Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for The Minstrel from Clare by Willie Clancy

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Artist NameWillie Clancy
Album TitleThe Minstrel from Clare
MusiciansWillie Clancy (pipes, whistle, vocals).
Source and
other information		Green Linnet GLCD 3091, 1994. Reissue of a Topic album, 1967. Recorded 1967 in Co. Clare. Notes by Breandán Breathnach.

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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
1089		 JigD Langstrom's Pony / Langstroms Pony / The Langstern Pony / Capaillín Langstern / The Lanstrum Poney / The Lanxtrum Pony / Lastrum Pone / Lostrum Ponia / Saddle the Pony / Farrell's Pipes / The Fourpenny Girl / Four Penny Girl / Grania's Welcome Home / A Draught of Ale / The Priest's Leap (2nd in set Caledonia on Ch 6) (also without 3rd and 4th parts)
21 Tune Info
1888		 Reel Templehouse, The / Temple House / The Tipsy House / Fowling Piece / The Pretty Maids of Bulgaden / The Pretty Girls of Bulgaden / The Evergreen Lasses / Evergreen Lasses / The Evergreen / Mother Carey / The Rising of the Lark (also doubled) (compare as jig #1887 and compare 1st part with 1st part of #3274)
2 Tune Info
1492		 Reel Over the Moor to Maggie / The Green Meadow / Kitty's Wedding / Peggy's Wedding / The Ballina Lass / The Hag's / The Mayo Lasses / The Old Maids of Galway / The Humours of Fairymount / The Rakes of Killevan / The Smoky House / Swallow's Tail / Paddy's Gone to France / Rogha an Fhile / An Old Reel (also in A, also without 3rd part)
31 Tune Info
41		 Air A Stór Mo Chroí / A Stor Mo Chroi / A Stór Mo Croí / O Love of My Heart / Bruachna Carraige Báine / The Brink of the White Rock (also in E, also as song, included here) (compare #231)
41 Tune Info
581		 Song Erin's Lovely Lea
51 Tune Info
1033		 Reel Killavel Fancy, The / Kilavel Fancy / The Killavil Fancy / Éilís Ní Bhrógáin / Eilís Ní Bhrógáin / Éilís Ní Brógáin [Elizabeth Brogan] / The Ten-Pound Float / The Ten Pound Float / Mayes' Cross (2nd in set Ryan's on FG 1; untitled following The Turnpike Gate on ESL 1; 2nd in set The Killavil Fancy on TCB 4) (also doubled)
2 Tune Info
524		 Reel Dogs among the Bushes, The / Na Madraí sna Sceacha / Birds in the Bushes / The Piper's Lass (also singled, also in E) (compare Scots tunes Athole Brose #2700 and Buckingham House)
61 Tune Info
599		 Song Family Ointment, The
71 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)
81 Tune Info
1800		 Air Caoineadh an Spailpín / The Spalpeen's Lament / The Spailpin's Lament
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)
91 Tune Info
1585		 JigD Pipe on the Hob, The / Pipe on the Hob #1 / The Pipe on the Hob No. 2 / Pipe in the Hob / Piper of the Embers / Píobaire na Gríosaí / Píobaire na nGríosach (compare Rambling Pitchfork #1645)
101 Tune Info
698		 Song Gander, The
111 Tune Info
1115		 JigD Legacy, The / Legacy Jig / An Oidhreacht / The Tailor's Wedding / Skiver the Quilt / Larry Redican's Jig / Larry Redican's / Coen's (also in F)
121 Tune Info
643		 Reel Flogging Reel, The / The Flogging / The Floggin' / Floggin' Reel / The Floggin / Floggan Reel / The Slashing Reel / Ríl an Lasctha / An Lascadh / The Flaggon Reel / The Flaggon / The Flagon / The Flagon Reel / The Humours of Bantry Bay / The Newry Lass (also in D or F, also with some or all parts doubled) (compare The Fife Reel and 1st part with 1st part of Pirrie Wirrie #3326)
131 Tune Info
1793		 Song Song of the Riddles (compare text as Captain Wedderburn's Courtship)
141 Tune Info
1799		 Air Spailpín a Rúin / Spalpeen, My Love
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