Claddagh Records
last updated 5 October 2011
Claddagh is a long running independent label mainly devoted to recording traditional and folk music and artists.
Releases are distributed by larger labels such as EMI.
Claddagh was managed for a period by Chieftains leader Paddy Moloney.
Albums
CC Series (main LP series)
CC 1 Leo Rowsome Rí na bPiobairí/The King of the Pipers [1959]
CC 2 The Chieftains - s/t [1963]
CC 3 Dolly MacMahon - Dolly [1966]
CC 4 Sarah & Rita Keane Once I Loved [1968]
CC 5 Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford The Star Above the Garter [1968]
CC 6 Máire Áine Ní Dhonnchadha - Deora Aille Irish Songs from Connemara [1970]
CC 7 The Chieftains - 2 [1969]
CC 8 Paddy Taylor The Boy in the Gap (Traditional Music from Limerick and Clare) [1969]
CC 9 Seán 'ac Dhonncha An Aill Bháin (The White Rock) (Songs in Irish and English from Connemara) [197?]
CC 10 The Chieftains - 3 [1971?]
CC 11 v/a The Drones and the Chanters [1971]
CC 12 Seán Ó Riada Ó Riada's Farewell [1972]
CC 13 Tommy Potts The Liffey Banks [1972]
CC 14 The Chieftains - 4 [1973]
CC 15 Paddy Moloney & Seán Potts Tin Whistles [1974]
CC 16 The Chieftains - 5 [1975]
CC 17 Seán Keane Gusty Frolicks [1975]
CC 18 Derek Bell Carolan's Receipt (Music of Carolan Vol. 1) [1975]
CC 19 Séamus Ennis Féidhlím Tonn Rí's Castle [1977]
CC 20 The Chieftains - 6 Bonaparte's Retreat [1976]
CC 21 The Chieftains - Live! [1977]
CC 22 The Whistlebinkies - s/t [1977?]
CC 23 Dolores Keane There Was a Maid [1978]
CC 24 The Chieftains - 7 [1977]
CC 25 Sondela Atté [1977]
CC 26 Charles Guard Avenging and Bright [1978]
CC 27 Michael Tubridy The Eagle's Whistle [1978]
CC 28 Derek Bell Carolan's Favourite (Music of Carolan Vol. 2) [1978]
CC 29 The Chieftains - 8 [1978]
CC 30 The Chieftains - 9 Boil the Breakfast Early [1979]
CC 31 The Whistlebinkies - 2 [1979?]
CC 32 Willie Clancy - The Pipering of Willie Clancy Volume 1 [1980?]
CC 33 The Chieftains - 10 [1981]
CC 34 The Whistlebinkies - 3 [1981?]
CC 35 Derek Bell - Derek Bell's Musical Ireland [1982]
CC 36 The Chieftains with the RTΙ Concert Orchestra - The Year of the French [1982]
CC 37 Len Graham Do Me Justice [1983]
CC 38 Robert Wallace Chance Was a Fine Thing [1983]
CC 39 Willie Clancy - The Pipering of Willie Clancy Volume 2 [1983]
CC 40 v/a Claddagh's Choice Vol 1 [1984]
CC 41 Len Graham Ye Lovers All [1984?]
CC 42 The Chieftains - In China [1985]
CC 43 The Whistlebinkies - 4 [1986?]
CC 44 Francie Byrne, James Byrne, Vincent Campbell & Con Cassidy The Brass Fiddle [1986]
CC 45 Vail Ó Flatharta Bláth na Nairní
CC 46 Skylark - s/t [1987]
CC 47 Ronan Browne & Peter O'Loughlin The South West Wind [1988]
CC 48 unreleased [Robert Wallace album]
CC 49 Skylark All of It [1989]
CC 50 The Whistlebinkies - 5
CC 51 Ben Lennon, Séamus Quinn, Gabriel McArdle, Ciarán Curran Dog Big and Dog Little [1989]
CC 52 James Byrne The Road to Glenlough [1990]
CC 53 Robbie Hannan Traditional Irish Music Played on the Uilleann Pipes [1990]
CC 54 The Whistlebinkies - Anniversary [1990]
CC 55 Phil, John & Pip Murphy - The Trip To Cullenstown [1991]
CC 56 v/a Beauty An Oileáin: Music and song of the Blasket Islands [1992]
CC 57 Skylark Light and Shade [1992]
CC 58 Paul McGrattan The Frost Is All Over [1992].
CC 59 Derek Bell Ancient Music for the Irish Harp [1993]
CC 60 Mary Mac Namara Traditional Music from East Clare [1994]
CC 61 v/a The Drones and the Chanters Volume 2 [1994]
CC 62 Skylark Raining Bicycles [1996]
CC 63 Cran Black, Black, Black [1998]
CC 64 Ronan Browne The Wynd You Know [2001]
CC 65 v/a Claddagh's Choice Volumes 1 & 2 [1998] incorporates CC40
CC 66 The Chieftains - Collection
CC 67 The Chieftains - Collection 2
CCF Series (Franchise LP series)
Franchised releases are recordings licensed from elsewhere, either other record companies
at home or abroad or production companies; in some cases Claddagh has been the exclusive
licensee to date, i.e. these exist only as Claddagh releases.
