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{{short description|Irish folk musician}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = Andy Irvine
| image           = Andy Irvine - Lottes Musiknacht Industriemuseum Elmshorn 06.jpg
| caption         = Andy Irvine with guitar-bodied [[Irish bouzouki|bouzouki]]<br />at ''Lottes Musiknacht'' (27 November 2016)
| landscape       = yes
| birth_name      = Andrew Kennedy Irvine
| birth_date      = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1942|06|14}}
| birth_place     = [[St John's Wood]], London, England
| instrument      = {{Flatlist| 
*Vocals 
*[[mandolin]]
*[[mandola]]
*[[Irish bouzouki|bouzouki]]
*[[hurdy-gurdy]]
*guitar-bodied [[Irish bouzouki|bouzouki]]
*[[harmonica]]
}}
| genre           = {{Flatlist|
*[[Folk music of Ireland|Irish]]
*[[Folk music of England|English]]
*[[Scottish folk music|Scottish]]
*[[Old-time music|Old-timey]]
*[[American folk music|American]]
*[[Bulgarian folk music|Bulgarian]] 
*[[Music of Southeastern Europe|Balkan]]
*[[Australian folk music]]
}}
| occupation      = Musician, singer-songwriter
| years_active    = 1962–present
| associated_acts = {{Flatlist|
*[[Sweeney's Men]]
*[[Dónal Lunny]]
*[[Planxty]]
*[[Paul Brady]]
*[[Mick Hanly]]
*[[Dick Gaughan]]
*Peter Ratzenbeck
*[[Andy Irvine & Dónal Lunny's Mozaik#The first 'Mosaic' (1984-85)|Mosaic]]
*[[Patrick Street]]
*[[EastWind|East Wind]]
*[[Andy Irvine & Dónal Lunny's Mozaik|Mozaik]]
*[[Andy Irvine (musician)#LAPD (Liam/Andy/Paddy/Dónal)|LAPD]]
*Rens van der Zalm
*[[Usher's Island (band)|Usher's Island]]
*Luke Plumb
}}
| website         = {{url|AndyIrvine.com/}}
}}

'''Andrew Kennedy Irvine''' (born 14 June 1942) is an [[Irish traditional music#Second revival in the 1960s and 1970s|Irish folk]] musician, singer-songwriter, and a founding member of [[Sweeney's Men]], [[Planxty]], [[Patrick Street]], [[Andy Irvine & Dónal Lunny's Mozaik|Mozaik]], [[Andy Irvine (musician)#LAPD (Liam/Andy/Paddy/Dónal)|LAPD]] and [[Usher's Island (band)|Usher's Island]]. He also featured in duos, with [[Dónal Lunny]], [[Paul Brady]], [[Mick Hanly]], [[Dick Gaughan]], Rens van der Zalm, and Luke Plumb. Irvine plays the mandolin, [[mandola]], [[Irish bouzouki|bouzouki]], harmonica, and [[hurdy-gurdy]].

He has been influential in folk music for over six decades, during which he recorded a large repertoire of songs and tunes he assembled from books, old recordings and {{no redirect|Category:Folk-song collectors by nationality|folk-song collectors}} rooted in the [[Folk music of Ireland|Irish]], [[Folk music of England|English]], [[Scottish folk music|Scottish]], [[Music of Southeastern Europe|Eastern European]], [[Australian folk music|Australian]] and American [[Old-time music|old-time]] and [[American folk music|folk]] traditions.

As a child actor, Irvine honed his performing talent from an early age and learned the classical guitar. He switched to folk music after discovering [[Woody Guthrie]], also adopting the latter's other instruments: harmonica and [[mandolin]]. While extending Guthrie's [[Carter Family picking|guitar picking]] technique to the mandolin,<ref name="Frets">''Andy Irvine – Celtic Roots... Dustbowl Inspiration'', by Joe Vanderford in ''Frets'' Vol. 7 No. 3 (Issue #73), March 1985.</ref>{{rp|20}} he further developed his playing of this instrument—and, later, of the [[mandola]] and the [[Irish bouzouki|bouzouki]]—into a decorative, harmonic style,<ref name="Walsh">{{cite book
 |last1= Ó Callanain
 |first1= Niall
 |last2= Walsh
 |first2= Tommy
 |year= 1989
 |title= The Irish Bouzouki
 |location= Ireland
 |publisher= Waltons
 |isbn= 0-7866-1595-8
}}</ref>{{rp|38}} and embraced the [[Mode (music)|modes]] and [[Music of Bulgaria#Asymmetric meters|rhythms]] of [[Music of Bulgaria|Bulgarian folk music]].

Along with [[Johnny Moynihan]] and [[Dónal Lunny]], Irvine is one of the pioneers who adapted the Greek [[bouzouki]]—with a [[Andy Irvine (musician)#Playing style – The Irish Bouzouki|new tuning]]—into an [[Irish bouzouki|Irish instrument]]. He contributed to advancing the design of his instruments in co-operation with English [[luthier]] Stefan Sobell,<ref name="AIMyInstruments">[http://www.andyirvine.com/instruments.html ''Instruments''] Page at Andy Irvine's website. Retrieved 26 July 2013</ref> and he sometimes plays a hurdy-gurdy made for him in 1972 by Peter Abnett, another English luthier.<ref name="O'Toole">{{cite book
 |last= O'Toole
 |first= Leagues
 |year= 2006
 |title= The Humours of Planxty
 |location= Dublin
 |publisher= Hodder Headline
 |isbn= 0-340-83796-9
}}</ref>{{rp|119,170}}

Although touring mainly as a soloist, Irvine has also enjoyed great success in pursuing collaborations through many projects that have influenced contemporary folk music. He continues to tour and has performed extensively in Ireland, Great Britain, Europe, North and South America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.<ref name="IrvineCalendar">[http://www.andyirvine.com/gigs.html ''Gigs''] Page at Andy Irvine's website. Retrieved 2 January 2014</ref> In October 2018, he received the first Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed at [[RTÉ Radio 1]]'s inaugural Folk Music Awards.
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==Early life and acting career==
Andy Irvine was born in [[St John's Wood]], northwest London on 14 June 1942. His mother, Felicia Madge Lessels, was from [[Wallasey]], [[Merseyside]],{{refn|group=note|Lascelles' birth place is disputed: O'Toole has [[Lisburn]], [[County Antrim]];<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|35}} Lessels Yates says [[Wallasey]], [[Merseyside]],<ref name="Lessels Yates" /> as Lascelles herself stated during an interview with the ''Liverpool Evening Express'' on 14 September 1926.<ref name="LEE14Sep1926" />}}<ref name="Lessels Yates">{{cite web
 |last= Lessels Yates
 |first= Lynly
 |date= 10 June 2024
 |title= The family history of John LESSELS and Elizabeth Hamilton MURRAY
 |pages= 8, 15
 |quote= 7-1-1-4 Felicia Madge LESSELS, born 19 July 1904, Wallasey, Cheshire, England   
 |access-date= 21 April 2024
 |url= http://www.lynly.gen.nz/LSLesselsMurray1804Scotland.pdf
 |website= lynly.gen.nz
}}</ref><ref name="LEE14Sep1926">{{cite news
 |title= WALLASEY GIRL STAR
 |date= 14 September 1926
 |newspaper= [[Liverpool Evening Express]]
 |location= Liverpool
 |issue= 17,173
 |page= 3; col.2
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 |url-access= subscription
 |access-date= 8 June 2024
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 |ref= {{sfnref|''Liverpool Evening Express''; 14 Sep 1926}}
}}</ref> and his father, Archibald Kennedy Irvine, from [[Glasgow]].<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|35}} His mother had been a [[Musical theatre|musical comedy]] actress who performed under the stage name of [[Felice Lascelles]], and Irvine would later say that "she may have given up the stage, but she never stopped acting!".<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|35–36}} At the age of three-and-a-half, Irvine started attending [[boarding school]],<ref name="AI2ndCaptains@27:37">{{cite interview
 |title= Second Captains - Andy Irvine
 |interviewer= Eoin McDevitt and Ciaran Murphy
 |url= https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/21593428/ 
 |format= audio
 |minutes= 27:37 <!-- Attending boarding school at age 3.5 -->
 |medium= Podcast
 |publisher= RTÉ Radio 1
 |location= Dublin
 |date= 22 September 2018
 |access-date= 12 September 2021
}}</ref> where he would later play [[association football|football]] during the winter season, [[Rugby union|rugby]] during the spring season, and [[cricket]] during the summer season, all of which fostered his lifelong passion for team sports.<ref name="AI2ndCaptains@26:45">{{cite interview
 |title= Second Captains - Andy Irvine
 |interviewer= Eoin McDevitt and Ciaran Murphy
 |url= https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/21593428/
 |format= audio
 |minutes= 26:45 <!-- Playing sports at boarding school -->
 |medium= Podcast
 |publisher= RTÉ Radio 1
 |location= Dublin
 |date= 22 September 2018
 |access-date= 12 September 2021
}}</ref>

As a child, Irvine was given opportunities to appear on stage, TV and in films.<ref name="BFIFFAI">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120725121931/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2bb5f6aa59 Andrew Irvine] "Filmography" page at the ''BFI ~ Film Forever'' website. Retrieved 6 May 2015</ref><ref name="IMDbAI">[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1661404/ Andrew Irvine] "Filmography" page at the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Retrieved 3 June 2015</ref> In the summer holidays of 1950, when he was eight years old, his first role was to play Jimmy in the film ''[[A Tale of Five Cities]]'' (released as ''A Tale of Five Women'' in the US).<ref name="IMDb1">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041921/ ''A Tale of Five Cities''.] Page at the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Retrieved 27 August 2013</ref><ref name="Irvine1">[http://www.andyirvine.com/bio/chapter1.html ''Biography'' – Chapter 1.] Page at Andy Irvine's website. Retrieved 29 July 2013</ref> At thirteen, he starred as Nokie (short for [[Pinocchio]])<ref name="Irvine1"/> in the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] children's series ''Round at the Redways''<ref name="IMDb2">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1215367/ ''Round at the Redways'', Episode: 1.4 (19 October 1955).] Page at the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Retrieved 14 December 2013</ref><ref name="IMDb2b">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3485920/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_9 ''Round at the Redways'', Episode: 1.9 (23 November 1955).] Page at the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Retrieved 5 August 2016</ref><ref name="IMDb2c">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5163758/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_9 ''Round at the Redways'' (8 February 1956).] Page at the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Retrieved 5 August 2016</ref> and joined a school for child actors.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|36}} He made his stage debut in the [[Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton|Grand Theatre]] in [[Wolverhampton]] and, at fourteen, received rave reviews for his performance as Morgan in the ''ITV Television Playhouse'' drama ''[[The Pupil (short story)|The Magpies]]'', adapted from a [[Henry James]] short story.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|36}}<ref name="ITVMagpies">[http://ctva.biz/UK/ITV/ITV_TelevisionPlayhouse_02_(1956-57).htm ''The Magpies'' (7 February 1957).] Listed in ''Season 2 (1956–57)'' at the ITV Television Playhouse website. Retrieved 14 May 2015</ref> The same year, he was Eric Brandt in ''Escape to Happiness'', for the ''[[Armchair Theatre]]'' programme<ref name="IMDbEtoH">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1092669/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_8 ''Armchair Theatre''; Episode: ''Escape to Happiness'' (9 June 1957).] Page at the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Retrieved 5 August 2016</ref> and also played [[John Logie Baird]] as a boy in the film ''A Voice in Vision''.<ref name="IMDb3">[https://web.archive.org/web/20150516152149/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b802e3d5c ''A Voice in Vision''.] Page at the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Retrieved 15 May 2015</ref> In early 1958, Irvine featured as Archie Almond in five episodes of ''Run to Earth''.<ref name="IMDbRtoESN">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1290894/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6 ''Run to Earth''; Episode: ''Strange Neighbours'' (11 February 1958).] Page at the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Retrieved 8 August 2016</ref><ref name="IMDbRtoEAA">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800595/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6 ''Run to Earth''; Episode: ''Aunt Alexa'' (18 February 1958).] Page at the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Retrieved 8 August 2016</ref><ref name="IMDbRtoECGS">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800596/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6 ''Run to Earth''; Episode: ''Captain Gaunt's Secret'' (25 February 1958).] Page at the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Retrieved 8 August 2016</ref><ref name="IMDbRtoENM">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800598/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6 ''Run to Earth''; Episode: ''Ninian McHarg'' (11 March 1958)], IMDb. Retrieved 8 August 2016.</ref> In June that year, he played Lord Heybrook in ''[[French Without Tears]]'' for the ''[[Saturday Playhouse]]'' TV series<ref name="IMDbFWT">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4490328/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_5 ''Saturday Playhouse''; Episode 12: ''French Without Tears'' (7 June 1958)], IMDb. Retrieved 8 August 2016.</ref> and, soon after, was one of the 'Pygmies' in [[Peter Sellers on stage, radio, screen and record#Stage credits|''Brouhaha'']], with [[Peter Sellers]] as the Sultan.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|36–37}}<ref name="JPWearing_1950-1959">{{cite book
 |last=Wearing
 |first=J.P.
 |date=16 September 2014
 |orig-year=First published 1976
 |edition=2nd revised
 |title=The London Stage 1950–1959: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel
 |location=Lanham, MD
 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Education
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5g2PBAAAQBAJ&q=Brouhaha+Peter+Sellers+Andrew+Irvine&pg=PA591
 |isbn= 978-0-8108-9307-8
 |access-date=5 August 2016
}}</ref>{{rp|591}} Irvine then played Raymond opposite [[Laurence Harvey]] in ''[[Room at the Top (1959 film)|Room at the Top]]''<ref name="Irvine1"/><ref name="IMDb4">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053226/combined ''Room at the Top''.] Page at the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Retrieved 27 August 2013</ref><ref name="BFIRoom">[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/440778/credits.html ''Room at the Top''.] Page at the BFI (British Film Institute) website. Retrieved 4 May 2016</ref> and, although his scene was cut from the final release, he still appears briefly in the film, handing a bottle of champagne to Harvey during a wedding scene.<ref name="Frets"/>{{rp|20}} In late 1959, he featured as Lanky Graham in ''Ask for King Billy''<ref name="IMDbAKB">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1341404/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_3 ''Ask for King Billy''; Episode 4 (24 November 1959).] Page at the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Retrieved 8 August 2016</ref> and, in early 1960, he played a schoolboy in ''A Holiday Abroad'' for ''ITV Television Playhouse''.<ref name="IMDbAHA">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0909307/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2 ''ITV Television Playhouse''; Season 5, Episode 23: ''A Holiday Abroad'' (12 February 1960).] Page at the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Retrieved 8 August 2016.</ref> Later that year, at eighteen, Irvine performed as Dan in three episodes of ''Sheep's Clothing'',<ref name="IMDbSC1">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5261218/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1 ''Sheep's Clothing''; Episode 1.2 (25 September 1960).] Page at the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Retrieved 8 August 2016.</ref><ref name="IMDbSC2">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5261216/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1 ''Sheep's Clothing''; Episode 1.3 (2 October 1960).] Page at the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Retrieved 8 August 2016.</ref><ref name="IMDbSC3">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5261208/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1 ''Sheep's Clothing''; Episode 1.4 (9 October 1960).] Page at the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Retrieved 8 August 2016.</ref> after which he was offered a two-year contract with the [[BBC]]'s [[Repertory theatre|Repertory company]] ('The Rep'),<ref name="RDC">[http://www.bbc.co.uk/soundstart/rdc.shtml ''The Radio Drama Company''.] Homepage at the BBC website. Retrieved 9 October 2013.</ref> where he befriended the poet [[Louis MacNeice]] who worked there as a writer for over twenty years. As Irvine recalled much later: 
{{quote box|border=none|fontsize=90%|quote=
There was a pub quite near the BBC called The George [...] and all these intellectual people would drink in there and I would hang out with them. Louis would be talking to other famous poets and playwrights and I wouldn't really understand a lot of the conversation, but I'd be hanging on every word. I was much taken with Louis' secretary [...] I used to go and visit her in Louis' office in the afternoons [which] he spent in the [[British Museum Reading Room]].
|salign=right|source=—Andy Irvine, ''The Humours of Planxty'' by Leagues O'Toole.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|41}}
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However, Irvine would give up acting in his early twenties, after moving to [[Dublin]] at the end of his time with the 'Rep'.

