The Galway Shawl

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The Galway Shawl

"The Galway Shawl" is a traditional Irish folk song, concerning a rural courtship in the West of Ireland. The first known version was collected by Sam Henry from Bridget Kealey in Dungiven in 1936.^[1] The song has been popularly recorded by many ballad groups in Ireland and is now commonly adapted to a waltz time so that people can dance to it.

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• Trail West on their new album, “Countless Isles and Endless Miles”
• Margaret Barry on her album Portraits: I Sang Through the Fairs
• Four to the Bar on their live album Craic on the Road, in a medley with "The Black Velvet Band" and "The Wild Rover".
• The Dubliners on their album 30 Years A-Greying
• Ryan's Fancy on their album Irish Love Songs.
• Patrick Street on their album On the Fly.
• Poxy Boggards on their 2004 album Liver, Let Die.
• Caitlin Murtagh on her 2003 album I Love You Still
• Cerys Matthews in 2008 (YouTube)
• Daniel O'Donnell 2011 Moon Over Ireland album
• Finbar Furey in 2017 on "Paddy Dear".
• Philip Noone as a 2018 single on his album God be with the days.
• Lisa O'Neill
  on her 2018 album Heard a Long Gone Song.
• Daoirí Farrell on his 2019 album A Lifetime of Happiness
• Vinnie Jones in 2019 on The X Factor: Celebrity.
• Dervish (with guest vocalist Steve Earle) on their 2019 album The Great Irish Songbook.
• Dan MCCabe in 2020 on Youtube and Facebook.
• Celtic Woman as part of their 2021 album Postcards from Ireland

Sounds Samples

• The Galway Shawl by Ryan's Fancy

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