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About 8 months ago, when I first got into torrenting, the first thing I uploaded was my Celtic music collection. I had been working on it for years, and was (am!) very proud of it. Since IΓ??ve been doing this, IΓ??ve learned a lot about how to fix tags and so forth, as well as significantly adding to it from various other torrents. The torrent gathered a lot of nice comments Γ?? thank you all Γ?? and some helpful suggestions.
Since then, the size of the thing has increased hugely. Not only through many purchased albums and some rare finds at garage sales and old record stores, but through some other torrents that are often very badly seeded. I am retorrenting the whole thing now as a version 2. I want to thank all the other uploaders who have helped make this possible, and pass along to any reader that you can surely search for the original torrents if you donΓ??t want all the other accompaniments. I have normalized and corrected tags as far as I could, but these databases are faulty, and I am sure some mistakes remain. I have also converted all formats to mp3 for the iPod crowd and because FLAC sucks. Some of the purists are going to be pissy because I have reduced many 320 kbps recordings to 128 for the sake of saving size. Again, if you deeply care about bit rate you can find a lot of this collection in separate torrents at higher bit rates if you search individually, but they are usually badly seeded.
The torrent is quite large, and I am sorry to announce that the number of files forces me to make this a .RAR torrent, because THE PIRATE BAY will not allow the torrent in any other fashion. My upload speed maxes at about 100 kbps, so this is going to take a while to upload. Please help me keep this seeded once it is up, and all comments are welcome.
The original version is still out there and quite well seeded if you want to start with something smaller, and I want to make a major plug for another recent torrent Γ?? HISTORY OF IRELAND IN SONG VERSION 3. A helluva lot of work went into that one.
IΓ??ve included a directory listing outside the .RAR portion, so you can see if this collection is worth your time. Here is the basic listing of the bands, keep in mind that many songs are in the MISC file since that many bands didnΓ??t have enough to merit their own file.
AAA Γ?? Misc (hundreds of assorted cuts & Covers)
Alex Beaton
Athen Rye
Bagpipes
Battering Ram
Bawdy Beggar Girls
Ben Holmes
Bing Crosby
Blarney Lads
Carbon Leaf
Celtic Tenors
Celtic Woman
Charlie & the Bhoys
Chieftains
Christy Moore
Clancy Brothers
Clannad
Corries
Danny Boy Album
Dublin City Ramblers
Dublin Cowboys
Dublin Ramblers
Dubliners
Eire Og
Forever Plaid
Frank Harte and Donal Lunny - 1798 The First Year
Gaelic Storm
Generic Irish Sing-along albums
Great Big Sea
Irish Celtic Punk (Flogging Molly, Dropkick, etc)
Irish Descendents
Irish Rovers
Joanie Madden - Songs of the Irish Whistle
Johnny Logan and friends - The Irish Connection
Judy Collins
Juice O' The Barley
King's Galliard
Loreena McKennitt
Mary O'Hara - Songs Of Ireland
Naughty Nymphs
O┬┤ Riada Sa Gaiety
Orthodox Celts
Paddy Noonan
Planxty
Pogues
Quilty
Roger Whittaker
Seamus Kennedy
Sean O'Neill Band
Sinead O'Connor
Songs Of Ireland 1-3
Spailpin
Tears For Beers
the Tommy Makem Songbag
Three Irish Tenors
Wolfe Tones |
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