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Album Details for The Star above the Garter. Fiddle music from Kerry, played by Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford by Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford

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Artist NameDenis Murphy and Julia Clifford
Album TitleThe Star above the Garter. Fiddle music from Kerry, played by Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford
MusiciansDenis Murphy (fiddle), Julia Clifford (fiddle).
Source and
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Claddagh CC5CD, 1969. Recorded in Dublin.

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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
806
Slide Rathawaun, The / The Hare in the Corn / The Frost Is All Under (2nd and 4th in set Round the House and Mind the Dresser on Ch 6) (also as jig)
2 Tune Info
2568
Slide Hare in the Corn, The / The Hair in the Corn / The Cat in the Corner (2nd in set Sleamhnáin Chrosaire an Chairéil / The Quarry Cross Slides on JOL 2; 4th in set Lios Uí Bhigín on NNC) (compare 1st part with 1st part of jig Hare in the Corn #2189)
21 Tune Info
2459
Hpipe O'Mahony's
2 Tune Info
1823
Hpipe Stack of Barley, The / Stack of Barley / The Little Stack of Barley / An Staicín Eorna / An Staicín Eornan / The Stacks of Barley / Little Mary Cassidy / Evening Was Waning / Patrick Condon's Vision (1st in set Stack of Barley Set on CLnn 2; 2nd in set Hooley with the Herd on TWnch) (also in D, also in C, also as barndance, also as song Kerry Long Ago) (compare The Stack #5055)
31 Tune Info
1342
Reel Morning Star, The / Morning Star / Réalt na Maidne / Réalt na Maidine / Belles of Omagh / The Green Fields of Éire / The Farmer Killed his Ox Today (on WW 1 also in set Donovan's Reel; 6th in set Away We Go Again on Ch 7; 2nd in set The Inisfail on KCB 6) (also in A)
2 Tune Info
1697
Reel Rolling in the Ryegrass / Rolling in the Rye Grass / Rolling on the Ryegrass / Roll Her on the Banks / Ag Ionfairt sa tSeagal / Ag Suirí sa Seagal / The Shannon Breeze / Old Molly Ahern / Old Mollie Ahern / Sean-Mháire Ní Eachthighearn / The Piper's Lass / The Brown Red Girl / The Ladies Tight Dress / The Ladies Top Dress / Punch for the Ladies / The Lady on the Railroad / The Railway Station / The Telegraph / The Maureen Playboy / Maureen Playboy / Love among the Roses / The Rathkeale Hunt / What the Divil Ails Him? / What the Devil Ails You? / Strac an Mhuc an Léine / The Connachtman's Rambles / The Connaughtman's Rambles / McCaffrey's Reel / McCaffrey's / The Kilfinane Reel / The Kilfinane / The Listowel Lasses / Boil the Kettle Early / Kitty Got a Clinking / The New Found Out (mislabeled as The Belburry Hills on ESL 1; 3rd in set Noel Hill's / Noel Hills' on DD HR) (also doubled, also with 3rd part, also as untitled highland fling in set Highland Schottische Medley on IDM 2)
41 Tune Info
612
Polka Farewell to Whiskey / The Humors of Whiskey / My Love Is But a Lassie / Níl in Mo Ghrá ach Cailín Óg / Ladies Triumph / Young America Hornpipe (in set The Jolly Beggarman on CTL 8; follows song The Mickey Dam on LLPQ 3; for The Seige of Ennis [Siege of Ennis] in A; 1st part of tune used during 4th figure of Orange and Green in book R) (also as march) (composed by Niel Gow)
2 Tune Info
464
Polka Dark Girl, The / Dark Girl Dressed in Blue / The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue / The Dark Haired Girl Dressed in Blue
