Tír na nÓg (Tír na nÓg album)

Infobox Album | Name = Tír na nÓg
Type = Album
Artist = Tír na nÓg

| Released = Startdate|1971|05
Caption = Original UK album cover. The photo was taken in 1970 during the first photographies session of the band, on the rooftops over Oxford.
Genre = Folk
Length = 44:24
Label = Chrysalis
Producer = Bill Leader
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wcfexql5ldje link]
* Radio Centraal (Psyche van het folk) Rating|4|5 [http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/KISSINGSPELL2.html link]
Last album =
This album = "Tír na nÓg"
(1971)
Next album = "A Tear and a Smile"
(1972) |

"Tír na nÓg" is the first album by Irish band Tír na nÓg. It was released on May 1971 in the United Kingdoms by Chrysalis Records and distributed by Island Records but was not published in the United States because Leo O'Kelly and Sonny Condell refused to record a cover of Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm" for the album, a song they played regulary live ["Leo tells me that the first album was not released in the states because Tir Na Nog would not record Bob Dylan's Maggie's Farm, which the duo used to perform live.", Alan Hadwin, "Camouflage" fanzine no.3 (summer 1995) - p.2. Retrieved on September 30, 2008.] .
The German version of the LP has an Island label although the Chrysalis logo also appears on it.

Track listing

LP track listing

ide One

#"Time Is Like A Promise" (Sonny Condell) – 2:56
#"Mariner Blues" (Condell) – 4:12
#"Daisy Lady" (Leo O'Kelly) – 2:21
#"Tir Na Nog" (O'Kelly) – 5:20
#"Aberdeen Angus" (Condell) – 1:50
#"Looking Up" (O'Kelly) – 4:51

ide Two

#"Boat Song" (O'Kelly) – 3:24
#"Our Love Will Not Decay" (Condell) – 3:04
#"Hey Friend" (Ray Dolan) – 3:01
#"Dance Of Years" (Condell) – 3:50
#"Live A Day" (Condell) – 3:04
#"Piccadilly" (O'Kelly) – 5:35
#"Dante" (Condell) – 2:56

Compact Cassette track listing

ide One

#"Time Is Like A Promise" (Condell) – 2:56
#"Mariner Blues" (Condell) – 4:12
#"Daisy Lady" (O'Kelly) – 2:21
#"Tir Na Nog" (O'Kelly) – 5:20
#"Boat Song" (O'Kelly) – 3:24
#"Looking Up" (O'Kelly) – 4:51

ide Two

#"Aberdeen Angus" (Condell) – 1:50
#"Our Love Will Not Decay" (Condell) – 3:04
#"Hey Friend" (Dolan) – 3:01
#"Dance Of Years" (Condell) – 3:50
#"Live A Day" (Condell) – 3:04
#"Piccadilly" (O'Kelly) – 5:35
#"Dante" (Condell) – 2:56

Personnel

*Sonny Condell - vocals, guitar, moroccan pottery drums, tablas, jews harp
*Leo O'Kelly - vocals, guitar, dulcimer, electric bass, tin whistle
*Nic Kinsey - engineering
*Nick Harrison - arranger
*Bill Leader - production

Additional personnel

*Barry Dransfield – fiddle on "Tir Na Nog"
*Annie Crozier – psaltery on "Time Is Like A Promise"

Release history

References