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  • Collection: Hornpipes

Old Blackbird, The

10-27_The_Old_Blackbird-Hornpipe.pdf
Looking back in time, one of my special memories of working on this project was the visit I made to Finbarr Dwyer. As I was setting up my recording machine he was playing this, his very own version of 'The Old Blackbird'. I have always loved this…

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McDonnell-Garvey Hornpipe, The

09-22_The_McDonnell-Garvey_Hornpipe.pdf
On this track we once again hear Josephine Keegan performing one of her compositions. The tune is dedicated to her friend, the late Máire McDonnell-Garvey, who was a fiddle player and the author of a number of books about her native province…

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G. Craig and Maureen Sullivan

09-14_G_Craig_and_Maureen_Sullivan-Hornpipe.pdf
Brian Hebert plays a hornpipe he wrote to honour my special friends Craig and Maureen Sullivan. I will forever be grateful to them for their benevolent generosity to me, to Boston College, and to the world of Gaelic music and song. It is through…

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Men of Ulster, The

08-28_The_Men_of_Ulster-Hornpipe.pdf
Seán Maguire recorded this tune and gave it the above title. It may be found in Ryan's Mammoth Collection in the key of G-major under the name 'Norfolk'. The beginning of the tune always brings to mind the hornpipe 'The Wily Bachelor'. Laurel…

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West End, The

08-17_The_West_End-Hornpipe.pdf
I recorded Mrs. Galvin playing this hornpipe at a concert over fifty years ago in County Clare. Jerry O'Sullivan plays it on this track with a slightly different arrangement. This tune is sometimes attributed to the nineteenth-century Newcastle…

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Willie Week

08-04_Willie_Week-Hornpipe.pdf
The memory of legendary piper Willie Clancy from County Clare continues to be immortalised with this fine hornpipe. A composition of County Tyrone's All-Ireland champion fiddle player Jimmy McHugh, the tune is played here for us by Jimmy's son Benny.…

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Tyrone Among the Bushes

07-12_Tyrone_Among_the_Bushes-Hornpipe.pdf
Another tune from the playing of Tom Turkington from County Tyrone. This hornpipe is one of the tunes that he played on my fiddle so long ago at a concert at a Fleadh Cheoil in County Clare. Séamus Duffy, the traditional singer and…

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Séamus Connolly's

06-30_Seamus_Connollys-Hornpipe.pdf
I was honoured when Mrs. Matilda Murdoch from New Brunswick composed this hornpipe for me on her ninetieth birthday. After a night of playing music together at her daughter's home in Massachusetts, Matilda presented me with this very recording of…

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Tom Turkington's in B Flat

06-22_Tom_Turkingtons_in_B_Flat-Hornpipe.pdf
Tom Turkington's performance on my fiddle that night long ago in County Clare featured this hornpipe in B flat. I don't have a title for this tune, so I pay tribute to Tom Turkington by naming it for him. Listening to the great Kimberley Fraser's…

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Flee as a Bird

06-20_Flee_as_a_Bird-Hornpipe.pdf
And here is Julia and Billy Clifford's version of 'Flee as a Bird', which they recorded for me that night so long ago in Tralee, County Kerry. (Kimberley Fraser's version of this tune is here.)

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Turn of the Season

06-04_Turn_of_the_Season-Hornpipe.pdf
I have had the great pleasure of living in New England for many years, first in Massachusetts, and now in Maine. When I reflect on the beauty of the region, I picture its snow, its mountains, rivers, and lakes. I think of springtime when everything…

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Queen of May, The

06-01_The_Queen_of_May-Hornpipe.pdf
Leo Rowsome recorded this intricate hornpipe many years ago on a 78 RPM record. I recorded it with master piper Liam O'Flynn in 1988 on my record Notes From My Mind. On this track flute player Kevin Crawford joins me in keeping the tune alive.

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Duet, The

05-33_The_Duet-Hornpipe.pdf
A hornpipe played with great feeling and understanding by the great accordionist, the one and only James Keane from Dublin and New York. This tune first came to my attention a number of years ago when Larry Gavin performed it at Aonach Paddy O'Brien,…

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Jabe Meadow

05-27_Jabe_Meadow-Hornpipe.pdf
A hornpipe in the key of B-flat beautifully played for us by Kimberley Fraser. It may be found in Ryan's Mammoth Collection. Somehow, the tune found its way to Ireland and into the hands of Seán McLaughlin, a fiddle player from County Antrim.…

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Dan Sullivan's Favourite

05-26_Dan_Sullivans_Favourite-Hornpipe.pdf
Uilleann piper Jerry O'Sullivan recorded this hornpipe for the collection. Taking it from an old cassette tape of Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band which I gave him, Jerry reversed the order of the parts. I was never certain as to which was the first and…

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Flee as a Bird

05-12_Flee_as_a_Bird-Hornpipe.pdf
A two-part version of 'Flee as a Bird' is another tune which I recorded from Julia Clifford and her son Billy in the early 1960s. It can be heard elsewhere in the collection. Here, a longer setting of the tune, which can be found in Ryan's Mammoth…

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Bonnie Lass of Headlake, The

04-32_The_Bonnie_Lass_of_Headlake-Hornpipe.pdf
I first heard this tune played as a hornpipe by Paddy O'Brien with The Lough Gowna Céilí Band in the early 1960s. In fact, the tune was originally composed as a four-part march by Gordon MacQuarrie of Cape Breton. MacQuarrie, a noted…

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Grandfather's Thought

04-28_Grandfathers_Thought-Hornpipe.pdf
This hornpipe from Julia, John, and Billy Clifford is played here for us by Shannon Heaton on flute. The tune may be found on an LP that the Cliffords recorded during their years in London, England, entitled The Star of Munster Trio, Music from…

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Brian O'Kane's

04-13_Brian_OKanes-Hornpipe.pdf
I have a tape of a wonderful evening of music in the home of the Gavin family of Balbriggan, County Dublin, which includes this hornpipe played by Jimmy Keane from Chicago. I wanted to include the tune in this collection, so I phoned Jimmy to ask…

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Fly by Night

04-11_Fly_by_Night-Hornpipe.pdf
I first heard this hornpipe in the early 1960s, played by Mr. Kieran Kelly, a wonderful accordionist from near Athlone, County Westmeath. The tune has been recorded by a number of musicians and has been given different titles, including 'The Low…

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