This week on Folk Alley—in honor of Women’s History Month and St. Patricks’s Day—join host Cindy Howes for a celebration of Irish & Irish-American women in folk music. Hear from Mary Black, Dolores Keane, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Cathy Jordan, Moya Brennan, Karan Casey, Sharon Shannon, Niamh Parsons, and so much more!
Artist-Song-Album-Label
Hour One
Mary Black – Song for Ireland – Collected – Dara
Dolores Keane & John Faulkner – Galway Bay – Sail Og Rua – Gael Linn
Altan – Liostail me le Sairsint – Donegal – Compass Records
Altan – Port Arainn Mhor/Port Kitty Rua Mooney – Donegal – Compass Records
Cathy Jordan and Seamie O’Dowd (compilation) – I Am of Ireland-Yeats In Song – I Am of Ireland – Merrow Records
Maighread & Triona Ni Dhomhnaill – Spanish Lady – Idir an Da Sholas – Green Linnet
Clannad – A Mhuirnin O – Landmarks – Atlantic
Karan Casey – Return to the Wild – Nine Apples of Gold – Vertical Records
Solas – Bonnie Mae – The Hour Before Dawn – Shanachie
Sharon Shannon (feat. John Prine & Mary Staunton) – Love, Love, Love – The Diamond Mountain Sessions – Compass
Niamh Parsons – Alexander – Blackbirds & Thrushes – Green Linnet
Cathie Ryan – The Wild Flowers – The Farthest Wave – Shanachie
Eileen Ivers – O’Donnells’s Lament Medley – Long Journey Home (Various) – BMG
Heidi Talbot – Music Tree – In Love + Light – Compass
Hour Two
Frances Black – Cast the Stone – Frances Black and Kieran Goss – Shanachie
Runa – A Stor A Stor A Ghra (In-Studio) – Folk Alley Sessions – Folk Alley exclusive in-studio
Éilís Kennedy – A Sailors Trade – So Ends This Day – Éilís Kennedy
Aoife Clancy – Are You Sleepin’ Maggie – Silvery Moon – Appleseed
I Draw Slow – Mama Don’t Cry – Redhills – Pinecastle Records
BRÍDÍN – Floating – Ocean of Stars – BRÍDÍN
Susan O’Neill – Bright Eyes – Now In a Minute – Star House Collective
Emma Langford – Mariana – Sowing Acorns – Emma Langford
The Henry Girls – Not Your Fight – A Time To Grow – CPL-Music
Niamh Regan – Music – Come As You Are – Faction Records
Muireann Bradley – Sligo River Blues – Rose Dogs [EP] – Fontana/Verve Forecast
Clare Sands – Dealán Dé (feat. Brian Finnegan) – [single] – Clare Sands
Lisa Hannigan – Undertow – At Swim – ATO
Sinead O’Connor – Something Beautiful – Theology – Koch
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