100 Enduring Irish Session Tunes

This book of Irish session tunes diverges from the usual pattern in that the emphasis is not on the reels. Another major feature of this book is the prominence given to the various other types of tune, such as slides, set dances, hornpipes etc. They always come a poor third to reels and jigs, but they constantly crop up in the sessions with such a significant frequency that they cannot be ignored. There are hornpipes, marches, a strong selection of jigs, some slip jigs and one or two other well-known melodies to spice up your repertoire.

100 tunes (14 hornpipes, 15 slides, 34 jigs, 23 reels and 14 miscellaneous tunes) with chords, classified and alphabetical (with alternative titles) indexes.

Important note from Mally

The tune settings in this book are all 'session friendly', i.e. you can learn them exactly as written and know that you will have a perfectly acceptable version. However, I consider it unwise to learn a tune from only one source and I would suggest strongly that, when learning a new tune, you pay heed to settings in other books, on recordings and what you hear down the pub. It is important to note that the settings in this book are greatly influenced by the instrument I play, the D/G melodeon. I've made a conscious effort to allow this to happen in order to give the book its own unique character.

Reels

Anything for Jonjo?

Blackthorn Reel

Cloone

Craig's Pipes

Croghan Hill

Fermoy Lasses

Flowers of Edinburgh

Green Groves of Erin

High Road to Linton

Hills of Clogher

Hunter's House

Johnny Cronin's Fancy

Johnny Macclejohn

Lad O'Beirne's

Lucy Campbell

Mason's Apron

New Copperplate

O'Rourke's

Otter's Holt

Reel of Rio

Sunny Banks

Swallow's Tail

Trim the Velvet

Jigs

Bill Harte's

Boys of the Town Bride's Favourite

Connie O'Connell's

Cook in the Kitchen

Eavesdropper

Fasten the Leggin'

Frieze Britches

Gander in the Pratie Hole

Garrett Barry's

Gillian's Apples

Gold Ring

Hag at the Churn

Humours of Ennistymon

Kilfenora

Knights of Saint Patrick

Legacy

Lilting Fisherman

Maid in the Meadow

Mooncoin Jig

Old Joe's

Pipe on the Hob no. 1

Pipe on the Hob no. 2

Rambling Pitchfork

Rose in the Heather

Strike the Gay Harp

Tobin's Favourite

Tommy Peoples'

Tone Rowe's

Trip to the Cottage Tune the Fiddle

Whelan's

When Sick, is it Tea

Willie Coleman's

Hornpipes

City of Savannah

Cronin's

Delahunty's

Flowing Tide

Galway

Golden Eagle

Home Ruler

King of the Fairies

Kitty's Wedding

Little Beggarman Rights of Man

Stack of Barley

Stack of Wheat

Sunshine

Slides

Dan O'Keeffe's no. 1

Dan O'Keeffe's no. 2

Clog

Connie Walsh's

Denis Murphy's

Going to the Well for Water John Kelly's

Johnny Mickey's

Kathleen O'Hehir

Lonesome Road to Dingle

Old Favourite

Pádraig O'Keeffe's

Road to Lisdoonvarna

Siobhán Hurl's

Star above the Garter

Miscellany

Blackbird

Boys of Ballisodare

Brian Boru's March

Butterfly Carolan's Concerto

Give me your Hand

Halting March

Hardiman the Fiddler

Hewlett

Hunt Kid on the Mountain

O'Neill's Cavalcade

Sonny's Mazurka

Whinny Hills of Leitrim