Here's a jig Mary Bergin recorded.  It's not a long way to Old Tipperary from this tune on the same record.

Here's a jig Mary Bergin recorded.  It's not a long way to Old Tipperary from this tune on the same record.

Here's a common enough reel named after a far from common fiddle player.  The tune may well have other names but this is what Roger Sherlock called it on a record.

Here's a tune Brandán Breathnach collected from the South Sligo whistle player Jimmy McGettrick and included in Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2, number 215.

Here's the one after the one before it.  This tune is fairly hyperphenominally popular and can be found rattling around sessions everywhere.  I'd imagine Miltown Malbay is getting its fair share as we speak.

Here's a reel named after a great Co. Galway piper who moved to America and made a great success of his career as a musician and entertainer. I believe he was hyperphenominal.

I just impaled my food (I meant to write "foot" - never ask a spellchecker to make your dinner - fish fingers are where I draw the line)  on a cassette (pre-recorded / legal and all that) of Matt Molloys's first record. Never walk round an untidy house with bare feet. Anyway, this tune is on that record. I had to keep time here with my wrong foot as the right one was (and is) still sore. I hope this hasn't interfered with the flow.

Here's a reel named after a great Co. Galway piper who moved to America and made a great success of his career as a musician and entertainer. I believe he was hyperphenominal.

I just impaled my food (I meant to write "foot" - never ask a spellchecker to make your dinner - fish fingers are where I draw the line)  on a cassette (pre-recorded / legal and all that) of Matt Molloys's first record. Never walk round an untidy house with bare feet. Anyway, this tune is on that record. I had to keep time here with my wrong foot as the right one was (and is) still sore. I hope this hasn't interfered with the flow.

Here's one a good friend reminded me of recently. I'll now maybe give my poor old Rudall / Willis / Murray creation a chance to rest and settle into its newfound freedom from its 3 year long subescalatory incarceration.

Here's an Ed. Reavy composition.  I was reminded of it this week by the fiddle player Dónal O'Connor - one of Dundalk's finest musical exports to Belfast.

Here's another John Doherty tune. He's been ringing in my ears of late.

I remembered after playing the tune that this old flute has low C keys.  Maybe I should have used the C# key in the first part.  On second thoughts, I shouldn't have.  That note belongs on a fiddle.