Irish Ways: Story of Ireland in Song, Music & Poetry

Compilation by Ron Kavana

Released 8 May 2007

Tracklist

  • CD 1: Pre-Historic Ireland to Norman Invasion
  • 1
    Songs of our Land
    0:55
  • 2
    Seevocuda
    3:51
  • 3
    Before History's Tale Began
    0:34
  • 4
    The Invaders
    2:19
  • 5
    Arrival of the Celts
    3:13
  • 6
    St. Patrick
    1:30
  • 7
    Partial Catastrophe
    6:51
  • 8
    A Pagan Cult Survives
    2:46
  • 9
    The Wran
    5:37
  • 10
    The Vikings and Brian Ború
    1:47
  • 11
    Weep Now For Poor Róisín
    2:46
  • 12
    MacMurrough and the Normans
    2:46
  • 13
    The Bards
    1:35
  • 14
    Henry VIII
    1:40
  • 15
    For all his Wives
    0:11
  • 16
    A Royal and a Reasonable Fellow
    2:14
  • 17
    Irish Slaves
    0:25
  • 18
    Elizabeth and the Planters
    4:25
  • 19
    Liza
    0:10
  • 20
    Follow Me up to Carlow
    3:05
  • 21
    Cromwell, Agent of a Wrathful God
    2:30
  • 22
    Young Ned of the Hill
    4:15
  • 23
    Lament for Ireland
    0:20
  • 24
    Remember the 12th
    1:11
  • 25
    Derry, They Boyne, Aughrim and the Treaty of Limerick
    2:40
  • 26
    Sean O'Dhuibhir A'Ghleanna
    4:25
  • 27
    A Farewell to Patrick Sarsfield
    0:21
  • 28
    Both Sides of the Boyne
    3:54
  • CD 2: Penal Laws to Age of Revolution / 1798 and the Act of Union
  • 1
    Wild Geese
    0:17
  • 2
    Súil A Rúin
    7:27
  • 3
    Penal Days
    0:22
  • 4
    The Penal Laws
    2:31
  • 5
    Farewell Granuaille
    0:11
  • 6
    Deoraí
    1:17
  • 7
    Rambling irishman
    3:36
  • 8
    The Bardic Tradition and Death of O'Carolan
    3:56
  • 9
    An Entrée
    0:09
  • 10
    A Modest Proposal
    1:35
  • 11
    John Barry
    0:30
  • 12
    American War of Independence
    1:18
  • 13
    At the Seige of Valley Forge
    0:19
  • 14
    French Revolution
    1:18
  • 15
    The Carmagnoles
    5:04
  • 16
    The Sean Bhean Bhocht
    2:06
  • 17
    The rights of Man
    2:20
  • 18
    The Summer Soldiers
    3:54
  • 19
    1798 and the United Irishmen
    3:45
  • 20
    Dunlavin Green
    5:36
  • 21
    Boolavogue
    4:49
  • 22
    Forging of the Pikes
    0:37
  • 23
    The Rising of the Moon
    5:07
  • 24
    Who Fears to Speak of '98
    0:20
  • 25
    Roddy McCorley
    3:55
  • 26
    A Winter's Tale
    0:27
  • 27
    By Memory Inspired
    2:37
  • 28
    Truth and Understanding
    6:15
  • 29
    The Union
    0:31
  • 30
    The Shamrock Shore
    4:22
  • CD 3: Act of Union to Great Hnger / Emigration & the Diaspora
  • 1
    Young Robert Emmet
    2:19
  • 2
    Robert Emmet's Last Words / Scaffold Passage
    1:27
  • 3
    Emmet's No More
    0:24
  • 4
    After '98
    1:37
  • 5
    The Plains of Waterloo
    3:57
  • 6
    The Whiteboys
    3:21
  • 7
    Buachaillín Bán
    2:10
  • 8
    Daniel O'Connell
    3:52
  • 9
    O'Connell & Erin Go Bragh
    1:05
  • 10
    Further Catastrophes
    4:42
  • 11
    O'Connell's Dead
    0:21
  • 12
    The Praties / The Lord's Prayer
    2:33
  • 13
    The Great Hunger
    6:59
  • 14
    Mad Visions
    1:49
  • 15
    The Famine Year
    0:46
  • 16
    Skibereen
    5:47
  • 17
    Diaspora
    6:26
  • 18
    The New Road
    4:42
  • 19
    Canada-I-O
    3:42
  • 20
    The New Dominion
    0:14
  • 21
    Crossing the Niagara
    1:20
  • 22
    Bound for South Australia
    2:01
  • 23
    The Plains of Emu
    0:37
  • 24
    Adieu and Farewell
    5:15
  • 25
    On the Tide
    0:21
  • 26
    No Irish Need Apply
    3:27
  • 27
    The Battle of Bull Run
    0:26
  • 28
    Muldoon, the Solid Man
    5:04
  • CD 4: Fenians to Civil War / Free State to Modern Ireland
  • 1
    Fenians, The Land League and Parnell
    5:36
  • 2
    The Wife of the Bold Tenant Farmer
    3:04
  • 3
    The Uncrowned King / The Pinch O' Snuff
    3:21
  • 4
    Revival and Rising
    5:45
  • 5
    The Foggy Dew
    6:05
  • 6
    Easter 1916
    1:06
  • 7
    War of Independence and Civil War
    6:34
  • 8
    Four Green Fields
    5:36
  • 9
    Cry, Cry, Cry
    4:33
  • 10
    Free State to the Troubles
    5:12
  • 11
    In the Smoke
    4:58
  • 12
    The Travellin' People / Death Chant of the Navaho
    4:45
  • 13
    You Northern Gaels
    0:37
  • 14
    Reconciliation
    3:30
  • 15
    Old Ireland / New Ireland
    7:29
  • 16
    Lovers and Friends
    4:15
  • 17
    Irish Ways
    4:58

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