Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for The Funny Reel. Traditional Music of Ireland by Joe Burke, Andy McGann, and Felix Dolan

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Artist NameJoe Burke, Andy McGann, and Felix Dolan
Album TitleThe Funny Reel. Traditional Music of Ireland
MusiciansJoe Burke (accordion), Andy McGann (fiddle), Felix Dolan (piano).
Source and
other information		Shanachie 34016, 1995. Remaster of Shanachie 29012, 1979. Liner notes by Nancy Lyon.

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Every Irish tune on this album was identified by carefully comparing this recorded performance with all other tunes in the Irish Traditional Music Tune Index—by comparing musically, disregarding tune titles. The track and tune numbers below, furthermore, correspond to what you actually hear on this album. This page is thus more reliable than the original album notes, track titles listed by iTunes/Media Player, or other Web sites, all of which usually suffer from errors.

TrackTuneTune ID#RhythmTitles used for this tune (and other notes)
11 Tune Info
1021		 Reel Fisherman's Lilt, The / Fisherman's Lilt / The Fishermen's Lilt / Streanncán an Iascaire / The Kerryman's Daughter / Kerryman's Daughter / You're Right My Love / Molly, What Ails You? / Molly What Ails You? / Cunningham's Fancy / Halligan's Fancy / Michael Coleman's Dream / Funny Eye / The Pretty Girls of the Village (also in D, also singled) (compare with polka Siege of Ennis #2410; compare very distantly Fred Finn's #674; according to Breathnach, compare this with Lady Mary Lindsay; compare 2nd part with 2nd part of Old John's Jig #1465)
2 Tune Info
2890		 Reel Crossing the Shannon / Funny Reel / The Funny Reel / An Ríl Ait (1st in set Ollie Conway's Selection on CC) (composed by Paddy Fahy)
3 Tune Info
287		 Reel Castle Kelly / Castlekelly / Kelly's Castle / Caisleán Uí Cheallaigh / Cumar na Cathrach / Cumar na Catrach / Castle Kelly's / [mislabeled on SE 5 as:] Music in the Forge (also 1st part or both parts singled)
21 Tune Info
2395		 JigD Miss Walsh's Fancy / Miss Walsh / Miss Walshe's / Kane's Jig (also in A) (compare settings in book R included here; compare 1st part with 1st part of #3876)
2 Tune Info
249		 JigD Burke's / Burke's Jig / Charlie Mulvihill's / Charlie Mulvihill's Jig / Connie O'Connell's Jig / Connie O'Connell's / Lad O'Beirne's / Coughlan's / Port Uí Chochláin / Matt Molloy's Jig / Shannonaire's Jig / The Short Road / The Silver Vale
31 Tune Info
1725		 Hpipe Sault's Own Hornpipe / Saults / Saults No. 2 / Saul's Own Hornpipe / Sean Ryan's (1st in set The Rights of Man on FR) (also in F) (mistakenly credited to Sean Ryan on WFO 2)
2 Tune Info
1676		 Hpipe Rights of Man, The / Rights of Man (also in B Dorian) (composed by James Hill)
41 Tune Info
1456		 Reel Old Copperplate, The / The Copperplate / The Copper Plate / The Copperplate No. 2 (2nd in set The Kincora on KCB 6; 2nd in set The Peacock's Feather on Dnu 5; 2nd in set The Copperplates on CMcN)
2 Tune Info
2521		 Reel Dinny O'Brien's / Ríl Dinny O'Brien / Dinny O'Brien / Dinny O'Briens / The Last House in Connaught / John Bowe's (2nd in set Dinny O'Brien's Reels on KCB 3) (composed by Paddy O'Brien)
51 Tune Info
493		 Hpipe Derry Hornpipe, The / The Derry / The Londonderry Hornpipe / Delaney's Favorite / Showman's Clog / The Ladies Hornpipe / The Liverpool Hornpipe / Cash's Hornpipe (also with from 2 to 6 parts in various orders)
61 Tune Info
688		 JigD Gallagher's Frolics / Gallagher's Frolic / O'Gallagher's Frolics / Gollaher's Frolics / Gollagher's Frolics / The Soup of Good Drink (also in D Minor)
