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Cairdeas Recordings   Cambra   Camden   Camus Productions  

Capitol   Cara   Castle Music   Causeway Music   Cavan Music  

CBS   Celtic Airs   Celtic Collections   Celtic Crossings 

Celtic Gold   Celtic Music  Celtic Note   Celtic Pride   Celtica  

Ceol   Ceol Music   Ceol Records   Le Chant du Monde 

Chappell Recorded Music Library  

Chart Records   Chiswick   Cinq Planètes   Circa   Circín Rua  

Clachán Music   Clan   Clare Records   Clarity Sound & Light  

CMR Records  Cois na hAbhna   Coleman Heritage Centre   Collector  

Columbia   Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann   Compass Records  

Conamara Environmental Education and Cultural Centre  

Connoisseur Collection   Connoisseur Records   Cooking Vinyl  

Coop Breizh   Copley   Cottage Records   Covert

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store   Craft Recordings   Crescent 

 Cross Border Media   Crow Valley Music   Cúchullain  

Curragh Records


Cairdeas Recordings

The label releases live recordings from the annual fiddlers’ summer school mounted in Glencolmcille, Co. Donegal by Cairdeas na bhFidiléirí. Unfortunately, none of the recordings carries a date of issue ­ – www.donegalfiddlemusic.ie.

 

 

CNF 001                     Martin McGinley, Jimmy Campbell, Michael McMenamin,

Mick Brown, Próinsiás Ó Maonaigh, Danny McCarry, Peter

Tracey, Paul O’Shaughnessy – The Fiddle Music of Donegal, Volume 1 (recordings made in 1995)

 

CNF 002                     Vincent Campbell, Maurice Bradley, Stephen Campbell,

Róisín McGrory and Damian Harrigan, James Byrne,

Ronan Galvin – The Fiddle Music of Donegal, Volume 2

(recordings made in 1997)

 

CNF 003                     Dermot McLaughlin, John Byrne, Derek McGinley,

Matthew McGranahan, Jimmy Campbell, Peter Campbell –

The Fiddle Music of Donegal, Volume 3 (recordings made in

1997 and 1999)

 

CNF 004                     Con Cassidy – Traditional Fiddle Music from Donegal (2007)

 

CNF 005                     Frank Cassidy – Níl gar ann! (2008)

 

CNF 006                     Vincent Campbell – The Purple Heather (2009; double CD)


Cambra

UK reissues label, drawing upon the Transatlantic back catalogue – thanks to Alastair Banfield for this information.

CR 058                       The Dubliners – At Their Best (1985; double LP)

CR 5183                     The Dubliners – Live: Dubliners (1985; double LP)


Camden

UK budget reissue label.

 

74321 647892             The Dubliners – A Night Out with The Dubliners (1999)

74321 660422             The Dubliners – The Dubliners Collection (1999 double CD)


Camus Productions

Connemara-based producer of estimable cassettes of singing in Irish and English.

CP 001                        Various – Blas Meala/A Sip from the Honey-Pot, Volume 1

CP 002                        Various – Blas Meala/A Sip from the Honey-Pot, Volume 2

CP 003                        Eileen Curtin – An Draighneán Donn

CP 004                        Sarah Ghriallais – Idir-Dhár-Sháile

CP 005                        Mike Donohue – St. Helena’s Shore

CP 006                        Various – Pale Rainbow/An Dubh ina Bhán 1

CP 007                        Various – Pale Rainbow/An Dubh ina Bhán 2

CP 008                        Tess Uí Chongaile – Ó Mháimín go Camus

CP 009                        Máirtín Tom Sheáinín – An Sruthán Buí

CP 010                        Brian O’Rourke – When I Grow Up


Capitol

Hollywood-based US label, largely associated with the hits of the Beach Boys. Many thanks to John Cummins for these listings and his comments, including ‘Both LPs are amateurish productions and one wonders why a major label such as Capitol was associated with these releases.’ John adds that the first of the BCB recordings listed below, and both are by the 1958 version of the band, bearing no resemblance to its 1930s predecessor, was probably the first live commercial Irish music release (recorded at the Irish Club in Dublin’s Parnell Square).

 

T10201                        Ballinakill Céilí Band – St Patrick''s Night In Dublin (later

issued by EMI in the UK)

T10225                        Ballinakill Céilí Band – Music For Emerald Isle Leprechauns

(later released by Music for Pleasure in the UK)


Cara

Irish label, long defunct.

 

CARA0001                 De Dannan – Song for Ireland (later reissued as

CARALP0001)

 

CR/L 7001                  Áine nicGabhainn – Irish Portrait (1970)

 


Castle Music

Once known as Castle Communications, Castle became part of  Sanctuary group (which, in turn, was taken over by Universal) and has reissued a number of old Transatlantic label releases – www.universalmusic.com.

