Anyone who is serious about learning Irish traditional music will eventually come across O'Neill's Music of Ireland, a collection of well over 1000 tunes. This book contains a selection of one hundred tunes from this collection, arranged into sets for mandolin which can be used at sessions, and for dancing. The book includes hints, tips and comments for playing the tunes and some of the tunes also have alternative melodies and harmonies for added variety and interest. At the back of the book, there are guitar chords with standard and open D tuning, and a mandolin fretboard chart that you might find useful.

Chieftain

Arran Air

The Yellow Flail 

Banish Misfortune

Tell Her I Am

Bantry bay

The Honeysuckle

Ballincollig in the Morning 

The Job of Journey Work

Spalpeen Fanach

The Fisherman’s Widow

The Devil in Dublin 

Yellow John

Glengariff Bay

Thirty Years Ago

The Humors of Tralibane 

The Humors of Cappa 

Highway to Dublin

The Bantry Lasses

The Mountain Lark 

Tim the Thatcher

Moll in the Wad

Church of Dromore

Sgt Early’s Jig 

Jackson’s Freize Coat

Welcome Home

Honey in the House

Banks of the Ilen

Kit O’Mahony’s Hornpipe

Charlie the Prayermaster

Fasten the Leg

Lannigan’s Ball

Out on the Ocean

Malowney’s Wife

The Cook in the Kitchen 

The Ladies Pantalettes 

The Flower of the Flock 

The Cuckoo’s Nest nd Setting

John Carey’s Daughter 

The Blarney Pilgrim

The Irish Girl 

Dever the Dancer

Priest’s Leap

Shandon Bells

Hartigan’s Fancy

Kitty of Oulart

The Hare in the Corn 

Flitch of Bacon

The Collier’s Reel 

Skibereen Lasses

The Ivy Leaf

Mountains of Kerry

The Men from Mallow

Top of the Morning

Kitty Come Over

The Monaghan Jig 

Julia McMahon

The Road to Lurgan

The Barefoot Boy

The Kneebuckle 

Tobin’s Favourite

The Mooncoin Jig 

Molly What Ails You?

Far from Home

A Cup of Tea

Downing’s Reel

The Old Maids of Galway 

Col McBain 

The Mountains of Pomeroy 

Curly Locks

The Pet of the House in G Major 

The Pet of the House in A Major 

Whiskey You’re the Devil

Hurler’s March

Farewell to Whiskey

The Cloone Hornpipe

Byrne’s Hornpipe

The Glasgow Hornpipe

The Merry Blacksmith 

The Man of the House 

The Wind that Shakes the Barley 

The Reel of Mullinavat 

The Star of Munster

A Ha’Penny for a Cotton Ball

The Happy Days of Youth

Jackson’s Rambles

The End of the Day 

Killashandra Lasses

Drops of Brandy

Hardiman the Fiddler

The Humors of Glynn 

The Humors of Castle Comer 

Sally Magee

A Sprig of Shillellah

O’Mahony’s Frolics

The Humors of Mullinafauna 

Lasses of Dunse

Lads of Dunse

The Bonny Bunch of Roses 

The Banks of the Suir 

Standard Guitar Chords

Open - D Guitar Chords

Mandolin Fretboard Chart

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