Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 2420 (Londonderry Love Song)

TypeMode
SongG Major
Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Londonderry Love Song / Derry Air / Drimoleague Fair / Danny Boy (for more information see, for example, http://www.standingstones.com/dannyboy.html and http://pages.britishlibrary.net/londonderryair/) (this air also used for song Anthem for Ireland #3413)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

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

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
~199615#1[DD HR] De Dannan. Hibernian Rhapsody. Frankie Gavin (fiddle, flute), Alec Finn (bouzouki, guitar), Colm Murphy (bodhrán), Derek Hickey (accordion), Tommy Flemming (vocals).View album details

Bibliography

Here are transcriptions of this song – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order.

As tune #188 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #316 in [1850] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. O'Neill's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #30 in volume 1 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [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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