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The Gathering[edit]

Sometime during 1977, Irvine also recorded The Gathering,[1] along with Paul Brady, Dónal Lunny, Matt Molloy, Tommy Potts and uilleann piper Peter Browne. This album was funded by Diane Meek, a Guggenheim heiress who had used the pseudonym 'Hamilton' as her maiden name to disguise her wealth. She was the owner of Tradition Records and a patron of traditional music in Dublin at the time. She had lent Mulligan Records money in the early days and had also formed a small record label for traditional music called Srutháin [a stream or small stretch of water], on which she had intended to release The Gathering. However, the album was finally released in 1981 on Greenhays, a label connected with Rounder Records.[2]: 247 

Irvine contributed two songs to the album, and also accompanied Brady on a third track:

  • "There's Sure To Be A Row" is a song Irvine learnt from "an old tape of the inimitable, much loved, late Willie Clancy." It is "obviously of Music Hall origin and sung to the ubiquitous tune [of] "Star of the County Down".[3]: 100–102  Irvine sings the song, accompanied by Brady (tin whistle) and Lunny (bouzouki and guitar)[4]
  • "The Mall of Lismore" is a song written in the first person—and as a warning to "other fair maids"—by a girl who was disowned by her father for falling in love with a "dashing young soldier" who, in turn, leaves her "all alone on the Mall of Lismore, when to Dublin his regiment was ordered". Irvine sings and plays harmonica & mandolin, accompanied on harpsichord by Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill.[4]
  • He also plays mandolin and harmonica on Paul Brady's cover of "Heather on the Moor".[4]

Keep the following external links, to create a separate article for the album later on.

http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Gathering/release/3189424 The Gathering at discogs website.

http://www.theballadeers.com/fc/fc_1981_gath.htm The Gathering at The Balladeers website.

https://thewildrovershow.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/the-gathering/ Schedule page for the radio programme featuring The Gathering on The Wild Rover Show (3 May 2011).

http://members.shaw.ca/chieftains/matt.html Matt Molloy's biography at The Chieftains' website.

http://www.acousticguitar.com/How-To/Play-the-Irish-Love-Song-Heather-on-the-Moor How to play "Heather on the Moor", at Acoustic Guitar website.

  1. ^ The Gathering, Greenhays Recordings GR 705, 1981. Marketed by Flying Fish Inc., Chicago, Ill.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference O'Toole was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Irvine was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b c Sleeve notes from The Gathering, Greenhays Recordings GR 705, 1981.
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