This now defunct label’s full name was Shamrock Souvenir Records and it was based in County Monaghan. It also at one time owned the rights to the Dublin label and reissued some of its LPs either under the Shamrock or Harp imprint (information kindly supplied by John Cummins).

SLP 501 Various – A Tribute to President Kennedy (1964)

SLP 502 The Moonlighters Sing Irish Folk Hits (1965)

SLP 903 Tulla Céilí Band – Echoes of Erin (Dublin Records reissue)

SLP 904 The Kilfenora Céilí Band – Memories of Ireland (Dublin

Records reissue)

Number unknown Paddy Canny, P.J. Hayes, Peter O’Loughlin and Bridie

Lafferty – All-Ireland Champions – Violin (1959; Dublin

Records reissue)

Sharpe Music

Based in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone; cassette releases.

RBC 116 Cathal Hayden – Handed Down (1982)

RBC 511 Various – Irish Accordion Favourites (undated)

Shaskeen Records

Irish label – no other information available – vinyl releases only.

OS-360 Joe Burke, Andy McGann and Felix Dolan – A Tribute to

Michael Coleman (undated)

OS 361 Joe Burke and Charlie Lennon – Traditional Music of

Ireland

Silver Hill

Finbarr Dwyer’s label; vinyl only.

PSH 100 Brendan McGlinchey with Mary Mulholland –

Music of a Champion (1974)

PSH 102 Michael Dwyer – Traditional Music of Ireland (1975; 7” EP)

PSH 103 Pat McNulty – Uilleann Pipes (1976)

PSH 104 The Troubadours – Ned of the Hill (1975)

PSH 105 Drowsy Maggie – Maureen/Home Boys Home (7” single)

PSH 106 Finbarr Dwyer – Star of Ireland

PSH 108 Séamus Tansey – King of the Concert Flute

Number unknown John Whelan and Christine Considine – Irish Traditional

Music (almost certainly either 101 or 107)

Skellig

Austrian label which seems only to have issued albums by Na Casaidigh.

SCRCD001 Na Casaidigh/The Cassidys (undated)

SCRCD96002 Na Casaidigh – Off to Philadelphia (1996)

Skitteesh

Scottish label.

SKIT-2003-2 Martin Furey – Howl (2003)

Sliced Bread Records

Pennsylvania-based label – www.slicedbread.com/

CD-SB71180 Na Casaidigh/The Cassidys – Singing from Memory (1998)

Small Time

UK-based label.

Small CD 8486 Flook! – Live! (1997)

Smithsonian Folkways

Washington DC-based label linked to the Smithsonian Institute. This list includes the Folkways label recordings .The full catalogue can be found at www.si.edu/folkways/genrlist.htm.

FW 3002 Wallace House – Irish Songs of Resistance (1959)

FS 3521 Various – Irish Music from Cleveland

FS 3522 Various – Irish Music from Cleveland 2

FS 3523 Various – Irish Music from Cleveland 3

FW 3531 Jean Carignan – Old Time Fiddle Tunes (1960)

FG 3551 Neil A. Duddy – The Donegal Piper

FW 3575 Various – Irish Music in London Pubs (1965)

FE 4002 Various – Songs of Aran (1957)

FW 4051 Various – Irish and British Songs from the Ottawa Valley

FW 6818 Willie Clancy – Irish Popular Dances

FW 6819 Various – Irish Jigs, Reels and Hornpipes (includes Michael

Gorman and Willie Clancy;10” LP; 1956)

FW 6861 Sorcha Ní Ghuiarim – Sings Traditional Irish Songs in Gaelic

FW 8501 Ewan MacColl and Dominic Behan – The Singing Streets (1958)

FW 8729 Margaret Barry and Michael Gorman (recorded in 1965,but

not issued until the 1970s)

FW 8762 Deirdre Ní Fhionn – Irish Traditional Songs

FW 8781 Various – Traditional Music of Ireland, Volume 1: The Older

Traditions of Connemara and Clare (1963)

FW 8782 Various – Traditional Music of Ireland, Volume 2: Songs and

Dances from Down, Kerry and Clare

FW 8821 Various – Irish Dance Music (1973)

FW 8872 Various – As I Roved Out Field Trip Ireland (the

Ritchie/Pickow recordings)

RF 112 John J. Kimmel – Virtuoso of the Irish Accordion

SFW CD 40481 Brian Conway – First Through the Gate (2002)

SFW CD 40485 Kevin Burke – Sweeney’s Dream (2001 reissue of 1973

Meadowlark LP, itself subsequently reissued as Folkways Records

FW 8876)

SFW CD 40544 Various – Sound Neighbours (2008 compilation of ‘contemporary

music from Northern Ireland’)

Snapper

No details available

SMC CD 160 The Dubliners – Ageless Classics (double CD)

SMD CD 150 The Dubliners – The Complete Dubliners (double CD)

Solid

Dublin-based label which issued a substantial number of singles, including chart-toppers by The Saw Doctors.

