Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for The Old Fireside Music by Mike and Mary Rafferty

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Artist NameMike and Mary Rafferty
Album TitleThe Old Fireside Music
MusiciansMike Rafferty (flute, pipes), Mary Rafferty (accordion, whistle), with Donal Clancy (guitar, bouzouki), Gabriel Donohue (guitar, bass, percussion), Paddy Rafferty (lilting).
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Larraga LR093098, 1998.

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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
4336
Reel Follow Me Down to Galway / Follow Me Down to Carlow (quite similar to Jim Moore's Fancy #4139; compare also Broomstick #3790 and Down the Broom #540)
2 Tune Info
4337
Reel Follow Me Down to Carlow (compare The Swallow #2749)
21 Tune Info
4338
Hpipe Dinny Delaney's (compare reel Follow Me Down to Carlow #656)
2 Tune Info
656
Reel Follow Me Down to Carlow / Follow Me Down / Bí Liom / An Ríl Cam / The Crooked Reel / Miss Murphy / Bonnie Annie / Dinny Delaney's (also in A or E, also singled; 2nd part has widely different settings, included here) (compare as song #657 and as slide #3233)
31 Tune Info
1161
Fling Louden's Bonnie Braes / Loudon's Braes Are Bonnie / Loudens Braes So Bonnie / Louden's Braes Are Bonnie / Bonnie Scotland / Lord Moira / The Bundoran Highland / Indian Polka / The Boys of Knock (2nd in set Thistle and Shamrock on MG) (also in D or G, also as reel or hornpipe) (compare strathspey Lord Moira's Welcome to Scotland and Knocktoran Fair, both included here)
2 Tune Info
3542
Hpipe Midnight Hornpipe, The (composed by Joanie Madden)
41 Tune Info
1876
Reel Tap Room, The / In the Tap Room / The Taproom / An Seomra Leanna / The Tap House / The Youngest Daughter / The Hard Road to Travel / The Ranting Widow / Baintreach na Radaireacht / Captain Murray's Reel / Captain Murray's / Sweet Molly / Polly's Reel / Polly's / The Blossom of the New Tree / The Lady's Top Dress / The Ladies Top Dress / Hopetoun House / Lord Edward / Fitzgerald's / Fitzgerald's Reel / Granshaw Glens / Roll Out the Barrel / The Rakes of Abbey / Miss Fargherson's New Reel / Miss Fargerson's New Reel / The Scotch Bonnet / Scotch Maggie / A Short Way to Heaven / Cock Your Pistol, Charlie / The Mountain Lark (1st in The Taproom Set on CLnn 2) (also in a somewhat different setting included here which is always singled) (compare single jig Cock Your Pistol, Charlie #3024; compare 1st part with 1st part of Mountain Lark #2529)
2 Tune Info
2104
Reel Shanks Mare / Toss the Feathers / Craith na Cleití / Thresh the Feathers / The Humours of Ballagh / Thornberry's / Geatley's / The New Reel / The Mountain Lark (compare 2nd part with 2nd part of Toss the Feathers #1957)
51 Tune Info
2381
JigD Little Black Pig, The / The Garden of Butterflies / The Leitrim Jig / Delaney's Jig / Delaney's / Port Tíneatha / Tynagh Jig / Lambert's Jig / James Murray's (compare The Old Woman's Purse of Money #1472)
61 Tune Info
1257
Reel McGovern's Favorite / McGovern's Favourite / McGoverns Favourite / McGovern's Reel / McGovern's / The Cottage in the Grove / Maurice Casey's Fancy / Coffey's Reel / Mike Flynn's (also 2nd part singled) (compare especially 1st part with 1st part of Fitzgerald's Hornpipe #3569)
2 Tune Info
190
Reel Bonny Bunch of Ferns, The / The Bonnie Bunch of Ferns / Private Ass and Cart / The Private Ass and Cart / Píobaire an Chéidigh / The Keady Piper / Nellie O'Donovan / Nellie Donovan / Nellie Donovans / Kate Kelly's Fancy / Twin Katy's Reel / The Ravelled Hank of Yarn / Callahan's Reel / O'Keeffe's Reel / Cat that Ate the Sidecomb / Ho! Awake (3rd in set The Sister Reels on JnKlly) (also in A or D) (this tune differs consistently from Callaghan's #2636 only in the last two bars)
