Here is a list of tunes learned and/or played by the Irish tunes class. Clicking on some tune titles will enable you to download an ABC cheat sheet or music notation for the tune (I am working to add all of these – please come back later if the one you want isn’t there!).
Where proper musical notation isn’t available, I advise you to look up the tune title on The Session website and download it from there. Please be aware that versions/settings on The Session may differ from the notes taught in class, as our emphasis is on learning tunes by ear.
Jigs
Kilmovee / The Morning Lark / Bohola
Out on the Ocean / The Cliffs of Moher
The Coming of Spring / Fly in the Porter (both composed by Paddy O’Brien)
Humours of Glendart / Donnybrook Fair
Tell Her I Am / The Battering Ram
Whelans Jig / Whelans Old Sow / Price of My Pig
Fairhaired Boy / Scatter the Mud
Sport / Winnie Hayes
Wallop the Spot / Spot the Wallop
Scotsman Over the Border / Tom Billy’s
Paddy Fahy’s Jig / Pipe on the Hob
Geese in the Bog / The Holly Bush
Reels
Trip to Kinvara / Devanny’s Goat
Christmas Eve / Kitty Gone a Milking
Jackie Coleman’s / Cooleys / Come West Along the Road
Skylark / Star of Munster
Tarbolton / Longford Collector /Sailor’s Bonnet
Down the Broom / Gatehouse Maid
Bucks of Oranmore
Jearoid
Eamon Coyne’s / Swinging on a Gate
Old Copperplate / New Copperplate
Kitty the Hare / The Old Torn Petticoat
For the Sake of Old Decency / Travers No. 2
Limestone Rock / Wind that Shakes the Barley / Miss MacLeod’s
Polkas
Egan’s / Johnny O’Leary’s / Jessicas Polka
Nell Fee / The Race Classic (AKA ‘Ray’s Classic’)
Up and Away / The Merry Girl
Slides
O’Keefe’s / The Brosna / Knocknagree (AKA Teehan’s Favourite)
Slip Jigs
Elizabeth Kelly’s Delight / A Fig for a Kiss
Hornpipes
The Stack of Barley / Bantry Bay
Annie’s Favourite / Rights of Man
Boys of Bluehill / Dunphy’s
Barndances
Lucy Farr’s (AKA ‘The Seven Step’)
The Return of Spring / The Mountain Pathway
Michael Gaffney’s / The Ballroom Favourite
Mazurkas
Shoe the Donkey
Sonny Brogans Mazurka / Vincent Campbell’s ‘The Irish’ Mazurka
Set Dances
Piper Through the Meadow Straying
Marches
The Battle of Aughrim / Napoleon Crossing the Rhine
Slow Airs
For Ireland I’ll Not Tell Her Name
South Wind (air in waltz time)
Carrickfergus
Inisheer
O’Carolan
Eleanor Plunkett
O’Carolan’s Quarrel with the Landlady
Miscellaneous
Beltable Waltz
Bev Whelan's Irish Tunes Class and Slow Session 