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Siúlach Scéalach

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Cuireadh Topic Records ar bun sa bhliain 1939 i Sasana mar chuid den Workers’ Musical Association a bhí mar pháirt de ghluaiseacht an Chumannachais ag an am sa tír, mar sin tá siad ag ceiliúradh 80 bliain ar an bhfód i mbliana.  Anocht, in eagrán speisialta de Siúlach Scéalach ag 8 pm ar RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, míneoidh Ian Lee stair an chomhlachta dúinn, agus casfaidh sé cuid de na taifid is tábhachtaí a d’eisigh siad thar na blianta.   Bhí Ewan MacColl agus A. L. Lloyd ar an stiúir ó na caogaidí i leith i Topic, agus i measc na ndaoine a taifeadadh as an tír seo bhí Margaret Barry, Sarah Makem, Bobby Casey, Seosamh Ó hÉanaí, Seán Mac Donncha, Hugh Gillespie, Na McPeakes, Mary Ann Carolan, Willie Clancy,  Séamus Ennis, Packie Duignan agus Séamus Horan, Paddy Tunney agus lear mór eile. 

Topic Records was founded in 1939 in England as an offshoot of the Communist Workers’ Music Association, and is a  label with a longstanding association with traditional and folk music in both Britain and Ireland.  Ewan McColl and A. L. Lloyd were the helm of the organisation from the fifties on, and musicians issued by Topic include Margaret Barry, Sarah Makem, Bobby Casey, Joe Heaney, Seán Mac Donncha, Hugh Gillespie, The McPeakes, Mary Ann Carolan, Willie Clancy and Séamus Ennis.  Tonight Ian Lee brings us a special programme about the history of Topic Records.