71 Tune Info
1294
JigD Millpond, The / The Mill Pond / The Lough Gill / The Cashel Jig / Paddy Cartys
2 Tune Info
4403
JigD Andy McGann's Fancy / Port Liadroma [The Leitrim Jig] / Charlie Harris' Jig (compare Old Tipperary #1469)
81 Tune Info
89
Reel Ash Plant, The / The Ashplant / The Ash-Plant / The Ash Plant No. 1 / An Maide Fuinnseoige / Planda na Fuirseoige (appears within song Keeper of the Game on MSHtn 1) (also singled, also in F# Minor) (compare Rogha Thomáis Uí Dhubhda / Tom Dowd's Favorite and Morning Dew #2512)
2 Tune Info
1273
Reel Merry Harriers, The / Merry Harrier's Reel / Na Fiairí Feá (3rd in set The Hillsbrook Reels on MMcG 3) (compare reversed parts to Piper on Horseback #1587)
91 Tune Info
2239
Song May Morning Dew, The (also as air)
101 Tune Info
3951
Reel Tip Toe Home (composed by Mary Rafferty)
2 Tune Info
2259
Reel Eddie Moloney's / Eddie Maloney's / The Kinvara (2nd in Seit Eddie Moloney / Eddie Moloney's Set on FG 2)
111 Tune Info
1031
Reel Killarney Boys of Pleasure, The / Doherty's Reel / Doherty's / Johnny Doherty's Reel / Docherty's Reel / O'Doherty's / Doherty / Gweebarra Bridge / The Gweebarra Bridge Reel / Ril a' Sean Nós (compare Clan Ranald #331 and Sweat House #4948)
2 Tune Info
560
Reel Dunmore Lasses / The Dunmore Lasses / Dunmore Lassies / Gearrchailiú an Dúin Mhóir / The Road to Knock / Morrison's Reel / Morrison's (1st in set The Chattering Magpie on Ch 6)
121 Tune Info
938
JigD Jim Conroy's Jig / Jack Coen's
2 Tune Info
4339
JigD Swans among the Rushes / The Swans among the Rushes / The Swan's among the Rushes (composed by Ed Reavy)
131 Tune Info
1825
Hpipe Stack of Wheat, The / Stack of Wheat / Stack o' Wheat / The Little Stack of Wheat / An Staicín Cruithneachta (3rd in set Stack of Barley Set on CLnn 2, where 2nd part is furthermore used as an intro) (also in A)
141 Tune Info
1974
Air Trip We Took over the Mountain, The / The Trip over the Mountain / The Trip o'er the Mountain / Will You Come with Me over the Mountain / Over the Mountain / The Dark Woman of the Glen (also as waltz)
2 Tune Info
221
JigD Brendan Tonra's / Brendan Tonra's Jig / Tonra's Jig / Tonra's / Tonroe's / Toneroe's No. 1 / Tone Rowe's / Tone Rowe's Jig / Tone Rowes / Tony Rowe's / Joe O'Dowd's Jig (2nd in set The Rose in the Heather on ESL 1) (composed by Brendan Tonra, ca. 1957, but misattributed to Joe O'Dowd in book TS)
151 Tune Info
4340
Reel Larkin's Beehives / Dominick Rooney's (composed by Paddy O'Brien)
2 Tune Info
1277
Reel New Policeman, The / An Garda Nua /The Twin Brothers / The Twin Brothers' Reel / The Twinbrothers' Reel / The Tinker's Stick / Bata an Tincéara / Tinkers Stick / Boil the Kettle Early / Lady Cork's Reel / Paddy Bolster's Reel / The Far Field / Michael Dwyer's Favourite / The Reel of Rio / The Cloontia Reel (mislabeled as Stony Steps on MM 3) (also in A) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Ambrose Moloney's #2127 and with 1st part of Major Moran's #4504)
161 Tune Info
4341
Reel Barrel Rafferty's
2 Tune Info
4342
Reel Paddy Murphy's / The Templeglantine Reel / Teampall an Ghleanntáin (Breathnach suggests a comparison to The Maids of Mitchelstown #1196)
171 Tune Info
1721
Reel Sandmount / The Sandmount / The Sandmount Reel / Sandy Mount / The Sandymount / The Sandpiper / Mick Hand's Reel / Mick Hand's / Ríl Mhícheáil Mhig Laithimh (also in G)
2 Tune Info
1830
Reel Star of Munster, The / The Bright Star of Munster / Star Munster / Birds in the Bushes / Kitty's Wishes / The Greenfields of America / The Eight O'Clock Train (2nd in set O'Dowd's Favourite Reel Medley on IDM 1) (also 2nd part singled, also in G Dorian or E Dorian or G Mixolydian)