100 Vital Irish Session Tunes
These tunes form the very corner stone of Irish music sessions. They crop up with such regularity that it’s vital that you are able to play them. Every type of dance tune is represented: reels, jigs, hornpipes, polkas, slides, slip jigs, marches, set dances, waltzes, mazurkas, flings, a varsovienne, a barn dance, a single reel and a single jig. Session friendly settings: Learn them as written and you can be sure of having accurate versions. To help those whose music reading skills only extends as far as finding the notes.
 
Reels
Sheehan’s
Come West Along the Road
Drowsy Maggie
Maid in the Cherry Tree
The Old Torn Petticoat
The Donegal
The Wild Irishman
The Primrose Lass
Green Fields of America
The Teetotaller
The Flannel Jacket
The Heather Breeze
Rolling in the Ryegrass
John Brennan’s
The Scholar
The Fairy Dance
A Rainy DayThe Kilmaley
Miss McLeod’s
Pigtown Fling
The Galway Rambler
Bonny Kate
Morning Star
The Road to Lisdoonvarna
The Woman of the House
The Merry Blacksmith
Boys of Ballinahinch
 
Jigs
Father Kelly’s
Shandon Bells
Rakes of Kildare
Larry O’Gaff
The Idle Road
The Irish Washerwoman
Frost Is All Over
Saddle the Pony
Gallagher’s Frolics
The Sweets of May
Humours of Donnybrook
Paddy Whack
Top of the Cork Road
Munster Buttermilk
The Black Rogue
The Blackthorn Stick
The Mist on the Meadow
The Humours of Lisheen
Pay the Reckoning
Tongs by the Fire
The Maid on the Green
The Tenpenny Bit
Haste to the Wedding
Hornpipes
Boys of Bluehill
The Plains of Boyle
The Belfast
Off to California
Dunphy’s
Harvest Home
Polkas
The Siege of Ennis
Maggie in the Wood
The German Beau
Leslie’s Hornpipe
Dennis Murphy’s
John Ryan’s
Egan’s
Tralee Gaol
Rattlin’ Bog
 
Slides
Dingle Regatta
Pete Bradley’s
Scattery Island
The Cat Rambles to the Child’s Saucepan
Bunratty Boys
The Weaver’s
Merrily Kiss the Quaker
 
Slip Jigs
Foxhunters’ Jig
Barney Brannigan
To Limerick We Will Go
The Rocky Road to Dublin
Drops of Brandy
Marches
Napoleon Crossing the Rhine
The Boys of Wexford
The Triumphal
The Centenary
Set Dances
Three Sea Captains
Saint Patrick’s Day
Maggie Brown’s Favourite
The Downfall of Paris
Madam Bonaparte
The Piper through the Meadow Straying
Waltzes
Planxty Irwin
Si Bheag, Si Mhor
Planxty Fanny Power
The South Wind
The Munster Cloak
Mazurkas
The Barnacle Redowa
Donegal Mazurka
Varsovienne
Shoo the Donkey
Barn Dance
The Curlew Hills
Flings
Love, Will You Marry Me?
Green Grow the Rushes-o
Single Jig
Smash the Windows
Single Reel
Rakes of Mallow