 

Castle Communications releases

 

CCSCD 164                The Dubliners – The Collection (1987)

CCSCD 165                Finbar and Eddie Furey – The Collection

CCSCD 170                The Dubliners – The Collection Volume 2

CCSCD 220                The Chieftains – The Collection (1989 compilation)

CCSCD 221                Various – The Best of Irish Folk

CCSCD 231                The Fureys and Davey Arthur – The Collection  (1989)

CCSCD 312                Various – The Irish Folk Collection, Volume 2 (1993)

 

ESD CD 768               Various – The Best of Irish Folk (possibly CCDSD 221

reissued)

 

ESM CD 410              The Johnstons (reissue of first two Transatlantic LPs)

ESM CD 435              Sweeney’s Men – Sweeney’s Men/The Tracks of Sweeney (1996 reissue of Transatlantic LPs from 1968 and 1969)

ESM CD 518              The Dubliners – The Definitive Transatlantic Collection

ESM CD 523              The Johnstons – Give a Damn & Bitter Green

ESM CD 716              The Dubliners – The Dubliners’ Dublin

           

TRA CD 106              Four Men and a Dog – Doctor A’s Secret Remedies (1995)

TRA CD 110              The Dubliners - Milestones

TRA CD 243              The Dubliners – Further Along (1996)

TRA CD 273              Four Men and a Dog – Long Roads (1996)

 

Castle Classics series

 

CLACD 171               The Fureys and Davey Arthur – When You Were Sweet

Sixteen (1989)

CLACD 337               The Dubliners – The Dubliners’ Dublin

 

Castle Plus series

 

PLSCD 133                Various – The Best of Irish Folk

PLS CD 161               The Dubliners – At Their Best

PLS CD 168               The Glenside and Kilfenora Céilí Bands

PLS MC 285              The Emerald Girls Pipe Band and Liam Rowsome – Irish

Fiddles and Pipes (1989 cassette)

 

Castle Music releases

 

CMDDD932              Sweeney’s Men – The Legend of Sweeney’s Men Anthology

(2004 reissue of Transatlantic LPs from 1968 and 1969 plus

additional tracks)

 

CMRCD785               The Dubliners with Luke Kelly (2003 reissue of 1965 LP)

CMRCD787               The Dubliners – Finnegan Wakes (2003 reissue of 1966 LP)

CMRCD789               The Dubliners in Concert (2003 reissue of 1965 LP)

 

CMETD1274             Various: The Rocky Road to Dublin (2006; 3 CDs)

 

ESACD856                 The Dubliners - Anthology

 

TVSAN003                 The Dubliners – Spirit of the Irish (2003 compilation issued

under the Sanctuary imprint)


Causeway Music

Based in Ballintoy, Co. Antrim; cassette releases only.

CMC001                     Dick Glasgow and Friends – To the Bridge: Traditional

Music from North Antrim (1998?)

CMC002                     Dick Glasgow and Friends – Rathlin Sound:

Traditional Music from North Antrim (1998?)

 


Cavan Music

Despite the odd catalogue number this seems to be the only release by this label to date. Guess where it’s based!

00702                          Séamus Fay – Cavan’s Lilter (2003)


CBS

At one time CBS (Columbia Broadcasting Systems?) was the European arm of the USA label Columbia which is not to be confused with the British label of the same name (part of the EMI group).

Vinyl releases are listed below.

52206                          Gallowglass Céilí Band

 

62164                          The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem – The Boys Won’t

Leave the Girls Alone (1963)

62192                          The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem – In Person at

Carnegie Hall (1963)

62020                          The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem – Hearty and

Hellish

62674                          The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem – Isn’t It Grand

Boys (1966)

62775                          The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem – Freedom’s Song

(1967)

 

63335                          The Pattersons – Travelling People (1968)

63393                          The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem – Sing of the Sea

(1968)

63516                          The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem – A Spontaneous

Performance Recording (1961)

63532                          The Pattersons Again (1969)

63590                          The Quare Fellows (1969)

63923                          The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem – Flowers in the

Valley (1970)

64064                          The Pattersons – I Can Fly (1970)

 

82990                          The Chieftains – Bonaparte’s Retreat (1978 reissue of

Claddagh CC20)

82991                          The Chieftains 5 (1978 reissue of Claddagh CC16)

82987                          The Chieftains 3 (1978 reissue of Claddagh CC10)

82995                          The Chieftains – The Chieftains Live (1978 reissue of

Claddagh CC21)

82988                          The Chieftains 2 (LP)

82989                          The Chieftains 4 (LP)

 

83262                          The Chieftains 8 (1978 reissue of Claddagh CC29)

 

84081                          The Chieftains – Boil the Breakfast Early (1980 reissue of

Claddagh CC30)

 

32-15-0001/3               Various – The Irish Uprising: 1916-1922 (undated double LP)


Celtic Airs

No information available.

 

CACD 0201                Luke Kelly – The Best of Luke Kelly (2004)

CACD 0102                The Dubliners – Live at Vicar Street (2006; 2 CDs)

 

 


Celtic Collections

Dublin-based label with pronounced MoR tendencies which took over the old K-Tel Ireland label – www.celticcollections.com.

 

BANCD 6100             The Fureys – The Essential Fureys

BANCD 6110             The Fureys and Davey Arthur – Golden Days

BANCD 6115             The Fureys and Davey Arthur – At the End of the Day

BANCD 6125             The Fureys and Davey Arthur – When You Were Sweet #

Sixteen

BANCD 6130             The Fureys and Davey Arthur – First Leaves of

Spring/Autumn (?)

