This list was compiled by Comhaltas member Lindy Edwards to put the tunes from our Tune Learning Session in the context of the wider Traditional Irish Music landscape.
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Top Ten
Top 25
The Britches Full of Stitches
The Butterfly
The Connaughtman’s Rambles
Cooley’s
The Kesh
Merry Blacksmith
Off to California
Out On The Ocean
The Road to Lisdoonvarna
Planxty Hewlett
Lucy Farr’s Barndance
The Ballydesmond #2
The Ballydesmond #1
The Maid Behind the Bar
The Mountain Road
Far From Home
Banish Misfortune
The Blarney Pilgrim
Jimmy Ward’s
Merrily Kissed the Quaker’s Wife
King of the Fairies
The Boys of Bluehill
The Harvest Home
Swinging on a Gate
Sí Bheag Sí Mhor
Core Tunes
(tunes to start out with, ITM’s greatest hits)
The Ballydesmond #1
The Ballydesmond #2
The Britches Full of Stitches
The Butterfly
The Connaughtman’s Rambles
Cooley’s
Donnybrook Fair
Drowsy Maggie
Far From Home
Father Kelly’s
A Fig for a Kiss
Garrett Barry’s
Geese In The Bog
The Gentle Maiden
The Harvest Home
Inisheer
Jacky Tar
Jimmy Ward’s
John Ryan’s Polka
Kerry Polka
The Kesh
King of the Fairies
The Lark In The Morning
Lucy Farr’s Barndance
The Maid Behind the Bar
Merrily Kissed the Quaker’s Wife
Merry Blacksmith
Morrison’s
The Mountain Road
My Darling Asleep
Off She Goes
Off to California
Out On The Ocean
The Pigeon on the Gate
Planxty Hewlett
Rights of Man
The Road to Lisdoonvarna
The Rocky Road to Dublin
The Rose in the Heather
Saddle the Pony
The Sally Gardens
Sí Bheag Sí Mhor
The Silver Spear
The Swallowtail
Swinging on a Gate
Tripping Up The Stairs
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
User-friendly deeper cuts
(less commonly played but fairly simple)
The Abbey
The Arra Mountains
Babes in the Woods
The Ballyvourney
The Cat’s Meow
The Chaffpool Post
Coleman’s Cross
The Cordal
Dever the Dancer
The Diamond
The Dingle Regatta
Eleanor Plunkett
Fairy Hornpipe
Farewell to Whiskey
Father O’Flynn
The Flowing Tide
Frog In the Well
Hector The Hero
The Humours Of Ennistymon
Jimmy Doyle’s Polka
The Killavil
Kilnamona
Kitty’s Rambles
The Lady on the Island
Lord Inchiquin
Miss Rowan Davies
Nia’s
O’Keeffe’s
Old Hag You Have Killed Me
Planxty Fanny Power
Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow
The Rakes of Mallow
Redican’s Mother
Sally Gally
The Snowy Path
The South Wind
Spootiskerry
Spórt
Tobin’s Favourite
Tom Sullivans
The Torn Jacket
Willie Coleman’s