The Early Days of Irish Music in London (TSCD679T)[1] is the first album in the fourth series of The Voice of the People from Topic Records and comprises three CDs.

Reg Hall in the accompanying booklet defines 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.

[4] 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, London.

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 Hibernian Ceili Band are Brendan McGlinchey(fiddle), Roger Sherlock(flute), Raymond Roland(accordion), Liam Farrell(banjo), PJ Hines(piano), Brian Green(drums)