Keltic Kaleidoscope

This song is based on the traditional Irish tune 'Air from County Derry' with lyrics by Frederic Weatherly.

This is a typical Irish love song in which the father drives his daughter's suitor away and he goes off to North Americay. The daughter decides to follow him.

Traditional Irish song about love lost. The melody is from the Scottish tune Loch Lomand

Traditional Irish Tune

Fiddler's green is where fishermen go if they have behaved themselves!

Tune written by Turlough O'Carolan perhaps in response to a challenge from Italian composer Francisco Geminiani.

This 'Bard of Armagh' was actually a Catholic Bishop who was in hiding from the British at the height of the penal laws, a time of severe repression.

Traditional Irish Waltz

Irish tune about porter perhaps!

This is a traditional Irish air performed on the flute. It is called 'An Binnsín Luachra' in Irish.

This song was popularized by Simon and Garfunkel but is really a very old song that describes a medieval fair held annually in August and September.

Dawted Mary is a strathspey, a traditional Scottish dance tune.

This is an ancient tune played hauntingly on flute and keyboard. Slane is in County Meath, Ireland, which is a most historic area that includes the Hill of Tara, Kells, and New Grange. The song “Be Thou My Vision” is based on this melody.

It can be rather risky to be courtin'in the kitchen as these lyrics show.

Traditional Irish instrumental piece.

This little ditty has sometimes been described as a tender love song that just goes to show what too much Guinness will do!