Irish Celtic Music Collection Version 2

About 8 months ago, when I first got into torrenting, the first thing I uploaded was my Celtic music collection. I had been working on it for years, and was (am!) very proud of it. Since Ive been doing this, I've learned a lot about how to fix tags and so forth, as well as significantly adding to it from various other torrents. The torrent gathered a lot of nice comments and some helpful suggestions. Since then, the size of the thing has increased hugely. Not only through many purchased albums and some rare finds at garage sales and old record stores, but through some other torrents that are often very badly seeded. I am retorrenting the whole thing now as a version 2. I want to thank all the other uploaders who have helped make this possible, and pass along to any reader that you can surely search for the original torrents if you don't want all the other accompaniments. I have normalized and corrected tags as far as I could, but these databases are faulty, and I am sure some mistakes remain. I have also converted all formats to mp3 for the iPod crowd and because FLAC sucks. Some of the purists are going to be pissy because I have reduced many 320 kbps recordings to 128 for the sake of saving size. Again, if you deeply care about bit rate you can find a lot of this collection in separate torrents at higher bit rates if you search individually, but they are usually badly seeded. The torrent is quite large, and I am sorry to announce that the number of files forces me to make this a .RAR torrent, because THE PIRATE BAY will not allow the torrent in any other fashion. The original version is still out there and quite well seeded if you want to start with something smaller, and I want to make a major plug for another recent torrent = HISTORY OF IRELAND IN SONG VERSION 3. A helluva lot of work went into that one. I've included a directory listing outside the .RAR portion, so you can see if this collection is worth your time. Here is the basic listing of the bands, keep in mind that many songs are in the MISC file since that many bands didn't have enough to merit their own file. AAA Misc (hundreds of assorted cuts & Covers) Alex Beaton Athen Rye Bagpipes Battering Ram Bawdy Beggar Girls Ben Holmes Bing Crosby Blarney Lads Carbon Leaf Celtic Tenors Celtic Woman Charlie & the Bhoys Chieftains Christy Moore Clancy Brothers Clannad Corries Danny Boy Album Dublin City Ramblers Dublin Cowboys Dublin Ramblers Dubliners Eire Og Forever Plaid Frank Harte and Donal Lunny - 1798 The First Year Gaelic Storm Generic Irish Sing-along albums Great Big Sea Irish Celtic Punk (Flogging Molly, Dropkick, etc) Irish Descendents Irish Rovers Joanie Madden - Songs of the Irish Whistle Johnny Logan and friends - The Irish Connection Judy Collins Juice O' The Barley King's Galliard Loreena McKennitt Mary O'Hara - Songs Of Ireland Naughty Nymphs O´ Riada Sa Gaiety Orthodox Celts Paddy Noonan Planxty Pogues Quilty Roger Whittaker Seamus Kennedy Sean O'Neill Band Sinead O'Connor Songs Of Ireland 1-3 Spailpin Tears For Beers the Tommy Makem Songbag Three Irish Tenors Wolfe Tones

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RamblerGambler (2008-08-14)

Wow, Thanks for this one!

skypex (2008-09-01)

FANTASTIC!! Thanks..............great work

sneakpi (2008-10-09)

Amazing - Thanks so much!

reaner (2008-10-21)

Awesome compilation rambam thanks a lot mate this will keep me jigging for months nice one.

 rambam1776 (2008-10-26)

A pleasure, thanks for the kind words. Please help me keep it seeded.

Character7 (2008-11-09)

Dude you Rock! Nothing else can be said. Your rock!

octalsys (2008-12-02)

Please seed. Stuck at 99.2% for days.
I'll continue seed....

mcgrail68 (2008-12-22)

Truly a great collection, great quality, didnt find any corrupt files yet (dont think i will), the pipes are especially great, thanks alot!
McGrail68
(SouthSideIrish)

gavinmgraham (2009-02-02)

I've dl'ed this 3 times (and up'ed it at least 4) but every time I extract it I get "Bad Block" errors and only get the first 6 rars. I'm happy with what I have so far but would love to get the rest. Any help? Thanx for an awesome upload and all the work.

 rambam1776 (2009-03-14)

I uploaded a non-rar version of this to Mininova as well, try that one if this version isn't working:
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 rambam1776 (2009-05-16)

Well, since TPB made me RAR this torrent due to the number of files involved, you HAVE to get the whole thing or none. You cannot pick and choose. Which is a shame, cuz I personally LIKE being able to pick and choose. Something I really miss from the old Napster days is the ability to get a single song without having to download an entire lousy album.