==Influences==

===Music===
Irvine loved music from the earliest time he could remember. His mother had a stack of old, cracked [[78s]] that he used to play on a [[Phonograph|wind-up gramophone]]. "They were mainly songs from long forgotten musical comedies but I wish I had them now."<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|36}}<ref name="Irvine1"/> At thirteen, he studied classical guitar for two years,<ref name="Irvine1"/> initially with [[Julian Bream]] and later under one of Bream's pupils<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|36}} but switched to [[folk music]] after discovering [[Woody Guthrie]] during the [[Skiffle]] boom of the 1950s.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|39}}

Guthrie was to become an enduring influence on his music, on his choice of additional instruments ([[mandolin]] and harmonica) and general outlook on life.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|38–40}} In a 1985 interview, Irvine expanded on how, in the mid-1950s, he discovered Woody Guthrie through [[Lonnie Donegan]]'s recordings on the [[Extended play|EP]]s ''Backstairs Session''<ref name="Irvine1"/><ref name="Harper">{{cite book
 |last= Harper
 |first= Colin
 |year= 2006
 |orig-year= First published 2000
 |edition= 2nd revised
 |title= Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival
 |location= London
 |publisher= Bloomsbury Publishing
 |isbn= 0-7475-8725-6
}}</ref>{{rp|37}}<ref name="LDEPBackstairsSN">{{cite web
 |url= http://www.45cat.com/record/nje1014
 |title=Backstairs Session (1956)
 |access-date= 27 January 2017
}}</ref> and ''Skiffle Session'':<ref name="Irvine1"/><ref name="LDEPSkiffle">{{cite web
 |url= http://www.discogs.com/Lonnie-Donegan-Skiffle-Group-Skiffle-Session/release/872239
 |title= Skiffle Session (1956)
 |website= [[Discogs]]
 |access-date= 27 January 2017
}}</ref>

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He had two EPs and I thought: 'That's it!' – "Midnight Special", "It Takes A Worried Man", "Railroad Bill" and "When The Sun Goes Down". On the back of the jacket, I read that Donegan learned these wonderful songs from the recordings of Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston. This fired my youthful imagination and I wanted so badly to hear the originals. [...] In 1957, [I got] this record called ''More Songs By Woody Guthrie And Cisco Houston''<ref>''More Songs By Woody Guthrie And Cisco Houston'', Melodisc Records Ltd MLP12-106, 1955.</ref><ref name="FR340">"I saw this yellow 12" LP in the window of [[Melodisc Records]] in Earlham Street off [[Shaftesbury Avenue]]." ''Rocket Launcher'', an interview with Irvine in ''Folk Roots'' No.340, October 2011.</ref>{{rp|19}} and it blew my mind. Eventually, I bought Woody Guthrie's ''[[Dust Bowl Ballads]]'', the original 78s, in mint condition for $40 each. I used to sit all day, alone, and listen to Woody Guthrie and practise. I was playing with my thumb. I didn't know anything about a [[plectrum|flatpick]], but I could do the best imitation of Woody. I wanted to play every instrument he played. That's why I took up the harmonica and mandolin. When I discovered Irish and British music, I figured out how to adapt my basic Woody Guthrie [[Carter Family picking|'scratch']] style on guitar to playing traditional songs on the mandolin.
|salign=right|source=—Andy Irvine, ''Celtic Roots... Dustbowl Inspiration'' by Joe Vanderford.<ref name="Frets"/>{{rp|20–23}}
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In May 1959,<ref name="Harper" />{{rp|38}} Irvine began frequenting the Ballads and Blues Club—started at the [[Princess Louise, Holborn|Princess Louise]] pub in [[High Holborn]] by [[Ewan MacColl]] in 1957<ref name="Kearney">{{cite web
 |last= Kearney
 |first= Jeremy
 |title= Review: The People's Music 
 |date= 3 June 2014
 |url= http://www.drb.ie/contributors-articles/the-people-s-music
 }}
 Page at the Dublin Review of Books website. Retrieved 16 June 2015.</ref>—which, by September 1959, had moved to 2, [[Soho Square]] under the sole leadership of Malcolm Nixon.<ref name="Harper" />{{rp|37}} American folk musicians who had been closely associated with Guthrie would perform there: [[Ramblin' Jack Elliott]], [[Derroll Adams]] and [[Cisco Houston]]; Irvine befriended all three of them, particularly Elliott, who taught him how to play the harmonica in Guthrie's style:
{{quote box|border=none|fontsize=90%|quote=
Ramblin' Jack Elliott [...] gave me the crucial information that Woody Guthrie used to play the harp upside down!! Apparently so did the southern blues players of that period. There is no dis/advantage in this but I'm glad I learned to play it upside down like Woody!
|salign=right|source=—Andy Irvine, ''Andy's Instruments''.<ref name="AIMyInstruments"/>
}}{{clear}}

After locating Guthrie at [[Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital]] in [[Morristown, New Jersey]], Irvine began corresponding with Sid Gleason who, with her husband Bob, would take Guthrie out of hospital and entertain him at weekends.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|38–40}} She was the first person to call him "Andy", and thereafter remained a conduit between him and Guthrie.<ref name="AIat60">[http://www.folkworld.de/23/e/andy.html ''Andy Irvine at 60''] By Susanne Kalweit, in ''FolkWorld''. Retrieved 28 December 2013.</ref>

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The Gleasons got me a job at a petrol station in [[East Orange, New Jersey]], but then I got invited on to the BBC Radio Rep and couldn't get out of it. I did that for a couple of years and grew out of the desire to be a petrol pump attendant at East Orange, New Jersey.
|salign=right|source=—Andy Irvine, ''The Greeking of the Irish'' by Colin Irwin<ref name="FR390">''The Greeking of the Irish'', by Colin Irwin in ''Folk Roots'' No.390, December 2015.</ref>{{rp|29}}
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During 1959, Irvine and Elliott also recorded audio tapes to send Guthrie and, after recording one of Guthrie's songs, Elliott exclaimed: "Andy, you sound more like Woody than I do!", just as Guthrie had once said to Elliott: "Jack, you sound more like me than I do!".<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|39–40}} However, Irvine's dream to join Guthrie in the States eventually faded when his mother died in 1961.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|41}}

In 1991, Irvine wrote his tribute song to Woody Guthrie: "Never Tire of the Road", first released on the solo album ''[[Rude Awakening (Andy Irvine album)|Rude Awakening]]''.<ref name="RudeAwakeningSN">Sleeve notes from ''Andy Irvine – Rude Awakening'', Green Linnet GLCD 1114, 1991.</ref> He recorded it again for the album ''[[Rain on the Roof (Andy Irvine album)|Rain on the Roof]]'', released in 1996, after including another verse plus the chorus from a song Guthrie recorded in March 1944: "[[Woody Guthrie discography#The Martins and the Coys: A Contemporary Folk Tale|You Fascists Are Bound to Lose]]".<ref name="RainRoofSN"/>

In a 2000 interview,<ref name="FR208">''Way Out There'', by Colin Harper in ''Folk Roots'' No.208, October 2000.</ref>{{rp|14}} Irvine stated: "I never met Woody, but I corresponded with him in [[Woody Guthrie#Deteriorating health due to Huntington's|hospital]].{{refn|group=note|Irvine's letters to Guthrie are catalogued (alphabetical order) in "S2 Box 2 – Folder(s) 01/-02/-03 (1959 – June 1960)" among the [http://woodyguthriecenter.org/archives/collection/correspondence/#series-2-correspondence-2-woody-guthrie-8211-incoming-correspondence ''Series 2 (Correspondence-2): Woody Guthrie – Incoming Correspondence''] of the ''Correspondence Collection'' in the ''Woody Guthrie Archives'' at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, OK.}} [...] The kind of values that Woody represented are one of my great passions."

===Social justice===
Irvine is a card-carrying member of the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] (the 'Wobblies'),<ref name="AIat60"/> with an avowed commitment to social justice. For example, by championing the life, social activism and energetic organising leadership of [[Mary Harris Jones]] ('Mother Jones') about whom he wrote a song, "The Spirit of Mother Jones", which he recorded and released on his 2010 album ''[[Abocurragh]]''.<ref name="GuardianAbo">[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/dec/23/andy-irvine-abocurragh-album-review Andy Irvine: ''Abocurragh''.] Review by Robin Denselow in ''The Guardian'' (23 December 2010). Retrieved 27 July 2013</ref> On 1 August 2012, Irvine performed in [[Shandon, Cork|Shandon]], County Cork, for the inaugural ''Mother Jones Festival'' which celebrated the 175th Anniversary of the birth of Mary Harris; he performed at the Festival again on 1 August 2013.<ref name="MotherJones">[http://motherjonescork.com/2013/04/24/cork-city-declares-august-1st-as-mother-jones-day/ ''Cork City declares August 1st as Mother Jones Day''.] 'Announcement' Page at the Cork Mother Jones Festival website (24 April 2013). Retrieved 27 July 2013</ref>

Like other artists contracted to perform at Féile Iorrais (a community festival in [[Erris]]) in August 2007, Irvine was disgusted to learn that [[Royal Dutch Shell]] were partly sponsoring the events. Shell's plans for the [[Corrib gas project]] have been the subject of [[Corrib gas controversy|controversy]] in County Mayo. Irvine pledged to donate part of his fee to the [[Shell to Sea]] campaign.<ref name="AIDonation">"Andy Irvine has pledged to donate some of his fee to Shell to Sea, a massive gesture for which we are hugely grateful." [http://www.indymedia.ie/article/83550?search_text=RAR&comment_order=desc&userlanguage=ga&save_prefs=true ''Changed perspectives''] By Fearbolg – S2S, in ''indymedia Ireland'', 31 July 2007, at 22:45. Retrieved 28 December 2013.</ref>

==Music career==
===1960s: Dublin, Sweeney's Men, Eastern Europe===
====Move to Dublin and transition from acting to folk music====
In 1962, when his two-year contract with the BBC's 'Rep' ended,<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|41}} Irvine moved to Dublin and continued earning a living as an actor for a while, playing at [[Olympia Theatre (Dublin)|The Olympia]], [[Gaiety Theatre, Dublin|The Gaiety]], [[Gate Theatre|The Gate]] and [[Eblana Theatre|The Eblana]]. He also performed at the [[Pike Theatre]], where he played the role of Jerry as one of only two actors in [[Edward Albee]]'s ''[[The Zoo Story]]'', and where he also appeared as [[Tethra]] (the Irish god of war) in ''[[Cath Maige Tuired|Moytura]]'' by [[Pádraic Colum]], during the [[Dublin Theatre Festival]] in 1963.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|42}}<ref name="Moytura1963">[https://dublintheatrefestival.com/Online/Archive?menu_id=9E606D3E-5A21-448B-953B-A6C0EE2703E2&sToken=1%2C64177c26%2C55881d5d%2CA06196B2-B8C8-4FA9-802E-30DEB45FB658%2CraLJkscAH0DlTi96NrwxhhyueIg%3D#DTF1963 ''Moytura'', by Padraic Colum.] Review at the Dublin Theatre Festival Archives (24 September – 6 October), published at the Dublin Theatre Festival website. Retrieved 22 June 2015.</ref> In late 1963, he had a part in a few episodes of ''Down at Flannery's'',<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|42}}<ref name="BFIDAF">[https://web.archive.org/web/20160919160528/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4f4bab3103662 ''Down at Flannery's''.] Page at the BFI (British Film Institute) website. Retrieved 12 August 2016.</ref> a forerunner of the popular [[RTÉ]] soap''[[Tolka Row]]''<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|42}} in which he appeared for five episodes in the role of Jim "Beardie" Toomey, the boyfriend of Laurie Morton's character, Peggy Kinnear.<ref name="AITolkaRow">
{{cite AV media
 | people = Andy Irvine and Dónal Lunny (Interview)
 | title = ''The Business'', with Richard Curran.
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 | medium = Podcast
 | publisher = RTÉ Radio 1
 | location = Dublin
 | date = 20 December 2014}} 
Retrieved on 1 June 2015.</ref> One of his last acting performances was at the Olympia Theatre on 28 September 1964 as Sir Peregrine in ''Sir Buccaneer'', a musical by G.P. Gallivan.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|42}}<ref name="AISirB">[http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1819 ''Sir Buccaneer''.] Page in ''Playography Ireland'' database at the Irish Theatre Institute website. Retrieved 3 June 2015</ref>

However, he very quickly noticed that a burgeoning folk scene was emerging, centred around the [[Baggot Street]]–Merrion quarter of Dublin's city centre. "As soon as I found my feet there, I thought, 'That's it, goodbye acting!{{' "}}.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|42–43}} After discovering Irish music through [[Séamus Ennis]] on [[Peter Douglas Kennedy|Peter Kennedy]]'s BBC programme ''As I Roved Out''<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|41}} and through [[Ciarán Mac Mathúna]] on [[RTÉ Radio|Raidió Éireann]],<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|44}} Irvine studiously spent many hours at the [[National Library of Ireland|National Library]], scouring old songbooks like the [[Child Ballads]] and [[Sam Henry (musicologist)|Sam Henry]]'s ''[[Sam Henry (musicologist)#Songs of the People|Songs of the People]]'',<ref name="Henry">{{cite book
 |editor1-last= Huntington
 |editor1-first= Gale
 |editor2-last= Herrmann
 |editor2-first= Lani
 |editor3-last= Moulden
 |editor3-first= John
 |year= 2010
 |title= Sam Henry's Songs of the People
 |location= Athens, GA and London
 |publisher= The University of Georgia Press
 |isbn= 978-0-8203-3625-1
}}</ref> as well as [[A.L. Lloyd]]'s ''Penguin Book of English Folk Songs''.<ref name="PBoEFS">{{cite book
 |editor1-last= Williams
 |editor1-first= R. Vaughan
 |editor2-last= Lloyd
 |editor2-first= Albert Lancaster
 |year= 1959
 |title= Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
 |location= Harmondsworth
 |publisher= Penguin Books
 |isbn= 0-14-011635-4
}}</ref> He also drew inspiration from Ewan MacColl, notably the songs he wrote for his [[radio-ballad]]s.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|44}}

Gravitating around Paddy and Maureen [[O'Donoghue's Pub]],<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|42–45}}<ref name="culture2012">[http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article/4941/music-review-andy-irvine-and-friends ''Andy Irvine and Friends''.] Review (unsigned) of a performance by LAPD, published at the Culture Northern Ireland website. Retrieved 24 July 2013</ref> Irvine met like-minded people such as [[Ronnie Drew]], [[Luke Kelly]] and [[Barney McKenna]], who would later form [[The Dubliners]]. Decades later, he recorded "O'Donoghue's"—released on the album ''[[Changing Trains]]'' (2004)—a song of eleven verses in which he vividly recalls these happy times, naming many of the people who were part of his transition from actor to folk musician.<ref name="MozaikCTSN" />

====Sweeney's Men – ''Sweeney's Men''====
One of these people was Johnny Moynihan, with whom he created a musical partnership which turned into [[Sweeney's Men]] in the summer of 1966, after the addition of [['Galway Joe' Dolan]].<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|63–77}}<ref name="Harper2">[http://www.colin-harper.com/journalism/sweeneys-men/ ''Sweeney's Men''.] Online article by Colin Harper, 2001. Retrieved 24 July 2013</ref><ref name="MiriamMeetsSM">{{cite AV media
 |people= Sweeney's Men (Interview)
 |title= The John Murray Show with Miriam / Music & Chat with Sweeney's Men.
 |url= http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9%3A20462021%3A4502%3A%3A
 |medium= Podcast
 |publisher= RTÉ Radio 1
 |location= Dublin
 |date= 28 October 2013
 |access-date= 15 December 2013 
}}</ref> To quote [[Colin Irwin (journalist)|Colin Irwin]]: "They merged the familiar American folk style so popular in the early sixties with a distinctively home-grown Irish flavour; it was not Irish music but it was real and exciting, it had verve, imagination and style."<ref name="Irwin">{{cite book
 |last= Irwin
 |first= Colin
 |year= 2003
 |title= In Search of the Craíc
 |location= London
 |publisher= André Deutsch
 |isbn= 0-233-00004-6
}}</ref>{{rp|35}} A distinctive aspect of the Sweeney's Men sound was Moynihan's introduction of the [[Irish bouzouki|bouzouki]]—originally a Greek [[bouzouki|instrument]]—into Irish music, albeit with a different tuning: GDAD'<ref name="Walsh" />{{rp|15}} (one octave lower than the [[Mandolin#Ireland|open-tuned mandolin]]), instead of the modern Greek tuning of CFAD'.<ref name="Walsh" />{{rp|5}}