ROCD 8 Sharon Shannon (1991)

ROCD 14 Sharon Shannon – Out the Gap (1994)

ROCD 16 Nomos – I Won’t Be Afraid Any More (1995)

Solo

This Dublin label was a subsidiary of Release Records.

SOLO 7006 Tom McCuaigh, Seán Potts – The Roving Irish (1976)

SOLO 7012 Tommy Peoples – A Traditional Experience with ...

(1977; subsequently reissued on CD as Ovation OVA 503)

Sony

Multinational – www.sonymusic.net.

SK 60585 OST – Dancing at Lughnasa

SK 60746 Eileen Ivers – Crossing the Bridge

SK 60835 Lá Lugh – Senex Puer (1998 French release)

Sound (U.K.)

No details available, but this was a UK label and not the same as Sound Records of Sligo.

2-801 The Dubliners – Greatest Hits (1989 boxed set)

418137 Various – The Irish Folk Festival (1985; double LP)

68495-1 The Dubliners – Greatest Hits

CD 8 Various – Irish Folk Festival (1986)

CD 11 The Dubliners – 20 Greatest Hits (1989)

Sounds Irish

A Newry-based label which appears to have acquired rights to old Outlet releases. Its website does not, unfortunately, include a full catalogue, but here’s a couple of albums worthy of note. www.soundsirish.com

SICD 5011 Seán McGuire – The Wild Irishman (reissue of Outlet PTICD 1005)

SICD 5012 Ted Furey and Brendan Byrne – Toss the Feathers

Souvenir

No details available.

SRC 315 Waxie’s Dargle – World Tour of Clare (1992 cassette)

Special Delivery

This off-shoot of Topic records issued a few Irish releases during its brief period of operation in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

SPCD 1033 Patrick Street – Irish Times

SPCD 1043 Ron Kavana – Home Fire (1987)

SPCD 1047 Four Men and a Dog – Shifting Gravel (1993)

SPCD 1049 Patrick Street – All in Good Time (1993)

Spectrum

UK label.

544813-2 Various – Global Roots: Irish Folk (2003)

SPH Records

No information available, but possibly German?

SPHCD 7795 Various – Irish Folk Festival

Spike Records

Almost certainly the label of the London-based band Dingle Spike.

SRTX78/CUS185 Dingle Spike

SRT 4 KL 167 Dingle Spike – Sunday Papers (1984)

Spoken Arts

Based at 95 Valley Road, New Rochelle, New York, this label mainly produced LPs of Irish literature and
Shakespeare performed by the 'greats' of the Irish theatre. Relevant titles are listed below. Many thanks to John Cummins for this information.

SA 206 Grainne Ní Eigeartaigh - Irish Folk Songs Sung in Irish and

English

SA 216                       Brendan Mulhaire and his Céilí Band
SA 218                        Dermot O'Brien and his Quartet Play Céilí Music
SA 760                        Brendan Behan Sings Irish Songs and Ballads

SPOL Records

Long defunct label based in Hamilton Street in Dublin’s salubrious Dolphin’s Barn area (many thanks to John Cummins for the listing).

SS01 Aggie White and Peter O’Loughlin – A Selection of Irish

Dance Music (EP featuring fiddle and flute duets)

Spot

No details available.

SPR 8504 The Dubliners – Best of The Dubliners (1983)

SRT

No details available.

SRT/CUSTOM 012 Irish Mist (Joe Giltrap & Malcolm Rogers) – Rosin the Bow

(1975)

Standard Colonial Records

US label, based in Woburn, Massachusetts, issuing LPs at the end of the 1950s and in the early 1960s (information generously provided by John Cummins).

COL LP621 McNulty Family – Twelve Authentic Irish Folk Songs

COL LP758                T. Fitzgerald – Irish Dances
COL LP768                Jim McCann – Irish Folk Dances
COL LP781                Mickey Griffin – Irish Dances

COL LP794 Bob Gardiner – Old Country Dances From Ireland (early

album from the accordionist later known as Bobby)

COL LP806 Various – The Fields Are Greener There (Irish songs/dances)

COL LP816                Various – More Songs and Dances From Ireland
COL LP824                Various – Irish Song and Dance Festival
COL LP862                Various – More Songs and Dances From Ireland
COL LP945                Bob Gardiner, Jimmy Whelan, Jerry Malone – Songs and

Dances of Ireland

COL LP123 Paddy Killoran Orchestra, Michael Flynn flute, Mickey

Griffin

Standfast Records

London-based label.

