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To celebrate Culture Night 2013, Marino Library held an evening of Dublin ballads with Anne and Niamh Buckley. The sisters delighted the packed audience with ballads of murder, madams and mayhem.

To celebrate Culture Night 2013, Marino Library held an evening of Dublin ballads with Anne and Niamh Buckley. The sisters delighted the packed audience with ballads of murder, madams and mayhem.

To celebrate Culture Night 2013, Marino Library held an evening of Dublin ballads with Anne and Niamh Buckley. The sisters delighted the packed audience with ballads of murder, madams and mayhem.

To celebrate Culture Night 2013, Marino Library held an evening of Dublin ballads with Anne and Niamh Buckley. The sisters delighted the packed audience with ballads of murder, madams and mayhem.

To celebrate Culture Night 2013, Marino Library held an evening of Dublin ballads with Anne and Niamh Buckley. The sisters delighted the packed audience with ballads of murder, madams and mayhem.

Anne and Niamh Buckley sing Child Ballad number 10, 'The Two Sisters', in front of a live audience at Marino Library on Culture Night, 20 September 2013. The Two Sisters is Child Ballad number 10. The Child Ballads are a collection of 305 traditional songs collected by Francis James Child in the 19th century. They were originally published as Popular English and Scottish Ballads between 1882 and 1898. If you'd like to hear more, good listeners are always welcome at An Góilín, Traditional Singer's Club based in The Teacher's Club, Parnell Square, Dublin.

Anne and Niamh Buckley sing 'Madam I'm a Darling' in front of a live audience at Marino Library on Culture Night, 20 September 2013. This is Frank Harte's version of Madam I'm a Darling. Frank Harte (1933-2005) was a Irish traditional singer, song collecter, architect and lecturer from Chapelizod, Dublin. He collected and published traditional folk songs and ballads of Dublin in Songs of Dublin. He is celebrated every September with the annual Frank Harte Festival. If you'd like to hear more, good listeners are always welcome at An Góilín, Traditional Singer's Club based in The Teacher's Club, Parnell Square, Dublin.

Anne and Niamh Buckley sing 'The Pirate Jenny' from The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Recorded in front of a live audience at Marino Library on Culture Night, 20 September 2013. Pirate Jenny is fromThe Threepenny Opera by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill. It was adapted from The Beggar's Opera (1728) by John Gay and was first performed in Berlin in 1928. If you'd like to hear more, good listeners are always welcome at An Góilín, Traditional Singer's Club based in The Teacher's Club, Parnell Square, Dublin.

Anne and Niamh Buckley sing the grisly murder ballad 'The Spoons Murder' in front of a live audience at Marino Library on Culture Night, 20 September 2013. The Spoons Murder is a grisly murder ballad written by an extraordinary Cork man, Con "Fada" Ó Drisceoil. Con is a singer, songwriter and accordian player and member of The Four Star Trio. Con's humourous songs and ballads are published in Spoons Murder and other mysteries which also features a CD (2006). If you'd like to hear more, good listeners are always welcome at An Góilín, Traditional Singer's Club based in The Teacher's Club, Parnell Square, Dublin.

Anne and Niamh Buckley sing 'The Bonny Light Horseman', a traditional English lament from the Napoleonic wars, in front of a live audience at Marino Library on Culture Night, 20 September 2013. The Bonny Light Horseman is a traditional English lament from the Napoleonic wars. This version is from Oisín and Geraldine MacGowan's 1980 LP Over the Moor to Maggie. Planxty also recorded a version on their 1979 album After the Break. If you'd like to hear more, good listeners are always welcome at An Góilín, Traditional Singer's Club based in The Teacher's Club, Parnell Square, Dublin.