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Music from Ireland
Jigs
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Ceol Rince na hEireann
O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland (1907)
O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1903)
Bulmer & Sharpley, Music From Ireland, 4 vols (1974)
The Northern Fiddler
Kerr's Merry Melodies
Ryan's Mammoth Collection
Allan's Irish Fiddler
Nigel Gatherer
Paul de Grae
Philippe Varlet
Kenny Hadden
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| Title |
Book |
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Notes |
| Andy McGann's |
B3,65 |
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From Andy McGann.
Recordings: Buttons & Bows, The First Month of Summer
Kevin Burke/Jackie Daley, Eavesdropper (1981) |
| Bank of Turf, The |
B4,48 |
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From Denis Murphy (fiddle).
PdG: Recorded by Paddy Glackin as Pádraig
O'Keeffe's Slide - transcribed in CRE3,56.
PV: Called Padraig O'Keeffe's by Denis Murphy and Julia
Clifford.
DL: I've always called that Tom Billy's #2, but I don't
remember where I got that title.
Recordings:
Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford, The Star Above the Garter |
| Battering Ram |
B1,54 |
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From The Regent Hotel, Leeds.
Recordings: The Chieftains 1. |
| Behind the Haystack |
B1,63 |
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From Matt Molloy (flute).
NG: Aka The Munster Buttermilk
Recordings:
Molloy/Brady/Peoples (1978) |
| Bill Hartes |
B1,55 |
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From The Regent Hotel, Leeds. |
| Bobby Casey's |
B3,60 |
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PdG: Aka Scully Casey's after Bobby's father Scully,
as on the Kevin Burke/Jackie Daley 'Eavesdropper' album
transcribed in CRE3,16.
Recordings:
Kevin Burke/Jackie Daley, Eavesdropper (1981) |
| Bride's Favourite |
B1,60 |
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From The Regent Hotel, Leeds. |
| Burke's |
B2,42 |
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From Joe Burke. ABC notation: 1,
2,
3.
PdG: Aka Connie O'Connell's from Matt
Cranitch's 'Irish Fiddle Book'.
PdG: While going through the photocopied copy of the Martin Mulvihill collection which a
kind friend sent me, I noticed a hand-written comment next to Burke's Jig (jig no. 79):
"a Donegal tune from Lad O'Beirne's crowd". I'm not sure if this comment appears in the
original. The tune is otherwise associated with Joe Burke.
Paul McEvoy: My teacher, Pete Kelly, claims to have composed what is known around here
as Burke's Jig. I believe he calls it The Shannonairs Jig, after a childrens group that
organized in NYC in the 60's and took on tour.
Lesl Harker: Aka Matt Molloy's Jig, Coughlan's, Charlie
Mulvihill's.
Recordings: |
| Butterfly, The |
B3,79 |
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Slip Jig. |
| Carraroe |
B3,50 |
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From Tommy Peoples (fiddle). |
| Castle, The |
B1,56 |
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From The Regent Hotel, Leeds.
NG: Aka The Kesh Jig. Aka Carty's Jig or Kathy's Jig (CRE2,294).
Recordings:
Various, Music At Matt Molloy's. |
| Choice Wife, The |
B2,53 |
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Slip Jig. |
| Coleman's 1 |
B3,77 |
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Slip Jig. From Michael Coleman.
Aka The Promenade. |
| Coleman's 2 |
B3,78 |
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Slip Jig. From Michael Coleman.
PdG: Aka Comb Your Hair and Curl It (DMI 447).
Recordings: The Chieftains 1. |
| Coleman's Cross |
B3,54 |
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From Michael Coleman. Recordings: The Bothy Band (1975) |
| Connie Walsh's |
B2,60 |
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Slide (abc). PdG: "Generally known here as The Cu/il Aodha (Coolea)
Slide (e.g., in Matt Cranitch's book) |
| Dan Dowd's |
B4,61 |
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PdG: The Nightingale, comp. Seán Ryan (HI, p13). |
| Daniel O'Connell's |
B4,51 |
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| Denis Murphy's |
B2,62 |
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Slide. From Denis Murphy (fiddle).
PdG: Called The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue in
CRE3,50.
