A great series about Irish traditional music has just finished. Watched the 6th episode about the Mulligan family yesterday. The first four episodes went deep into the Traveller Community’s contribution to Irish traditional music. Very interesting to hear Johnny Doran’s daughter talking about her father. I’ve heard Johnny was a good dancer, but he was also a fine singer. Finbar Furey, John Rooney and Martin Nolan also talk about piping and the Dorans
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great series
thanks a lot
I recently watched the episode on the Doran brothers, and i could be wrong, but i kept hearing them refer to him recording 12 tracks of music. But aren’t there only 10 on the cd? This piqued my interest and i went over to the comhaltas site and found several recordings labeled “johnny doran and brendan brethnach”. They sound like him playing, although not quite as wild. Can anyone give me any info on these tracks?
Brendan Breathnach didn’t record Johnny. He recorded Felix.
The CCE archives have a lot of things poorly labeled, duplicated, and sometimes outright used without permission. I don’t imagine they really have the rights to the tracks of Johnny Doran.
They have been known to post pictures with ‘copyright Comhaltas’ printed on them they had just robbed off the internet and had no rights to whatsoever. Plonkers.
The recordings of Johnny Doran by Kevin Danaher were made in 1947. In Ireland, mechanical copyright lapses 50 years after the recording was first published. So does anyone know when the Danaher recordings were first pubished?
There was a documentary on RTE as well as a follow-up cassette issued in the 1980s. Was there any prior publication? I’ve heard that there were private copies floating around in the 1970s but I doubt if that could be considered “publication”.
Some of them were played on radio, some were on O’Riada’s ‘Our Musical Heritage’, NPU and Breandan Breathnach made copies available sometimes, informally, prior to the 1980s official tape release.. I would think the material is owned by the body that made the original recordings and holds the original copies.
Danaher worked for the Irish Folklore Commission which was wound up in the 1970s. Who took over? UCD or the Government?
Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éirreann is the successor, or continuation if you like, of the Folklore Commission.
i should have known it was Felix. i never listened to his playing that closely. i guess his playing gets overshadowed a bit by his brother’s. it’s quite fantastic in it’s own right.