In 1996, Irvine wrote:
{{quote box|border=none|fontsize=90%|quote=
A lot of early Sweeney influence came from the recordings of [[Old-time music|Old Timey]] American musicians from the twenties and thirties. Johnny and I tried to emulate [[Five-string banjo|5-string banjos]] and mountainy fiddles on our open-tuned mandolins and bouzoukis. Later, after being strongly affected by [[Charles Parker (producer)|Charles Parker]]'s BBC Radio Ballads with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger–notably ''Singing The Fishing''<ref name="SingingFishing">''Singing The Fishing – Various Artists'', Topic Records TSCD803, 1960.</ref>–we began to incorporate this style into Irish and Scottish songs. [...] The bouzouki-mandolin interplay, which later became a strong feature of Planxty, was "invented" one evening in Johnny's family kitchen in [[Phibsborough|Dalymount]], Dublin, as we strove to find an accompaniment for ''Rattlin' Roarin' Willy''.
|salign=right|source=—Andy Irvine, Sleeve notes from ''Sweeney's Men'' Two-in-One compilation CD.<ref name="IrvineSMCD">Sleeve notes from ''Sweeney's Men'' Two-in-One compilation CD, Castle Communications Plc, ESM CD 435, 1996.</ref>
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While in the process of adopting the itinerant lifestyle of a musician, Irvine developed a taste for travel, initially within Ireland. The first time he witnessed [[Willie Clancy (musician)|Willie Clancy]] playing his [[uilleann pipes]] was at a [[fleadh]] in [[Miltown Malbay]] in the summer of 1963, and he followed the festival trail in Ireland during the summers of 1964, 1965 and 1966.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|65}} Irvine also returned regularly to London for short stays of a few weeks or months,<ref name="Harper"/>{{rp|158,341}} and ventured further afield across Europe, hitch-hiking to [[Munich]], Vienna and Rome in the autumn of 1965.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|65}} In early 1966, he was playing the clubs in [[Denmark]] with [[Éamonn O'Doherty (sculptor)|Éamonn O'Doherty]].<ref name="Irvine3">[http://www.andyirvine.com/bio/chapter3.html ''Biography'' – Chapter 3.] Page at Andy Irvine's website. Retrieved 2 July 2015</ref> In June 1966, Irvine and Dolan played five nights a week as a duo at the Enda Hotel in [[Galway]] and Moynihan would join them at weekends, since he was still working as a [[Drafter|draughtsman]] in [[Roscommon]].<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|66}} It was at this time that Dolan suggested the band's name, after reading [[Brian O'Nolan|Flann O'Brien]]'s comic novel ''[[At Swim-Two-Birds]]'', which depicts the mad, anti-religious, tree-leaping pagan [[Buile Shuibhne|King Sweeney]] of Antrim.<ref name="O'Toole" />{{rp|66}}

In a 2005 interview, Irvine added:
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Sweeney's Men was a great learning period for me. In the early days, playing with Johnny and Joe Dolan (from Galway) I was quite new to playing with other musicians and found it tremendously exciting. That first summer of 1966 was idyllic – the kind of life I had dreamed of. The only thing that could have made it better would have been [[Freighthopping|freight trains]]!!
|salign=right|source=—Andy Irvine, ''Sweet Combinations of Sound – Irish Folk Legend Andy Irvine'' by Kevin Moist.<ref name="DWAcres">{{cite web
 |last= Moist
 |first= Kevin
 |title= Sweet Combinations of Sound – Irish Folk Legend Andy Irvine
 |url= http://www.dwacres.com/node/102
 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150403043809/http://www.dwacres.com/node/102
 |archive-date= 3 April 2015
 |url-status= dead
 |website= Deep Water Acres
 |access-date= 2 April 2015
}}</ref>
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The trio recorded their first single "Old Maid in the Garrett"/"[[The Derby Ram]]" for [[Pye Records]] at [[Eamonn Andrews Studios]] in the spring of 1967.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|71}} The week the single was in the Irish charts, Dolan departed for [[Israel]] and the [[Six-Day War]]<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|72}} "but it took him a year to get down there",<ref name="Moore">{{cite book
 |last= Moore
 |first= Christy
 |year= 2003
 |orig-year= First published 2000
 |edition = 2nd revised
 |title= One Voice
 |location= London
 |publisher= Lir/Hodder and Stoughton
 |isbn= 978-0-340-83073-4
}}</ref>{{rp|91}} and was replaced by [[Terry Woods]] – later of [[Steeleye Span]] and [[The Pogues]].<ref name="MiriamMeetsSM"/>

In early 1968, the new line-up recorded the eponymous album, ''[[Sweeney's Men (album)|Sweeney's Men]]'',<ref name="SMLP">''Sweeney's Men'' LP, Transatlantic Records Ltd, TRA SAM 37, 1968.</ref> produced by [[Bill Leader]] at [[Livingston Recording Studios|Livingston Studios]], [[Chipping Barnet|Barnet]].<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|75}} In addition to playing either guitar, mandolin or harmonica on most tracks,<ref name="SMLPSN">Sleeve notes from ''Sweeney's Men'' LP, Transatlantic Records Ltd, TRA SAM 37, 1968.</ref> Irvine contributed four songs: "Sally Brown", "[[Willie o Winsbury|Willy O' Winsbury]]", "[[When the Boat Comes In (song)|Dance to Your Daddy]]", and "[[Fox hunting|Reynard The Fox]]".<ref name="SMLPSN"/>

He also played Moynihan's bouzouki—for the first time on a recording—on the track "Johnston".<ref name="FR390"/>{{rp|26}}<ref name="SMLPSN"/>

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Playing bouzouki on "Johnston" is when I decided I wanted one of those. It was different. I was playing mandolin and this had a bit more depth of tone, it was that bit deeper. [...] I decided I had to go to Greece to buy one.
|salign=right|source=—Andy Irvine, ''The Greeking of the Irish'' by Colin Irwin.<ref name="FR390" />{{rp|26}}
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Irvine wrote his first song, "West Coast of Clare", in the late summer of 1968, around the time Sweeney's Men were playing one of their last shows in [[Quilty, County Clare]]. "It was actually written with a Danish girl called Birte in mind, but [...] it very quickly became a memory of great times in Clare.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|141}} I started the song in County Clare and finished it in [[Ljubljana]], [[Yugoslavia]],<ref name="Irvine">{{cite book
 |last= Irvine
 |first= Andy
 |year= 1988
 |title= Aiming for the Heart
 |location= Germany
 |publisher= Heupferd Musik Verlag GmbH
 |isbn= 3-923445-01-6
}}</ref>{{rp|10}} in August or September 1968."<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|141}}

Irvine left Sweeney's Men after a final performance at [[Liberty Hall]] in Dublin, where he played the first half of the set with Moynihan and Woods before making way for his replacement, [[Henry McCullough]], who played the second half.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|75–76}}

====Discovering Eastern Europe and Bulgarian folk music====
In the late summer of 1968, Irvine and his first wife Muriel<ref name="FR390" />{{rp|26}} headed off to Eastern Europe and the [[Balkans]].
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I kind of remembered that, as a stamp collector, I had liked [[Postage stamps and postal history of Bulgaria|Bulgarian stamps]] because they had a [[Cyrillic script|weird script]]. And, of course, I had left-wing leanings. Also, nobody went there. So, I decided to go. It was 1968 and, looking back on it, that became a period where a lot of people decided to broaden their horizons.|salign=right|source=—Andy Irvine, ''The Humours of Planxty'' by Leagues O'Toole.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|76–77}}
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He later wrote several songs about his experiences there: 
*"Time Will Cure Me",<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|18–20}} which he recorded in 1973 with Planxty on the album ''[[The Well Below the Valley (album)|The Well Below the Valley]]'';<ref name="Well">''Planxty – The Well Below The Valley'', Polydor 2383 232, 1973.</ref>
*"[[Băneasa Forest|Băneasă's Green Glade]]",<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|98–100}} which he recorded in 1974 with Planxty on the album ''[[Cold Blow and the Rainy Night]]'';<ref name="Cold">''Planxty – Cold Blow and the Rainy Night'', Polydor 2442 130, 1974.</ref> 
*"Autumn Gold",<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|29–30}} which he recorded in 1976 with Paul Brady on their duo album, ''[[Andy Irvine/Paul Brady]]''<ref>''Andy Irvine/Paul Brady'', Mulligan LUN 008, 1976.</ref> and 
*"Rainy Sundays",<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|72–76}} which he recorded in 1980 on his debut solo album, ''[[Rainy Sundays... Windy Dreams (album)|Rainy Sundays... Windy Dreams]]''.<ref name="RSWDLP">''Andy Irvine – Rainy Sundays... Windy Dreams'' LP, Tara Records TARA 3002, 1980.</ref>

During a series of [[hitch-hiking]] journeys across [[Slovenia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] and [[Romania]],<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|79–80}}<ref name="FR390" />{{rp|26}} Irvine discovered the region's [[Music of Southeastern Europe|folk music]] styles and was particularly attracted to the [[Music of Bulgaria|Bulgarian tradition]].<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|80}} In a 1992 interview, he related the moment he first heard Bulgarian folk music:{{quote box|border=none|fontsize=90%|quote=
One day a lorry gave us a lift and the guy turned on the radio and this fantastic music came on and I thought: 'I know what that is and it's great!' So every time I was in a city or town I'd find the local music shop and go and buy records. [...] I loved the music but I didn't quite understand it [...] so it wasn't until I got home and listened to the records that I thought 'Oh, I see what they're doing!' After that, I was hooked...
|salign=right|source=—Andy Irvine, ''Eastern Promise'' by Colin Irwin.<ref name="FR110">''Eastern Promise'', by Colin Irwin in ''Folk Roots'' No.110, August 1992.</ref>{{rp|29}}
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This lasting fascination with Bulgarian folk music would inform several of his later projects—first with Planxty, then in the recording of [[Andy Irvine (musician)#Rainy Sundays... Windy Dreams|his first solo album]] (1980) and of the album ''[[Andy Irvine (musician)#East Wind|East Wind]]'' (1992), and also with the creation of two multicultural, similarly named bands: [[Andy Irvine & Dónal Lunny's Mozaik#The first 'Mosaic' (1984-85)|Mosaic]] (1984–85) and [[Andy Irvine & Dónal Lunny's Mozaik#The second 'Mozaik' (2002-present day)|Mozaik]] (2002–present day).<ref name="AIThistleRadio">{{cite web
 |last= Ritchie
 |first= Fiona
 |title= Andy Irvine Interview: Life on the road, Balkan music, East Wind, Riverdance, Mosaic and Mozaik. (Perthshire, 2005)
 |url= http://www.thistleradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75:andy-irvine&catid=41:archived-interview-transcripts&Itemid=69
 |website= thistleradio.com 
 |access-date= 20 November 2014
 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141225010608/http://www.thistleradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75:andy-irvine&catid=41:archived-interview-transcripts&Itemid=69
 |archive-date= 25 December 2014
 |url-status= dead
 }}</ref> In turn, Irvine's integration of characteristic elements of Bulgarian folk music into his playing, such as [[Music of Bulgaria#Asymmetric meters|asymmetric rhythms]], would also have a profound influence on the sound of contemporary Irish music, including—via Bill Whelan—the original ''[[Riverdance]]'' score.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|296–300}}<ref name="AIThistleRadio"/><ref name="O'Cinnéide">{{cite book
 |last= O'Cinnéide
 |first= Barra
 |year= 2002
 |title= Riverdance: The Phenomenon
 |location= Ireland
 |publisher= Blackhall Publishing
 |isbn= 1-901657-90-6
}}</ref>{{rp|75}}<ref name="FR153">''Heading East'', by Colin Irwin in ''Folk Roots'' No.153, March 1996.</ref>{{rp|39–41}}

He also went to [[Thessaloniki]], a [[Macedonia (Greece)|Greek-Macedonian]] town near the Bulgarian border, to buy a bouzouki: 
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The fascist [[Greek military junta of 1967–74|colonels]] were in power in Greece. The army had taken over and it was a very right wing government so I didn't really want to go to Greece, but I really wanted a bouzouki. [...] I had a great desire not to aid the fascist colonels in any way by leaving any money in Greece, so we went to the hospital, [...] gave our blood and got 400 [[Modern drachma|drachmas]] each [...]. We found this shop with loads of bouzoukis which cost between 500 and 5,000 drachmas. So, I was trying them out and there was one for 800 drachmas which was about £100 then and it seemed OK. |salign=right|source=—Andy Irvine, ''The Greeking of the Irish'' by Colin Irwin.<ref name="FR390" />{{rp|26}}
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While in Ljubljana, he met Rens van der Zalm,<ref name="RvdZalm">{{cite web
 |title= Biography of Rens van der Zalm 
 |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025101/http://www.andyirvine.com/promo/rens-bio.html
 |date= 4 March 2015
 |website= andyirvine.com
 |access-date= 3 April 2016
}}</ref> a young, classically trained violinist from the [[Netherlands]] who also played guitar, mandolin, piano, accordion and tin whistle, and who was one of the founders of the Dutch folk group Fungus. They would later join forces in several of Irvine's projects.<ref name="AIThistleRadio"/><ref name="FR295">''Transnational...'', by Geoff Wallis in ''Folk Roots'' No.295/296, Jan/Feb 2008.</ref>{{rp|67–69}}

When he returned to Dublin in the autumn of 1969,<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|81}} Sweeney's Men—now reduced to Moynihan and Woods—was breaking up and Irvine played a final gig with them at [[Nottingham]] [[University of Nottingham|University]] in October or November 1969.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|82}}

===1970s: Duo with Dónal Lunny, ''Prosperous'', Planxty, duos with Paul Brady and Mick Hanly===

====Duo with Dónal Lunny – "The Blacksmith"====
After the demise of Sweeney's Men, a new Irish-English folk super-group was almost formed in 1970, with Irvine, Moynihan, Woods and his wife [[Gay Woods|Gay]], plus ex-[[Fairport Convention]] [[Ashley Hutchings]] joining on bass guitar, but this never happened.<ref name="O'Toole" />{{rp|82}}

For a while, Irvine performed regularly at Slattery's Pub on Capel Street. Then, he met Dónal Lunny, with whom he formed a duo after an initial gig at a party for the Irish-Soviet Union Friendship conference organised by [[Seán Mac Réamoinn]]:<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|84}}<ref name="MiriamMeetsLAPD"/>
{{quote box|border=none|fontsize=90%|quote=
Ten minutes before we went on, we arranged two pieces, one of which was "Reynard The Fox" and probably Dónal's [...] "When First unto this Country". [...] We went on stage and he was the best musician I had played with up to that point, and the quickest.<br>I saw the speed at which Dónal picked up on the way I was doing something and that was the first insight I had into what a great musician he was.
|salign=right|source=—Andy Irvine, ''The Humours of Planxty'' by Leagues O'Toole.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|84}}
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Says Leagues O'Toole: "This partnership also furthered the presence of the bouzouki in Irish music. Just as Johnny Moynihan had introduced the instrument to Andy Irvine, he in turn passed it on to Dónal Lunny".<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|85}} As Lunny himself recalled:
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Andy had loads of instruments [...] like the [[kaval]], the [[gadulka]], instruments I'd never seen.  One day I started playing the bouzouki and I really liked the sound of it. Because there were four pairs of strings, the chords were kind of easy. And even though it was upside down for me, I could still get chords out of it and I just really loved it. And Andy said, "Ah, take it home with you, the strings are very slack for me." So he just gave it to me. Brilliant! That was the round-bodied Greek bouzouki and [it] became the thing I used most. [...] Andy at that time played more mandolin than bouzouki, so it was a good combination between the pair of us anyway.
|salign=right|source=—Dónal Lunny, ''The Humours of Planxty'' by Leagues O'Toole.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|85}}
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In a 2015 interview, Irvine added his recollection of that event: 
{{quote box|border=none|fontsize=90%|quote=
It was just before Planxty. Dónal just played guitar then but he came round to my place and there was this bouzouki there and he picked it up and started playing it immediately, even though it was right-handed and he was left-handed. I thought 'Wow, that's a talent I haven't seen before.' And he was saying 'This is great, I need to get one of these' and by that time I'd gone off the bouzouki because I thought the strings were a little slack and I'd gone back to the mandolin so I said 'Have it' and I gave it to him.
|salign=right|source=—Andy Irvine, ''The Greeking of the Irish'' by Colin Irwin.<ref name="FR390" />{{rp|26}}
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They also created their own club night, downstairs at Slattery's Pub, which they called 'The Mug's Gig'. This featured Irvine and Lunny, and guest performers such as [[Ronnie Drew]], [[Mellow Candle]], and the group Supply, Demand & Curve.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|95–96}} [[Clodagh Simonds]], who co-founded Mellow Candle with [[Alison O'Donnell (musician)|Alison O'Donnell]] in 1963,<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|96}} recalls:
{{quote box|border=none|fontsize=90%|quote=The place was always packed, and the atmosphere was amazing. I think one of the reasons it all felt so exciting was that you couldn't but be aware that they really were breaking new ground, even before Planxty formed. Something very powerful was germinating. The intricacy and the rhythmic complexity of their arrangements was something really fresh and unheard of – they were literally blowing the dust and cobwebs off some of that material and giving it this sparkling, dancing new life. It was exhilarating to witness – no other word.|salign=right|source=—Clodagh Simonds, ''The Humours of Planxty'' by Leagues O'Toole.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|97}}
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By that time, Irvine had put together his own version of "[[Blacksmith (song)|The Blacksmith]]", followed by a self-penned [[Coda (music)|coda]]<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|81}}—in the Bulgarian rhythm of {{music|time|5|8}}—which would later be given the title of "Blacksmithereens" by Christy Moore, at a Planxty concert in 1973.<ref name="AI70CDSN">Sleeve notes from ''Andy Irvine 70th Birthday Concert at Vicar St 2012'', Andy Irvine AK-5, 2014.</ref>