Recordings: The Chieftains 3. |
| Dinny Delaney |
B4,81 |
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Slide. PdG: "Called The Old Hag in the Kiln in CRE2,88 from
Pat Mitchell (pipes), who got the tune from a cylinder recording
made by piper Dinny Delaney."
Recordings:
Tommy Peoples, The High Part of the Road (1976)
Kevin Burke, If the Cap Fits...(1978) |
| Farewell to Gurteen |
B3,53 |
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| Fraher's |
B3,59 |
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Recordings:
Paddy Glackin/Paddy Keenan, Doublin' (1978) |
| Frieze Britches |
B1,65 |
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From The Regent Hotel, Leeds. |
| Gillian's Apples |
B2,39 |
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PdG: "Correctly called Gillan's Apples; it is a
version of Apples in Winter which O'Neill got from a
musician called John Gillan. Breathnach gives Jackson's
Growling Cat as one of several other titles, but it's not
a Jackson composition."
Recordings: Andy McGann/Paul Reynolds (1977)
The Chieftains 2
Molloy/Keane/McGlynn, Contentment Is Wealth |
| Humours of Ballyloughlin |
B4,60 |
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From Tommy Peoples (fiddle).
NG: Aka "The Hurler's March"
Recordings: Eileen Ivers (1994); Matt Molloy
and Donal Lunny; Planxty, |
| Humours of Ennistymon |
B3,49 |
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From Michael Coleman.
PdG: More usually called The Humours of Cappagh
(DMI 56, MOI 779), Cherish the Ladies is an ellaborated
version of this tune. |
| Humours of Kilclogher |
B3,64 |
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PdG: Called Éilís Ní Cheallaigh (Elizabeth Kelly) in
CRE1,56, in honour of John Kelly's mother or grandmother. It's
sometimes called The Humours of Kiltyclogher.
PV: This is a single jig from West Clare, the correct title
being Humours of Kilclogher.
GT: Also appears on Fisherstreet's 'Out in the Night', where it is
played as a flute/ pipes duet tuned down to Bb and at a very
stately pace -- a lovely piece of playing.
Recordings: John Kelly Sr, Ceol an Clair (Comhaltas)
Liam O'Flynn, The Piper's Call (abc) |
| Is Maith Le Nora |
B2,67 |
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Slide. |
| John Kelly's |
B2,58 |
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Slide. From John Kelly.
Recordings: The Chieftains 3. |
| Ken Fahey's |
B4,55 |
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From Ken Fahey (flute). NG: Sounds like a version of Geese In the Bog. |
| Kerry, The |
B2,41 |
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PV: often called The Kerry Jig but it's really a
composition of Charlie Mulvihill, so I call it Charlie
Mulvihill's.
DL: It's called Mulvihill's on 'The Atlantic
Wave cd, which features Paddy Reynolds, Charlie Mulvihill,
James Keane, and Felix Dolan. From the liner notes:
"...a Charlie Mulvihill original, was a favorite of the
late County Kerry fiddler Denis Murphy and other Kerry
musicians and has accordingly often been called The Kerry
Jig". |
| Kilavel Jig, The |
B3,47 |
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From Seamus Tansy.
PdG: Aka Killavel Jig, Killavil Jig. Aka The Sligo Jig
and The Trip to Killavil.
Recordings:
Molloy/Brady/Peoples (1978) |
| Kilfenora, The |
B2,34 |
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| King's Jig, The |
B4,64 |
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| Knights of St Patrick |
B1,57 |
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From Jimmy McHugh (fiddle).
Recordings: John Doherty, Bundle and Go |
| Knocknagow |
B4,44 |
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From Tommy Peoples (fiddle).
PdG: This is in O'Neill (MOI 1113). This and the
follwing are played together as a single 4-part
tune on a Joe Burke album.
Recordings: Eileen Ivers (1994). |
| Knocknagow No.2 |
B4,45 |
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From Tommy Peoples (fiddle). |
| Langstern's Pony |
B2,44 |
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| Langstrom's Pony |
B2,44 |
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From Pat Neilly (fiddle). |
| Lark's March, The |
B4,62 |
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From Matt Molloy (flute).
