Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for It's No Secret by Hammy Hamilton, Séamus Creagh, Con Ó Drisceoil

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Artist NameHammy Hamilton, Séamus Creagh, Con Ó Drisceoil
Album TitleIt's No Secret
MusiciansHammy Hamilton (flute, vocals), Séamus Creagh (fiddle, vocals), Con Ó Drisceoil (accordion, vocals, piano), with Pat 'Herring' Ahern (guitar).
Source and
other information		Ossian OSSCD 89, 2001. Recorded Summer 2000 in Co. Cork. Notes by Pat 'Herring' Ahern. Printed lyrics included for all songs.

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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
3838		 Hpipe Mick Doyle's Favourite
2 Tune Info
1579		 Hpipe Dinny O'Brien's / Princess Royal / Phil Durkin's Favorite / Phil Durkin's Favourite / The Broadway
21 Tune Info
3630		 Song Sea-Apprentice Boy, The / The Sea Apprentice / The Apprentice Boy / The Apprentice Boy in Love / The Sailor Boy
31 Tune Info
3839		 Polka Din Tarrant's / Din Tarrant's 3 / The Bakerswell Polka
2 Tune Info
3840		 Polka Downey's / West Kerry (compare Anne's Polka #3965)
41 Tune Info
3841		 Air Lament for Oliver Goldsmith / Oliver Goldsmith's Lament (composed by Séamus Shannon)
51 Tune Info
3842		 Song Spoons Murder, The (compare melody to that of #2768) (composed by Con Ó Drisceoil)
61 Tune Info
409		 JigD Basket of Turf, The / The Creel of Turf / An Cliabh Móna / Up Sligo / Up Sligo! / The Unfortunate Rake / The Disconsolate Buck / Bundle and Go / The Wee, Wee Man / The Wee Wee Man / The Wandering Harper / The Lass from Collegeland / The Lass from College Land (1st in set The Rocks of Bawn on WW 2; 1st in set Munster Buttermilk Selection on CrssCl) (2nd part has 2 different settings; with a 3rd part on Lgcy)
2 Tune Info
3843		 JigD Jimmy Doyle's Favourite
71 Tune Info
3844		 Song In Praise of the City of Mullingar (composed by William John Macquorn Rankine)
81 Tune Info
350		 Reel Cocktail, The
2 Tune Info
1228		 Reel Mary McMahon / Mary McMahon's / Mary MacMahon / Mary McMahon of Ballinahinch / Micho Russell's / Micko Russell's / Micko Russel's / Boys on the Hilltop / The Boys on the Hilltop / Buachaillí Bharr an Chnoic / The Foxhunters (1st in set Noel Hill's / Noel Hills' on DD HR) (also singled, also in G) (composed by Paddy Fahey)
91 Tune Info
3845		 Song King Lear (composed by Con Ó Drisceoil)
101 Tune Info
455		 BDnce Dances at Kinvara, The (composed by Ed Reavy)
2 Tune Info
886		 BDnce Hills of Tara, The / If There Weren't Any Men / John Egan's (2nd in set Pearl O'Shaughnessy's Barndances on SC) (also in D)
111 Tune Info
3846		 Song Erin's Green Shore / As I Walked Out Fairly Early
121 Tune Info
2461		 Slide Nicholas McAuliffe's (2nd in set Brendan Begley's Slides on JOS 1; as Unnamed Slide on ICTM) (also in D; setting in JOL has a significant difference)
2 Tune Info
2462		 Slide Barrack Hill / Glen Cottage Slide / The Green Cottage / The Cat Jumped into the Mouse's Hole and Didn't Come Down till Morning (3rd in set Brendan Begley's Slides on JOS 1) (compare as Glin Cottage Polka #736; compare 1st part with 1st part of Katie Scollard's Slide #3107)
131 Tune Info
3847		 Song Plains of Drishane, The (composed by Cornelius 'The Poet' Ahern)
141 Tune Info
3848		 JigD A Night at the Fair (compare 1st part with 1st part of The Angry Peeler #548)
2 Tune Info
2463		 JigD Haunted House, The / Old Leitrim Jig / The Leitrim Jig / Drumshambo Jig / Maguire's (also in A) (composed by Vincent Broderick)
151 Tune Info
73		 Reel Paddy Taylor's / McCabe's Reel / Anderson's Reel / Lady Gordon (also in C, also with 2nd and 3rd parts in reverse order) (composed by Paddy Taylor (and possibly) Martin Wynne(?))
2 Tune Info
566		 Reel Earl's Chair, The / Earl's Chair / Cathaoir an Iarla / Down between the Two Derryoobers (composed by Patrick "Pakie" or "Patto" Moloney)
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