Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for The Liffey Banks by Tommy Potts

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Artist NameTommy Potts
Album TitleThe Liffey Banks
MusiciansTommy Potts (fiddle).
Source and
other information		Claddagh Records CC13CD, 1972. Recorded 11 Aug. 1971 in An Tóchar, Co. Wicklow. Liner notes by Tommy Potts and Séamus Ennis.

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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
3069		 Reel Liffey Banks, The / Liffy Banks / Bruacha na Life / The Colleen Bawn (1st in set Dinny O'Brien's Reels on KCB 3) (also 2nd part doubled)
21 Tune Info
165		 Air Blackbird, The / An Lon Dubh (1st in set The Blackbird on JnKlly) (compare air #163 and as set dance #164)
31 Tune Info
536		 Reel Dowd's Favorite / Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Reel / Dowd's/ Dowd's Reel / O'Dowd's / Braes of Bushbie (also in A Dorian, also all parts doubled or only 2nd part doubled, also with a 4th part)
41 Tune Info
4683		 Air Billy Byrne of Ballymanus
51 Tune Info
1640		 Reel Rakish Paddy / Pádraic Réice / Sporting Pat / Caper Fey / Cabair Féigh / Cabar Féigh / The Deer's Horns / The Castle Street Reel / Glastertown's Downfall (not listed in contents of Rnys, which created a mislabeling as The Sligo Maid; untitled following Bean Phaidín on Plx 4; 4th in set The Savoy on KCB 6; mislabeled on 1930 James Morrison recording as The Wheels of the World) (Donegal setting included here)
61 Tune Info
254		 JigSl Butterfly, The / Butterfly / The Red Admiral Butterfly (which is the traditional tune Skin the Peelers #3725 but with an additional 1st part attributed to Tommy Potts; nevertheless compare this 1st part with 1st part of The Butterfly #4736)
71 Tune Info
1313		 Reel Miss Patterson's Slipper / Miss Patterson's Slippers / Miss Patterson / Master Crowley's / Master Crowley's No. 1 / Master Crowley / Master Crowley's Reel / Crowley's Reel / Shark's Favorite / Clarke's Favorite / John Bowe's / Na Coinnle Corra / The Bluebells / Raymond Roland's (1st in alternating pair of tunes labeled Miss Patterson's Slippers on JD 4; 1st in set Miss Patterson's Slippers on Beg 1) (also played 1st part single, or both parts single; also in D Dorian) (compare John Doherty setting #4686)
81 Tune Info
692		 Hpipe Galway Bay / Galway Bay Hornpipe (1st in set The Drunken Sailor on TPtts)
8(1:08)2 Tune Info
550		 Hpipe Drunken Sailor, The (2nd in set The Drunken Sailor on TPtts) (also with a 6th part)
91 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)
101 Tune Info
2589		 Air An Buachaill Caol Dubh / The Dark Slender Boy (composed by Seán Aerach Ó Seanacháin?)
111 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)
121 Tune Info
1391		 Reel My Love Is in America / My Love Is in Amerikay / My Love in America / My Love She's in America / I Meiriceá atá mo Ghrá-sa / Tá mo Ghrá i Meiriceá / My Love in the Bronx / Dandy Apron / Jenny Lind's Reel / Jenny Lind's (1st in set Alternate Routes on MSHtn 1) (also in D Major) (compare Collier's Reel #359)
131 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)
141 Tune Info
1454		 Reel Old Bush, The / An tSean-Sceach / The Old Bush Reel / The Bush Reel / Captain Rock / The Long Hills of Mourne / Cnoic Fhada Mhughdhorna / Five Leaf Clover (compare Captain Rock #278)
151 Tune Info
2642		 JigSl Top It Off / Cuir Barr Air / Dress Her Out in Fine Clothes / The Maid's Request / The Booley House Jig (note varying meters usuallly; also singled, entirely in regular meter) (compare 1st part with 1st part of reel #4710)
161 Tune Info
1556		 Reel Patsy Tuohey's / Patsy Tuohey's Favourite / Tuohey's Favourite Reel / Patsy Touhey's / Patsy Tuohy's / Patsy Tuohys Reel / Pat Tuohy's Reel / The Gleanntán Reel / Donal a' Clumper's Reel (compare #2683 and Na Coillte Críona included here)
171 Tune Info
4684		 Air Ship Comes Home, The
181 Tune Info
2678		 Reel Ryan's Rant (also 1st part singled)
191 Tune Info
477		 Air Dear Irish Boy, The / An Buachaillín Bán / An Buachaillin Ban / The Little Fair-Haired Boy / The Fair-Haired Boy (1st in set Alone in the Dark on WFO 3) (also in D, E, or G) (compare as song #2624) (composed by Mícheál Ó Liongáin)
201 Tune Info
613		 Reel Farrell O'Gara / Farrell O'Gara's / Farrell O Gara's / Farrell O' Gara / Farrell Ó Gara / Farral O'Gara / Farrel O'Gara / Faral O'Gara / Fearaíl Ó Gára / Fearghal Ó Gadhra / Fearghal O' Gadhra / Fearghal O'Gara / Fergal O'Gara / Feargal O'Gara / Farral Gara / Farrell Gara / The Falcarragh Reel / Turas go Trá Lí / The Trip to Tralee / Mist on the Mountain
211 Tune Info
702		 JigD Garrett Barry's / Garrett Barry's Jig / Garret Barry's / Garret Barry's Jig / Rogha Ghearóid De Barra / Gearóid de Barra / Port Garrett Barry / Tune the Fiddle / The Ladies' Fancy / The Pipe on the Hob (mislabeled on MRaf as Story about My Father's Uilleann Pipes) (also in D minor and also as hornpipe on Ev) (compare Sergeant Early's Jig #2353)
21(1:24)2 Tune Info
697		 JigD Gander in the Pratie Hole, The / Gander in the Pradie Hole / An Gandal i bPoll na bhFataí / The Gander at the Pratie Hole / The Gander at the Prattie Hole / The Grauder at the Prahie Hole / The Gander at the Pit of Spuds / The Friar's Jig / The Monk's Jig / The Monk / The Pipe on the Hob (also in Major)
21(1:57)3 Tune Info
1644		 JigD Rambling Pitchfork, The / Rambling Pitchfork / The Fisherman's Widow / Roland's Return / The Friendly Neighbour / Baxter's Big (for 2nd figure of Taille Mhara Jig Set on MISD 7; 1st in set The Ravine on KCB 6) (also in D Minor) (as single jig: Lambert's Jig)
221 Tune Info
1546		 Air Parting Glass, The / Deoch an Doruis (also in A or G)
2 Tune Info
245		 Reel Bunch of Keys, The / Paddy on the Turnpike / The Turnpike / The Groves Reel / The Fairy Hunters / Walsh's Favourite / The Galway Rambler / Paddy Finlay's Favourite (2nd tune in set The Sailor on the Rock on MC) (compare Flowers of Limerick #648 which is very close, but 2-part; compare The Mills Are Grinding #2378; compare with 1st, 3rd, and 4th parts of The Groves Hornpipe #780)
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