Rosie Stewart and Mick Fowler

Live in the Seminar Room, National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin City, 11th December, 2013 as part of the Man, Woman and Child Project. Man, Woman and Child was a research and performance project devised and co-ordinated by artist Michael Fortune and featuring traditional singers, Luke Cheevers, Niamh Parsons, John and Brigid Tunney, Mick Fowler, Rosie Stewart, Tim Lyons, Aileen Lambert and Jerry O'Reilly. Supported by the Arts Council, the National Library of Ireland, the Irish Traditional Music Archive and Age and Opportunity, this project was based on The Child Ballad Collection: a collection of traditional songs collected by the American collector Francis J Child in England and Scotland between 1882 and 1898. Although many of the songs, or variants of them, are sung in the Irish tradition, no comprehensive study and performance of the ballads has been undertaken in Ireland prior to this. More information available at www.manwomanandchild.ie