BANCD 6140             The Fureys and Davey Arthur – The Green Fields of France

BANCD 6150             The Fureys and Davey Arthur – The Scattering

BANCD 6155             The Fureys and Davey Arthur – The Fureys’ Finest

BANCD 6160             The Fureys and Davey Arthur – Twenty Fifth Anniversary

Collection (2004; double CD)

 

CCCD 023                  The Wolfe Tones – Celtic Symphony

CCCD 040                  The Wolfe Tones – At Their Very Best: Live (2004; double

CD)

CCCD 050                  The Wolfe Tones – The Anthology of Irish Song (2008; double CD)

CCCD 115                  The Wolfe Tones – Greatest Hits

CCCD 280                  Bohinta – Belladonna (2002)

 

CCCD 635                  The Wolfe Tones – Rebels and Heroes

CCCD 650                  Various – The Best That is Irish (2003; double CD)

CCCD 800                  Máiréad Nesbitt – Raining Up

 

TRCD 001                  The Wolfe Tones – 25th Anniversary

TRCD 009                  The Wolfe Tones – Till Ireland a Nation

TRCD 014                  The Wolfe Tones – As Gaelige

TRCD 020                  The Wolfe Tones – The Troubles (2004; double CD)

 

KCD 215                    Clannad – Collection (1988)

KCD 265                    Various – The Irish Collection (1993)

KCD 308                    Jimmy Crowley

KCD 332                    Various – Irish Folk Favourites

KCD 334                    Various – The Irish Folk Collection (1993)

KCD 336                    Finbar Furey – The Traditional Finbar Furey

KCD 337                    The Dubliners – Live

KCD 338                    The Dubliners – The Dubliners Collection

KCD 370                    Bill Whelan - Riverdance

KCD 400                    Clannad (compilation)

KCD 430                    De Dannan (compilation)

KCD 440                    Altan (compilation)

KCD 445                    The Dubliners – Celtic Collection

KCD 555                    Altan’s Finest (another compilation)

KCD 600                    Áine Furey – Sweetest Summer Rain (1999)


Celtic Crossings

Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin’s California-based label www.celticcrossings.com.

OWR-0046-2              Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin – Traditional Music from Clare and

Beyond (1996)

CC0299-02                 Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin and Patrick Ourceau – Tracin’ (1999)

CC2004                       Various – The Independence Suite: Traditional Music from

Ireland, Scotland and Cape Breton (2004)

CC2007                       Patrick Murphy – In Good Hands: Field Recordings from a

                                    Pioneer of the Irish Concertina (2007)


Celtic Gold

Part of the Crashed group – www.crashedmusic.com – and based in Dublin. Online sales are available at www.irishmusicshop.ie.

CD 304                       Various – The Best of Irish Jigs and Reels

CD 305                       Brogue – Dancing Through Ireland

CD 309                       Seán McGuire – The Irish Fiddler

CD 310                       Various – Celtic Céilí


Celtic Music

Once based in Lincolnshire, Dave Bulmer’s Celtic Music nowadays resides in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Lengthy debates about Bulmer, his legal friends, his company (CM Distribution), the Celtic Music label and the general disservice he’s given to traditional music can be found at The Mudcat Café website.

In the summer of 2008 I discovered that the surface of both discs of my copy of CMCD 079 had begun to flake, backing up the claims that Bulmer or his minions used substandard materials in the production of CDs.

CMCD 034                 Clannad – Ring of Gold (1986 issue of earlier live recordings)

CMCD 038                 Various – First Irish Folk Festival, Live 1974

 

CMC 043                    Seán McGuire – Sixty Years of Irish Fiddle (remastered 78s)

 

CMCD 054                 Liam O’Flynn – The Fine Art of Piping

CMCD 057                 De Dannan – ½ Set in Harlem

CMCD 066                 De Dannan – A Jacket of Batteries

CMCD 062                 Various – Maiden Voyage (live from Pepper’s Bar, Feakle –

includes Tommy Peoples, Kevin Crawford, P. J. King, etc.)

CMCD 064                 Mary Custy and Eoin O’Neill – With a Lot of Help from Our

Friends

CMCD 065                 Mary Custy and Eoin O’Neill – The Way of the World

CMCD 067                 Afterhours – Hung Up and Dry

CMCD 069                 Afterhours – Up to Here

 

CMCD 077                 Micho Russell – Traditional Irish Music from County Clare

(a reissue of Free Reed FRR 004?)

CMCD 079                 Josephine Keegan – Lifeswork: The Compositions of

Josephine Keegan (2001 double CD)

 

CMCD 080                 Mick Coyne – Both Sides of the Coin


Celtic Note

The Dublin record store’s own labelwww.celticnote.com.

 

CNCD 1001                Na Connerys – The Session (1995)

CNCD 1002                Osna (undated, but actually 1999)

CNCD 1003                Na Connerys – Fire in Our Hearts (undated)

 


Celtic Pride

Belgian label – no other details available.

