I'm still in hornpipe mode. The is a fairly common one and is also quite cheerful.

Here's a popular hornpipe named after a bay named after a popular city.

It's usually in G minor but I've played it here in A minor which is a bit more flutish.

There's a fairly new sewerage treatment plant in Galway Bay. I don't know whether hornpipes were used in its construction or not.

Here's a popular hornpipe named after a popular city.

I think this reel was found under one.  I had a bit of a sour taste in my mouth when I was playing it; it mustn't have been ripe.  The fact that my mouth was curled up it the manner of a cow licking pee of a nettle might help explain why the playing is a bit more miss than hit.

I can't tell you much about this tune. This version is fairly close to the one Sonny McDonagh recorded for Brendán Breathnach's Ceol Rince na hÉireann Vol 2.

I'm sure this one is actually le hAinm but I can't remember the name. It's on a very popular record - Noel Hill & Tony Linnane's LP. I've lost this record so I can't get the name of the tune. If someone can remember the name, please let me know and I'll update the title here.

I've 2 suggestions now for the name. Is it now "Kitty's Wedding to Joe Cooley"?

... Joe Cooley seems to be in the lead at the moment.

I'm still in hornpipe mode. The is a fairly common one and is also quite cheerful.

Here's a tune I heard on a Tommy Peoples record a good few years ago. The passage of time might explain how my memory of which note go where has gone who knows where. For a fiddle tune, I think it's OK for the flute.

Here's a tune I learned years ago from a transcription of John Egan's flute playing. It was in a journal called "Ceol" which Brandán Breathnach used to produce in the 1960s. I used to go to the Central Library in Belfast in the 1980s and photocopy tunes from it.

There may well be another name for this tune but I don't know it. I think it's a lovely, straightforward sort of tune. The grammar in the title might be slightly amiss but the notes are OK.