Fire Draw Near is a monthly podcast and radio show which investigates Irish traditional music and song in all of its myriad forms. https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

Episode List

LXVI

Jun 8th, 2026 4:52 AM

Episode LXVI concentrates on iterations of the traditional within a modern context. At some times it is a soft embrace, at others a collision. There are songs and tunes from many parts of the world. It is a journey. Don't be scared. Caitlin Finley and Will Woodson – The Plains of Boyle - Lawson's Doireann Glackin & Sarah Flynn – Mrs Galvin's Hornpipe - Grace's Favourite Barren – Sonny's Mazurka Aoife Nic Diarmada – Liam Ó Raghallaigh Teppana Jänis & Arja Kastinen – Vanha Valssi Kapela Kotra – Zialony Haj - Зялёны Гай Jim Ghedi – The Hungry Child Sam Grassie – Return to Fingal Macdara Yeates – De May Bush The Standing Stones featuring Iona Zajac and Daragh Lynch – Twa Sisters Nuovo Canzoniere Partigiano – The Partisan Caitlin Finley & Will Woodson – Willie Taylor's March - The Harp That Once Through Tara's Hall https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

The Dark Eyed Sailor

May 26th, 2026 10:33 AM

This episode looks at the ballad The Dark Eyed Sailor aka Fair Phoebe and Her Dark Eyed Sailor Tracklist Phil Tanner – Fair Phoebe and Her Dark Eyed Sailor Fred Jordan – The Dark Eyed Sailor Walter Pardon – The Dark Eyed Sailor Lou Killen – The Dark Eyed Sailor Steeleye Span – The Dark Eyed Sailor Kate Doherty (Denery) – Dark Eyed Sailor Christy Moore – The Dark Eyed Sailor Luke Kelly – The Dark Eyed Sailor Michael Barden – The Dark Eyed Sailor Andrew King and Brown Sierra – The Dark Eyed Sailor The Norman Luboff Choir – The Dark Eyed Sailor https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

FDN LXV

Mar 27th, 2026 1:02 PM

Episode LXV (and not LXX!!!) has songs and tunes, old ones and new ones, drink and meat, hares and pigs, parties and funerals, sacrifices and tributes. Tracklist Bryan O'Leary – I’ll meet you on a day that never ends / The Ballinahulla Butterfly / Tranquility in Tureencahill Tim Lyons and Fintan Vallely - The Price of the Pig Vidd – Stor sak om världen hatar mig Sarah Makem – I Courted a Wee Girl Cormac Cannon, Lamond Gillespie and John Blake – Bunker Hill / The Hare's Paw Nellie Weldon – My Love is a Well Seamus Heaney and Liam O’Flynn – The Given Note / Port na bPúcaí Jimmy Crowley – Johnny Jump Up Shove The Pig’s Foot A Little Further Into The Fire / Juliann Johnson Patrick Boyle – Clasped To The Pig Topette – Bal Limousines - A Bastien / Les Maries Nimf – Solar Excess Sacrificial Ecstasies https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

FDN LXIV

Dec 20th, 2025 2:29 PM

This one features more gems from my recently unearthed music collection, songs of protest, songs of love, songs of dark magic, as well as more proggy folk rock than you've ever heard in one single episode. It is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Margaretta D'Arcy who sadly passed away last month. Rest in Power. X https://www.mickmoloneyfilm.com/ Tracklist Margaretta D'Arcy - The Great Gas Giveaway Jimmy O’Brien Moran – Slip Jigs / Kiss In The Shelter / Jig Polltog / Cuma Liom Barry Gleeson – Love's Old Sweet Song Arbete Och Fritid – Ganglat Efter Lejsme Per Larsson, Malung Folk Och Rackare – Bältet Emma Capponi – Small Birds Whistle Dorothy Carter – The King of Glory The Johnsons – The Dublin Jack Of All Trades Mick Moloney – McNally's Row Of Flats Mick Moloney & Joe McKenna – Sean Reid's Favourite / Toss the Feathers Donal Finn – The Ballad of Pat the Chief Clod – Scrumping and Rumping Mardi Gras Indians – Red White and Blue Got the Golden Band The Trojans – Gaelic Ska Jimmy O’Brien Moran – All The Way To Galway / Jenny Put The Kettle On Cití Seáin Ní Chuinneagáin – Bá Phroclaise Aoife Nic Dhomhnaill & Liam Lonergan – Báthadh Bhroclaise / Sliabh Mis / Whiskey-O-Roudelum-Row Barry Gleeson – The Girls Along The Road https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

FDN LXIII

Sep 15th, 2025 1:20 PM

FDN LXIII is a special episode focusing on shape note singing in the United States. It is based around two interviews conducted this year with Howe Pearson and Sasha Suczyk and looks at the history and evolution of shape note singing in North America, as well as various cultural and social aspects of the tradition. Tracklist NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – I Walked Abroad Wootten Family – Ortonville Cork Sacred Harp Singers – Tribulation Lee Family – While Sorrows Encompass Me Round (Tune Skeleton of Idumea) Northampton Harmony – Despair Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton – And Am I Born To Die? Shenandoah Harmony Singers – Buonaparte Frank Harte – The Isle of Saint Helena The Doc Watson Family – The Lone Pilgrim Sacred Harp Singers – The Lone Pilgrim Martha Woodard – Murillo's Lesson The Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven Shape Note Singing Convention Singers – Amazing Grace Landless – Doomsday NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – The Last Judgement Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers – My Mothers Gone https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

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