 

CPR 33108                 The Dubliners – Songs from Ireland: Greatest Hits (1998)

CPR 33109                 The Dubliners – The Irish Rover and Other Favourites

(1998)

 


Celtica

No information available.

 

2002-1                         Robbie O’Connell – Recollections Volume 1 (2002)

 


Ceol

No information available.

 

CDC 007                     Various – Fleadh Céilí

CDC 014                     Various – Take the Floor (céilí bands)

CDC 015                     Various – Six of the Best (céilí bands)

CDC 016                     Various – Céilí Time in Ireland

 


Ceol Music

No information available.

No number                  Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones – On the

One Road (2008)

 


Ceol Records

Sligo-based label www.ceolproductions.com.

CEOCD 001               Téada (2002)

CEOCD 002               Oisín Mac Diarmada – Ar an bhFidil (2002)

 


Le Chant du Monde

French label; no details available.

LDX 74487                 Ted Furey – Le Fiddle Irlandais (1970s)


Chappell Recorded Music Library

London-based publisher producing library discs.

C1001                         Margaret Barry and Michael Gorman – The Leprechaun/

                                    Irish Reel/Irish Jig (1964 7” single)

 

CHAP 125                  The Chieftains, Mary-Clare Breathnach and The Castle

Ceilidh [sic] Band – Ireland (1986)

 


Chart Records

This Dublin-based label largely issues MoR music, but there are a few traditional items listed below.

 

001

CHCD 002                  Richie Kelly – Irish Dancing for Beginners

003

CHCS 004                  Tom Fleming (accordion)

CHCS 005                  Richie Kelly – King of Céilí with His Dancing Accordion

CHCS 006                  Richie Kelly – Cupla

CHCS 007                  Richie Kelly – Celtic Accordion Sounds

CHCS 008                  Tom Fleming and Rosaleen Collins – Between the Reels and the Jigs

CHCS 009                  Declan Aungier (accordion)

 

CHCS 010                  Tom Fleming – Box of Polkas

CHCS 011                  Carlo – Carlo Tradition

012

CHCS 013                  Tom Fleming – Over the Moon

014

CHCD 015                  Various – Crossroads Céilí (Brendan Begley, Séamus Glackin, Mick O’Brien, Mary Corcoran and Mick Gaynor; undated)

CHCD 016                  Various – Welcome to Ireland

CHCD 017                  Far Tulla – The Best of Irish Ballads

CHCD 018                  Various – Pride of Erin: Under-18 Irish Champions

CHCD 019                  Brush Shiels – Fields of Athenry

 

CHCD 020                  Alec Kerr (flute/whistle) – Celtic Soft Winds

CHCD 021                  Barry O’Dowd and Shamrock Singers – Irish Souvenirs

022-023

CHCD 024                  Various – Memories of Home

CHCD 025                  Shamrock Singers – Irish Singalong

CHCD 026                  Various – Laughter and Song from Ireland

CHCD 027                  Various – Echoes of Ireland

CHCD 028                  Various – Ireland a Land of Music and Song

029

 

CHCD 030                  Various – Celtic Woman

CHCD 031                  John Kerr – The Irish Side of ...

CHCD 032                  Louis Brown – Ireland’s Favourite Tenor

CHCD 033                  Various – Favourite Irish Songs

CHCD 034                  Various – Party Time in Ireland

CHCD 035                  Mary McGonigle – Songs from Ireland

CHCD 036                  Various – Irish Moods

037

CHCD 038                  Various – Traditional Sounds of Ireland

CHCD 039                  Various – Best of Irish Reels, Jigs and Ballads

 

CHCD 040                  Various – Classical Irish Melodies

041-043

CHCD 044                  Cupla – The Glen of Aherlow

045

CHCD 046                  Various – Musical Gems of Ireland

CHCD 047                  Ardellis Céilí Band – 40 Years: 1957-1997

CHCD 048                  Richie Halpin – Send ‘em Home Sweating

049

 

CHCD 050                  Maretta O’Hehir – Irish Favourites

051-052

CHCD 053                  Bob Ormsby All-Stars – Ballroom of Romance

CHCD 054                  Johnny Reidy and the Sliabh Luachra Céilí Band – Music for

Set Dancing, Volume 2

055

CHCD 056                  Various – Celtic Soft Winds, Volume 2

CHCD 057                  John McEvoy - Returning

058-063

 

CHCD 064                  Richie Kelly – Let’s Have a Céilí

065-067

CHCD 068                  Richie Halpin – The Dawn of the Millennium

CHCD 069                  Various – A Song for Every County (double CD)

 

CHCD 071                  Shamrock Singers – Irish Favourites

CHCD 072                  Mick Galvin – The Dublin Minstrel and Other Favourites

CHCD 073                  The Mulrooney Sisters – Darling Girls from Clare (double CD)

CHCD 074                  John Kerr – Over the Years

 

CHCD 094                  John McGrath – Céilí Accordion

CHCD 096                  John Bennett – Songs of Yesteryear

 

BRCD 004/005           Various – 32 Counties of Ireland in Song

C3 P 1001                   Various – Between the Reels and the Jigs (triple cassette)

 


 

Chiswick

Part of the Ace Records group www.acerecords.co.uk.