====Christy Moore – ''Prosperous''====
Before too long, Irvine and Lunny participated in a project that would lead to their big break. Moore, who had moved to England during the [[Irish bank strikes (1966–76)|National Bank Strike of 1966]],<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|54}} had become an established musician in the English folk music scene and even recorded his first album (''[[Paddy on the Road]]'') there, in 1969, at the [[Sound Techniques]] studio in Chelsea.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|58–59}}

After that, he decided to record his second album in Ireland and his guest musicians included Irvine, Lunny, and [[uilleann pipe]]r [[Liam O'Flynn]]. The album, ''[[Prosperous (album)|Prosperous]]'',<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|86–91}} was recorded by Bill Leader who had brought his mobile recording unit (a [[Revox]] tape machine and two microphones<ref name="Irwin"/>{{rp|35}}) to Ireland in the summer of 1971.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|86}} Rehearsals took place at Irvine's flat in Dublin and the recordings were made in [[Prosperous, County Kildare]], down in the cellar of Downings House, owned by Moore's sister and brother-in-law, Anne and Davoc Rynne.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|87–88}}

In his annotated book of songs, first published in 2000, Moore recalls:
{{quote box|border=none|fontsize=90%|quote=
It was a magical time. The music was fresh and it sparkled. Every day brought new fun as we rollicked about Pat Dowling's pub and then up to Rynne's cellar to lay down another track. [...] I was jubilant to be playing with Dónal, Andy and Liam and their enthusiasm showed the feelings were mutual.|salign=right|source=—Christy Moore, ''One Voice''.<ref name="Moore"/>{{rp|334}}
}}

In the words of Colin Irwin:{{quote box|border=none|fontsize=90%|quote=''Prosperous'' took the suggestions offered by Sweeney's Men and sprinted off with them. [...] Here, Liam O'Flynn's dexterous pipering merged blissfully with Andy Irvine's mandolin and Dónal Lunny's rhythmic bouzouki to form a complex, beautiful diversion for the voice of Christy Moore.
|salign=right|source=—Colin Irwin, ''In Search of the Craíc''.<ref name="Irwin"/>{{rp|35–36}}
}}{{clear}}

This was released as an album by Moore, but the four musicians soon thereafter formed Planxty in January 1972, to be managed by Des Kelly.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|99}}<ref name="Moore"/>{{rp|21}}

====Planxty====
After honing their live set at Slattery's, they played two concerts, afternoon and evening, at [[Newbridge College]] on Thursday, 16 March 1972. [[Donovan]] was in the audience and invited Planxty to open for him on his six-date Irish tour the following week, during which their first major performance—at the Hangar in [[Galway]]—was a huge success.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|112–116}} Neither the audience nor the band knew what to expect, and both were pleasantly surprised. Irvine, unable to see the audience through the glare of the stage lights, was worried that the crowd might be on the verge of rioting. It took him several minutes to realise that what he was hearing was the expression of their enthusiastic response to the band's music.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|112}} On 21 April 1972, Planxty embarked on their first tour of England, which had been booked previously by Moore, and played small folk clubs in [[Manchester]], [[Bolton]], [[Leeds]], [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]], [[Barnsley]], [[Blackpool]], [[Newcastle upon Tyne|Newcastle]], [[Chester]] and London, to great acclaim, returning to Ireland in May.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|117,130}}

The group would go on to sign a six-record contract and to tour extensively throughout Europe. They played mostly traditional songs and tunes, but several were Irvine compositions, making him the lone composer of the band. Instrumentally the group was notable for the intricate bouzouki and mandolin [[counterpoint]] of Lunny and Irvine, along with O'Flynn's exceptional pipering; Irvine and Moore (who played guitar) were the principal vocalists. Very quickly, Lunny would also develop into their own in-house producer, arranger and musical director: "It very rapidly established itself that the music demanded to be treated on its own terms. It influenced our arrangements. [...] I think it was unfamiliar to people to hear traditional music with a chassis under it and it still sounds like traditional music."<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|108}}

{{quote box|border=none|fontsize=90%|quote=
Together, they addressed the art of arrangement rather than the formula of genre. And their diversity wasn't just defined by the instrumentation and influences, but also by the variation of time signatures and the creation of counterpoint melodies. They balanced this innovation with a delicate empathy for the music and with old-fashioned musical virtues such as thoughtful singing and intricate playing. As an acoustic band, they generated their own electricity [...], their live shows have a roof-raising dynamic that can match the best rock or electric folk groups.|salign=right|source=—Leagues O'Toole, ''The Humours of Planxty''.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|108}}
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Irvine contributed four songs to their first album, ''[[Planxty (album)|Planxty]]'', recorded at the Command Studios in London during early September 1972 and released in early 1973:<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|130–145}}<ref name="Planxty">''Planxty'', Polydor 2383 186, 1973.</ref> "[[Arthur McBride]]",<ref name="Irvine" />{{rp|13–15}}<ref name="PlanxtySN">Sleeve notes from ''Planxty'', Polydor 2383 186, 1973.</ref> "West Coast of Clare",<ref name="Irvine" />{{rp|10–11}} "[[The Jolly Beggar]]",<ref name="PlanxtySN"/><ref name="Songbook">{{cite book
 |year= 1973
 |title= Planxty (Songbook)
 |location= London
 |publisher= Mews Music
}}</ref>{{rp|26}} and "The Blacksmith".<ref name="PlanxtySN"/><ref name="Songbook"/>{{rp|13}}

Their second album, ''[[The Well Below the Valley (album)|The Well Below The Valley]]'' was recorded at Escape Studios in Kent, England, from 18 June 1973 until the end of the month, and released the same year.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|169–181}} It features three songs by Irvine:<ref name="Well"/> "Pat Reilly",<ref name="Henry"/>{{rp|80–81}}<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|16–17}}<ref name="WellSN">Sleeve notes from ''Planxty – The Well Below The Valley'', Polydor 2383 232, 1973.</ref> "As I Roved Out",<ref name="Songbook"/>{{rp|6–7}}<ref name="WellSN"/> and "Time Will Cure Me".<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|18–20}}<ref name="WellSN"/>

After the completion of this album, Planxty embarked on their first tour of Germany, where the group had become very popular. They also toured extensively in Ireland and were making more frequent trips abroad to festivals in [[Brittany]] and in England, at the [[Durham, England|Durham]] Folk Festival and the [[Cambridge Folk Festival]].<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|182–184}} At the start of September 1973, Lunny resigned after playing his last gig with the band at the [[Edinburgh Festival]]. He was replaced by Johnny Moynihan.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|184–185}}

Rehearsals for Planxty's third album, ''[[Cold Blow and the Rainy Night (album)|Cold Blow and the Rainy Night]]'', began in the summer of 1974 at Moynihan's family summer home in [[Rush, Dublin|Rush]], on the north coast of [[County Dublin]]. At Irvine's behest, Lunny was co-opted back into the band to arrange the selected material and to play on the album,<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|191–192}} which was recorded in Sarm Studios, [[Whitechapel]], London during August 1974 and released the same year.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|193–202}} It includes four pieces by Irvine:<ref name="Cold"/> "[[Hey, Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Waking Yet?|Johnny Cope]]",<ref name="Songbook"/>{{rp|24–25}}<ref name="ColdSN">Sleeve notes from ''Planxty – Cold Blow and the Rainy Night'', Polydor 2442 130, 1974.</ref> "Băneasă's Green Glade",<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|98–100}}<ref name="ColdSN"/> "Mominsko Horo",<ref name="ColdSN"/> and "The Green Fields of Canada".<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|200–201}}<ref name="ColdSN"/>

After the completion of this third album, Moore resigned and was replaced by [[Strabane]] native [[Paul Brady]].<ref name="MiriamMeetsAIPB">{{cite AV media
 |people= Andy Irvine and Paul Brady (Interview)
 |title= Miriam O'Callaghan meets... Paul Brady and Andy Irvine.
 |url= http://www.rte.ie/radio1/miriam-meets/programmes/2012/0422/350853-220412/
 |medium= Podcast
 |publisher= RTÉ Radio 1
 |location= Dublin
 |date= 20 April 2012
 |access-date= 11 October 2013 
}}</ref> The band's new line-up (Irvine, O'Flynn, Moynihan, and Brady) toured extensively but released no recordings, breaking up after playing their final show in [[Brussels]] on 5 December 1975.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|220}}

====Duo with Paul Brady – ''Andy Irvine/Paul Brady''====
Irvine continued to tour with Brady, including a series of concerts in the USA in 1977 (Irvine's first ever visit there) highlighted by a very successful gig at the [[The Town Hall (New York City)|Town Hall]] in New York.<ref name="Irvine5">[http://www.andyirvine.com/bio/chapter5.html ''Biography'' – Chapter 5.] Page at Andy Irvine's website. Retrieved 30 July 2013</ref> Irvine was also invited by [[Alec Finn]] to join [[De Dannan]] after [[Dolores Keane]] had left,<ref name=Irvine5/> but he soon had to relinquish this new venture because of scheduling conflicts.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|243}} Nonetheless, Irvine performed with De Dannan at 'The 3rd Irish Folk Festival' in Germany on 30 April 1976,<ref name="3rdIrishFFSN">Sleeve notes from ''The 3rd Irish Folk Festival in Concert'', InterCord INT 181.008, 1976.</ref> playing "Martinmas Time/Danny O'Brien's Hornpipe", "Maíre Rua/Hardiman The Fiddler", "The Emigrant's Farewell", "The Boys of Ballysodare" and "The Plains of Kildare".<ref name="3rdIrishFF">''The 3rd Irish Folk Festival in Concert'', InterCord INT 181.008, 1976.</ref>

In August 1976, Irvine and Brady recorded an album together at the [[Rockfield Studios]],<ref name=Irvine5/> ''[[Andy Irvine/Paul Brady (album)|Andy Irvine/Paul Brady]]'',<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|243–247}} produced by Lunny who also plays on most tracks, and with Kevin Burke on fiddle; it was released in December 1976 by Mulligan Music Ltd. This album included "Autumn Gold", on which Irvine commented: "Written in Ljubljana in 1968, while sitting in a sunny park, stood up on a date. Waiting, as ever, for Vida."<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|29}} It is the final song of a quartet written during his sojourn in Eastern Europe during 1968–69, after spending several months in the Slovenian capital.<ref name="AIPBSN">Sleeve notes from ''Andy Irvine/Paul Brady'' LP, Mulligan LUN 008, 1976.</ref>

The 40th anniversary of the album's release was celebrated by a tour of Ireland scheduled for May 2017, featuring the original personnel: Irvine, Brady, Lunny and Burke. The tour visited: [[Cork (city)|Cork]], Dublin, Derry, [[Limerick]], [[Galway]] and [[Belfast]].<ref name="AIPB40Tour">{{cite web 
 |title= Andy Irvine & Paul Brady – 40th Anniversary Tour
 |url= http://www.aikenpromotions.com/component/thelist/show/909-andy-irvine-paul-brady-40th-anniversary-tour-live-in-cork-opera-house-cork-Ireland-on-19-May-2017.html?Itemid=909
 |website= aikenpromotions.com
 |access-date= 16 November 2016
}}</ref> During October 2018, the anniversary tour was repeated with one-night concerts in Dublin, Cork, London and [[Prague]].

====Duo with Mick Hanly – ''As I Went Over Blackwater''====
Irvine also toured extensively in Europe with [[Mick Hanly]],<ref name=Irvine5/> including at 'The 4th Irish Folk Festival' in Germany on 30 April 1977.<ref name="4thIrishFFSN">Sleeve notes from ''The 4th Irish Folk Festival on the Road'', InterCord INT 180.038, 1977.</ref> They started their set with Irvine performing a full version of "Johnny Cope": first the song,<ref name="Songbook"/>{{rp|24–25}} followed by the 6-part [[hornpipe]] of the same name, which Irvine played complete on bouzouki. Hanly then sang "A Kiss in the Morning Early". Irvine followed with "Bonny Woodhall", accompanying himself on [[Fylde Guitars|Fylde]] 'Octavius' bouzouki (with the bottom two courses strung in [[octave]]). This recording of "Bonny Woodhall"<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|24–25}} is Irvine's interpretation of "Bonny Woodha{{' "}} (H476 in Sam Henry's ''Songs of the People'')<ref name="Henry" />{{rp|84}} and would later appear as a bonus track on the CD version of ''Rainy Sundays... Windy Dreams''.<ref name="AIRSWDCD">''Andy Irvine – Rainy Sundays... Windy Dreams'' CD, Wundertüte TÜT 72.141, 1989.</ref> Their set ends with Hanly singing "John Barleycorn" and "The Verdant Braes of Skreen".<ref>''The 4th Irish Folk Festival on the Road'', InterCord INT 180.038, 1977.</ref>

The following year, Irvine and Hanly were joined on stage by Liam O'Flynn at 'The 5th Irish Folk Festival' in Germany on 28 April 1978,<ref name="5thIrishFFSN">Sleeve notes from ''The 5th Irish Folk Festival'', InterCord INT 180.046, 1978.</ref> playing "I Buried My Wife And Danced on Top of Her", a jig learnt from uilleann piper Willie Clancy; "Molly Bawn", sung by Hanly (with Irvine on hurdy-gurdy first, then on bouzouki); "Brian O'Lynn/Sean Bun"; "I Courted A Wee Girl"; "The Longford Weaver" sung by Irvine accompanying himself on hurdy-gurdy and harmonica; and "Masters Return/Kittie's Wedding".<ref>''The 5th Irish Folk Festival'', InterCord INT 180.046, 1978.</ref>

Two years later, in 1980, Hanly released his second solo album ''As I Went Over Blackwater'',<ref name="Blackwater">''Mick Hanly – As I Went Over Blackwater'', Mulligan LUN 040, 1980.</ref> featuring Irvine on four tracks: "Jack Haggerty" (harmonicas), "[[HMS Guerriere (1806)|The Guerriere]] and [[USS Constitution|The Constitution]]" (harmony vocals and hurdy-gurdy), "Every Circumstance" (mandolin) and "Miss Bailey/Jessica's Polka" (harmonica).<ref name="BlackwaterSN">Sleeve notes from ''Mick Hanly – As I Went Over Blackwater'', Mulligan LUN 040, 1980.</ref>

====''The Gathering''====
Sometime during 1977, Irvine also recorded ''The Gathering'',<ref name="Gathering">''The Gathering'', Greenhays Recordings GR 705, 1981. Marketed by Flying Fish Inc., Chicago, Ill.</ref> along with Paul Brady, Dónal Lunny, [[Matt Molloy]], [[Tommy Potts]], [[Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill]] and uilleann piper Peter Browne. This album was funded by [[Diane Hamilton|Diane Meek]], a [[Guggenheim family|Guggenheim heiress]] who had used the pseudonym "Hamilton" as her maiden name to disguise her wealth. She was the owner of [[Tradition Records]] and a patron of traditional music in Dublin at the time. She had lent Mulligan Records money in the early days and had also formed a small record label for traditional music called ''Srutháin'' [a stream], on which she had intended to release ''The Gathering''. However, the album was finally released in 1981 on Greenhays, a label connected with [[Rounder Records]].<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|247}}

Irvine contributed two songs to the album: "There's Sure To Be A Row",<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|100–102}}<ref name="GatheringSN">Sleeve notes from ''The Gathering'', Greenhays Recordings GR 705, 1981.</ref> and "The Mall of [[Lismore, County Waterford|Lismore]]".<ref name="GatheringSN"/> He also plays mandolin and harmonica on Paul Brady's cover of "Heather on the Moor", a song learned from [[Eddie Butcher]].<ref name="GatheringSN"/>

====Paul Brady – ''Welcome Here Kind Stranger''====
On Friday 21 July 1978, Brady launched his album ''[[Welcome Here Kind Stranger]]''<ref name="PBWelcome">''Paul Brady – Welcome Here Kind Stranger'', Mulligan LUN 024, 1978.</ref> with a concert in the auditorium of [[Liberty Hall]] in Dublin. He decided to record the concert on his own domestic [[Akai]] reel-to-reel tape machine with Brian Masterson in attendance, who had engineered the album and was doing the sound that night.<ref name="PBMissingSN">Sleeve notes from ''Paul Brady – The Missing Liberty Tapes'', Abirgreen/Compass Records, 2002.</ref>

