S 10 E 01 Abolish Ice Chippewa Valley Irish Immigration with guest musicians Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain (Rerun)
January 11th, 2026
1 hr 23 mins 23 secs
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TUNES:
William Dixon: The New Way to Bowden (Athol Braes) (though I say Morpeth in the Podcast)
Walker Jackson: Jackson’s Morning Brush
Martin Freeman: One Tree Vale. I Ngleaun A Chruing
Canon James Goodman: Jackson’s Snack, The Bright Dawn of Day
James Aird: The Dawning of the Day
Canon Goodman, Courtesy of Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain: Ceann Dubh Dileas (My dark-haired darling), Pádruig, Píobaire (Patrick the Piper) / Quadrille, Humours of Glynn.
Huge Thank you to Mick, Emer and Aoife for letting my play a few tracks from their new album: More Tunes from the Goodman Manuscripts. Be sure to check it out on Bandcamp:
https://goodmantunestrio.bandcamp.com/album/more-tunes-from-the-goodman-manuscripts
Be sure to check out Fin Dwyer’s Outstanding Irish History Podcast for a far better discussion of the Famine in his 37 Episode Series:
https://irishhistorypodcast.ie/podcast-introduction-to-the-great-famine-series/
I watched several videos on the Famine, but this one was particularly good:
When Ireland Starved:
https://youtu.be/B_K-q4GCdWg
Cover Art for this Episode Comes From The Illustrated London News February 13, 1847:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Illustrated_London_News/1dFCAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1
You can See it on the Original release of the Episode here:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e05
This week’s episode is a companion piece to a presentation I gave for the Chippewa Valley Museum’s February Folk Arts Festival https://www.cvmuseum.com/visit/folk-arts-fest/
The Mystery Tune from last week was Cutting Bracken (also Known as Buain na Rainich or Tha Mi Sgìth), big Thanks to those that let me know!
Here are some links to recordings of it from Kist of Riches:
http://tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/32380
http://tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/72046
http://tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/88532
http://tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/101278
http://tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/105641 (this is the version where the Fairy is complaining to be working alone).
Here is the live 1972 Video I played a Sample from Alan Stivell:
https://youtu.be/aJtdHmpjzxo
1733: William Dixon’s The New Way to Bowden, I incorrectly refer to this tune as New way to Morpeth in the Podcast I think: from Matt Seattle’s book:
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition
1774: Walker Jackson’s Jackson’s Morning Brush:
The book itself is not available online, but you can look at a fair transcription of the notes on Bill Black’s Website:
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/jcit/jcit_table.html
1860s: Canon James Goodman’s Jackson’s Airs, Snack
Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA):
http://port.itma.ie/score/ITMA_5894
Or the Original hosted Here:
http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-four#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=6&z=-1730.7771%2C4123.5859%2C9428.2975%2C3406.3143
To read more about James Goodman you can read here:
http://goodman.itma.ie/
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/the-man-who-saved-a-feast-of-music-from-the-famine-years-1.923981
His Obituary was Reprinted in an Early Issue of An Piobaire: An Píobaire - sraith 2, uimhir 30 (May 1986)
https://pipers.ie/source/media/?galleryId=1011&mediaId=25932
https://www.itma.ie/features/discover/canon-james-goodman
You can see the article about the Cork Piper’s Club in An Píobaire - sraith. 1, uimhir 1 (March 1969)
https://pipers.ie/source/media/?galleryId=1010&mediaId=25878
1913/4: Alexander Martin Freeman’s One Tree Vale: of I Ngleaun A Chruing (The tune appears on page 227)
https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/text/journal-of-the-folk-song-society-no-24
1861: Canon Goodman’s The Bright Dawn of Day
ABC from ITMA:
http://port.itma.ie/score/ITMA_1109
Original:
http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-one#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=4&z=-1312.2998%2C556.3838%2C10302.6954%2C3722.2222
Here Is the Video of Several Irish Singers singing Fáinne Gael an Lae
https://youtu.be/NtQeo09xOGA
1780s: James Aird’s Dawning of the Day:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87705159
FIN
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