At Home with Mickey Doherty

A collection of recordings of Mickey Doherty, one of the greatest fiddle players of the 20th century.

Mickey Doherty was born into a very musical travelling family in the Ardara area of Co Donegal. His parents were Mickey Mór Doherty (Mór being an Irish word meaning big ) and Mary McConnell. Mickey Mór Doherty had a musical inheritance of a couple of generations of both Doherty and Sweeney musicians on his father’s side. Also, Mary McConnell was a sister of Alec and Mickey McConnell who were very well known travelling tinsmiths and fiddle players in their day. They travelled widely around the south west of Donegal where their tinsmith and fiddle playing skills were very highly respected. A great many of the tin fiddles in the area were made by the McConnells and the Dohertys

This double CD set comes with a beautifully designed booklet full of information.

CD1

1 The Gladstone // reel (0:59)

2 The Salamanca // reel (1:20)

3 O’Sullivan’s March // jig (1:20)

4 The Dawn // reel (1:19)

5 The Scholar // reel (1:06)

6 The Harvest Home and The Green Mountain // hornpipe and reel (2:18)

7 Down the Broom // reel (0:39)

8 Jenny Picking Cockles // reel (1:13)

9 The Tarbolton // reel (1:44)

10 Dever the Dancer // slip jig (1:39)

11 The Fermoy Lasses // reel (1:20)

12 The Jolly Tinker // reel (0:59)

13 Big Pat’s // reel (1:23)

14 The Boyne Hunt and Úna Bhán Ní Chuinneagáin // reels (1:38)

15 The Glendowan Reel // reel (1:37)

16 The Hound After the Hare // descriptive piece (2:41)

17 The Jaunting Car and Off She Goes // single jigs (2:48)

18 The Swallow’s Tail // reel (1:05)

19 The Flogging Reel // reel (1:07)

20 The Star of Munster // reel (1:21)

21 The Sunshine Hornpipe // hornpipe (0:58)

22 The Maid of Mount Kisco // reel (1:37)

23 The Last House in Connacht // reel (1:38)

24 Stirling Castle // strathspey (1:31)

25 The Mason’s Apron // reel (2:06)

26 Úna Bhán Ní Chuinneagáin // reel (1:42)

27 Miss Ramsey and Down the Broom // highland & reel (3:29)

28 The Highlandman’s Kneebuckle // reel (1:55)

29 The Cock’s Tail and The Wild Irishman // reels (2:15)

30 The High Reel // reel (1:36)

31 Richard Brennan’s // jig (1:11)

32 Tuam na bhFarraige // hornpipe (1:56)

33 The Yellow Heifer // reel (1:39)

34 Roaring Mary and Úna Bhán Ní Chuinneagáin // reels (2:12)

35 Tell Her I Am // jig (1:21)

36 Down the Broom // reel (1:55)

37 The Rights of Man // hornpipe (1:47)

38 The Beauties of Lissadell // reel (1:47)

39 The Morning Dew // reel (1:30)

40 The Golden Eagle // hornpipe (2:07)

41 The Irish Washerwoman // jig (0:59)

42 Crowley’s and Crowley’s No 2 // reels (2:04)

43 Gan Aimn and The Laird o’ Drumblair // strathspeys (4:10)

44 The Morning Dew // reel (1:39)

CD2

1 The Sailor’s Bonnet // reel (1:17)

2 The Silver Spear // reel (1:57)

3 The Iron Man // strathspey (1:40)

4 Mickey Doherty’s Hornpipe // hornpipe (1:52)

5 Hardiman the Fiddler // slip jig (1:41)

6 Bonnie Kate // reel (1:38)

7 The Volunteer // reel (1:39)

8 Cuffe Street // reel (1:20)

9 The Irish Washerwoman // jig (1:21)

10 The Mountain Road // reel (1:34)

11 The Morning Dew // reel (1:55)

12 Connie the Soldier // jig (1:18)

13 Will you come down to Limerick // slip jig (2:16)

14 The Jolly Tinker // reel (2:14)

15 The Last House in Connacht // reel (1:40)

16 The Broken Pledge // reel (1:33)

17 Loch Isle Castle // reel (1:24)

18 The Rakes of Clonmel jig (1:24)

19 The Belfast Hornpipe // hornpipe (1:41)

20 Bonnie Kate and Jenny’s Chickens // reels (3:30)

21 The Yellow Heifer // reel (1:36)

22 Mooney’s Reel // reel (1:25)

23 The Maid in the Meadow // reel (1:06)

24 The Faerie Reel // reel (1:52)

25 Lord Gordon’s // reel (1:49)

26 Gan Aimn // highland (1:41)

27 The Dublin Hornpipe // hornpipe (1:57)

28 The Mullingar Races // reel (1:38)

29 The Templehouse // reel (1:26)

30 An Draighneán Donn // air (2:20)

31 Miss Ramsey // highland (1:33)

32 The Battering Ram // jig (1:20)

33 The Rakes of St Patrick // jig (1:33)

34 The Oak Tree // reel (2:05)

35 The Rights of Man // hornpipe (1:35)

36 Old Peter Street // reel (1:13)

37 Rakish Paddy // reel (1:52)

38 Baintreach Mná // reel (1:06)

39 The Miller ó Hirn // strathspey (1:15)