CNUAS is a new double CD release of recordings by Éamon de Buitléar’s group Ceoltóirí Laighean. Originally released as two LPs in the 1970s, the recordings feature a host of quality musicians. The sean nós singing of Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin and Seán Ó Liatháin of Cúil Aodha is a particular feature.

The first CD (The Crooked Road) is a live recording of a 1973 concert held in UCD to support Scoil Dhún Chaoin, the Gaeltacht school then threatened with closure.

The second CD (Star of Munster) was recorded two years later and shows the development of the group’s ensemble-playing. The famous Munster and Jacobite anthem ‘Mo Ghile Mear’ is sung here by Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin.

Tracklist:

CD 1

1. An Bóthar Cam, Diúc Laighean agus a Bhean
2. Sláinte Bhreá Hewlett
3. Airgead Réalach
4. Máthair mo Chéile (amhrán)
5. Neil Spóirtiúil, Ámhar ‘sa nGrá
6. Seán Ó’Duibhir a’ Ghleanna
7. Murtach Mac Cana
8. Dé Bheatha-sa, a Pheaití (amhrán)
9. Drúcht na Maidne
10.Amhrán an Steaimpí (amhrán)
11.Na Cosáin Ghriothail
12.A Ghrá, Luigh Láimh Liom

CD 2

1. Cnoc na gClárach, Bainis Cnoc na gClárach
2. Miko Russell’s Ashplant
3. Mo Ghile Mear (amhrán)
4. An Chruach Tobac (amhrán)
5. Carraig an Aoibhnis, An Spéic Seoigheach
6. An tSean Bhean Bhocht
7. Gairdín na Nóiníní
8. Port Thom Bhilly
9. The Star of Munster
10.Sleamhnán Inis Cathaigh
11.Dhá Ghabhairín Bhuí
12.Dinny Delaney’s