Performing with him were: Lunny, O'Flynn, [[Paddy Glackin]], Matt Molloy, [[Noel Hill (musician)|Noel Hill]] and Irvine, who played on nine of the ten numbers performed that night: "Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore" (harmonica, mandolin); "I Am A Youth That's Inclined To Ramble" (hurdy-gurdy); "The Creel/Out The Door And Over The Wall" (mandolin, bouzouki); "The Jolly Soldier/The Blarney Pilgrim" (harmonica, bouzouki); "Mary And The Soldier" (mandolin, harmonica); "Jackson And Jane" (hurdy-gurdy); "Don't Come Again" (mandolin); "The Lakes Of Pontchartrain" (bouzouki); "The Crooked Road To Dublin" ([[Portuguese guitar]]ra with 8 [[Preston tuners|tuners]] [4 removed],<ref>A photo of this instrument is shown on page 4 of {{cite book
 |last1= Ó Callanain
 |first1= Niall
 |last2= Walsh
 |first2= Tommy
 |year= 1989
 |title= The Irish Bouzouki
 |location= Ireland
 |publisher= Waltons
 |isbn= 0-7866-1595-8
}}</ref> re-strung with 4 courses and tuned like a mandola).<ref name="PBMissingSN"/>

After the concert, Brady took the tapes home and only found them again in November 2000, still in good enough condition to be transferred onto CD and released, in 2002, under the title ''[[Welcome Here Kind Stranger#The Missing Liberty Tapes|The Missing Liberty Tapes]]''.<ref name="PBMissingSN"/>

====Planxty – ''After The Break''====
By the autumn of 1978,<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|256}} Moore was ready to re-form the original Planxty line-up, complete with Lunny, who brought along flutist Matt Molloy from [[The Bothy Band]], and rehearsals began on Tuesday, 19 September 1978.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|259}} Their new manager, Kevin Flynn, then organised a mammoth European tour for the following year, from 15 April to 11 June 1979, during which the band played forty-seven concerts in fifty-eight days, in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France and Ireland.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|259–262}}

After the tour, the band went to [[Windmill Lane Studios]] from 18 to 30 June 1979<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|260–262}} to record their fourth album: ''[[After The Break]]'',<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|262–268}}<ref name="AfterLP">''Planxty – After The Break'' LP, Tara Records, TARA 3001, 1979.</ref> released the same year. Irvine contributed three pieces to the album: "You Rambling Boys of Pleasure",<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|35–36}}<ref name="AfterLPSN">Sleeve notes from ''Planxty – After The Break'' LP, Tara Records, TARA 3001, 1979.</ref> "The Rambling Siúler",<ref name="AfterLPSN"/><ref name="Henry"/>{{rp|268}}<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|32–34}} and "Smeceno Horo".<ref name="AfterLPSN"/><ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|37–38}}<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|37–38}}<ref name="EastWindSN" /><ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|266}}

After recording the album, Planxty resumed touring more sporadically, playing The National in [[Kilburn, London|Kilburn]], a handful of dates in Belgium and France, and also headlining the third [[Ballisodare]] Festival.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|268}} Molloy left Planxty to join [[The Chieftains]] in the autumn of 1979.<ref name="Irvine6">[http://www.andyirvine.com/bio/chapter6.html ''Biography'' – Chapter 6.] Page at Andy Irvine's website. Retrieved 7 March 2015</ref>

===1980s: Solo album, Planxty, ''Parallel Lines'', Mosaic, Patrick Street===
====''Rainy Sundays... Windy Dreams''====
At the end of 1979, Irvine recorded his first solo album at [[Windmill Lane Studios]] in Dublin: ''[[Rainy Sundays... Windy Dreams (album)|Rainy Sundays... Windy Dreams]]'', produced by Dónal Lunny and released on [[Tara Music|Tara Records]] in 1980.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|274}} Personnel included Irvine, Lunny, O'Flynn, Brady (guitar and piano), [[Frankie Gavin (musician)|Frankie Gavin]] (fiddle), [[Rick Epping]] (accordion, harmonica, jaw harp), John Wadham (bongo and congas), Paul Barrett (Fender Rhodes and Polymoog), Keith Donald (soprano sax) and Lucienne Purcell (vocals).<ref>Sleeve notes from ''Andy Irvine – Rainy Sundays... Windy Dreams'' LP, Tara Records TARA 3002, 1980.</ref>

This first solo album showcased songs and tunes from two of his main influences: side one (on the vinyl [[LP record|LP]]) featured pieces inspired by [[Irish traditional music]], and side two choices concentrated on [[Balkan music]]. The original, vinyl album<ref name="RSWDLP"/> closed with the self-penned "Rainy Sundays",<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|72–76}} a nostalgic song reminiscing about Vida, with whom Irvine pursued "a one-sided romance in Ljubljana years ago."<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|72}}
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====''High Kings of Tara''====
In 1980, [[Tara Music|Tara Records]] released ''[[High Kings of Tara]]'',<ref>''High Kings of Tara'', Tara Records TARA 3003, 1980.</ref> a compilation album showcasing tracks previously released by some of its artists: [[Shaun Davey]], [[Oisín]], [[Jolyon Jackson]], Paddy Glackin, [[Paddy Keenan]], [[Stockton's Wing]] and Christy Moore.<ref>Sleeve notes from ''High Kings of Tara'', Tara Records TARA 3003, 1980.</ref>

This album also included five previously unreleased tracks by Planxty, Irvine and Moore. Two of these, Irvine's "[[Bonny Light Horseman (song)|The Bonny Light Horseman]]" and a set of [[Reel (dance)|reels]] by Planxty, "Lord McDonald/The Chattering Magpie", were subsequently added to the CD version of ''[[After The Break]]''.<ref>''Planxty – After The Break'' CD, Tara Records Ltd, TARACD 3001, 1992.</ref> The remaining three tracks were: "General Monroe" – a traditional song re-arranged by Irvine (bouzouki, harmonica) in duet with Lunny (guitar);<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|53–55}} "First Slip/Hardyman The Fiddler A&B/The Yellow Wattle" – a set of jigs by Planxty, including Matt Molloy; and "[[John O'Dreams|John of Dreams]]" – a ballad by Moore, which was later re-released on the CD version of ''[[The Iron Behind the Velvet]]''.

====Planxty – ''The Woman I loved So Well''====
On 28 February 1980, Planxty headlined the ''Sense of Ireland'' concert at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in London. When they returned to Ireland, they recorded two programmes for RTÉ at the [[Pavilion Theatre (Dún Laoghaire)|Pavilion Theatre]] in [[Dún Laoghaire]], then started rehearsals at [[Kilkea Castle]] in [[Castledermot]], County Kildare with two musicians from [[County Clare]]: [[concertina]] player Noel Hill and fiddler Tony Linnane. This six-member formation of Moore, Irvine, Lunny, O'Flynn, Hill and Linnane were joined by Matt Molloy and keyboardist Bill Whelan, to record the band's fifth album, ''[[The Woman I Loved So Well]]'',<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|274}}<ref name="WomanLP">''Planxty – The Woman I Loved So Well'' LP, Tara Records, TARA 3005, 1980.</ref> at Windmill Lane Studios over two periods: 23–29 April and 16–19 May.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|275–281}} The album was wrapped up with a reception at Windmill Lane Studios on 9 June and released on Tara Records in July 1980.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|280}} Irvine contributed three songs to the album:<ref name="WomanLPSN">Sleeve notes from ''Planxty – The Woman I Loved So Well'' LP, Tara Records, TARA 3005, 1980.</ref> "Roger O'Hehir",<ref name="Henry"/>{{rp|121}}<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|39–41}} "Kellswater",<ref name="Henry"/>{{rp|442–443}}<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|41–44}} and "Johnny of Brady's Lea".<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|45–47}}

Planxty then resumed touring as a four-piece again during the summer of 1980, playing a tour of Italian castles in July and returning to The Boys of Ballisodare festival on 9 August, where they were joined by Whelan and a young [[Cork (city)|Cork]] fiddler, [[Nollaig Casey]].<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|281–282}} Shows around this time would feature the quartet for the first set, with Whelan and Casey joining in for the second set. This sextet played a week of shows at the [[Olympia Theatre, Dublin|Olympia Theatre]] in Dublin on 18–23 August 1980,<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|283}} which was recorded for a potential live album that eventually emerged in 1987 as the unlicensed release ''The Best of Planxty Live''.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|283–285}} The same sextet also played a series of one-off events, including at the [[Hammersmith Odeon]] in March 1981,<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|292}} and recorded a suite called "Timedance"—with full orchestra and rhythm section—which was also performed during the interval of the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1981|Eurovision Song Contest]], held in Dublin on 4 April 1981. "Timedance" was the genesis of what Whelan would later compose for ''Riverdance''.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|296–299}}

====''Parallel Lines'' with Dick Gaughan====
In his online autobiography, Irvine recalls:
{{quote box|border=none|fontsize=90%|quote=
After one of these tours [in 1980], I went into a recording studio in [[Northeim]], Germany to record an album called ''Folk Friends 2''<ref name="FF2CD">''Folk Friends 2'', Wundertüte CD TÜT 72.150, 1990.</ref> – others had already made number one. Assembled were my old friends Jack Elliott and Derroll Adams, [[Alex Campbell (singer)|Alex Campbell]], [[Dick Gaughan]], [[Dolores Keane]] and John Faulkner and many others.<ref name="FolkFriends2">[http://www.discogs.com/Various-Folk-Friends-2/release/3164974 ''Folk Friends 2''.] 'CD Review' Page at discogs website. Retrieved 7 March 2015.</ref> That was some week! [...] We recorded in different combinations and I recorded "Thousands Are Sailing" with Dick which would lead to our making an album together a year later: ''Parallel Lines''.
|salign=right|source=—Andy Irvine, ''Andy's History – Chapter 6''.<ref name="Irvine6"/>}}

In August 1981,<ref name="Irvine6"/> Irvine and Gaughan recorded ''[[Parallel Lines (Dick Gaughan & Andy Irvine album)|Parallel Lines]]''<ref name="ParallelLines">''Dick Gaughan & Andy Irvine – Parallel Lines'', FolkFreak (FF4007), 1982.</ref> at Günter Pauler's Tonstudio in St Blasien/Herrenhaus, Northeim, Germany, released in 1982 on the German ''FolkFreak-Platten'' label.<ref name="ParallelLinesSN">Sleeve notes from ''Dick Gaughan & Andy Irvine – Parallel Lines'', FolkFreak FF4007, 1982.</ref> It was produced by Gaughan, Irvine and Carsten Linde, with a line-up including Gaughan (acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar and vocal), Irvine (bouzouki, mandola, mandolin, harmonica, hurdy-gurdy and vocal), Nollaig Casey (fiddle), Martin Buschmann (saxophone), Judith Jaenicke (flute) and Bob Lenox (Fender Rhodes piano). Dónal Lunny also overdubbed the fiddle parts and remixed the album at [[Lombard Sound Studios]] in Dublin.<ref name="ParallelLinesSN"/>

In 1997, ''Parallel Lines'' was re-issued on CD, including "Thousands Are Sailing" as a bonus track that Irvine and Gaughan had recorded during the above-mentioned ''Folk Friends 2'' recording sessions, held in 1980.<ref name="Irvine6"/><ref name="FolkFriends2" />

About the recording of ''Parallel Lines'', Irvine would later comment:
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We had had a couple of rehearsals in Dick's place in Leith and my place in Dublin but mainly of my songs as Dick didn't really decide what he would sing till we got to Germany. He did a fantastic job on my material. The more so because this was my 'really really complicated' period! Whenever we meet, we always make plans to do another one! Don't know if it will ever happen...
|salign=right|source=—Andy Irvine, ''Sweet Combinations of Sound – Irish Folk Legend Andy Irvine'' by Kevin Moist.<ref name="DWAcres"/>
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Irvine and Gaughan did, however, perform live at [[Whelan's (music venue)|Whelan's]] venue in Dublin on Wednesday 2 February 2011, nearly thirty years after recording ''Parallel Lines''.<ref name="AIDGWhelansFeb2011">[http://www.whelanslive.com/index.php/dick-gaughan-andy-irvine/ ''Dick Gaughan & Andy Irvine'' (Wednesday 2 February 2011).] Schedule from Whelan's website. Retrieved 7 June 2015</ref>

====Planxty – ''Words and Music''====
The Planxty sextet continued to tour, but began to drift apart. In 1980,<ref name="LOFBVSN">Sleeve notes from ''The Brendan Voyage'' CD, Tara Records, TARA CD 3006, 1980.</ref> O'Flynn recorded ''[[The Brendan Voyage]]'' with Shaun Davey.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|287}} Moore and Lunny, eager to experiment with a rhythm section and a different, more political song set, formed [[Moving Hearts]] in 1981.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|290}} Lunny also kept busy producing albums by other artists. As a result of all these parallel projects, the original quartet would end up playing their last show together on 24 August 1982, at the [[National Stadium (Ireland)|National Stadium]] in Dublin.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|301}}

Nevertheless, Planxty—with Whelan and Casey still on board—reconvened at Windmill Lane Studios in late October and early November 1982, to record ''[[Words & Music (Planxty album)|Words & Music]]'', which also featured fiddler James Kelly and Moving Hearts bass guitarist Eoghan O'Neill.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|301–304}} It was released on the [[Warner Music Group#1970s|WEA]] label in 1983.<ref name="WandM">''Planxty – Words & Music'' LP, WEA Ireland, 2401011, 1983.</ref> Irvine contributed three pieces to the album: "Thousands Are Sailing",<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|48–49}} "Accidentals",<ref name="WandMSN">Sleeve notes from ''Planxty – Words & Music'' LP, WEA Ireland, 2401011, 1983.</ref> and "Aragon Mill".<ref name="WandMSN"/><ref name="SiKahnAragon">{{Citation|publisher=sikahn.com|title=Aragon Mill|url=http://www.sikahn.com/songbook/page13.html|access-date=4 May 2015}}</ref>

A final line-up that Irvine dubbed "Planxty-Too-Far"—Irvine, O'Flynn, Whelan, [[Arty McGlynn]] on guitar, James Kelly on fiddle and singer Dolores Keane, but without Casey—undertook a UK tour on Friday, 1 April 1983, followed by a series of live engagements in Ireland, an appearance on the ''Late Late Show'' and some eight shows, including the National Stadium in Dublin on 27 April 1983. Two days later, Irvine went on tour in the Balkans and, on his return in mid-June, found that: "to my surprise, the band hadn't actually split up, it has just fallen asunder. An unfortunate ending to the second coming...".<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|304–306}}

====After Planxty====
Irvine resumed his solo career, playing occasionally with McGlynn and Casey, and also travelled to [[Hungary]], where he played and fraternised with local musicians:

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I had met a number of people in Hungary by this time, whose careers bore a comparison with my own. I mean city people in [[Budapest]] who had discovered their folk music, gone out to collect it and formed bands to play it. First I met Kolinda with the beautiful voice of Ágnes Zsigimondi{{sic}}<ref name="AZBio">[http://www.discogs.com/artist/1005417-%C3%81gnes-Zsigmondi ''Biography of Ágnes Zsigmondi McCraven at discogs.com''.]. Retrieved 16 November 2015</ref> and then I ran into [[Muzsikás]], who would become my firm friends. I started to play there a lot. I loved the place. I lost my heart to many things there!|salign=right|source=—Andy Irvine, ''Biography – Chapter 7''.<ref name="Irvine7">[http://www.andyirvine.com/bio/chapter7.html ''Biography'' – Chapter 7.] Page at Andy Irvine's website. Retrieved 25 August 2013</ref>}}{{clear}}

The singer from Muzsikás, [[Márta Sebestyén]], would soon thereafter be joining Irvine's next multicultural folk group: [[Andy Irvine & Dónal Lunny's Mozaik#The first 'Mosaic' (1984-85)|Mosaic]].<ref name="Irvine7"/> He also met multi-instrumentalist Nikola Parov (Sebestyén's then husband),<ref name="FR158/159">''Márta's Cause'', by Ken Hunt in ''Folk Roots'' No.158/159, Aug/Sep 1996.</ref>{{rp|65–67}} who would go on to participate in several of Irvine's projects, the first being the album ''East Wind'' (1992), which featured Sebestyén. Irvine would later write a song about this period of his life in Budapest: "The Wind Blows Over The Danube", released on the album ''Changing Trains''.<ref name="MozaikCT"/>

====Mosaic====
In the winter of 1984, Irvine gathered a collection of musicians from throughout Europe and formed Mosaic,<ref name="Irvine7"/> with a line-up including Irvine, Dónal Lunny along with his former Moving Hearts associate, uilleann piper [[Declan Masterson]], Danish bassist and singer Lissa Ladefoged, Dutch guitarist and singer [[Hans Theessink]], and singer Márta Sebestyén.<ref name="FR29">''The Euro-group: Mosaic'', by Ian Anderson in ''Folk Roots'' No.29, November 1985.</ref>{{rp|11}}

Their first public gig was in Budapest on 12 July 1985, followed by a further two gigs in Hungary and an appearance at the [[Dranouter]] [[Folk Dranouter|festival]] in Belgium in early August, prior to their English tour.<ref name="FR29"/>{{rp|11}} Their seventh gig was billed at the [[Southport]] Arts Center, which Chris Hardwick of [[Folk Roots]] reviewed with the following introduction: "Every once in a while the folk scene throws up a new permutation in which exceptionally gifted individuals come together to produce something so innovative and exhilarating that it goes way beyond the sum of the parts".<ref name="FR28">''Live Reviews: Mosaic at Southport Arts Centre'', by Chris Hardwick in ''Folk Roots'' No.28, October 1985.</ref>{{rp|42–43}}

Their set included: [[Stan Rogers]]'s "[[Northwest Passage (song)|Northwest Passage]]", an unspecified [[Music of the Republic of Macedonia|Macedonian]] dance tune ("one of Andy's 90 mph specials"<ref name="FR28"/>{{rp|43}}), a solo Hungarian love song from Sebestyén, a brooding cover of [[Eric Von Schmidt]]'s Caribbean lament "Joshua Gone Barbados" from Theessink, the Irish three (Irvine, Lunny and Masterson) on a set of reels including "The Spike Island Lasses", and Irvine singing Andy Mitchell's "Indiana". However, the band lasted only that one summer.

