Tune Search
Sign in or join  to see your:     Home   Playlists   Practice Machine   Stats   Friends   Albums   Preferences   Sign out
The Irish Traditional Music Tune Index

Tune ID#2521 (Dinny O'Brien's)

Transcription of first 2 bars of Dinny O'Brien's about these two bars
These two bars were transcribed by me from how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording MGm (details in the Discography below).
Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?Bars8-bar phrase structureMode ?
Reel32AABBD Mixolydian
Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Dinny O'Brien's / Dinny O'Brien's Reel / Ríl Dhonncha Uí Bhriain / Ríl Dinny O'Brien / Dinny O'Brien / Dinny O'Briens / The Last House in Connaught / The Last House of Connaght / John Bowe's (2nd in set Dinny O'Brien's Reels on KCB 3) (composed by Paddy O'Brien the elder, of Tipperary, in the late 1940s or early 1950s)
To get to your personal tune notes, Log in or Create an account
Note shared with my friends:

Note to myself only:
71 members play this tune.
0 of them are your friends.

Suggest this Tune

To:
Comment to friend:
map of tune distribution
Where members are who play this tune.

Discography cd

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.

Click play below to hear the first 12 seconds.
Year
Recorded
Track
#Tune?
[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
~19592.21#2
[MGm] Michael Gorman. The Sligo Champion. The Fiddle Music of County Sligo. Michael Gorman (fiddle, vocals). For this tune: Michael Gorman (fiddle), Jimmy Power (fiddle).
~19602.3#1
[JV] John Vesey. Sligo Fiddler. John Vesey (fiddle).
~19711.7#1
[FTIM] Festival of Traditional Irish [Music]. Discs 7 and 8 of Celtic Souls. Irish Celtic Ballads & Traditional Music. Na Fili [presumably Matt Cranitch (fiddle), Tomas O Canainn (accordion), Tom Barry (whistle)].
~19712.7#1
[NaF 2] Na Filí. Farewell to Connacht. Tomás Ó Canainn (pipes, accordion, vocals), Matt Cranitch (fiddle), Tom Barry (whistle).
~19747#3
[KCB 3] [The Kilfenora Ceili Band]. [The Kilfenora Céilí Band].
19784#1
[KKgn] Kevin Keegan. The Music of Kevin Keegan. Kevin Keegan (accordion). For this tune: with (banjo).
~19781#1
[JyHenry] Johnny Henry. One Out of the Fort. Johnny Henry (fiddle).
~19794#2
[FR] Joe Burke, Andy McGann, and Felix Dolan. The Funny Reel. Traditional Music of Ireland. Joe Burke (accordion), Andy McGann (fiddle), Felix Dolan (piano).
~199113#1
[PG 2] Paddy Glackin. Rabharta Ceoil. In Full Spate. Paddy Glackin (fiddle), Dónal Lunny (bouzouki, guitar, bodhrán).
~19938#2
[CPO] Eileen O'Brien and Willie Fogarty. The Compositions of Paddy O'Brien. Eileen O'Brien (fiddle), Willie Fogarty (accordion). For this tune: Eileen O'Brien (fiddle).
~199617#2
[JB 4] Joe Burke, Charlie Lennon. The Bucks of Oranmore. Joe Burke (accordion), Charlie Lennon (piano).
19997#1
[MCnnly] Mick Conneely. Selkie. Mick Conneely (fiddle, bouzouki).
199911#1
[Dnu 2] Danú. Think before You Think. Tom Doorley (flute, whistle), Eamon Doorley (bouzouki, mandola), Brendan McCarthy (accordion), Jesse Smith (fiddle, viola), Noel Ryan (guitar), Donnchadh Gough (bodhrán, pipes), Ciarán Ó Gealbháin (vocals).
~19996#2
[CNea 1] Colin Nea. The Pure Box. Colin Nea (accordion). For this tune: with Joe Finn (pipes), Aidan McMahon (fiddle).
~200211#3
[JFtg] Joe Fitzgerald. Hills of Clare. Joe Fitzgerald (accordion).
~201110#3
[FScahl 2] Fergal Scahill. Wayfaring. Fergal Scahill (fiddle, guitar, bodhrán). For this tune: with Ryan (fiddle).
20131#1
[Tda 5] Téada. Ainneoin na Stoirme. In Spite of the Storm. Oisín Mac Diarmada (fiddle, piano, keyboard), Séamus Begley (vocals, melodeon), Paul Finn (accordion, concertina), Damien Stenson (flute), Seán Mc Elwain (guitar, bouzouki, bass guitar), Tristan Rosenstock (bodhrán). For this tune: Oisín (fiddle).
~20173.20#1
[CPONE] Eileen O'Brien. The Compositions of Paddy O'Brien 1922-1991. Eileen O'Brien (fiddle).
~20215#2
[BrtDrkly] Nathan Gourley and Laura Feddersen. Brightly or Darkly. Nathan Gourley (fiddle, guitar, bouzouki), Laura Feddersen (fiddle).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played afterOn Albums
Old Thatched House
MGm
Liffey Banks
KCB 3
Old Copperplate
FR
Táid na réalta 'na seasamh ar an aer
CPO
Martin Wynne's No. 3
JB 4
Dillon's Fancy
CNea 1
Ladies' Pantalettes
JFtg
Julia Delaney
FScahl 2
Maeve's Reel
BrtDrkly
Played beforeOn Albums
Farewell to Connaught
MGm, JyHenry, JV, MCnnly
Geoghegan's Fancy
FTIM, NaF 2
Lass of Carracastle
KCB 3
Gooseberry Bush
PG 2
Tommy Peoples
Dnu 2
Sweetheart Reel
Tda 5
Carraigín Ruadh
BrtDrkly

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune considering only the indexed books, listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are musical matches to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

Listing of published transcriptions of this tune.
On page 62 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. [available]
On page 103 of [NF] Allen Feldman. The Northern Fiddler. [available]
As tune #145 in [CRE 3] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 3. [available]
As reel #126 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
As tune #55 in [Cr] Matt Cranitch. The Irish Fiddle Book. [available]
As tune #318 in [JOL] Terry Moylan. Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra. Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border. [available]
On page 21 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.
As reel #177 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
On page 48 of [POB] Eileen O'Brien. The Compositions of Paddy O'Brien 1922-1991. [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 only the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1959