PdG: "A version of Geese in the Bog". |
| Legacy, The |
B3,63 |
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| Lilting Banshee |
B2,40 |
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From Paddy McNicholas. Aka The Miller of Glanmire (DMI 48,
MOI 765). A Lilt from Home (WS 140) is similar. (PdG) |
| Lisheen, The |
B2,64 |
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Slide. From Denis Murphy (fiddle). |
| Maid in the Meadow |
B1,61 |
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From Cathal McConnell (flute). PdG:"better known to me as
The Green Fields of America." |
| MacCallum's |
B3,66 |
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Aka The Chapel Bell (Kevin Burke, 'Up Close') (PdG). |
| McGlinchy's |
B2,43 |
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From Jimmy McHugh (fiddle).
PdG: The (or A) Bush on the Hill ( respectively,
recorded by Liz Carroll and her father on 'Fathers and
Daughters', and in 'Brenda Stubbert's Collection of Fiddle
Tunes', both in the key of A). Credited to Brendan McGlinchey
on the recording, but Brendan himself told me that he did
not write it, nor does he know who did; he thinks it may
have come (or come back?) to Ireland via Ciarán
Mac Mathúna's recordings of Irish and Irish-American
musicians in America in the 1960s. Known around here (Kerry)
as The Lowdown Jig.
PV: The complete title for this is The Bush on the Hill and
it's also called The Old West Clare Jig. Paddy Killoran
recorded it on a post WWII 78 and during a concert at the
GPO Dublin in 1949 (he and his band had been playing on a
ship going to Ireland).
Luke O'Malley: Is this a three part jig in which the first
part starts with an open string G and continues in a G
arpeggio for the first measure and one-half? If it is, the
jig was written by Jack McKenna! He worked as an
accompanist for Paddy for many years, appeared on one of
Martin Mulhaire recordings, etc. He was an accomplished
violinist, but played mostly jazz. He composed it and
mentioned that Killoran took it over, reworked it, and
recorded it as his own.
Recordings:
Mick Moloney, Strings Attached
Tony de Marco/Brian Conway: The Apple in Winter (1981) |
| McGreavy's |
B4,57 |
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From Jimmy McHugh (fiddle). |
| McHugh's |
B4,58 |
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From Jimmy McHugh (fiddle). |
| McHugh's |
B4,63 |
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From Jimmy McHugh (fiddle). |
| Merrily Kiss the Quaker |
B1,77 |
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Slide.
Patrick Hutchison: I've been playing the 2nd setting
of Merrily Kissed the Quaker's Wife by Danny
O'Donnell for some years, and thought that you might like
to know that when I played it for Seamus Connolly (the
fiddle player from Killaloe), he immediately dredged up the
title "The Gates of Derry" from his prodigious
memory.
Recordings: Planxy: First Album (1973).
The Chieftains 3. |
| Metal Bridge, The |
B3,46 |
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PdG: "Aka Nóra Críonna; ('The Dance Music
of Willie Clancy', 152), but this is also the name of another jig." |
| Micky O'Callaghan's |
B4,59 |
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PdG: This is a Clare slide, named for a friend of John
Kelly; aka Micho Russell's Slide. |
| Millpond, The |
B4,47 |
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(abc) |
| Misty Mountain, The |
B3,61 |
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Aka The Mist Covered Mountains
PdG: Comp. by Junior Crehan based on the Scottish song
The Mist Covered Mountains of Home, or Chi Mi na Morbheanna. |
| Mug of Brown Ale, The |
B3,57 |
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PdG: "The Mug of Brown Ale is the name of two separate
jigs, each of which has another name. This one is also
called Delaney's Drummers (DMI 305), and the other one is
also called Old Man Dillon (DMI 75, MOI 804)." |
| O'Keeffe's |
B2,57 |
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Slide. From Denis Murphy (fiddle).
PdG: Aka Dan O'Keeffe's, and Danny
Ab's after a neighbour of Denis Murphy and Julia
Clifford.
Recordings:
O'Keeffe/Clifford/Murphy etc, Kerry Fiddles |
| O'Keeffe's |
B2,61 |
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Slide. From Denis Murphy (fiddle). Aka Dan O'Keeffe's, and Danny
Ab's after a neighbour of Denis Murphy and Julia
Clifford. (PdG) |
| Old Favourite, The |
B4,53 |
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Slide. PdG: "properly a single jig or slide; (if I recall
correctly) named after a pub in Islington, London, which was
popular with the Irish community." |
| Old Leitrim |
B2,37 |
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From Cathal McConnell (flute).
