CURRAGH OF KILDARE, THE

Created on 14/04/2018
Latest update on 11/09/2023

Artist: Johnstons
Author: trad./Robert Burns
Label: Pye
Year: 1968

Anglo-Irish song, also known as The Winter It Is Past, which are the first lyric lines (by Robert Burns). First collected in Traditional Ballad Airs by Dean Christie in 1876. Written from the standpoint of a highwayman named Johnston who was hanged in 1750 for robberies around the Curragh, now a racetrack for horses, once the chief base for the army in Ireland.

Covers:

1968:

Emmet Spiceland [with Donal Lunny]

1968:

Finbar & Eddie Furey

1970s:

McPeakes

1976:

Bert Jansch [on A Rare Conundrum]

1983:

Christy Moore

1989:

Pogues [melody in White City]

1992:

Oysterband

1996:

Jean Redpath [as The Winter It Is Past on a different tune and viewed from a female perspective]

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