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{{Infobox album
| name = No Frontiers
| type = [[Album]]
| artist = [[Mary Black]]
| cover = Blacknofrontiers.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1989
| recorded = April–June 1989
| venue =
| studio = Windmill Lane Studios, [[Dublin]], Ireland
| genre = [[Celtic music|Celtic]]
| length =
| label = Dara Records
| producer = [[Declan Sinnott]]
| prev_title = By the Time it Gets Dark
| prev_year = 1987
| next_title = Babes in the Wood
| next_year = 1991
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name=Allmusic>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=no-frontiers-mw0000315036 |pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref>
}}
'''''No Frontiers''''' is an album by [[Music of Ireland|Irish singer]] [[Mary Black]]. The album was one of Ireland's best selling albums of 1989 and introduced her to audiences elsewhere in Europe and in the United States and Japan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mpibands.com/maryblack.htm |title= Mary Black |publisher=Management Promotion International |accessdate=2012-03-03 | quote="No Frontiers" followed and proved to be one of Ireland's best selling albums of 1989. It also established Mary in new markets in Europe, the US and Japan.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=On This Day: Irish singer Mary Black was born in Dublin in 1955 |url=https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/mary-black-irish-singer |website=IrishCentral.com |access-date=5 November 2024}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|reason=source is manager/promoter for Mary Black|date=March 2012}} The album spent 56 weeks in the Irish Top 30.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hotpress.com/news/6047624.html |title=Mary Black to play three Ireland dates |publisher=[[Hot Press]] |date=24 November 2009 |accessdate=3 January 2016}}</ref>

==Track listing==
#"[[No Frontiers (song)|No Frontiers]]" ([[Jimmy MacCarthy]]) – 3:57
#"[[Past the Point of Rescue (song)|Past the Point of Rescue]]" ([[Mick Hanly]]) – 6:45
#"The Shadow" (Donagh Long) – 5:46
#"Carolina Rua" (Thom Moore) – 5:04
#"Shuffle of the Buckled" (MacCarthy) – 4:17
#"Columbus" (Noel Brazil) – 4:10
#"Another Day" (MacCarthy) – 4:34
#"Fat Valley of Pain" (Brazil) – 6:20
#"[[I Say a Little Prayer]]" ([[Burt Bacharach]], [[Hal David]]) – 5:34
#"Vanities" (Brazil) – 4:38
#"The Fog in Monterey" (Moore) – 4:02

==Personnel==
*Mary Black - vocals
*[[Declan Sinnott]] - guitars, harmony vocals, producer
*Pat Crowley - accordion, keyboards, harmony vocals
*Garvan Gallagher - double bass, harmony vocals
*Noel Bridgeman - percussion, harmony vocals
*Carl Geraghty - saxophone
*[[Dónal Lunny]] - synthesizer (tracks 1, 3, 6, 7)<ref name="discogs">{{Discogs release|3501027}}</ref>
*[[Caroline Lavelle]] - cello (tracks 3, 6)
*Mandy Murphy - backing vocals (tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11)
*Tony Davis - backing vocals (tracks 2, 9)
;Technical
*DanDan FitzGerald - recording and mixing engineer

==References==
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[[Category:1989 albums]]
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