CDWIK 88                 Alias Ron Kavana – Think Like a Hero (1989)

CDWIK 94                 Alias Ron Kavana – Coming Days (1991)

 


Cinq Planètes

CP 01958                    Sarah Ghriallais – Connemara Sean-Nós (2001)

 


Circa

This long defunct label operated from Cork (thanks to John Cummins for the additional information).

 

CIRCA 002                Tony Garrigan – Well Here I Am in Paddy’s Land

CIRCA 003                Na Filí, Seán Ó Sé with Peadar Mercier – One Day for

Recreation (LP – also issued as EMI STAL 1009)

 

Number unknown       Seán Ó Sé – The Banks of My Own Lovely Lee (reissue of

                                    EMI STAL 8008)

 


Circín Rua

Singer Seán Keane’s own label.

CR001                        Seán Keane – Seánsongs

CR002                        Citizens Keane

CR003                        Seán Keane – Valley of the Heart (2004)

CR004                        Seán Keane – A Portrait: Best of 1993-2003 (2004)

 

CR006                        Seán Keane – You Got Gold (2006)

 


Clachán Music

Ennis-based label run by John O’Connor and Eoin O’Neill (and available via Custy’s Music shop).

CMCD001                  Gerard Commane and Joe Ryan with Eoin O’Neill – Two

Gentlemen of Clare Music (undated)

CMCD002                  Pat O’Connor – The Green Mountain (undated)

CMCD003                  John Hoban - Sruthán

CMCD004                  Kitty Hayes – A Touch of Clare (undated)

CMCD005                  Eoin O’Neill et al. – In Session (2003)

CMCD006                  Various – Hearty Voices

 


Clan

Seemingly, this label was a subdivision of Polydor.

 

233 003                       Jimmy Power – Irish Dances: Reels, Jigs, Set

                                    Dances and Hornpipes Played in Strict Dance

                                    Tempo (1967)

 

Number unknown       Séamus Ennis – The Bonny Bunch of Roses

                                    (reissue of the Tradition release)

 


Clare Records

Almost certainly a one-off label since nothing other than the album below, recorded in New York in 1958, has come to light – information courtesy of John Cummins.

 

CR 782                       Bobby Gardiner – Accordion

 


Clarity Sound & Light

No information available.

 

CSL 16                        Derek Bell – Mystic Harp 2: Sailing the Blue Sea (1999)

 


CMR Records

Dublin-based label.

 

CMCD 1024               Gallowglass Céilí Band – Irish Dancing Time

Specially Recorded for Irish Dancers

CMRCD 1073            Colin Nea – The Pure Box (undated)

CMCD 1082               Rig the Jig – Finding the Gold

CMCD 1088               Rig the Jig – Stormy Brew

 


 

Cois na hAbhna

 

The Clare branch of CCÉ whose website - www.c7r.com/cce - is less than informative about its album releases.

 

CNH005CD                Laichtín Naofa Céilí Band – Come to an Irish Dance

                                    Party (2007 reissue of Dublin Records LP)

 


 

Coleman Heritage Centre

Based in Gurteen, South Sligo, the Coleman Heritage Centre has produced several excellent recordings, including the highly recommended first collection of songs and tunes from its archives (CC 5). This list is now complete (unless someone knows otherwise!) www.colemanirishmusic.com

CC 001                        Various – The Sound of Coleman Country (1998)

CC 002                        Various – A Musical Trip to Coleman Country

CC 003                        Colm O’Donnell – The Rocks of Bawn (1998)

CC 004                        Various – The Mountain Road: A Compilation of Tunes

Popular in South Sligo (1999)

CC 5                            Various – The Coleman Archive Vol. 1: The Living Tradition

(2000)

CHC 006                     Ceoltóirí Coleman – The Killaville Sessions (undated)

CHC 007                     James Morrison and Paddy Killoran – From Ballymote to

Brooklyn (2002)

CHC 008                     Michael Coleman – The Enduring Magic (2004)

CHC 009                     Various – The Coleman Archive Vol. 2: The Home Place (2005)

CHC 010                     John Vesey and Eddie Cahill – Two Sligo Masters (2CDs; 2006)

 


Collector

UK label, long defunct – all the releases below were 7” EPs.

 

JEI 1                           Dominic Behan – Finnegans Wake (1958)

JEI 2                           Dominic Behan – Sings McCafferty (1958)

JEI 3                           Dominic Behan – Songs of the Streets (1958)

JEI 4                           Dominic Behan – Mrs. Hooligan’s Xmas Cake (1958)

JE1 5                           Joe Heaney – Morrissey and the Russian Sailor and Other

Irish Songs (1960)

JEI 6                           Séamus Ennis – The Ace and Deuce of Piping: 5 Irish Pipe

Tunes

JE1 7                           Joe Heaney – The Bonny Bunch of Roses and Other Irish

Songs (1960)

 


Columbia

There were once two different Columbia labels. The UK one was a subsidiary of EMI. The European arm of the USA label was known as CBS (Columbia Broadcasting Systems). The current label is nowadays a subsidiary of Sonywww.sonybmg.ie.

