Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 834 (High Road to Dublin)

RhythmBarsMode
Slip jig16E Dorian
Transcription of first 2 bars of High Road to Dublin
 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 A 1 (details in the Discography below).

Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
High Road to Dublin, The / An Bóthar Mór go Baile Átha Cliath / The Way to Dublin / The Humours of Whiskey / Humours of Whiskey / The Boy in the Basket / Sally Hegarty's Jig (also in F#) (compare Humours of Whiskey #871)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc. They are listed in order of when they were recorded.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
~198710#1[A 1] Frankie Kennedy and Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. Altan. Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (fiddle, vocals), Frankie Kennedy (flute).View album details
~199610#2[DByrn] Dermot Byrne. Dermot Byrne. Dermot Byrne (accordion).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 recordings listed above.

As tune #97 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2.
On page 29 of [SK] Sean Keane. Fifty Fiddle Solos. [available]
As slipjig #21 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan. [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): 1970
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