Produced by: The Hanna Family
Media: CD
#Tracks: 19
Genre: Traditional Irish Singing
Other: NEW - Mint Condition - Allow 1-2 weeks for delivery

Geordie Hanna was a rare breed of a man. If you ever met him you'd remember him. If you didn't, you missed the opportunity to know in all its wonderments, to use a word he might have used himself, a plain ordinary decent man, who is the essence of his being embodied generations of the traditions of his people, which he carried with simplicity and ease and confronted you with it for what it was, no more, no less. Geordie came out of the moss, from the loughshore. He worked hard all his life. He never aspired to and never obtained any great material wealth. He was an intelligent man, without formal qualifications or ambitions. He raised a fine family and his quiet pride and deep affection for his wife and children, which it was plain every time he spoke of them.

Geordie Hanna was our "Peig", our "McGrianna", and we never really appreciated that, until suddenly, he was was taken from us, we took him for granted and now we've lost him.

Geordie's reputation as one of the finest traditional singers of our time is beyond dispute. The wealth of the knowledge he possessed is well-known, yet he never forgot how he came by a song. He never resented passing it on from him to whoever would use it again. "He can sing none the best" was as much criticism as the least musical rendering would get from Geordie. I thought it was music to hear him talking. The way he used language was a gift in itself. And it was a gift he never abused. Geordie could tell yarns, relate everyday events with a phrase or saying that was never said before and nobody could repeat to the same effect.

I hope Heaven has moss and birds, and a shore, plain people in it who like music and conversation and football, for then Geordie will be happy there, though he'll find it odd for a while. - Bernadette McAliskey

The Songs:

1) Caroline from Edinburgh Town
2) The Tidy Thatch Cottage
3) Interview
4) On Yonder Hill (there sits a hare)
5) The Shores of Lough Bran
6) Erin's Lovely Home
7) The Lisburn Lass
8) Interview
9) The Lambs on the Green Hill
10) The Month of January
11) Old Arboe
12) Interview
13) The Fisher's Cot
14) Where the Green Shamrock Grows
15) Green Fields of America
16) Brocagh Brae
17) The Flower of Sweet Strabane
18) Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore
19) The Emigrant