CCF 1 John Molyneux Douce Amére
CCF 2 Jody Stecher & Krishna Bhatt - Rasa [1981] [Rooster Records, USA]
CCF 3 Runrig The Highland Connection [1981] [Ridge Records, Scotland]
CCF 4 Metropolis Morning Shadows [1981] [a Phaeton release]
CCF 5 Robin Williamson Songs of Love and Parting [1981]
CCF 6 Jane Cassidy Waves of Time
CCF 7 Jimi Slevin - Freeflight [1982] [a Phaeton release]
CCF 8 Pierre Bensusan - Solilai [1982] [Rounder, USA]
CCF 9 Edmund Lenihan Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Pϊca {spoken word}
CCF 10 Robin Williamson Music from the Mabinogi
CCF 11 Edmund Lenihan Fionn Mac Cumhaill and The Dark Pool {spoken word}
CCF 12 Robin Williamson Legacy of the Scottish Harpers
CCF 13 Edmund Lenihan Niamh and The Giant
CCF 14 Jane Cassidy The Empty Road [1986]
CCF 15 The Chieftains Music from The Ballad of the Irish Horse
CCF 16 Robin Williamson Legacy of the Scottish Harpers: Volume 2
CCF 17 Edmund Lenihan Storyteller
CCF 18 Matt Molloy Stony Steps [1988]
CCF 19 Robin Williamson Songs for Children of All Ages
CCF 20 Bakerswell [1988]
CCF 21 Noel Hill The Irish Concertina [1988]
CCF 22 Edmund Lenihan Storyteller 2
CCF 23 Kevin Conneff The Week Before Easter [1989]
CCF 24 Eddie Lenihan Weird Irish Tales
CCF 25 Seán Keane Jig It In Style [1989]
CCF 26 Máirtín O'Connor Perpetual Motion [1990] also issued on cassette as MOC001
CCF 27 Conal Ó Gráda - The Top of Coom [1990]
CCF 28 Eddie Lenihan The Devil's Own Work
CCF 29 Gerry O'Connor & Eithne Ní Uallacháin Lá Lugh [1991]
CCF 30 Seán Keane, Matt Molloy & Liam O'Flynn The Fire Aflame
CCF 31 John Doherty The Floating Bow [1996]
CCF 32 Mary Mac Namara The Blackberry Blossom [2000]
CCF 33 Leo Rickard Pure Piping [2000]
CCF 34 Pierre Schryer, Dermot Byrne and Friends [2000]
CCF 35 Ronan Browne & Peter O'Loughlin Touch Me If You Dare [2002]
CCF 36 Maeve Donnelly & Peadar O'Loughlin The Thing Itsel [2004]
CCF 37 David Power My Love is in America [2005]
CCF 38 The Tulla Céilí Band 60th Anniversary Celebration [2007]
CCA Series (Spoken Word LP series)
CCA 1/2 Hugh MacDiarmid - A Drunk Man Looks At The Thistle 2xLP [1970]
CCA 3
CCA 4 Norman MacCaig - The Way I Say It. Poems by Norman MacCaig LP [1973]
CCA 5 A Double Scotch. Edwin Morgan and Alexander Scott read their own poetry LP [1971]
CCA 6? Orcadian Poet George Mackay Brown Reads His Poems And A Short Story [1976]
CCA 7 Hamish Henderson - Freedom come-all-ye LP [1977]
CCT Series (Spoken Word LP series)
CCT 1 Patrick Kavanagh - Almost Everything LP [1966] poetry & prose
CCT 2 Austin Clarke - Beyond the Pale LP [1966] poetry
CCT 3 Samuel Beckett - MacGowran Speaking Beckett LP [1966]
CCT 4 The Northern Muse, Seamus Heaney and John Montague Reading their Own Poems LP [1968]
CCT 5 Hugh MacDiarmid Reads His Own Poetry LP [1969]
CCT 6 Thomas Kinsella - Fair Eleanor: O Christ Thee Save; poems LP [1969]
CCT 7 The Battle of Aughrim - Read by Richard Murphy and Music by Seán Ó Ríada and Ceoltóirí Cualann LP [1968]
CCT 8
CCT 9/10 Ted Hughes - Crow 2xLP [1973]
CCT 11 Derek Mahon Reads His Poetry LP [1973]
CCT 12
CCT 13
CCT 14 Robert Graves
CCT 15/16 Liam O'Flaherty - reads The Ecstasy Of Angus 2xLP [1978]
CCT 17
CCT 18
CCT 19/20 John Montague - The Rough Field
CCT 21 Seamus Heaney & Liam O'Flynn The Poet and The Piper [2003]
CCT 22
CCT 23/24 Thomas Kinsella - Poems 1956 - 2006 2xCD
CSM Series
CSM 1 Sean O Riada - Vertical Man OST LP foc [1969]
CSM 2 Aeolian Quartet - String Quartet in C (Frederick May) [1974]
CSM 50-51 John O'Connor - John Field: Complete Piano Concertos 2xLP [1973]
CSM 55-58 4xLP [1982]
See also Phaeton/Faetain Records