2 Tune Info
2602		 JigD Bush on the Hill, The / Paddy Killoran's / McGlinchy's / Low Down
71 Tune Info
2497		 Air Little Bench of Rushes, The / An Binnsín Luachra / Beinsín Luachra / Bunch of Green Rushes / The Bonny Bunch of Roses / O! Pleasant Was the Moon / Life Is All Checkered with Pleasures and Woes / The Bark Is on the Swelling Shore (notated settings are actually unrelated) (compare as song #62 and #192)
81 Tune Info
1520		 JigD Father Tom's Wager / Fr Tom's Wager / Close to the Floor / Paddy O'Brien's Jig
2 Tune Info
3538		 JigD Idle Road, The / An Bóthar Fánach / The Winding Road / The Cordial Jig / Port na Cordaile (setting on JMd could be considered a different tune)
91 Tune Info
77		 Reel Andy McGann's Reel / Andy McGann's #1 / Lad O'Beirne's
2 Tune Info
868		 Reel Humours of Scarriff, The / Humours of Scariff / The Humors of Scarriff / Pléaraca na Scairbhe / The Ballinasloe Fair (2nd in set Music in the Glen on BB 2) (also in E Dorian as "Seán McGuire setting" in book RM)
101 Tune Info
1237		 Reel Maud Millar / Maude Millar / Maud Miller / Maude Miller / Maud Miller's / My Love Is Fair and Handsome / Donegal Boys / I Wish I Never Had Seen You / Magic Slipper / Eileen Curran's / Mrs Smullen's / The Montua / Paddy McFadden / Morrison's (1st in set Maud Millar on FG 6) (also in F or D; also as hornpipe in F titled Morrison's, included here) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Miss Mary O'Neill's Fancy #1306 and with 1st part of Micho Russell's #3855 and more distantly with the 1st part of #4026)
2 Tune Info
3594		 Hpipe Irish American / The Narrowback (also as reel)
111 Tune Info
3046		 SetD Humors of Bandon, The / The Humours of Bandon / Pléaráca na Bandan / Jolly Old Woman / Port Choláiste na Mumhan (also in A, also as jig)
2 Tune Info
1590		 Piece Planxty Browne / Planxty Maggie Browne / Planxty Maggie Brown / Pléaráca an Bhrúnaigh / Maggie Brown's Favourite / Maggie Brown's Favorite / Maggie Brown's / Maggie Brown / Miss Brown's Fancy (also as set dance) (possibly by Turlough O'Carolan or by Nathaniel Gow)
3 Tune Info
3595		 SetD Orange Rogue, The / Bunch of Clover (compare 1st part with 1st part of The Trooper #2470)
121 Tune Info
95		 Reel Aughamore / Augamore (also in A Major) (composed by Ed Reavy)
2 Tune Info
445		 Reel Dairy Maid, The / The Dairymaid / Bean an Bhainne / The Dairy Maid's Reel / Shuffle the Cards (4th in set The Ritz on KCB 6) (also doubled)
131 Tune Info
2773		 Hpipe Sliabh na mBan Hornpipe / Sliabh na mBan / Cornphíopa Shliabh na mBan / Slieve na mBan / Slievenamon
2 Tune Info
429		 Hpipe Cuckoo's Nest, The / Cuckoo's Nest / The Cuckoo's Nest 2nd Setting / Cuckoo's Nest No. 1 / Jacky Tar / The Mower / An Spealadóir / The Scythesman / The Man that Cuts the Hay with the Scythe / Come Ashore Jolly Tar and Your Trousers On / The Showman's Fancy / Rogha Fhear an tSéo / City Life - a Clog / Violetta (also with 2nd and 3rd parts reversed) (compare #430, compare the 2-part versions #431 and #1256, and compare as song #428)
141 Tune Info
1157		 Reel Lord McDonald's / Lord McDonald / Lord McDonald's Reel / Lord MacDonald's / Lord MacDonald / Lord Mac Donald's Reel / Queen of the May (mislabeled as The Chattering Magpie on Plx 5) (also parts in different order and doubled, also without 1st and 4th parts) (compare 1st 2 parts as #197 and compare Noon Lasses #1428)
2 Tune Info
102		 Reel Ballinasloe Fair / The Ballinasloe Fair / The Fair of Ballinasloe / Aonach Bhéal Átha na Slua (also both parts singled)
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