51 Tune Info
1921
JigD Tom Billy's / Tom Billy's #1 / Tom Billy's 1 / Tom Billy's Jig / Paddy's Jig
2 Tune Info
1920
JigD Tom Billy's / Tom Billy's Jig / [misspelled as:] Tom Billys / Tom Billys 2 / Tom Billy's #2 / Tom Billy Murphy's / Port Tom Billy Murphy / The Flowers of Spring / Bláthanna an Earraigh (2nd in set Tom Billy's on SatG)
61 Tune Info
2095
Slide Danny Ab's Slide / Sleamhnán Danny Ab / Danny Ab's / Danny Ab's Slide No. 2 / Dan O'Keeffe's Slide / Dan O'Keeffe's No. 2 / Dan O'Keefe's / O'Keefe's (also in D) (compare Cock O' The North #3144 and therefore also Chase Me Charlie #307)
2 Tune Info
1451
Slide O'Keeffe's Slide / O'Keefe's Slide / Dan O'Keeffe's Slide / Dan O'Keefe's Slide 2 / Dan O'Keeffe's No. 1 / Dan O'Keefe's / Danny Ab's / Danny Ab's Slide No. 1 / Denis Murphy (also in E) (2nd part same as 2nd part of #3310)
71 Tune Info
1478
Air O'Rahilly's Grave / Ó Ráthaille's Grave
81 Tune Info
121
Reel Banks of the Ilen, The / The Banks of the Uilleann / The Six-Mile Bridge / Seanbhean Na gCartaí / Sean-Bhean na gCartaí / Sean Bhean na gCártaí / The Old Woman of the Cards / O'Callahan's / Dando Dillane's (also 1st part doubled, also both parts singled, also as hornpipe) (compare air #2969)
2 Tune Info
1919
Reel Tom Billy's / Tom Billys / Humours of Scartaglen / Scarta Glen / The Humors of Newcastle / The New Post Office / The Star above the Garter (also singled, also in E Mixolydian) (the setting in O'Neill's books is not very similar in its 2nd part)
91 Tune Info
105
Polka Ballydesmond Polka / Ballydesmond Polka No. 1 / The Ballydesmond (1) / Donncha Lynch's (1st in set The Ballydesmond Polkas on SatG and in JOL; mislabeled as Knocknabowl on ItS; 2nd in set Ballyfin Polkas on Ch W)
2 Tune Info
106
Polka Ballydesmond Polka #2 / Ballydesmond Polka No. 2 / Balleydesmond No. 2 / Ballydesmond Polka (2) / The Ballydesmond (2) / The Ballydesmond / Maurice Manley's Polka / Polka Mhuiris Uí Mhaonghaile / Donal DeBarra's Polka (2nd in set The Ballydesmond Polkas on SatG and in JOL) (compare slide #3829)
3 Tune Info
107
Polka Ballydesmond Polka, The / Ballydesmond Polka #3 / Ballydesmond Polka No. 3 / The Ballydesmond Polka No. 3 / The Ballydesmond (3) / Balleydesmond No. 1 / Tom Billy's / Gneeveguilla Polka (3rd in set The Ballydesmond Polkas on SatG and in JOL) (also in D Dorian or E Dorian, also as air)
101 Tune Info
165
Air Blackbird, The / An Lon Dubh (1st in set The Blackbird on JnKlly) (compare air #163 and as set dance #164)
111 Tune Info
1077
Reel Lady on the Island, The / Lady of the Island / An Bhean Uasal ar an Oileán / An Bhean ar an Oileán (also doubled)
2 Tune Info
2636
Reel Callaghan's / O'Callaghan's / The Doon Reel / Ríl an Dúna (also in D Major or Mixolydian) (this tune differs consistently from Bonny Bunch of Ferns #190 only in the last two bars; also compare Chorus Reel #319)
121 Tune Info
801
JigD Munster Jig, The / The Munster / The Best in the Bag / King of the Jigs / The King Jig / The Happy Mistake / Jackson's Mistake / Miss Monroe's Jig / Mrs. Monroe's Jig / Green Fields of Miltown / John Blessing's Delight / Jim O'Connor's (appears again at end of set on IDM 2) (also in A, also with 4 parts) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Joy of My Life #1004)
2 Tune Info
1373
