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.
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below to hear the first 12 seconds.| Year Recorded |
Track #Tune? |
[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments). |
|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 10#1 | [WW 2] The Wheels of the World. Early Irish-American Music. Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 1930s. Vol. 2. Edward Mullaney (pipes), Patrick Stack (fiddle). |
| 1960 | 1.9#1 | [SRyan C] Seán Ryan. A Collection of His Own Compositions and His Versions of Well Known Traditional Tunes. Seán Ryan (fiddle). |
| ~1962 | 2#1 | [GP] The Gentlemen Pipers. Classic Recordings of Irish Traditional Piping. Liam Walsh. |
| ~1974 | B.8#1 | [McGrCool] McGreevy and Cooley. McGreevy and Cooley. John McGreevy (fiddle), Seamus Cooley (flute). For this tune: Johnny (fiddle). |
| ~1975 | 7#1 | [PCt] Paddy Carty. Traditional Irish Music. Paddy Carty (flute). For this tune: with Mick O'Connor (banjo). |
| 1979 | 1#1 (0:20) | [FVlly 1] Fintan Vallely. Traditional Irish Flute Music. Fintan Vallely (flute). |
| ~1979 | 1#3 | [Ch B] The Chieftains. 9. Boil the Breakfast Early. Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Seán Keane (fiddle), Martin Fay (fiddle, bones), Derek Bell (harp, tiompán), Kevin Conneff (bodhrán, vocals), Matt Molloy (flute, whistle). |
| ~1979 | 9#2 | [MOC 1] Martin O'Connor. The Connachtman's Rambles. Martin O'Connor (accordion). |
| ~1981 | 14#2 | [BMc 1] Billy McComiskey. Makin' the Rounds. Irish Traditional Music. Billy McComiskey (accordion). |
| ~1982 | 10#2 | [TP 4] Tommy Peoples. The Iron Man. Tommy Peoples (fiddle). |
| ~1988 | 10#3 | [NH 1] Noel Hill. The Irish Concertina. Noel Hill (concertina). |
| 1994 | 2.3#1 | [SDI 3] Set Dances of Ireland. Volume III. Michael (flute), Tommy (concertina), Eamon (fiddle). |
| ~1997 | 18#2 | [TMcCrthy] Tommy McCarthy. Sporting Nell. Tommy McCarthy (concertina, pipes, whistle). For this tune: (concertina). |
| 1999 | 10#1 | [JWh 8] John Whelan. Celtic Roots. John Whelan (accordion). |
| 1999 | 7#1 | [GCJR] Gerard Commane and Joe Ryan with Eoin O'Neill. Two Gentlemen of Clare Music. Gerard Commane (concertina), Joe Ryan (fiddle). For this tune: Joe (fiddle). |
| 2001 | 7#2 | [LFJW] Liam Farrell and Joe Whelan. They Sailed Away from Dublin Bay. Liam Farrell (banjo), Joe Whelan (accordion). For this tune: with James Carty (flute). |
| ~2002 | 2.4#2 | [MSCB] Michael Sexton Ceili Band. Michael Sexton Ceili Band. Michael Sexton (accordion), Caroline Tubridy (fiddle), Pat Curtin (flute), Brian Morgan (flute), Ralph Morgan (banjo), George Byrt (piano), Martin Garrihy (drums). |
| 2003 | 12#1 | [CSmth] Chris Smith with Roger Landes and Randal Bays. Coyotebanjo. Chris Smith (banjo, mandola, mandolin, field organ), Roger Landes (bouzouki), Randal Bays (fiddle). |
| 2008 | 5#3 | [RedW] The Red Wellies. The Red Wellies. Claudine "Beanie" Odell (fiddle), Duncan Wickel (fiddle, pipes), Vincent Fogarty (bouzouki). |
| 2008 | 12#2 | [LRCB] Lough Ree Ceili Band. Keep 'er Lit. Live from Spanish Point. Johnnie Duffy (banjo), Brendan Doyle (accordion), Liz Ryan (piano), Colin Butler (drums). |
| ~2013 | 11#2 | [HB 4] Harry Bradley. The First of May. Harry Bradley (flute). For this tune: (Eb flute), with James Carty (fiddle). |
