and bass programming

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