A couple of years later,<ref name="FR46">''Andy Irvine'', by Chris Hardwick in ''Folk Roots'' No.46, April 1987.</ref>{{rp|15}} Irvine stated that he would have liked to try the experiment again by concentrating on the Irish and East European sound without bringing in the [[blues]] influence.

====Patrick Street====
Also in 1985, Irvine joined up with fiddler Kevin Burke and guitarist [[Mícheál Ó Domhnaill]] (who had been gigging together around America for some time) and toured as a trio in the USA; when Ó Domhnaill wasn't available for some of the dates, guitarist/vocalist Gerry O'Beirne stepped in.<ref name="FR66">''Street Cred'', by Colin Irwin in ''Folk Roots'' No.66, December 1988.</ref>{{rp|34–35}} "This tour was such fun and so successful that we decided to expand the outfit into a four-piece by adding [[Jackie Daly]]", Irvine wrote.<ref name="Irvine8">[http://www.andyirvine.com/bio/chapter8.html ''Biography'' – Chapter 8.] Page at Andy Irvine's website. Retrieved 25 August 2013</ref>

Initially billed on a 1986 American tour as "The Legends of Irish Music", they soon chose to call themselves [[Patrick Street]].<ref name="FR66"/>{{rp|34}} The line-up for the band underwent several changes, but always included Irvine, Burke, and Daly. The guitar role, however, passed:
*from O'Beirne to Arty McGlynn – before the recording of their first album, ''[[Patrick Street (album)|Patrick Street]]'', which began in August 1986;<ref name="PS1SN">Sleeve notes from ''Patrick Street'', Green Linnet SIF 1071, 1986.</ref>
*from McGlynn to Ged Foley – after the band recorded their fourth album, ''[[All in Good Time (Patrick Street album)|All in Good Time]]'', released in 1993;<ref name="BestofPSSN">Sleeve notes from ''The Best of Patrick Street'', NECTAR NTMCD503, 1995.</ref>
*back to McGlynn – when they resumed touring after the completion of their ninth album, ''[[On the Fly (album)|On the Fly]]'', released in 2007.<ref name="OnTheFly">''Patrick Street – On The Fly'', Loftus Music LM002, 2007.</ref>

After Jackie Daly retired from Patrick Street, [[John Carty (musician)|John Carty]] joined on fiddle, flute and tenor banjo in time to record ''On The Fly''.<ref name="OnTheFlySN">Sleeve notes from ''Patrick Street – On The Fly'', Loftus Music LM002, 2007.</ref>

Originally agreed to as a part-time band, they have nevertheless recorded eight studio albums together, plus one live album (''[[Live from Patrick Street]]'') and two compilations (''[[The Best of Patrick Street]]'' and ''[[Compendium: The Best of Patrick Street]]'').

On their first album, ''Patrick Street'', released in 1986,<ref name="PS1">''Patrick Street'', Green Linnet SIF 1071, 1986.</ref> Irvine sings four songs: "Patrick Street", "The Holy Ground", "The Dream/Indiana", and "The Man with the Cap".<ref name="PS1SN"/>

''[[No. 2 Patrick Street]]'', released in 1988,<ref name="PS2">''No. 2 Patrick Street'', Green Linnet SIF 1088, 1988.</ref> again features four songs sung by Irvine: "Tom Joad"; "Facing the Chair"; "Braes of Moneymore", to which Irvine changed the tune and added a verse;<ref name="ParachilnaSN">Sleeve notes from ''Parachilna – Andy Irvine with Rens van der Zalm'', Andy Irvine AK-4, 2013.</ref><ref name="LiveFromPSSN">Sleeve notes from ''Live From Patrick Street'', Green Linnet GLCD 1194, 1999.</ref> and "William Taylor"<ref name="PS2SN">Sleeve notes from ''No. 2 Patrick Street'', Green Linnet SIF 1088, 1988.</ref><ref name="CompendiumSN">Sleeve notes from ''Compendium: The Best of Patrick Street'', Green Linnet GLCD1207, 2000.</ref>

Their third album, ''[[Irish Times (album)|Irish Times]]'', released in 1990,<ref name="IrishTimes">''Patrick Street – Irish Times'', Green Linnet/Special Delivery Records (a division of Topics Records) SPD 1033, 1990.</ref> includes three songs by Irvine: "Brackagh Hill"; "Forgotten Hero", his composition about [[Michael Davitt]]; and "The Humours of the King of Ballyhooley".<ref name="IrishTimesSN">Sleeve notes from ''Patrick Street – Irish Times'', Green Linnet SPD 1033, 1990.</ref>

====Playing style – ''The Irish Bouzouki''====
In 1989, Irvine's style of playing the bouzouki was summarised thus in ''The Irish Bouzouki'', an instructional guide:

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Andy plays the bouzouki in a very melodic style, using a lot of sustain. He creates this by hitting the strings individually, allowing them to ring rather than using heavy chording. His style involves using intricate counter-melody which greatly fills out the sound, especially when used in a duet or group situation using two bouzoukis or bouzouki and mandolin. Good examples of this can be found on Planxty albums or Andy's solo album, ''Rainy Sundays... Windy Dreams''. Andy is constantly experimenting, trying to find new sounds. He searches for new chords or chord formations, plays a guitar-shaped bouzouki and uses a wound or covered second (A) string which results in a much mellower, sweeter tone.
|salign=right|source=—Niall Ó Callanain & Tommy Walsh, ''The Irish Bouzouki''.<ref name="Walsh" />{{rp|38–41}}
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The tutor also provided simple <span class="plainlinks">[[Musical notation#Modern staff notation|standard notation]]</span> [[Sheet music|scores]] and lyrics for two of Irvine's songs: "Brackagh Hill" (which he recorded with Patrick Street on the album ''Irish Times'' released the same year) and "Bridget",<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|93–96}} a song written by Jane Cassidy which he never released elsewhere. The cassette accompanying this tutor provided both songs, with Irvine accompanying himself on bouzouki.<ref name="Walsh" />{{rp|38–41}} In the same tutor, Irvine's Irish bouzouki tuning (GDAD',<ref name="Walsh" />{{rp|15}} one octave lower than similarly open-tuned mandolin) was also contrasted with the traditional Greek bouzouki tuning (CFAD').<ref name="Walsh" />{{rp|5}}

In a 1985 interview with the American ''Frets'' magazine, Irvine had explained the origins of his bouzouki tuning:
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From the bottom string, I tune it G-D-A-D, a Johnny Moynihan mandolin tuning. The point being that if we were playing in G or D, there was a top string that could be struck at will. It goes back to Woody Guthrie by way of the Carter Family for me. If you want to play a brush-style Carter family stroke, you need to have that top string able to complement any chord.
|salign=right|source=—Andy Irvine, ''Celtic Roots... Dustbowl Inspiration'' by Joe Vanderford.<ref name="Frets"/>{{rp|22}}
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===1990s: Solo albums, ''East Wind'', Patrick Street===

====''Rude Awakening''====
In December 1990 and January 1991, Irvine recorded his second solo album, ''[[Rude Awakening (Andy Irvine album)|Rude Awakening]]'',<ref name="RudeAwakening">''Andy Irvine – Rude Awakening'', Green Linnet GLCD 1114, 1991.</ref> produced by Bill Whelan. The line-up included Whelan (keyboards), Rens van der Zalm (fiddle, mandolin, guitar), Carl Geraghty (soprano saxophone), Arty McGlynn (guitar), [[Davy Spillane]] (whistle) and [[Fionnuala Sherry]] (fiddle). The album was released on ''[[Green Linnet Records]]'', later in 1991.<ref name="RudeAwakeningSN"/>

It features "[[Andy Irvine (musician)#Tribute song: "Never Tire of the Road"|Never Tire of the Road]]", Irvine's tribute song to Woody Guthrie, alongside mainly self-penned material celebrating some of his other heroes: [[Raoul Wallenberg]], [[James Connolly]], [[Emiliano Zapata]], [[Michael Dwyer]], [[Douglas Mawson]], [[Aeneas Mackintosh]] and [[Sinclair Lewis]]. The only other traditional song is "Allan McLean". The sleeve notes of "Love To Be With You"<ref name="RudeAwakeningSN" /> show a faded, black & white photo of Vida, the heroine of his song from ten years earlier: "Rainy Sundays".<ref name="Irvine"/>{{rp|72–76}}

====''East Wind''====
Irvine had also played some [[Balkan music|Balkan tunes]] to Whelan and mentioned his aspiration to record them.<ref name="Irvine9">[http://www.andyirvine.com/bio/chapter9.html ''Biography'' – Chapter 9.] Page at Andy Irvine's website. Retrieved 28 July 2013</ref> So, shortly thereafter, he was rehearsing again with Davy Spillane (uilleann pipes and low whistle) to record ''East Wind'', a collection of [[Bulgarian dances|Bulgarian]] and [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonian]] tunes played Irish-style<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r126219|pure_url=yes}} Review of ''East Wind''] By Richard Foss (Allmusic). Retrieved 24 April 2012</ref> and produced by Whelan, who also contributed keyboards and piano.<ref name="EastWindSN">Sleeve notes from ''East Wind'', Tara CD 3027, 1992.</ref>

The project influenced ''[[Riverdance]]'':

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It is significant, also, that Bill Whelan had been working as a producer of [an] album about two years before ''Riverdance''.   It was called ''East Wind'' and that entire album was {{sic|comprised |hide=y|of}} East European music.  Its making can be ascribed to combining the talents of Davy Spillane and Andy Irvine, and its geographic origins can be ascribed to Irvine who introduced the East European tempo and style onto the Irish traditional scene.
|salign=right|source=—Barra O'Cinnéide, ''Riverdance: The Phenomenon''.<ref name="O'Cinnéide" />{{rp|75}}
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The extensive line-up included Nikola Parov on Bulgarian instruments ([[gadulka]], [[kaval]], [[gaida]]) & bouzouki, [[Máirtín O'Connor]] (accordion), Noel Eccles & Paul Moran (percussion), Tony Molloy (bass), Carl Geraghty & Kenneth Edge (saxophones), [[John Sheahan]] (fiddle), [[Anthony Drennan]] (guitar), [[Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin]] (piano), Márta Sebestyén (vocals) and [[Rita Connolly]] (backing vocals).<ref name="EastWindSN"/>

In an interview with [[Folk Roots]] in August 1992,<ref name="FR110"/>{{rp|29–33}} Irvine stated: "We finished it eighteen months ago but [...] John Cook at Tara wanted to try the avenue of big companies." The album was eventually released on the ''Tara'' label itself in mid-1992.<ref name="FR108">''Reviews: Andy Irvine & Davy Spillane – East Wind'', by Ian Anderson in ''Folk Roots'' No. 108, June 1992.</ref>{{rp|42}}

For a while, Irvine and Parov were joined by Rens van der Zalm and toured together in Europe as the 'East Wind Trio',<ref name="FR295"/>{{rp|69}} and then again in the US during 1996.<ref name="LTJGurr">{{cite web
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 |first= Julian
 |title= Andy Irvine – 'Supergrouper'
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 |access-date= 6 April 2015
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====Patrick Street – ''All in Good Time''====
Irvine contributed six pieces to Patrick Street's fourth album, ''All in Good Time'', released in 1993:<ref name="AIGT">''Patrick Street – All in Good Time'', Green Linnet GLCD 1125 (1993).</ref> "A Prince Among Men (Only a Miner)"; ''Lintheads'', a trilogy comprising: "The Pride of the Springfield Road",<ref name="BelfastCotton">[http://www.libraryireland.com/Belfast-History/Cotton.php ''The Story of Belfast'' by Mary Lowry, circa 1913.] From the 'Library Ireland' website. Retrieved 6 November 2013</ref> "Lawrence Common", and "Goodbye, Monday Blues";<ref name="SiKahnGoodbye">{{Cite web
 |website= sikahn.com
 |title = Goodbye, Monday Blues
 |url= http://sikahn.com/songbook/page48.html
 |access-date= 5 May 2015
}}</ref> "Carrowclare";<ref name="Henry"/>{{rp|298–299}} and "The Girls Along the Road".<ref name="AIGTSN">Sleeve notes from ''Patrick Street – All in Good Time'', Green Linnet GLCD 1125, 1993.</ref>

====Patrick Street – ''Cornerboys''====
Patrick Street's fifth album, ''[[Cornerboys]]'', was released in 1996<ref name="Cornerboys">''Patrick Street – Cornerboys'', Green Linnet GLCD 1160, 1996.</ref> and includes seven pieces provided by Irvine:<ref name="CornerboysSN">Sleeve notes from ''Patrick Street – Cornerboys'', Green Linnet GLCD 1160, 1996.</ref> "Sweet Lisbweemore"; "Morlough Shore"; ''Pity the Poor Hare'' (a suite comprising: "On Yonder Hill", "Merrily Tripping O'er The Plain", "The Kilgrain Hare",<ref name="Henry"/>{{rp|31}} and "Pity the Poor Hare"); and "Down By Greer's Grove".<ref name="CornerboysSN"/>

====''Rain on the Roof''====
Recorded in June, July and August 1996, Irvine's third solo album, ''[[Rain on the Roof (Andy Irvine album)|Rain on the Roof]]'',<ref name="RainRoof">''Andy Irvine – Rain on the Roof'', Andy Irvine AK-1, 1996.</ref> is the closest the listener could get to the experience of attending one of his gigs. It was the first release (product number "AK-1") on his own label, ''Andy Irvine''. The album mixes some of Irvine's compositions with traditional songs and Bulgarian tunes. As he explains in the sleeve notes:

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Most of the recordings on this CD were done as if live. I sat in front of microphones with my bouzouki or mandolin in my lap, my harmonica in its holder round my neck, and my drone volume pedal on the floor, under my foot, and played and sang all in one go.
|salign=right|source=—Sleeve notes from ''Andy Irvine – Rain on the Roof''.<ref name="RainRoofSN">Sleeve notes from ''Andy Irvine – Rain on the Roof'', Andy Irvine AK-1, 1996.</ref>
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Other instruments were added (on four of the eleven tracks) by Rens van der Zalm (fiddle and mandolin), Stephen Cooney ([[didgeridoo]], [[Kpanlogo (drum)|Kpanlogo drum]]), [[Declan Masterson]] (low whistle) and Irvine himself, who played a second mandolin on two of the tracks.<ref name="RainRoofSN" />

====Patrick Street – ''Made in Cork''====
Patrick Street's sixth album, ''[[Made in Cork]]'', was released in 1997,<ref name="MadeInCork">''Patrick Street – Made in Cork'', Green Linnet GLCD 1184, 1997</ref> to which Irvine contributed four songs:<ref name="MadeInCorkSN">Sleeve notes from ''Patrick Street – Made in Cork'', Green Linnet GLCD 1184, 1997.</ref> "Her Mantle So Green",<ref name="Henry"/>{{rp|314}} "Rainbow 'Mid The Willows", "Spanking Maggie from the Ross", and "When Adam Was in Paradise", another song he learned from the singing of [[Eddie Butcher]].