DL: This tune was composed by Vincent Broderick and
is included in his book of compositions, 'The Turoe Stone'.
He calls it The Haunted House. The liner notes on the
The Lonely Stranded Band gave me the proper name. I first
heard this tune from the Longridge Ceili Band in Buncrana,
1979, at the all-Ireland ceili band competition.
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| Orphan, The |
B4,56 |
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PdG: "Seems to be related to Miss Casey (MOI 1094);
the resemblance is more noticeable in the setting of
Miss Casey in Jerry O'Brien's 'Irish Folk Dance
Music'". |
| Paddy Clancy's |
B2,38 |
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Aka Coleman's Favourite (Tommy Peoples tune book
and tape). (PdG) |
| Paddy Fahey's |
B2,46 |
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From Jimmy McHugh (fiddle).
Recordings:
Kevin Burke, If the Cap Fits...(1978)
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| Paddy Glackin's |
B4,49 |
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| Paddy McNicholas's |
B2,35 |
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From Paddy McNicholas.
PdG: Better known as The Black Rogue, which is also the
title of a related tune also called (This) Life is all
Chequered (DMI 302, MOI 915). |
| Paddy Taylor's |
B3,51 |
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From Paddy Taylor and Vincent Tighe. |
| Port Gan Ainm |
B1,62 |
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From The Regent Hotel, Leeds. |
| Port Gan Ainm |
B3,52 |
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| Port Gan Ainm |
B4,46 |
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From Cathal McConnell (flute).
Alan NG: This is Whistler at the Wake by Vincent
Broderick. |
| Port Gan Ainm |
B4,50 |
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PdG: "Aka Pádraig Mac
Giollarnáth (CRE1,44), which is the name of the
man from whom Breathnach's source learned it." |
| Port Gan Ainm |
B4,52 |
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DL: This is another Vincent Broderick composition
found in 'The Turoen Stone'. He calls it
The Old Flail. |
| Port Gan Ainm |
B4,54 |
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From Gary Cronin (fiddle). |
| Port Luascaigh Gan Ainm |
B2,55 |
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Slip Jig. From Cathal McConnell (flute). |
| Port Luascaigh Gan Ainm |
B4,88 |
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Slip Jig. PdG: "A variant of Tipperary Hills
(DMI 430, MOI 1148)."
Alan NG: Aka Michael Gorman's and Bells of
Tiperary.
Recordings: Bothy band, Old Hag... (1976) |
| Port Luascaigh Gan Ainm |
B4,89 |
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NG: Slip Jig. Aka The Foxhunters' Jig.
Alan NG: Aka The Humours of Derrycrosane; Humours of
Derrykrosane; The Humours of Derrycrossane; Pléaraca
Dhoire an Chreasáin; Humours of Derrykissane;
Foxhunter's Jig; The Foxhunters; Fiagaí an Mhadra Rua.
Recordings: Declan Masterton, End of the Harvest (1990) |
| Port Sheain Sheosaima |
B1,58 |
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From Jimmy McHugh (fiddle). From The Regent Hotel, Leeds.
PdG: "properly Port Sheáin tSeosaimh, or John
Joe's Jig; a.k.a. John Mahinney's No. 1 in Sliabh
Luachra - John Mahinney Barnard was a friend of Bill
'The Weaver' Murphy, father of Denis Murphy and Julia
Clifford." |
| Port Singil Gan Ainm |
B2,65 |
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From Denis Murphy (fiddle). |
| Port Singil Gan Ainm |
B2,66 |
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Alan Ng: Aka Kathleen Hehir's. |
| Port Singil Gan Ainm |
B4,82 |
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From Seamus Creagh (fiddle). |
| Port Singil Gan Ainm |
B4,83 |
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From Seamus Creagh (fiddle).
Alan NG: Aka Eibhlín ni Riordáin's
(Riordan's). |
| Port Singil Gan Ainm |
B4,84 |
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PdG: This is The Road to Lisdoonvarna; also played,
suitably altered, as a reel.
