It Was Great Altogether TSCD680T[1] subtitled The continuing tradition of Irish music in London is the second album in the fourth series of The Voice of the People from Topic Records.

Reg Hall defines the booklet of the other compilation in the series, the 'London-Irish' as a distinct ethnic community of settled migrants and their offspring with topping up from a constant trickle of immigrants from Ireland.

[3] His involvement in documenting the phenomena continued when he co-produced Paddy in the Smoke with Bill Leader in 1968, recorded in The Favourite public house in Holloway.

The cardboard case does not detail the tracks in the compilation but does identify all the musicians and in the brief notes explains the place of Irish music in the lives of the migrant population in the 1950s.

The musicians in the Thatch Ceili Band are Bobby Casey, Brendan Mulkere & Adrian Bourke(fiddles), Roger Sherlock & Paul Gallagher(flutes), Tommy Keane(uilleann pipes), John Bowe(accordion), Mick O’Connor(banjo), Kevin Taylor(piano), Mick Whelan(drums).

The musicians in The Auld Triangle Ceili Band are Teresa Heanue & Sinead Linane(fiddles), James Carty, Mick Mulvey & John Murphy(flutes), Gary Connolly & Maureen Linane(accordions), Karen Ryan(banjo), Reg Hall(piano), Pat McNamee(drums).