The rolling hills, gentle mountains and lush fields, the breathtaking natural wonders, the welcoming warmth of the pubs, the smell of the sea and the charm of the locals: all the very best of the Emerald Isle reaches out to our hearts through Celtic song. Cast your ears back to the tunes of the old country with this collection of vintage Irish songs. The Green Hills of Ireland is sure to rouse the nostalgia, the tradition, the emotions and the cheekiness of the Irish character.
From Galway to Tipperary, Belfast to County Down, from the lanes of Dublin to the Giants Steps, The Green Hills of Ireland is an experience not to be missed. Whether you’ve been enjoying these songs from your earliest years or are discovering them now for the first time, this album will bring alive one of the world’s richest musical cultures and landscapes. Singers Irish-born like John McCormack, James McCafferty and Delia Smith, together with those who embraced Ireland as a spiritual home, including Peter Dawson and Dame Maggie Teyte, bring to life some of the all-time classic Celtic ballads and folk songs enjoyed back home and in the adopted lands of the vast Irish diaspora in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
You’ll be sure to be whistling along to this grand celebration of vintage Irish song!
1 A Little Bit of Heaven
2 The Kerry Dance
3 The Lark in the Clear Air
4 Off to Philadelphia
5 The Meeting of the Waters
6 That’s How I Spell I-R-E-L-A-N-D
7 Kathleen Mavourneen
8 That Tumbledown Shack in Athlone
9 The Garden Where the Praties Grow
10 Macushla
11 When They Sing ‘The Wearin’ o’ the Green’
in Syncopated Blues
12 The Last Rose of Summer
13 The Rose of Tralee
14 Rory O’More
15 The Dawning of the Day
16 The Mountains o’ Mourne
17 Oft in the Stilly Night
18 Mother Machree
19 The Star of the County Down
20 The Spinning Wheel
21 The Green Hills of Ireland
22 She Moved thro’ the Fair
23 The Pride of Tipperary
24 Danny Boy
25 Ireland, Mother Ireland
