This comprehensive 3 CD set celebrates his 5 decades on the Irish music scene.  The Very Best Of features over 50 tracks, including the classic hits: The Boston Burglar, Nora, Those Brown Eyes and Muirsheen Durkin (a duet with Sharon Shannon & her Big Band) and many more.

 

 

Disc One

1.  The Boston Burglar

2. Waltzing’s For Dreamers with Máire Breathnach

3. Staten Island

4. If Wishes Were Fishes

5. Muirsheen Durkin

6. Long Before Your Time

7. Run Around Angel

8. Red Is The Rose

9. You Never Learned To Dance

10. The Sailor

11 . Boulavogue with The Band of  An Garda Síochána

12. Three Score And Ten

13. Where My Eileen Is Waiting

14. Someday You’ll Call My Name

15. My Irish Molly

16. Carrickfergus

17. The Ballad of John Williams

 

Disc Two

1. Michael

2. The Good Ship Kangaroo

3. Rich Man’s Garden

4. When We Danced To An Old Fashioned Tune

5. Pokarekare Ana with Na Fianna

6. The West’s Awake

7. Wedding Bells

8. Go Lassie Go

9. The Shores of Amerikay

10. The Town I Left Behind

11. Daniel O’Connell

12. My Homeland

13. I Wish I Had Someone To Love Me

14. Bound For South Australia with Na Fianna

15. Just One More Night

16. As Soon As I Can

17.  Drums Under The Window/Nora

 

Disc Three

1. Those Brown Eyes

2. Going to California

3. The Ballad of St. Anne’s Reel

4. The Big Mansion House

5. Nancy Miles

6. Amy Johnson

7. Jambalaya

8. The Rare Old Times

9. Home Boys Home

10. When The Rain Comes

11. Red River Valley

12. The Black Velvet Band

13. Partners In Rhyme with Isla Grant

14. Gentle Annie

15. The Roseville Fair

16. Muirsheen Durkin with Sharon Shannon and Band

 

Bonus Track When You Say Nothing At All with Alice McEvoy