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Fire Draw Near
by Ian Lynch
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Today: #61 in Music, Ireland on our combined chart.
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FDN 116
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FDN LXVII
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The Old Man from Lee
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LXVI
June 8, 2026 · 1 hr 7 minEpisode LXVI concentrates on iterations of the traditional within a modern context. At some times it is a soft embrace, at others a collision. There are songs and tunes from many parts of the world. It is a journey. Don't be…
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The Dark Eyed Sailor
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FDN LXV
March 27, 2026 · 1 hr 10 minEpisode LXV (and not LXX!!!) has songs and tunes, old ones and new ones, drink and meat, hares and pigs, parties and funerals, sacrifices and tributes. Tracklist Bryan O'Leary – I’ll meet you on a day that never ends / The Ballinahulla…
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FDN LXIV
December 20, 2025 · 1 hr 19 minThis one features more gems from my recently unearthed music collection, songs of protest, songs of love, songs of dark magic, as well as more proggy folk rock than you've ever heard in one single episode. It is respectfully dedicated to…
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FDN LXIII
September 15, 2025 · 1 hr 15 minFDN LXIII is a special episode focusing on shape note singing in the United States. It is based around two interviews conducted this year with Howe Pearson and Sasha Suczyk and looks at the history and evolution of shape note singing in…
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FDN LXII
September 9, 2025 · 1 hr 31 minI have just recently gotten my vinyl and CD collections back from where they were stored for 6 months (thanks Crispo!!), an event that definitely makes itself felt in this episode. If there is a theme then it's something to do with pipers…
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FDN LXI
June 25, 2025 · 1 hr 24 minEpisode LXI is a lengthy heady blast through all of the amazing music that has come my way over the last month. There's so much really quality interesting stuff coming out in the wider traditional - folk - weirdo music scenes these days…
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Blackwater Side
June 20, 2025 · 52 minThis episode looks at the ballad Blackwater Side aka Blackwaterside aka Down by Blackwaterside and the journey that it took from a Traveller site outside Belfast in 1952 to the first Led Zeppelin LP. A winding river of a song, this episode…
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FDN LX
March 18, 2025 · 1 hr 4 minFDN LX was recorded in a bedroom in the 9th Ward in New Orleans. Upon reflection it features many friends, peers and contemporaries and that must be a good thing. Cormac Mac Diarmada – Iníon an Fhaoit’ ó’n nGleann Jim Ghedi – The…
About the show
Fire Draw Near is a monthly podcast and radio show which investigates Irish traditional music and song in all of its myriad forms.
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