====Patrick Street – ''Live from Patrick Street''====
''[[Live from Patrick Street]]'', released in 1999,<ref name="LiveFromPS">''Live From Patrick Street'', Green Linnet GLCD 1194, 1999.</ref> was Patrick Street's seventh album, recorded during a tour of Ireland and Britain in November 1998. It features five of Irvine's songs: "Braes of Moneymore", [[Eddie Butcher]]'s "My Son in Amerikay", "[[The Wild Rover|Wild Rover No More]]", "[[Skewball|Stewball and the Monaghan Grey Mare]]", and "The Holy Ground".<ref name="LiveFromPSSN"/>

===2000s: Solo album, Mozaik, Patrick Street, Planxty, Marianne Green===

====''Way Out Yonder''====
In 2000, Irvine released his fourth solo album, ''[[Way Out Yonder (Andy Irvine album)|Way Out Yonder]]'',<ref name="AK2">''Andy Irvine – Way Out Yonder'', Andy Irvine AK-2, 2000.</ref> recorded between July and December 1999 and co-produced with Steve Cooney.<ref name="AK2SN">Sleeve notes from ''Andy Irvine – Way Out Yonder'', Andy Irvine AK-2, 2000.</ref>

Irvine was joined by Rens van der Zalm (guitar, fiddle, mandolin, Bulgarian [[Balkan tambura|tambura]] and bass guitar), Lindsey Horner (double bass), [[Máire Breatnach]] (viola), Cormac Breatnach (low whistle), Steve Cooney (Spanish guitar, percussion and [[kalimba]]), [[Declan Masterson]] (uilleann pipes and low whistle), Liam O'Flynn (uilleann pipes and tin whistle), Nikola Parov ([[gadulka]]), [[Brendan Power]] (harmonica), plus Lynn Kavanagh, Mandy Murphy and Phil Callery (backing vocals).<ref name="AK2SN"/>

====Mozaik – ''Live from the Powerhouse''====
On 1 March 2002, the seaside town of [[Rye, Victoria]] in Australia witnessed the formation and six-day marathon rehearsals of multicultural group [[Andy Irvine & Dónal Lunny's Mozaik|Mozaik]]<ref name="MozaikLiveP">Sleeve notes from ''Mozaik – Live from the Powerhouse'', Compass Records 743782, 2004.</ref>—not to be confused with his earlier, similarly named group [[Andy Irvine & Dónal Lunny's Mozaik#The first 'Mosaic' (1984-85)|Mosaic]]—featuring Irvine, Dónal Lunny, [[Bruce Molsky]], Nikola Parov and Rens van der Zalm.

The Australian tour that followed culminated in two gigs recorded at the [[Brisbane Powerhouse]] on 30/31 March and released on the album ''[[Live from the Powerhouse]]'' in 2004, under license to [[Compass Records]].<ref name="MozaikLiveP"/>
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====Patrick Street – ''Street Life''====
Patrick Street's eighth album, ''[[Street Life (Patrick Street album)|Street Life]]'', was released in 2002.<ref name="StreetLife">''Patrick Street – Street Life'', Green Linnet GLCD 1222, 2002.</ref> Irvine contributed four pieces:<ref name="StreetLifeSN">Sleeve notes from ''Patrick Street – Street Life'', Green Linnet GLCD 1222, 2002.</ref> "Barna Hill", "Down in Matewan", "Lost Indian", and "Green Grows the Laurel".<ref name="StreetLifeSN"/>

====Planxty ("The Third Coming") – ''Live 2004''====
In late 2002, broadcaster and journalist Leagues O'Toole was working as presenter and researcher for the [[RTÉ]] television show ''[[No Disco]]'' and persuaded the programme editor, Rory Cobbe, to develop a one-off documentary about Planxty.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|309}}

O'Toole proceeded with interviewing Moore, Irvine and O'Flynn but Lunny, who was living in Japan, was unavailable. After also shooting links at key landmarks from the Planxty history,<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|310–314}} the programme aired on 3 March 2003, receiving a phenomenal response from the public and some very positive feedback from the Planxty members themselves. In a final comment about the constant speculation of the original line-up regrouping, Moore had stated, on camera: "There's nobody longs for it more than myself and the other three guys. Definitely the time is right. Let's go for it".<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|314}}

A few months later, Paddy Doherty, owner of the Royal Spa Hotel in [[Lisdoonvarna]] (and co-founder of the Lisdoonvarna Festival), arranged for the band's use of the hotel's old dining room for rehearsals, which led to a one-off concert there in front of 200 people on 11 October 2003.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|316}} Moore, on stage, credited the ''No Disco'' documentary with inspiring the reunion.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|316}}

Pleased with the results and the experience of playing together again, the original Planxty quartet agreed to the longed-for reunion (dubbed "The Third Coming"<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|xii}}) and would perform together again, on and off, for a period of just over a year.

Planxty first played a series of concerts at the [[Glór Theatre]] in [[Ennis]], County Clare (on 23 & 24 January 2004) and at [[Vicar Street]] in Dublin (on 30 & 31 January and on 4 & 5, 11 & 12 February 2004),<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|317}} which were recorded and from which selected material was released on the CD ''[[Live 2004 (Planxty album)|Live 2004]]'' and its associated DVD.

In late 2004 and early 2005,<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|322–326}} another round of concerts took place at the following venues:

* Radisson SAS Hotel in [[Galway]] (6, 7 and 8 October 2004); 
* [[Point Theatre]] in Dublin (28, 29 and 30 December 2004, plus extra dates on 3, 4 and 5 January 2005);
* [[Waterfront Hall]] in [[Belfast]] (19, 20 and 21 January 2005);
* [[Barbican Centre]] in London (29, 30 and 31 January 2005).<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|322–326}}

The original Planxty quartet never performed live again, nor recorded new material together. Liam O'Flynn died in 2018.

====Solo version of "As I Roved Out"====
In May 2005, Irvine wrote in his website journal: "Also premiered "As I Roved Out" with my own accompaniment. It's always been a Planxty number till now with Dónal playing Baritone Guitar and me just singing it."<ref name="IrvineJ2005">[http://www.andyirvine.com/journal/2005april_may.html ''Andy's journal: April–May 2005 (May 4th 2005 entry)''.] Page at Andy Irvine's website. Retrieved 28 July 2013</ref> A recording of this version of "As I Roved Out"<ref name="Songbook"/>{{rp|6–7}} was eventually released on Peter Ratzenbeck's album ''Resonances'' in 2007,<ref name="Resonances">''Peter Ratzenbeck – Resonances'', Woodcraft Productions WP-963, 2007.</ref> where Irvine appeared as a guest and played it solo on his "Stefan Sobell mandola, tuned CGDG (Capo 0)".<ref name="ResonancesSN">Sleeve notes from ''Peter Ratzenbeck – Resonances'', Woodcraft Productions WP-963, 2007.</ref>

====Mozaik – ''Changing Trains''====
In January and April 2005, Mozaik rehearsed new material for ''Changing Trains'',<ref name="MozaikCT">''Mozaik – Changing Trains'', Compass Records 744682, 2007.</ref> their first studio album recorded in Budapest during November of the same year.<ref name="MozaikCTSN" />

This album was initially released by the band in Australia in 2006 and, after additional re-mixing by Lunny at Longbeard Studios in Dublin, was re-released in the autumn of 2007 under license to Compass Records.<ref name="MozaikCTSN">Sleeve notes from ''Mozaik – Changing Trains'', Compass Records 744682, 2007.</ref>
{{clear}}

====Patrick Street – ''On the Fly''====
Patrick Street's ninth album, ''On the Fly'', was released in 2007.<ref name="OnTheFly" /> Irvine provided three songs:<ref name="OnTheFlySN" /> "Sergeant Small", "The Rich Irish Lady", and "[[Erin Go Bragh]]".<ref name="OnTheFlySN"/>

====Marianne Green – ''Dear Irish Boy''====
Irvine arranged and produced Marianne Green's<ref name="MGBio">[http://www.performingacts.co.uk/mariannegreen.html Marianne Green biography], performingacts.co.uk. Retrieved 28 December 2013.</ref> debut album, ''Dear Irish Boy'', released in 2009.<ref name="DIB">''Dear Irish Boy – Marianne Green with Andy Irvine'', Glas Records MEGCD02, 2009.</ref><ref name="DIBRevLivTrad">[http://www.livingtradition.co.uk/webrevs/megcd02.htm Marianne Green – ''Dear Irish Boy''] Review by Tony Hendry for ''Living Tradition Magazine''. Retrieved 28 December 2013.</ref> Personnel included: Marianne Green (vocals), Irvine (bouzouki, mandolin, mandola, bass-bouzouki, harmonica), Colum Sands (double bass, concertina) and Gerry O'Conner (violin).<ref name="DIBSN">Sleeve notes from ''Dear Irish Boy – Marianne Green with Andy Irvine'', Glas Records MEGCD02, 2009.</ref>

The tracks are: "The Banks of the Bann" (trad.), "You Make Me Fly" (M. Green), "Tá Mé 'Mo Shuí" (trad.), "The Doffin Mistress" (trad.), "Bonny Portmore" (trad.), "Ar A Ghabháil Go Baile Átha Cliath Damh" (trad.), "Cian's Song" (M. O'Hare), "The Dear Irish Boy" (trad.), "The Wife's Lamentation" (M. Green), "The Road To Dundee" (trad.), "The Wreck of the Newcastle Fishermen" (trad.) and "Carrickmannon Lake" (trad.).<ref name="DIBSN"/>

===2010s: Solo albums, LAPD, duo with Rens van der Zalm, Usher's Island===
====''Abocurragh''====
In August 2010, Irvine released his fifth solo album: ''Abocurragh'',<ref name="GuardianAbo"/><ref name="Abocurragh">''Andy Irvine – Abocurragh'', Andy Irvine AK-3, 2010.</ref><ref name="bbcAbo">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11355538 ''Andy Irvine launches new album in barn''], Review of the launch of ''Abocurragh'' by Julian Fowler for [[BBC News]] Northern Ireland, 18 September 2010. Retrieved 8 September 2013.</ref> recorded in Dublin, Norway, Australia, Hungary and Brittany between February 2009 and April 2010 and produced by Dónal Lunny, who also plays on all but one of the tracks.<ref name="AbocurraghSN">Sleeve notes from ''Andy Irvine – Abocurragh'', Andy Irvine AK-3, 2010.</ref>

They were joined by Liam O'Flynn (uilleann pipes, tin whistle), Nikola Parov ([[kaval]], [[nyckelharpa]]), Máirtín O'Connor (accordion), Bruce Molsky (fiddle), Rens van der Zalm (fiddle), Rick Epping (harmonica), Paul Moore (double bass), Graham Henderson (keyboards), Liam Bradley (percussion), Jacky Molard (violas, violins and string arrangement), [[Annbjørg Lien]] ([[hardanger fiddle]]s), [[Lillebjørn Nilsen]] (guitar), plus Kate Burke and Ruth Hazleton (backing vocals).<ref name="AbocurraghSN"/>

====LAPD (Liam/Andy/Paddy/Dónal)====
[[File:Lunny irvine o flynn glackin.jpg|alt=|thumb|370px|Dónal Lunny, Andy Irvine, Liam O'Flynn and Paddy Glackin as LAPD (March 2012)]]
Friday, 20 January 2012 ushered in the inaugural gig, at Dublin's Vicar Street, of a quartet named 'LAPD' after the initials of its members' first names: Liam O'Flynn, Andy Irvine, [[Paddy Glackin]], and Dónal Lunny.<ref name="MiriamMeetsLAPD">{{cite AV media
 |people= L. O'Flynn, A. Irvine, P. Glackin, D. Lunny (Interview)
 |title= Miriam O'Callaghan meets... LAPD Liam O'Flynn, Andy Irvine, Paddy Glackin, Dónal Lunny
 |url= http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9%3A20124362%3A0%3A%3A|medium=Podcast
 |publisher= RTÉ Radio 1
 |location= Dublin
 |date= 9 December 2012
 |access-date= 11 October 2013
}}</ref>

They played a set combining tunes and songs from the repertoires of:
* Planxty: "Jenny's Wedding/The Virginia/Garrett Barry's", "Paddy Canny's" ("The Starting Gate"), "The Jolly Beggar/The Wise Maid", "Arthur MacBride", "As I Roved Out (Andy)", "The Blacksmith" and "West Coast of Clare";
* Irvine & Lunny: "My Heart's tonight in Ireland/West Clare Reel", "Braes of Moneymore", "Suleiman's Kopanitsa", "The Dream/Indiana", "O'Donoghue's" and "Siún Ni Dhuibhir";
* O'Flynn & Glackin: "Kitty's Rambles/Humours of Ennistymon", "The Green Island/Bantry Hornpipe", "Young Tom Ennis/Nora Crean", "A Rainy Day/The Shaskeen", "Two Flings", "Speed the Plough/Colonel Fraser" and "The Gold Ring".

LAPD performed only occasionally, to rave reviews,<ref name="culture2012"/> but never recorded before disbanding; their last performance took place at Sligo Live, on Saturday, 26 October 2013.<ref name="IELAPD">[http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/andy-irvine-is-still-going-strong-into-his-seventies-310719.html ''Andy Irvine is still going strong in his seventies.''] Interview by Gerry Quinn in the Irish Examiner, 5 February 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015.</ref>

====''70th Birthday Concert at Vicar St 2012''====
On 16 and 17 June 2012, Irvine's 70th birthday was celebrated at Dublin's [[Vicar Street]] venue in a pair of concerts.<ref name="MiriamMeetsAIPB"/> He was joined onstage by Paul Brady and various combinations of members of Sweeney's Men, Planxty, Mozaik and LAPD, plus brothers George and Manoli Galiatsos who came unexpectedly all the way from Athens for the concerts,<ref name="IrvineJ70">[http://www.andyirvine.com/AndysJournal/Andy's%2070th%20Birthday.html ''Andy's 70th Birthday Concerts – 16 & 17 June 2012''.]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140816083624/http://www.andyirvine.com/AndysJournal/Andy%27s%2070th%20Birthday.html |date=16 August 2014 }} Review & photos. Published at Andy Irvine's website. Retrieved 5 September 2013</ref> which were recorded and released on the CD ''[[Andy Irvine/70th Birthday Concert at Vicar St 2012]]''<ref name="IrvineJ70CD">[http://www.andyirvine.com/albums/70th%20Birthday%20CD.html ''Andy Irvine 70th Birthday Concert At Vicar St 2012''.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150309080723/http://www.andyirvine.com/albums/70th%20Birthday%20CD.html |date=9 March 2015 }} 'CD & DVD Announcement' Page at Andy Irvine's website. Retrieved 3 October 2014</ref> and its associated DVD.

====Playing Woody Guthrie again====
A week later, Irvine was invited to participate with [[Billy Bragg]] in the ''Woody 100 Legacy Show'' scheduled at Dublin's Vicar Street on Monday, 17 September 2012, to celebrate Woody Guthrie's Centenary.<ref name="VicarStSep2012">Cuff, Aidan. (23 May 2012). [https://www.goldenplec.com/billy-bragg-andy-irvine-celebrate-woody-guthries-centenary/ ''Billy Bragg & Andy Irvine Celebrate Woody Guthrie's Centenary'' (Monday, 17 September 2012).] GoldenPlec website. Retrieved 3 August 2016</ref>

In his web journal, Irvine wrote at the time: "I recently located my old Gibson L0 guitar. It was in the shed where it has been languishing for some years. I used to be able to do a pretty good impression of Woody's [[Carter Family picking|'Church lick']] guitar playing. Hope I can get it all back! [...] I'd better get practising!..."<ref name="IrvineJ2012">[http://www.andyirvine.com/journal/2012june_woody_100_concert.html ''The Woody 100 Legacy Show'' (Monday, 17 September 2012).] Announcement published at Andy Irvine's website on 22 June 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2013</ref>

====''Parachilna'' with Rens van der Zalm====
On 13 November 2013, Irvine released his first duo album with Rens van der Zalm: ''[[Parachilna (album)|Parachilna]]'',<ref name="Parachilna">[http://www.andyirvine.com/albums/Parachilna.html ''Parachilna'', by Andy Irvine & Rens van der Zalm.] 'CD Announcement' Page at Andy Irvine's website. Retrieved 7 November 2013</ref><ref name="AIRollingWave">
{{cite AV media
 | people= Andy Irvine talks to Peter Browne about his album ''Parachilna''
 | title= The Rolling Wave
 | url= http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9%3A10273405%3A1852%3A20%2D04%2D2014%3A
 | medium= Podcast
 | publisher= RTÉ Radio 1
 | location= Dublin
 | date= 20 April 2014}}
 Retrieved on 21 April 2014.</ref> an album of Irish and Australian songs recorded live in July 2012 while camping in [[Parachilna, South Australia]] and [[New South Wales]].

It was co-produced by Irvine (vocals, bouzouki, mandola and harmonica) and van der Zalm (backing vocals, guitar, mandolin, fiddle and viola), and recorded by Cian Burke in disused buildings using top-quality microphones, a laptop and [[Pro Tools]].<ref name="ParachilnaSN" /><ref name="AIRollingWave"/> Most of the time, there are only two instruments playing–three when Irvine also plays harmonica–and the resulting sound is bright and pristine.

