Songs

A song collected from County Clare about a mother whose child has been stolen by the fairies. Here Hag sings the song under the stars beside...

A bothy is a shack or outbuilding where male farmhands would live while working for hire. They would amuse each other in the evenings singin...

This miner's lullaby turns on the Scots phrase "coorie doon," which means both to curl up in bed and to bend down to get through a tight spa...

Early Irish Immigrants to the United States were represented on the stage by the stock figures Paddy and Bridget, drunkenly stumbling throug...