Green Linnet SIF 1037[6] Where the Linnets Sing: Three generations of the Tunney family and their songs (1992) Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann CL44 In 2009 The Waterford Boys from A Wild Bee's Nest was included in Topic Records 70 year anniversary boxed set Three Score and Ten as track two of the third CD. Writing Paddy Tunney wrote two books on Irish traditional songs and singers. They are not autobiographies as such, though they are made up largely of personal recollections and memories of people met and songs sung. They are The Stone Fiddle: My Way to Traditional Song, published by Gilbert Dalton, Skerries, Co. Dublin, in 1979, and Where Songs do Thunder: Travels in Traditional Song which was published in 1991 by Appletree Press, Belfast . Paddy had been writing poetry since childhood and a collection of his work appeared as Dúchas and other poems. Letterkenny: Eagrain Dhun na nGall . In 1990 a collection of his children's stories Ulster Folk Stories for Children was published by Mercier Press, Cork . Collector He collected and sang many songs that have now become standards, including: "Moorlough Mary" "Lough Erne Shore" "Craigie Hill" "The Green Fields of Canada" "When a Man's in Love" "Out of the Window" "Easter Snow" "As I Roved Out" "The Banks of Dunmore" "The Blackbird" "The Mountain Streams where the Moorcocks Crow" "Sheila Nee Iyer" "The Rambling Boys of Pleasure" "My Charming Buachaill Rua" "Lovely Willie" "The May Morning Dew" References [1] Duffey, Connie (Autumn 2005). "Paddy Tunney: A Man for All Seasons". Treoir. Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. Retrieved 10 October 2011 [2] a b Fear an tí (17 July 2009). "Paddy Tunney". Musicians. Ramblinghouse. Retrieved 10 October 2011. [3] Pohle, Horst (1987) The Folk Record Source Book. Berlin: Horst Pohle; p. 473 [4] Pohle, Horst (1987) The Folk Record Source Book. Berlin: Horst Pohle; p. 473 [5] Pohle, Horst (1987) The Folk Record Source Book. Berlin: Horst Pohle; p. 473 [6] All labels & numbers from Pohle, Horst (1987) The Folk Record Source Book. Berlin: Horst Pohle; p. 473 External links Paddy Tunney – The Man of Songs — biography from Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Obituary 1921 births 2002 deaths Irish poets Irish folklorists Irish folk singers Irish folk-song collectors Tradition Records artists Irish Republican Army (1922–1969) members People from Letterkenny 20th-century poets 20th-century Irish male singers 20th-century musicologists Topic Records artists