====Usher's Island====
On 27 January 2015, Irvine launched his latest musical association at [[Celtic Connections]] in Glasgow: a band called [[Usher's Island (band)|Usher's Island]] (a reference to the [[Dublin quays|Dublin quay]]), with Dónal Lunny (guitar, bouzouki, bodhrán, keyboards), Paddy Glackin (fiddle), [[Michael McGoldrick]] (uilleann pipes, flute and whistle), and John Doyle (guitar).<ref name="UIAnnt">[http://www.andyirvine.com/disc/Ushers_island.html "Usher's Island" page at Andy Irvine website], andyirvine.com. Retrieved 24 December 2014</ref><ref name="UIatCC2015">[http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/celtic-connections-live-review-ushers-island-at-old-fruitmarket-glasgow.117175421 ''Celtic Connections: Usher's Island at Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow''], ''The Herald'' (Glasgow), 28 January 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2015.</ref>

==Selected discography==
{{col-start}}
{{col-2}}
;Solo
* ''[[Rainy Sundays... Windy Dreams (album)|Rainy Sundays... Windy Dreams]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Rude Awakening (Andy Irvine album)|Rude Awakening]]'' (1991)
* ''[[Rain on the Roof (Andy Irvine album)|Rain on the Roof]]'' (1996)
* ''[[Way Out Yonder (Andy Irvine album)|Way Out Yonder]]'' (2000)
* ''[[Abocurragh (album)|Abocurragh]]'' (2010)
* ''Old Dog Long Road – Vol.1 (1961–2012)'' (2019) – 2 discs
* ''Old Dog Long Road – Vol.2 (1961–2015)'' (2020) – 2 discs
;With Christy Moore
* ''[[Prosperous (album)|Prosperous]]'' (1971)
* ''[[Christy Moore (album)|Christy Moore]]'' (1976)
* ''[[The Iron Behind the Velvet]]'' (1978)
* ''[[Ordinary Man (Christy Moore album)|Ordinary Man]]'' (1985)
;With Paul Brady
* ''[[Andy Irvine/Paul Brady (album)|Andy Irvine/Paul Brady]]'' (1976)
* ''[[Welcome Here Kind Stranger]]'' (1978) 
* ''[[Welcome Here Kind Stranger#The Missing Liberty Tapes|The Missing Liberty Tapes]]'' (2002)
;With Maddy Prior & June Tabor
* ''[[Silly Sisters (album)|Silly Sisters]]'' (1976)
;With Mick Hanly
* ''As I Went Over Blackwater'' (1980)
;With various artists
* ''The Gathering'' (1981)
;With Dick Gaughan
* ''[[Parallel Lines (Dick Gaughan & Andy Irvine album)|Parallel Lines]]'' (1982)
;With Peter Ratzenbeck
* ''Over the Years'' (1990)
* ''Outremer'' (1995)
* ''Travelogue'' (1997)
* ''Resonances'' (2007)
;With Davy Spillane
* ''[[EastWind|East Wind]]'' (1992)
;With Marianne Green
* ''Dear Irish Boy'' (2009)
;With Rens van der Zalm
* ''[[Parachilna (album)|Parachilna]]'' (2013)
;With Luke Plumb
* ''Precious Heroes'' (2017)<ref name="AILPHeroesABC2016">{{cite web 
|title = ''Andy Irvine and Luke Plumb – 'Precious Heroes' ''
|url = http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/dailyplanet/andy-irvine-and-luke-plumb---'precious-heroes'/8167134 
|publisher = Australian Broadcasting Corporation
|work = [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]] Daily Planet
|date= 9 January 2017 
|access-date= 14 January 2017}}</ref>
{{col-2}}
;With Sweeney's Men
* ''[[Sweeney's Men (album)|Sweeney's Men]]'' (1968)
;With Planxty
* ''[[Planxty (album)|Planxty]]'' (1973)
* ''[[The Well Below the Valley (album)|The Well Below the Valley]]'' (1973)
* ''[[Cold Blow and the Rainy Night]]'' (1974)
* ''[[After The Break]]'' (1979)
* ''[[High Kings of Tara]]'' (1980) – Planxty & various artists
* ''[[The Woman I Loved So Well]]'' (1980)
* ''Live at Olympia Theatre, Dublin'' (1980) – Cassette; withdrawn shortly after release
* ''[[Words & Music (Planxty album)|Words & Music]]'' (1983)
* ''Arís!'' (1984)
* ''[[Live 2004 (Planxty album)|Live 2004]]'' (2004) – Separate CD and DVD 
* ''[[Between the Jigs and the Reels: A Retrospective]]'' (2016) – CD and DVD combo
* ''One Night in Bremen'' (2018)
;With Patrick Street
* ''[[Patrick Street (album)|Patrick Street]]'' (1986)
* ''[[No. 2 Patrick Street]]'' (1988)
* ''[[Irish Times (album)|Irish Times]]'' (1990)
* ''[[All in Good Time (Patrick Street album)|All in Good Time]]'' (1993)
* ''[[The Best of Patrick Street]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Cornerboys]]'' (1996)
* ''[[Made in Cork]]'' (1997)
* ''[[Live from Patrick Street]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Compendium: The Best of Patrick Street]]'' (2000)
* ''[[Street Life (Patrick Street album)|Street Life]]'' (2002)
* ''[[On the Fly (album)|On the Fly]]'' (2007)
;With Mozaik
* ''[[Live from the Powerhouse]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Changing Trains]]'' (2007)
* ''The Long And The Short Of It'' (2019)
;With Sweeney's Men, Mozaik, Paul Brady, LAPD
* ''[[Andy Irvine/70th Birthday Concert at Vicar St 2012]]'' (2014) – Separate CD and DVD
;With Usher's Island
* ''Usher's Island'' (2017)
;With Lillebjørn Nilsen
* ''Live In Telemark'' (2021)
{{col-end}}

==Filmography==
* ''Planxty Live 2004'' (2004), DVD
* ''Come West Along The Road/Irish Traditional Music Treasures From RTÉ Archives 1960s – 1980s'' (2005), DVD
* ''Come West Along The Road 2/Irish Traditional Music Treasures From RTÉ Archives 1960s – 1980s'' (2007), DVD
* ''From Clare To Here'' (2008), DVD
* ''Come West Along The Road 3/Irish Traditional Music Treasures From RTÉ Archives 1960s – 1980s'' (2010), DVD
* ''Come West Along The Road/The Collection'' (2014), DVD (Volumes 1–4 Boxset)
* ''Ar Stáitse – RTÉ TV Series'', DVD 
* ''The [[Transatlantic Sessions]] Series 6'' (2014), DVD
* ''Andy Irvine 70th Birthday Concert at Vicar St 2012'' (2014), DVD
* ''Mozaik on Tour 2014'' (2014), YouTube video clip
* ''Planxty Between the Jigs and the Reels: A Retrospective'' (2016), DVD

==Selected early acting performances==
The following table shows a selection of acting roles and performances by Andrew Irvine, between 1950 and 1964.
{{hidden begin
|title =  Acting performances (1950–1964) by Andrew Irvine
|titlestyle = background:#F8F8FF;width:60%
}} 
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="min-width:56em"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Show
! scope="col" | Date / Episode (TV) 
! scope="col" | Role
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
! scope="row" |''[[A Tale of Five Cities]]''
| 1950
| Film
| Released 1 Mar 1951
| Jimmy
|<ref name="IMDb1"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''Round at the Redways''
| 1955
| TV
| S1/Ep.4, 19 Oct 1955
| Nokie
|<ref name="IMDb2"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''Round at the Redways''
| 1955
| TV
| S1/Ep.9, 23 Nov 1955
| Nokie
|<ref name="IMDb2b"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''Round at the Redways''
| 1956
| TV
| 8 Feb 1956
| Nokie
|<ref name="IMDb2c"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''[[The Pupil (short story)|The Magpies]]''
| 1957
| TV
| 7 Feb 1957
| Morgan
|<ref name="ITVMagpies"/> by [[Henry James]],<br>adapted by [[Michael Dyne]]
|-
! scope="row" |''[[Armchair Theatre]]''
| 1957
| TV
|''Escape to Happiness''<br>9 Jun 1957
| Eric Brandt
|<ref name="IMDbEtoH"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''A Voice in Vision''
| 1957
| TV
| 18 Dec 1957
| [[John Logie Baird]]<br>(as a boy)
|<ref name="IMDb3"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''Run to Earth''
| 1958
| TV
| "Strange Neighbours"<br>11 Feb 1958
| Archie Almond
|<ref name="IMDbRtoESN"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''Run to Earth''
| 1958
| TV
| "Aunt Alexa"<br>18 Feb 1958
| Archie Almond
|<ref name="IMDbRtoEAA"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''Run to Earth''
| 1958
| TV
| "Captain Gaunt's Secret"<br>25 Feb 1958
| Archie Almond
|<ref name="IMDbRtoECGS"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''Run to Earth''
| 1958
| TV
| "Discovery at Dunoon"<br>4 Mar 1958
| Archie Almond
|<ref name="IMDbRtoEDAD">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800597/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6 ''Run to Earth''; Episode: ''Discovery At Dunoon'' (4 March 1958)], IMDb. Retrieved August 2016.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |''Run to Earth''
| 1958
| TV
| "Ninian McHarg"<br>11 Mar 1958
| Archie Almond
|<ref name="IMDbRtoENM"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''French Without Tears''
| 1958
| TV
| S1/Ep.12, 7 Jun 1958
| Lord Heybrook
|<ref name="IMDbFWT"/> by [[Terence Rattigan]]
|-
! scope="row" |[[Peter Sellers on stage, radio, screen and record#Stage credits|''Brouhaha'']]
| 1958
| Stage
| 27 Aug 1958 – 28 Feb 1959 
| Pygmy 
|<ref name="JPWearing_1950-1959"/>{{rp|591}} by [[George Tabori]]
|-
! scope="row" |''[[Room at the Top (1959 film)|Room at the Top]]''
| 1959
| Film
| Released 22 Jan 1959 (UK)
| Raymond (office boy)
|<ref name="IMDb4"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''Judgement in Sunlight''
| 1959
| Stage
| 11 Jan 1959
| (Extra)
|<ref name="JPWearing_1950-1959"/>{{rp|623}} by Michael Kelly
|-
! scope="row" |''Ask for King Billy''
| 1959
| TV
| S1/Ep.4, 24 Nov 1959
| Lanky Graham
|<ref name="IMDbAKB"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''A Holiday Abroad'' 
| 1960
| TV
| S5/Ep.23, 12 Feb 1960
| (Schoolboy)
|<ref name="IMDbAHA"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''Sheep's Clothing'' 
| 1960
| TV
| S1/Ep.2, 25 Sep 1960
| Dan
|<ref name="IMDbSC1"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''Sheep's Clothing'' 
| 1960
| TV
| S1/Ep.3, 2 Oct 1960
| Dan
|<ref name="IMDbSC2"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''Sheep's Clothing'' 
| 1960
| TV
| S1/Ep.4, 9 Oct 1960
| Dan
|<ref name="IMDbSC3"/>
|- 
! scope="row" |''[[The Zoo Story]]''
| 1963
| Stage
|
| Jerry
|<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|42}} by [[Edward Albee]]
|-
! scope="row" |''[[Moytura]]''
| 1963
| Stage
| 24 Sep–6 Oct 1963 
| [[Tethra]] Irish god of war
|<ref name="Moytura1963"/> by [[Pádraic Colum]]
|-
! scope="row" |''Down at Flannery's''
| 1963
| TV
| Autumn 1963
| ?
|<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|42}}<ref name="BFIDAF"/> 
|-
! scope="row" |''[[Tolka Row]]''
| 1964
| TV
| S1/Ep.3, 17 Jan 1964
| Jim "Beardie" Toomey
|<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|42}}<ref name="AITolkaRow"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''Tolka Row''
| 1964
| TV
| S1/Ep.15, 10 Apr 1964
| Jim "Beardie" Toomey
|<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|42}}<ref name="AITolkaRow"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''Tolka Row''
| 1964
| TV
| S1/Ep.16, 17 Apr 1964
| Jim "Beardie" Toomey
|<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|42}}<ref name="AITolkaRow"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''Tolka Row''
| 1964
| TV
| S1/Ep.20, 15 May 1964
| Jim "Beardie" Toomey
|<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|42}}<ref name="AITolkaRow"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''Tolka Row''
| 1964
| TV
| S1/Ep.22, 29 May 1964
| Jim "Beardie" Toomey
|<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|42}}<ref name="AITolkaRow"/>
|-
! scope="row" |''Sir Buccaneer''
| 1964
| Stage
| 28 Sep 1964
| Sir Peregrine
|<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|42}}<ref name="AISirB"/> by Gerry Gallivan
|}
{{hidden end}}

==Awards==
* 2018: Won the first Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed at [[RTÉ Radio 1]]'s inaugural Folk Music Awards.<ref name="AILAAIT2018">{{cite web 
|first= Siobhan |last= Long |title= Andy Irvine: 'Being loved may be an important part of my psyche' | url = https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/andy-irvine-being-loved-may-be-an-important-part-of-my-psyche-1.3632055 |publisher= The Irish Times |website= irishtimes.com
|date= 20 September 2018 |access-date= 2 November 2018}}</ref><ref name="AIRTE2018">{{cite web 
|first= Adrian |last= Scahill |title= A salute to Andy Irvine | url= https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2018/1021/1005709-andy-irvine-profile-folk-awards/ |publisher= RTÉ Radio 1 |website= rte.ie |date= 22 October 2018 |access-date= 2 November 2018}}</ref><ref name="AILAARTE2018">{{cite web |title= RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards Full Show Broadcast | url = https://www.rte.ie/folkawards/#fayPage |publisher= RTÉ Radio 1 |website= rte.ie |date= 25 October 2018 |access-date= 2 November 2018}}</ref>

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* {{cite book|editor1-last=Huntington|editor1-first=Gale|editor2-last=Herrmann|editor2-first=Lani|editor3-last=Dr Moulden|editor3-first=John|year=2010|title=Sam Henry's Songs of the People|location=Athens, GA and London|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-3625-1}}
* {{cite book|last=Irvine|first=Andy|year=1988|title=Aiming for the Heart|edition=1st|location=Germany|publisher=Heupferd Musik Verlag GmbH|isbn=3-923445-01-6}}
* {{cite book|last=Irvine|first=Andy|year=2008|orig-year=First published 1988|title=Aiming for the Heart: Irish Song Affairs|edition=2nd expanded|location=Germany|publisher=Heupferd Musik Verlag GmbH|isbn=978-3-923445-05-9}}
* {{cite book|last=Irwin|first=Colin|year=2003|title=In Search of the Craíc|location=London|publisher=André Deutsch|isbn=0-233-00004-6}}
* {{cite book|last=Kaufman|first=Will|year=2011|title=Woody Guthrie, American Radical|location=Urbana, Chicago and Springfield|publisher=The University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-03602-6}}
* {{cite book|last=Moore|first=Christy|year=2000|title=One Voice: My Life In Song|location=London|publisher=Lir/Hodder and Stoughton|isbn=0-340-76839-8}}
* {{cite book|last=Moore|first=Christy|year=2003|orig-year=First published 2000|title=One Voice|edition=2nd revised|location=London|publisher=Lir/Hodder and Stoughton|isbn=978-0-340-83073-4}}
* {{cite book|last=Moulden|first=John|year=1994|title=Thousands are sailing: a brief song history of Irish emigration|location=Portrush, Northern Ireland|publisher=Ulstersongs|isbn=1-898437-01-7}}
* {{cite book|last1=Ó Callanain|first1= Niall|last2=Walsh|first2=Tommy|year=1989|title=The Irish Bouzouki|location=Ireland|publisher=Waltons|isbn=0-7866-1595-8}}
* {{cite book|last=O'Toole|first=Leagues|year=2006|title=The Humours of Planxty|location=Ireland|publisher=Hodder Headline|isbn=0-340-83796-9}}
* ''Planxty'' (Songbook; 1973), London: Mews Music.<!--ISSN/ISBN needed-->
* {{cite book|last=Wearing|first=J.P.|date=27 March 2014|orig-year=First published 1976|edition=2nd revised|title=The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel|location=Lanham, MD|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Education|isbn=978-0-8108-9301-6}}
* {{cite book|last=Wearing|first=J.P.|date=16 September 2014|orig-year=First published 1976|edition=2nd revised|title=The London Stage 1950-1959: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel|location=Lanham, MD|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Education|isbn=978-0-8108-9307-8}}

==See also==
* [[Eddie Butcher]]
* [[List of Irish theatres and theatre companies]]
* [[Sam Henry (musicologist)|Sam Henry]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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