Cathal mcconnell biography of abraham

Following his publication of Folk Songs Sung in Ulster, Robin efternamn issued two volumes of recordings selected from those transcribed for the book. At about the same time he and Cathal McConnell made an LP tillsammans “An Irish Jubilee” and Robin began recording traditional singers and musicians, first Kevin Mitchell “Free and Easy” and then Geordie Hanna and his sister, Sarah Ann O’Neill “On the Shores of Lough Neagh“. By that time I had acquired a reputation for a wide ranging knowledge of songs and singers and he asked me to write the sleeve notes. inom knew less than people thought but the work involved in doing the job properly gave me much needed experience in research and writing. It also caused me to refine my ideas of what the tradition was about. Irish Jubilee was issued first by Mercier Press, Cork who had published FSSU and afterwards, with revised notes, by Topic of London. It was they who published the other two. A set of slee