KL-204                       The Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music,

 1: Irish Folk Songs (USA 1950s; includes Elizabeth Cronin, Michael Cronin, Kitty Gallagher, Mary Joyce, Colm Keane, Seán Mac Donnchadha and Maggie McDonagh)

 

33S1090                      Gallowglass Céili Band – Wearing of the Green (10” LP)

33SX1581                   Brendan O’Dowda – The Glory of Ireland

 

SCX 6380                   The Dubliners – At Home with The Dubliners (1969)

SCX 6423                   The Dubliners – Revolution (1970)

SCX 6513                   The Dubliners – Double Dubliners (1973)

 

471666 2                     The Chieftains – Best of ... (1992)

474948 2                     Christy Moore – King Puck (1993; reissue of Equator

ATLASCD 003)

475781 2                     Christy Moore – Smoke and Strong Whiskey (1991;

reissue of Newberry CM00022)

476930 2                     Davy Spillane – A Place Among the Stones (1994)

477704 2                     Christy Moore – Live at The Point (1994)

481413 2                     Ronnie Drew – Dirty Rotten Shame

485089 2                     Christy Moore – Graffiti Tongue (1996)

488864-2                     Christy Moore – The Christy Moore Collection Part Two

496007 2                     Christy Moore – Traveller (1999)

503253 2                     Christy Moore – This is the Day (2001)

508635 2                     Christy Moore – Live at Vicar Street

514816 2                     Christy Moore – The Box Set 1964-2004 (2004)

 

5173912000                Planxty – Live 2004 (2004)

 

828767-3968-2            Christy Moore – Burning Times (2005)

828768 2777–2           Christy Moore – Live in Dublin 2006 (2006)

886974 8000-2            Christy Moore – Listen (2009)

 


Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann

 

The Irish Folklore Commission.

 

CBÉ001 ­                     Johnny Doran – The Bunch of Keys: The Complete

Recordings of Johnny Doran (1988; cassette)

CBÉ002                      Mickey Doherty – The Gravel Walks: The Fiddle Music of

Mickey Doherty (1990; double cassette)

CBÉ003                      Tom Lenihan – The Mount Callan Garden: Songs from the

Repertoire of Tom Lenihan of Knockbrack, Miltown

Malbay, County Clare  (1994; double cassette plus 153 pp.

book by Tom Munnelly)

 


Compass Records

www.compassrecords.com

Founded in 1994 by Alison Brown and Garry West, this Nashville-based label has been gradually increasing its roster of Irish and Irish-American releases over the last few years to the extent that it has replaced Shanachie as the major player (corralling numerous ex-Shanachie artistes in the process) and, in May 2006, acquired the rights to the sale and distribution of the physical aspects of the Green Linnet back catalogue.

7 4272 2                      Gerry O’Connor – Myriad (1999)

7 4287 2                      Cathal McConnell – Long Expectant Comes at Last (2000;

note that the title should be “Long Expected Comes at Last”, but

whoever compiled the notes or entitled the album misheard

Cathal’s Fermanagh accent!)

 

7 4311 2                      Sharon Shannon (reissue of Solid CD)

7 4317 2                      Lúnasa (2002 reissue of the band’s 1996 debut album with one

additional track)

7 4335 2                      Paul Brady – The Liberty Tapes (reissue of own label CD)

7 4344 2                      Alan and John Kelly – Fourmilehouse (reissue of Black Box

CD)

7 4345 2                      Éamonn Coyne – Through the Round Window (2002)

7 4348 2                      Niall and Cillian Vallely – Callan Bridge (2002)

 

7 4377 2                      Lúnasa – The Kinnitty Sessions (2004)

7 4382 2                      Gráda – The Landing Step (2004)

7 4384 2                      Gráda – Endeavour (reissue of 2002 own label release)

7 4387 2                      Sean Doyle – The Light and the Half-Light (2004)

 

7 4407 2                      Ciarán Tourish – Down the Line (2005)

7 4408 2                      John Doyle – Wayward Son (2005)

7 4411 2                      Various – Hands Across the Water

7 4416 2                      Mick McAuley and Winifred Horan – Serenade (2006)

7 4418 2                      Liz Carroll and John Doyle – In Play (2005)

 

7 4422 2                      Lúnasa – Sé (2006)

7 4423 2                      John Williams, Dean Magraw – Raven (2006)

7 4426 2                      Mick Moloney – McNally’s Row of Flats (2006)

7 4428 2                      Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh – Daybreak (2006)

7 4431 2                      Solas – Reunion (2006; CD + DVD)

7 4435 2                      Pauline Scanlon – Hush (2006)

7 4438 2                      Dónal Clancy – Close to Home (2006)

7 4446 2                      Oisín McAuley – Far From the Hills of Donegal (2007)

7 4448 2                      Éamonn Coyne & Kris Drever – Honk Toot Suite (2006)

 

7 4451 2                      Gráda – Cloudy Day Navigation (2007)

7 4455 2                      Paul Brock and Enda Scahill – Humdinger (2007)

7 4462 2                      Michael Black (2007)

7 4465 2                      Beoga – A Lovely Madness (2007)

