The Best of Patrick Street is a compilation album by Patrick Street

Patrick Street

Patrick Street is an Irish folk group.The band was formed in Dublin in 1986 with Kevin Burke on fiddle, Jackie Daly on button accordion, Andy Irvine on bouzouki and vocals, and Arty McGlynn on guitar...

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The tracks are taken from the debut album "Patrick" Street" (4 tracks), "No 2 Patrick Street" (5 tracks), "Irish Times" (4 tracks) and "All In Good Time" (5 tracks). There are 5 songs and 13 instrumental sets, with Andy Irvine doing all the vocals. "A Prince Among Men" is a tribute to his coal-mining father. Running time 76 minutes 20 seconds. Released 1995.

Track listing

1. Patrick Street/ The Carraroe Jig (Trad/ Trad)
2. Dennis Murphy's Reel/ The Bag of Spuds/ MacFarley's Reel (Trad/ Trad/ Trad)
3. Facing The Chair (song) (Andy Irvine)
4. Brian O'Lynn/ The Woods of Old Limerick (Trad/ Trad)
5. The Shores Of Lough Gowna/ Contentment Is Wealth/ Have A Drink On Me (Trad/ Trad/ Trad)
6. A Prince Among Men (Only A Miner) (song) (Andy Irvine)
7. Carherlistrane Jig/ Gallowglass Jig/ Kanturk Jig (Jackie Daly)
8. A Forgotten Hero (song) (Andy Irvine)
9. Frank Quinn's Reel/ Lad O'Beirne's/ Murphy's Reel (Trad/ Trad/ Trad)
10. Music For A Found Harmonium (S Jeffes)
11. The Holy Ground (song) (Gerry O'Beirne)
12. Hard By Seifin/ Woodcock Hill (Trad/ Trad)
13. The Mouth of the Tobique/ Billy Wilson (Trad/ Trad)
14. William Taylor (song) (Trad)
15. Mrs O'Sullivan's Jig/ Caliope House (Dave Richardson)
16. The Newmarket Polkas (Walshe's Polka/ Dan Mac's Polka/ Terry Teahan's Polka) (Trad/ Trad/ Trad)
17. Lintheads: The Pride of the Springfield Road (song)/ Lawrence Common/ Goodbye Monday Blues (song) (Andy Irvine and Si Kahn)
18. Sweeney's Reel (Jackie Daly)

Personnel

• Andy Irvine
  Andy Irvine (musician)
  Andrew Kennedy 'Andy' Irvine is a folk musician, singer, and songwriter, and a founding member of the popular band Planxty. He is an accomplished player of the mandolin, bouzouki, mandola, guitar-bouzouki, harmonica and hurdy-gurdy....
  
   (vocals, mandolin, bouzouki)
• Kevin Burke (fiddle)
• Jackie Daly (accordion)
• Arty McGlynn
  Arty McGlynn
  Arty McGlynn is an Irish guitarist born in Omagh, County Tyrone. In addition to his solo work, he has collaborated with different notable groups such as Patrick Street, Planxty, Four Men and a Dog, De Dannan and the Van Morrison Band. He played guitar on the critically acclaimed 1989 Van Morrison...
  
   (guitar)
• James Kelly (fiddle)
• Bill Whelan
  Bill Whelan
  Bill Whelan, is an Irish composer and musician. He is best known for composing a piece for the interval of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. The end result, Riverdance, was a seven-minute display of traditional Irish dancing that became a full-length stage production and spawned a worldwide craze...
  
  (keyboard)
• Declan Masterson (uilleann pipes)
• Gerry O'Beirne (guitar)