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Births and deaths

Deaths

• Seamus Ennis (1912–1982)
• Joe Heaney (1919–1984)
• Luke Kelly (1940–1984)
• Hugh Gillespie (1906–1986)
• Ewan MacColl (1915–1989)
• Margaret Barry (1917–c. 1989 or 1990)
• Ciarán Bourke

Recordings

• 1980 "Mist Covered Mountain" (De Dannan)
• 1981 "Star Spangled Molly" (De Dannan)
• 1981 "Plays with Himself" (Derek Bell)
• 1982 "Musical Ireland" (Derek Bell)
• 1984 "Red Roses for Me" (The Pogues)
• 1985 "Rum, Sodomy and The Lash" (The Pogues)
• 1985 "To Welcome Paddy Home" (The Boys of the Lough)
• 1986 "The Celts" (Enya)
• 1987 "Altan" (Altan)
• 1988 "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" (The Pogues)

• Irish folk music history