7 4467 2                      Eileen Ivers – An Nollaig (2007)

 

7 4468 2                      Mozaik – Changing Trains (2008)

7 4475 2                      Lúnasa – The Story So Far (2008)

7 4488 2                      Billy McComiskey – Outside the Box (2008)

7 4490 2                      Solas – For Love and Laughter (2008)

7 4495 2                      The Green Fields of America (2008)

7 4499 2                      Beoga – The Incident (2009)

 

7 4502 2                      Liz Carroll and John Doyle – Double Play (2009)

7 4526 2                      The Unwanted – Music from the Atlantic Fringe (2009)

7 4530 2                      Solas – The Turning Tide (2010)

7 4538 2                      John McSherry – Soma (2010)

7 4528 2                      Gráda – Natural Angle (2010)

7 4562 2                      John Doyle – Shadow and Light (2011)


Conamara Environmental Education and Cultural Centre

Based in Letterfrack, County Galway, the Centre has produced four fund-raising CDs www.ceecc.org.

CONCD001                Various – Behind the Mist (2001)

CONCD002                Various – Between the Jigs and the Reels (2002)

CONCD003                Various – Let Loose in Letterfrack (2003)

CONCD004                Various – An Cosán Draíochta (2009; double CD)

 


Connoisseur Collection

No information available.

 

VSOPCD 135             The Dubliners – Black Velvet Band (1989)

 


Connoisseur Records

Part of the Crashed group – www.crashedmusic.com – and based in Dublin. Online sales are available at www.irishmusicshop.ie.

 

CRCD 3005                Dawn Mulligan and Peter Browne (accordions) – The Irish

Dancer Collection

CRCD 3012                Grainne Kelly and Ciarán Marsden – Champions of Ireland:

Tin Whistle (undated)

CRCD 3013                Grainne Kelly and Ciarán Marsden – Champions of Ireland:

Flute (undated)

CRCD 3016                Marina Meyler – Champions of Ireland: Banjo

CRCD 3017                Noreen Leech – Champions of Ireland: Fiddle

CRCD 3018                Marina Meyler – Champions of Ireland: Mandolin

CRCD 3027                Mary Mathers, Mary McDermott – Sentimental Journey

                                    Through Ireland

CRCD 3031                Mary McDermott – A Golden Hour of Romantic Irish Airs

CRCD 3032                The Dublin Céilí Band/The Raheny Céilí Band – Champions

of Ireland: Céilí Bands

CRCD 3033                Ivan Smyth – Champions of Ireland: Bodhrán

CRCD 3035                Denise Shiels – Champions of Ireland: Concertina (undated)

CRCD 3036                Lynn Saoirse – Champions of Ireland: Harp

CRCD 3038                Denise Shiels – Champions of Ireland: Accordion (undated)

CRCD 3052                Con Durham – Champions of Ireland: Uilleann

Pipes(undated)

CRCD 3053                Ann Mooney – The Irish Pub Ballads Collection

CRCD 3054                Gerry Harrington and Nancy Conescu – The Fiddle The

Voice (2003)

CRCD 3055                Thomas Walsh – Ethnic Tears

 

CRCDX 4001             Various – Champions of Ireland Collection: Bodhrán, Harp,

Uilleann Pipes (boxed set)

CRCDX 4002             Various – Champions of Ireland Collection: Accordion, Céilí

Band, Tin Whistle(boxed set)

 


 

Cooking Vinyl

Long-standing UK independent label which has issued a few Irish releases, some licensed from Tara www.cookingvinyl.com.

COOK CD 008           Davy Spillane – Atlantic Bridge

COOK CD 016           Davy Spillane – Out of the Air

COOK CD 030           Davy Spillane – Shadow Hunter

COOK CD 035           Clannad – Fuaim (1990 reissue of Tara 3008)

COOK CD 074           Goats Don’t Shave – The Rusty Razor (1994 reissue of Dino

1992 CD)

COOK CD 075           Goats Don’t Shave – Out in the Open (1994)

COOK CD 147           Pat Gallagher and Goats Don’t Shave – Tór (1998)


Coop Breizh

Breton label – the item below is almost entirely composed of Irish tunes.

 

CD 915                       Jean Sabot/Loars Dacquay (2001)

 


Copley

This Boston-based American label was originally part of the O’Byrne DeWitt group, but is nowadays distributed by Rego www.regorecords.com. The ‘C’ prefix indicates a cassette release. Many thanks to John Cummins for the vinyl listings – John also provided the information that all the LPs up to 9-614 comprised reissued 78s and the company began issuing them in the late 1950s.

