Tunes
Below are our branch tunes, arranged into sets as played at our branch sessions. Click the tune name to view the tune music in sheet and ABC notation, click the mp3 link to hear the tune.
Most of our branch tune sets are taken from the Foinn Seisiún series of books and accompanying CDs produced by Comhaltas, click here to see more information on these Comhaltas learning resources.
Beginners/early improvers
- Níl Sé Ina Lá
- Fainne gael an lae
- Roddy McCorley
- Peigín Leitir Móir
- Bog Braon
- The Dingle polka
- Mary's spinning wheel
- The eagle's whistle
- Down by the sally gardens
- An Ghaoth Aneas (The south wind)
- The Kerry Polka (Peg Ryan's) (mp3) \ The Newmarket polka \ The Britches full of Stitches
- Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile \ Maggie in the woods \ Bog down in the valley-O
- Sonny's Mazurka (mp3) \ Shoe the Donkey (mp3)
Polkas
Slides
Slip Jigs
Barndances
Marches
Double Jigs
- Geese in the Bog (mp3) \ The Connaughtman's rambles (mp3) \ Out on the Ocean (mp3)
- Jerry's beaver hat (mp3) \ The Kesh (mp3) \ The rambling pitchfork (mp3)
- The humours of Glendart (mp3) \ Saddle the Pony (mp3) \ Tobins Favourite (mp3)
- Paddy in London \ The blackthorn stick \ Paddy's return (mp3)
- The frost is all over (mp3) \ The Eavesdropper (mp3) \ Sixpenny money (mp3)
Hornpipes
- The Boys of Bluehill (mp3) \ The harvest home (Cork hornpipe) (mp3)
- Off to California (mp3) \ The Liverpool Hornpipe (mp3) \ Murphy's hornpipe (mp3)
- Plains of Boyle (mp3) \ Pretty Maggie Morrissey
- The rights of man (mp3) \ The pride of Petrafore
Reels
- The Boyne Hunt (mp3) \ The Shannon Breeze (mp3) \ The red haired lass (mp3)
- Miss McLeods (mp3) \ The Merry Blacksmith (mp3) \ The Sally Gardens (mp3)
- Cooley's reel (mp3) \The wise maid (mp3) \The bird in the bush (mp3)
- Anything for John Joe \ O'Connell's trip to parliament \ The Hunters House (mp3)
- The Silver Spear (mp3) \ Father Kellys (mp3) \ Miss Monaghan (mp3)
- Maid behind the Bar (mp3) \ The Kilmaley (mp3) \ The Green Mountain (mp3)
- Cup of tea (mp3) \ The New Copperplate (mp3) \ The Old Copperplate (mp3)
Waltzes
Slow airs/O'Carolan's