JigD Munster Buttermilk, The / The Sports of Multyfarnham / Siamsa Mhuilte Farannáin / Carty's (1st in set The Kilfenora Set on JCt 5) (also in G) (compare #137)
131 Tune Info
2448
Polka Humours of Ballydesmond, The / The Knocknaboul #1 / The Knocknaboul Polka 1 / The Knocknabower Polka / Scartaglen Polka / The Little Green Cottage / Din Tarrant's (1st in set Knocknaboul Polkas on SatG; 1st in set Knocknabower Polkas in AW)
2 Tune Info
1062
Polka Knocknaboul Polka / The Knocknaboul / The Knocknaboul Polka (2) / The Knocknaboul #2 / Knocknabower Polka 2 (2nd in set Knocknaboul Polkas on SatG; mislabeled as Ballydesmond on ItS)
141 Tune Info
1195
Reel Old Maids of Galway, The / Old Maid of Galway / Seanmhaighdean na Gaillimhe / The Maids of Galway / The Mayo Lasses / Gearrchailiú Chontae Mhuigheo / The Ballina Lass / Johnny Has Gone to France / Johnny's Gone to France / Paddy's Gone to France / Johnny When You Die / The Green Meadows / The Hag's Reel (2nd in set The Maids of Galway on SEgn 1; in set The Sliabh Luachra Reels in book JOL; in arrangement Strange Journey on MMcG 3; for dance The Sixteen Hand Reel in book MM; Paul de Grae notes Cape Breton title The West Mabou Reel) (also in D, also in A, also doubled, also as single reel) (compare #3522)
2 Tune Info
976
SgReel Anything for John-Joe / Anything for John Joe / Anything for John Joe? / Anything for Jonjo? / John Joe / Anything When You Die? / Julia Clifford's / The Crane Crook (also as reel, included here) (compare 1st part with 1st part of The Little Bag of Spuds #1134)
151 Tune Info
812
Air Raibh tú ag an gCarraig? / A' Raibh Tú ag an gCarraig? / An Raibh tú ag an gCarraig / An Raibh tú ag an gCarraig? / An Raibh tú ar an gCarraig? / An Rabhais ag an g Carraig / Have You Been at Carrick? / Were you at Carrick? / Have You Been at the Rock? / Were You at the Rock? / Were You at the Rock (also as song, included here)
161 Tune Info
1537
Slide Padraig O'Keeffe's / Padraic O'Keeffe's / Pádraig O'Keeffe's Slide / The First Cousin of the Gallant Tipperary Boys (also as double jig) (compare 1st 4 bars with 1st 4 bars of Gallant Tipperary Boys #689)
2 Tune Info
3652
JigD Scartaglen Jig, The / Scarta Glen / Tom Billy's (also as slide)
171 Tune Info
2460
Hpipe Fisher's Hornpipe / Fisher's / The Fishers / The Fisher / The Fisherman's / The Fisherman's Hornpipe / Fisherman's Hornpipe / The Fisherman's Lilt / Wigs on the Green / Ballymanus Fair / The Egg Hornpipe / The Egg / Lord Howe's / Lord Home's / Blanchard's / The College / The Blacksmith's Hornpipe (also in G)
181 Tune Info
690
Reel Galtee Rangers, The / The Galty Rangers / Fiannóglaigh na nGeailtí / The Galtee Ranger / The Galtee Mountains / The Humours of Galtymore / Humours of Galtymore / Callaghan's / Johnny Cronin's / Sherlock's Favourite (also in G, also doubled)
2 Tune Info
197
Reel Lord McDonald / Lord McDonald's Reel / Lord MacDonald's Reel / Lord MacDonald's / McDonald's Reel / MacDonald's Reel / John McDonald's Reel / The Glentaun Reel / Glentown / Bothar na Sop / Little Peggy / Slanty Gart / Leather Britches / Old Leather Britches (also doubled) (compare the 4-part setting as #1157)
191 Tune Info
1083
Air O'Donnell's Lament / Lament for O'Donnell / Caoineadh Uí Dhomhnaill / Caoine Uí Domhnaill / Caoine Uí Dhonaill (also as song)
201 Tune Info
1829
Slide Star above the Garter, The / An Réalt os cionn an Ghairtéir (1st in set Lisheen Slides on JJK)
2 Tune Info
2002
Slide Lisheen, The / The Lisheen Slide / Johnny O'Leary's