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Finn mac Cuil

Finn mac Cuil were Madelaine Taylor, Tony Ireland, John Wilson and Nick Keir. Tony Ireland went on to a solo career which produced some great music but with unspectacular success (see below). Nick Keir later joined The McCalmans, with whom he still performs.

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Records:

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Finn mac Cuil: Sink ye Swim Ye (REL REcords REL 460, 1978)

Side One: Birnie Bouzle; Newry Town; Mary Hamilton (trad/Keir); The Friar Well Fitted (trad/Wilson); The Shearing; New Jigs
Side Two: The Minstrel (Keir); The Little Drummer; The Gaberlunzie Man; The Poachers; The Dancers of Ruhendorf (Wilson/Keir)

All songs traditional except where indicated

Madelaine Taylor (vocals, guitar, spoons); Tony Ireland (guitar, dulcimer, vocals); John Wilson (bass, guitar, vocals); Nick Keir (mandolin, vocals, recorders, whistle)


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Tony Ireland: Johnny O'Cockley's Well (Peak 3581, 1983)

Side One: The Recruited Collier; Lanigan's Ball; Over the Borders/St Kilda Wedding/Connaught Man's Rambles; Jocj Stewart; Lord Yester (Goerge Weir); Cam Ye O'er Frae France?
Side Two: Johnny O'Cockley's Well; Corn Rigs; The Bonny Gateshead Lassie; Down By the Salley Gardens (Yeats/trad); Come Under My Plaidie/The Duke of Perth/The Deil Among the Tailors

All songs traditional except where indicated

Tony Ireland (vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, dulcimer, tenor banjo, keyboards, bass pedals, snare drum)


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Tony Ireland: The Champion (Ireland Records IR2001, 1987)

Side One: Tae the Beggin'; The Turkish Girl (McNeill)/Hannah On the Mountain (McNeill)/Miss Catherine Jane Spree's (McNeill); My Bonny Mary (Burns/Ireland); Greenland Haul Away (John Wilson)/The Faries' Hornpipe/The Cameronian Reel; My Love's In Germany
Side Two: What You Do With What You've Got (Si Kahn); Alan Reid's Fancy (Alan Reid)/O'Carolan's Draught (O'Carolan); Traveller's Moon (Brian McNeill) The Champion (Nick Keir)

All songs traditional except where indicated

Tony Ireland (vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, dulcimer, tenor banjo, keyboards)
with Nick Keir (mandolin, vocals, whistle); Brian McNeill (fiddle, bouzouki, cittern); Derek Moffat (harmony vocals, bodhran); Ian McCalman (harmony vocals)