This slow air was collected by Canon James Goodman (1860s), where it is titled “Caoine Phiaruis Feirtéara / Piers Ferriter's Lament for His Wife and Children.” Piaras Feiritéar (circa 1600-1653) was the lord of Baile an Fheirtéaraigh (Ballyferriter), Corca Dhuibhne, Kerry. He was a renowned poet and harper executed by Cromwellian forces in 1653. In 2009, Peter Browne made the first-known recording of this air for an Irish Traditional Music Archive studio recording. This is its first appearance on a commercial recording.
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Fiddle player Caitlin Finley played for us back in the day at the Coatesville Traditional Irish Music Series. It took a while to find out she’d made a CD with flute & piano (also piccolo, pipes & melodeon) accompaniment but it was worth the wait! Check it out. Will Woodson & Chris Stevens are standouts, too. It’s nice to find a contemporary Irish CD I like start to finish. Frank Dalton
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Masterful box playing. Has some very appealing, unusual quality to it - hard to put into words... might be the Sliabh Luachra style peeping through. musicstillspeaks