Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#1595 (Planxty Irwin)

Type ?BarsMode ?
Piece32G Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Planxty Irwin
 about these two bars

These two bars are the start of my transcription of how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording Plx 1 (details in the Discography below).
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Planxty Irwin / Planxty Erwin / O, banquet not (also in D) (composed by Turlough O'Carolan?)

cd Discography

Here is the sole recording of this tune considering only the indexed recordings.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune?		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
~19733#1[Plx 1] Planxty. Planxty. Liam O'Flynn (pipes, whistle), Andy Irvine (vocals, mandola, mandolin, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica), Donal Lunny (vocals, bouzouki, guitar, bodhrán), Christy Moore (vocals, guitar, harmonica, bodhrán).View album details

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune under any title whatsoever – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are very similar to this tune as played on the recording listed above.

As tune #677 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #26 in volume 3 of [LPTW] Eithne Vallely. Learn to Play the Tin Whistle. [available]
On page 239 of [Krsn] Miles Krassen. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. New and Revised. [available]
On page 220 of [FF] David Brody. The Fiddler's Fakebook. [available]
On page 43 of [Cr] Matt Cranitch. The Irish Fiddle Book. [available]
As ocar #13 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #88 in [DM 4] Dave Mallinson. 100 Vital Irish Session Tunes. [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1903
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