PINE 1212 Le Cheile – Lord Mayo (1975)

PINE 1216 Various – Traditional Music from Galway and Clare (includes

Bobby Casey and Liam Farrell; 1977)

STARC

Dublin-based label which ended production following the untimely death of its owner; note its unique and utterly helpful numbering system (193 = January, 1993, etc.).

SCD 193 Deiseal – The Long Note

SCD 593 Máire Breatnach – Angels’ Candles

SCD 1093 Declan Masterson – Tropical Trad

SCD 294 Hada to Hada – My German Lover

SCD 394 Máire Breatnach – Branohm

SCD 1094 Garrett Wall – All of the Above

SCD 1294 Thom Moore – Gorgeous and Bright

SCD 295 Sonny Condell – Someone to Dance With

SCD 395 Speranza – About Time

SCD 1095 The ‘Slightly’ Bewildered String Band

SCD 596 Deiseal – Sunshine Dances

SCD 696 Máire Breatnach – Celtic Lovers

Starlight

London based label – long defunct (many thanks to John Cummins for the listings). Items with an ST EP prefix were released as 6” EPs

ST LP12 Brophy Brothers Céilí Band
ST EP22 McNab's Shamrock and Thistle Band – A Night at

McNab's – Vol 1

ST EP30 Four Courts Ceilidhe Band - Vol 1 (1962)
ST EP35 Four Courts Ceilidhe Band - Vol 2 (1962)

NB The Four Courts Ceilidhe Band consisted of the London-based musicians Jimmy Jimmy, Paul Gross, Tommy Maguire, Tony Howley, Michael Plunkett and Reg Hall.

Starline

UK budget subsidiary of EMI – vinyl releases only.

SRS5059 The Dubliners – Seven Drunken Nights

STS5155 The Dubliners – More of the Hard Stuff

Start

No information available.

VMCD 7307 The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem – Greatest

Hits (1989)

Stereo Gold Award

Part of the Pickwick group.

MER 430 Various – The Best of Irish Céilí (1976; features the following

CBs – The Ardellis, Gallowglass, Michael Moran & Shannon Side)

Stiff

UK independent label – long defunct.

SEEZ 55 The Pogues – Red Roses for Me (1984; CDSEEZ 55 issued in

1987)

SEEZ 58 The Pogues – Rum, Sodomy and the Lash (1985; also #

CDSEEZ 58)

Stylus

No details available.

SMD 731 The Dubliners – 25 Years: A Celebration (1987; double CD

with various guests)

Suffering Duck

No details available (and it might actually be Sufferin’ Duck!).

SUF DUCK 001 Mickey Dunne – The Limerick Lasses

SUF DUCK 002 Eoghan Mac Aogain – Le Fonn (1994)

SUF DUCK 003 Christy Dunne – Pluckin’ Good

SUF DUCK 004 Mickey Dunne and ? Byrnes – A True Born Irishman

SUF DUCK 005 Eoghan Mac Aogain – The Clare Hills (1999)

Sugar Hill

No details available.

1130 De Dannan – Song for Ireland

Summit

No details available.

SUMCD 4073 The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem – Men of the West

Swilly Recording Services

This label was based at 81 Redington House, Rodney Street, London N1 9QJ and, despite the number of the item listed below. I have not been able to track down any other releases.

SWC 005 Humour the Bow – A Musical Tribute to Jimmy Power

Recorded live at The Victoria, Holloway Road, this undated cassette must have been released shortly after Jimmy’s death in 1985. The album was produced by Billy Stevens and engineered by Peter Graves.

Here is the full track listing:

Side 1

1) The Four Courts Quartet – The Mullingar Races/Music in the Glen

2) Seán Casey (fiddle) – The Musical Priest/Jenny’s Chickens

3) Freddy McKay – The Fenian Record Player

4) Mary and Jack Heffernan – Paddy in London

5) Roderick McDonald – Selection of Pipe Tunes

6) Danny Meehan (fiddle) – I Lost My Love and I Care Not

Side 2

1) Lucy Farr/Tommy Healy – Selection of Reels

2) Peta Webb – The May Morning Dew

3) Bernadette McCarthy – Selection of Reels

4) Caroline Nolan (flute) – Cooley’s/Lord Wellington

5) Ted Franklin – The Wild Colonial Boy

6) Seán Casey (tenor banjo) – Farewell to Miltown/The Star of Munster

7) Lucy Farr, Bernadette McCarthy, Tommy Healy, Reg Hall, Dermot Kearney,

Seán Casey and Gerry Wright (bodhrán) – The Tarbolton/The Longford Collector/The Sailor’s Bonnet

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