Recordings: The Chieftains 3 (1973) |
| Port Singil Gan Ainm |
B4,85 |
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From Seamus Creagh (fiddle). |
| Port Singil Gan Ainm |
B4,86 |
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PdG: Matt Molloy plays this on one of the Bothy
Band albums - I can't recall the album or the tune
just now (abc). Ron Steed posted a fife tune
(abc)
of which the first part is practically the same as this.
JL: "...it's called Rosie Finn's Favourite on
'After Hours' and 'BBC Live'" (Bothy Band albums).
Recordings: The Bothy Band, Old Hag...(1976) |
| Redicans |
B3,48 |
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PdG: Aka Larry Redican's Jig, composed by Larry Redican (see
notes for Rattigans). |
| Sean Ryan's |
B3,55 |
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From Sean Ryan.
PdG: The Castle, comp Seán Ryan (HI, p10); O'Connell's
Welcome to Dublin or Father Morrison's Delight (CRE2, 35).
The Castle (B1,35) is a different jig, better known as The Kesh. |
| Shores of Lough Gowna |
B2,36 |
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From Joe Burke, accordeon.
Recordings:
Dick Gaughan, Coppers and Brass. |
| Slieve Russell |
B3,45 |
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PdG: Slieve Russel, or Sliabh Russel is a hill in
County Cavan. Also the name of a hotel and golf course. |
| Sport of the Chase, The |
B1,75 |
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Slip Jig. From John Doonan. Aka "New Claret". |
| Sporting Pitchfork, The |
B3,56 |
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Recordings:
Paddy Glackin/Paddy Keenan, Doublin' (1978) |
| Star Above the Garter |
B2,59 |
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Slide. From Denis Murphy (fiddle). |
| Tansey's Fancy |
B3,58 |
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| Thrush in the Straw, The |
B3,62 |
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From Vincent Tighe.
PdG: "Aka The Humours of Lisheen in Sliabh
luachra. The Woeful Widow (DMI 307) is very similar."
Recordings:
O'Keeffe/Clifford/Murphy etc, Kerry Fiddles |
| To Limerick We Will Go |
B1,76 |
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Slip Jig. From Ali Anderson.
PdG: This is in O'Neill's MOI (abc)
under the slightly different title To Limerick We Go. |
| Tom Billy's |
B3,67 |
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From Denis Murphy (fiddle).
PdG: Aka The Flowers of Spring (CRE2, 31). |
| Tom Billy's |
B3,68 |
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From Denis Murphy (fiddle). |
| Tommy Hunt's |
B2,56 |
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Slip Jig. The Chieftains 3. |
| Tommy Peoples |
B1,64 |
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From Tommy Peoples (fiddle).
PdG: Gráinne's Jig, comp by Tommy Peoples ('Fifty
Irish Fiddle Tunes'), Called Redican's (!) in Bernard
Flaherty's 'Trip to Sligo'. |
| Tommy Peoples |
B2,45 |
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From Tommy Peoples (fiddle).
PdG: Pay the Reckoning (CRE1, 19 - the most common
name), Jackson's Bottle of Brandy (DMI 145, MOI 898),
Bobbing for Eels (MOI 1006). According to Breathnach,
probably not a Jackson composition. |
| Tommy Peoples |
B3,70 |
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From Tommy Peoples (fiddle).
PdG: King of the Pipers (CRE3, 35). |
| Tone Rowe's |
B3,69 |
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From Sean McGuire (fiddle).
Tonra's Jig, comp by Brendan Tonra from Mayo, who
has lived for many years in Boston. (PdG) |
| Weaver's, The |
B2,63 |
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Slide. PdG: "...refers to Bill "The Weaver" Murphy,
father of Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford". |
| Whinny Hills of Leitrim |
B2,54 |
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Slip Jig. From Michael Turbridy.
PdG: " [This] is the usual name for this tune;
CRE 1, 67, is different". |
| Willie Coleman's |
B1,59 |
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Recordings:
Matt Molloy and Donal Lunny |
| Yellow John |
B4,87 |
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Slide. NG: Aka "Over the Water to Charlie" |
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