 

9-600                           Connie Foley – Traditional Irish Ballads
9-601                           All Star Ceilidhe BandTraditional Music Of Ireland

(reissued as C-COP-5001)

9-602                           Jack Feeney And Thomas O'Brien –  Irish Tenors
9-603                          Ruthie Morrisey – Irish Ballads (reissued as C-COP-5005)

9-604                           The McNulty Family Entertains with Irish Songs
9-605                           Johnny Powell and his Band – Folk Dance Music of Ireland
9-606                           Connie Foley – Irish Ballads

9-607                           Jerry O’Brien, Joe Derrane and the Irish All Stars – Dance

Music of Ireland (reissued as CD-COP—5009)     

9-608                           Connie Foley and Dorothy McManus – Irish Songs
9-609                           Connie Foley Sings The Wild Colonial Boy
9-610                           The McNulty Family – A Night in Ireland

9-611                           No Information
9-612                           Connie Foley – Echoes of Ireland

9-613                           Connie Foley –  Ireland in Song

9-614                           Mickey and Mary Carton Orchestra – Dancing at an Irish

Cross Roads

9-615                           Paddy Noonan (accordion) – A Ramble in Erin
9-616
                           Vincent Lowe Céilí Band – Céilí Time in Ireland

9-617                           Jack Wade Céilí Band
9-618
                           Connie Foley – In Dublin's Fair City

9-619                           Dermot O'Brien and His Céilí Band
9-620                           Malachy Sweeney Céilí Group
9-621                           No information
9-622                           Paddy Noonan (accordion) – Delightful Dance Music

459-114                       Paddy Cronin

459-195                       Paddy Cronin and Frank Neylan

 

C-COP-5001               The All-Star Céilí Band featuring Joe Derrane

C-COP-5005               Ruthie Morrissey Sings with the Mickey Carton Band

CD-COP-5006            Various – Irish-American Music of the 50s

C-COP-5007               Christopher Droney – Irish Dance Music

CD-COP 5008            Joe Derrane – The Irish Accordion (1994)

CD-COP 5009            Jerry O’Brien and Joe Derrane – Irish Accordion Masters

CD-COP 5010            Bobby Gardiner – Memories of Clare


Cottage Records

This label was based in Daventry, Northants and may only have issued records by Drowsy Maggie.

 

COT 621                     Drowsy Maggie – Lark in the Morning (1978)

COT 331                     Drowsy Maggie – Give us Another (1980)

COT 731                     Drowsy Maggie – One for the Pot

 


Covert

No information available, though there was a Covert Records in Brighton specialising in trance/dance music.

 

COVERT 1676           Davy Spillane – Sea of Dreams

 


Cracker Barrel Old Country Store

Yep, this is the US restaurant and store chain, and not the cheese merchants. The company regularly releases commissioned CDs and, presumably for some arcane marketing reason, these included a fifteen-disc ‘traditional music’ collection in 2003, including the following (though you’ll have to scour the Net to find a copy):

 

Number unknown       Winifred Horan and Friends – Pleasures of Home (2003).

 


Craft Recordings

Terry Moylan’s Dublin-based label which suddenly reappeared after a gap of several years.

CRCD01                     Johnny O’Leary of Sliabh Luachra (1998)

CRCD02                     The Four Star Trio – The Square Triangle (1998)

CRCD03                     Various – The Croppy’s Complaint: Music and songs

from1798 (1998)

CRCD04                     Jerry O’Reilly – Down from Your Pulpits, Down from Your

Thrones! (2003)

 


 

Crescent

 

An independent UK label which only released two albums (the other was also by Bob Stewart) – thanks to Alistair Banfield for this information.

 

ARS 110                     Bob Stewart and Finbar Furey with George Furey

and Stuart Gordon – Tomorrow We Part (1976)

 


 

Cross Border Media

This Meath-based label has not issued anything new since the late 1990s. Missing items are listed in red font.

CBM 001                    Four Men and a Dog – Barking Mad

CBM 002                    Cran – The Crooked Stair (1993)

CBM 003                    Frances Black and Kieran Goss

CBM CDS 004           Barry Ronan – Mairín (CD single)

CBM 005                    Four Men and a Dog – Shifting Gravel

CBM 006                    Draoicht – The Druid and the Dreamer (1993)

CBM 007                    Seán Keane (singer) – All Heart, No Roses (1993)

008-009

 

CBM 010                    Various – Crossing Borders

CBM 011                    Alec Finn – Blue Shamrock (1994)

CBM 012                    Cathal Hayden (1994)

CBM 013                    Moher – Out on the Oceam

CBM 014                    Geraldine MacGowan and Friends – Reconciliation (1994)

CBM 015                    Melanie O’Reilly – Tír na Mara

CBM 016                    Brendan Larrissey – A Flick of the Wrist

CBM 017                    Draoicht – When the Smoke Had Cleared

CBM 018                    Dónal Murphy, Matt Cranitch, Tommy O’Sullivan – Sliabh

Notes

019-020

 

CBM 021                    Martin Murray – A Dark Horse

CBM 022                    Various – Crossing Borders 2

023-024

CBM 025                    Eamon Ó Tuama – Down with a Smile

 


 

Crow Valley Music

 

Label owned by Karan Casey and Niall Vallely – www.crowvalleymusic.com.

 

CVCD 001                  Karan Casey – Ships in the Forest (2008)

 


 

Cúchullain

 

Irish label – no details available.

 

CCHS 1019                Various – On Fiddle, Flutes and Pipes

 


 

Curragh Records

 

No information available.

 

CR004CD                   Pat O’Connor – The Humours of Derrybeha (2004)

 


 

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