Here's a good standard jig.  It seems to get  a bit neglected these days.

I've always wanted this to be the salamander reel. The picture is of a salamander from the Spanish Armada. Maybe it came from Salamanca. It was very kind of the Ulster Museum to lend it to me.

I have fairly vague memories of the lats time there was a new century.  I suspect the title of this tune refers to the one before that.  The absence of my having been born adds to my amnesia regarding that event.  I hope I've at least remembered the tune.  I think it is in O'Neill's and on the "Contentment is Wealth" record of Sean Keane and Matt Molloy.  You could check those sources for a bit of reassurance.

A version of his tune is in Ceol Rince na hÉireann 3 under this name. I've never heard a name for it in "real life" or "reel life".

A version of his tune is in Ceol Rince na hÉireann 3 under this name. I've never heard a name for it in "real life" or "reel life".

This is what this reel is called on Noel Hill and Tony McMahon's LP. I have the end a bit iffy ish - especially the first time round. I think it recovers after that but I then smelt my dinner when I was nearly finished and my mouth began to water. I'm a fairly bad cook (potatoes, tinned tuna and the rest of yesterday's packet of salad) but I was hungry. That'll learn me.

I hope the tune's nicer than my meal.

Here's a particularly flutey reel.

There aren't all that many notes in this tune.  I sometimes think that makes it a bit tricky but most of the time I'm not thinking about anything at all.

It can be found on Noel Hill and Tony McMahon's i gCnoc na Graí record.  They seem to have been able to work it out OK.

Here's a reel associated with the Roscommon flute player of this name.

Here's a particularly flutey reel.