“The Boyne Hunt” is a classic session reel. I learned it from my good friend Stéphane outside Pepper’s pub in Feakle, where we had a few quiet tunes between two great sessions during the Feakle Festival in 2013. It is usually played before “Rolling in the Ryegrass”.
X:1
T:Boyne Hunt, The
R:reel
M:4/4
K:D
A2FA DAFA|DAFA B~E3|A2FA DAFA|ABde fedB|
BAFA DAFA|DAFA B~E3|A2FA DAFA|ABde fdde||
faaf a2af|gfga bgeg|faaf afdB|ABde fdde|
faaf a2af|g2ga bgeg|fgfe d2dB|ABde fedB||
I learned “The Humours of Lissadell” after a weekend trip to Inishbofin with Tom Delany, Caroline Keane and a few others in 2014, it was like the “tune of the weekend”. It is quite a common session tune and often followed by “The Queen of May”.
I learned this hornpipe from the playing of Cormac Begley, who learned it himself from East Clare concertina player Mary MacNamara.
“Terry Teehan’s” is a polka associated with Terry “Cuz” Teehan, one of Sliabh Luachra’s great musicians who actually spent most of his adult life in