Ultragod (2009-06-12)

Please split this into smaller torrents. It's been in my cue two weks & gotten nowhere. @ least with small ones we can check out a song or 2 from each album & C what we like 2 check into further =) Most Celtic music is GARBAGE! Just like most music in general. I'm mostly into Turkish music, & the first thing I noticed is the incredibly wide range from amazing 2 horrible. Someone can post a terabyte of Turkey tunes, but that doesn't mean N E of them R good. There R doodz 4 instance - will have like 50 albums, and only ONE good song. On the other hand, U can get 'Zara' (Nissan Yagmuru) & they're all good - or Ceylan, who is about 1/3 INCREDIBLE, & the rest R JUNK! =)
U get the idea. Just sucking up bandwidth on bad songs is lame, & making it so big that nobody can actually get it is also lame. Nice try, but ultimately useless. SPLIT IT UP!! If we want 2 C the rest, we can always check your profile or search a similar title 4 other linx! (DUUUHHH!! =))
WTF man - obviiously U got 2 much Guiness on the brain HAHA

Ultragod (2009-06-12)

Here R some examples of GOOD Celtic music. Who else sounds like this? Please E-Mail me @ peter845 at hotmail dotcom =)
Capercaillie "To The Moon", Karen Matheson "Rithill Aill", Talitha MacKenzie "A Fhleasgaich Oig Spiorad", Thalitha MacKenzie "Ajde Jano" (tho' I hear that's actually a Serbian tune), Tannas "The Old Hag's Set"

Ouzotime (2009-06-17)

excellent collection tyvm will give a try hope peeps seed but i do agree would be better to be split to smaller sections...cheers to all

MHAL2C4 (2009-06-30)

Can someone pls seed this torrent i would like to make this as a gift to my grand pa, he always wanted to hear an Irish music.

nuke59 (2009-07-21)

C'mon people, Seed! it doesn't have to be much, just 10-25kb for a week, and i can finish downloading it! i will seed for a month once i'm done, so others can seed too!

gameking19 (2009-08-08)

doe's anyone have any music of "Gerry Ó Glacain"
if so please tell me

deathfest (2009-12-23)

Wow...you have really worked!!
Guys 128kbps does not mean much when you're listenin to certain generes like this...when i listen to my melodic death metal i like a 320 but on celtic or instrumental you would not admit u cant tell the difference!
@rambam

This is a torrent which's got beautiful music..the names are in Russian...you must have this somewhere in your collection...can you post the articles or details??
Thanks!!

 rambam1776 (2010-03-17)

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2010!

swwblackhawk (2010-04-26)

Awesome torrent I have downloaded this three different time dues to computer crashing and have sent a couple of my friends who enjoy Celtic music also and we all agree keep up the good work.

IrishMusic (2010-07-12)

99% crap 1% class. to much scottish welsh and american stuff on this and once again ur missing two of the best. Luke kelly 1976 rocky road to dublin, Paul Brady 1976 Aurthur mc bride. rnrnUtube both of the above and try to argue because after listening to them you wont be able to.rnrnBecause I waited 3 days to download this and found that it was more american than Irish I decided to open an account and up my first torrent. rnrnIf you want Irish Music Download my version although it to is not finished as I have to find quality versions of the two above songs in particular and add them. I will add them seperately so you wont have to start again.rnrnTo sum it up, fair play for trying but its an epic fail,rnIf your from Boston and ye want to hear bad covers of Irish music then download this,rnrnBUT if you love Irish music And want to here the classic stuff that gave Irish music its name then click my name and download a quality not quantity copy of all the best stuff.rnrnrambam fair play for the up and I hope ye take the criticizm as constructive and not personal but as you can see im Irish and I was born and bred on this stuff and i also have a passion for Irish Music

jbagl557 (2010-08-13)

Very nice! Thank you! I am enjoying this music as I write this comment.

 rambam1776 (2011-03-17)

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2011!

You_Muppet (2011-11-19)

lovely, thanks. My wife will love this :)

 rambam1776 (2012-03-17)

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2012!

dubblue4 (2012-10-27)

this is what you call a collection. go raibh mait agut from ÁTH Cliath, rambam.

 rambam1776 (2013-03-17)

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2013!

 rambam1776 (2014-03-17)

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2014!

 rambam1776 (2015-03-17)

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2015!