Here's a tune I was asked to play.  It is named after the great Sligo fiddle player whose name escapes me just now.

This isn't really a flute tune.  It comes from the fiddle playing of Francie Byrne from Kilcar, Co. Donegal.

This isn't really a flute tune.  It comes from the fiddle playing of Francie Byrne from Kilcar, Co. Donegal.

All I know about this tune is what I read about it in Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol 5.  It says there that the fiddler James McEnery composed it.  I hope I'm not decomposing it too much here.

The title of this tune (and song of the same name) translates as "The Seaweed of the Yellow Cliff".

- a tune caught between a wrack and a hard place perhaps.

There are a few versions of this tune but I could only think of this one just now.  I still have to think of the other tunes which are on my list to play here but my thought processes are running very slow these days.

Here's a tune I stole from a recording of Con Cassidy.

I don't know much about it, except for what the notes are.  I suppose that's a start.

Here's a tune I stole from a recording of Con Cassidy.

I don't know much about it, except for what the notes are.  I suppose that's a start.

Here's a jig I heard on a recording of Michael Gorman.  It's called Guiry's favourite in O'Neill's.

I was a bit distracted by an infant with a new set of noisy birthday presents but hopefully the tune recovers sufficiently frequently to make it possible to pick up.

Here's a jig I heard on a recording of Michael Gorman.  It's called Guiry's favourite in O'Neill's.

I was a bit distracted by an infant with a new set of noisy birthday presents but hopefully the tune recovers sufficiently frequently to make it possible to pick up.

I'm a bit behind on recording tunes at the moment.  I'm even behind with being behind with things.  I think that's what's behind the delays.

Anyway.  I was asked for "The Lads of Laois", so here it is / they are, unleashed.  I think I was asked for a nice version.  I never really had a nice version so I had to record a nasty one.

I listened back to the start of this recording through my computer's speakers and it sounded as if the tune was being played underwater on a trombone but maybe once it has been hung out on the web for a while it'll dry out a bit.  I'll record the other tunes on my list once I find the list.