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Dublin Reel

Also known as
Jackson'sMy Heart Is In Dublin

Key

D Major

Type

Reel

Level

BIA

Instrument

Tin Whistle

About this tune

Most often heard in D, this reel also has a popular G-major setting that goes by "Jackson's," a name traced to Michael Coleman's recording of it. It was in print by the early twentieth century in O'Neill's collections, and Liam O'Flynn brought it to a wide audience with Planxty, who placed it between "The Old Torn Petticoat" and "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" on Cold Blow and the Rainy Night (1974).

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Lesson segments

  • 1:09
  • 6:32
  • 12:48
  • 11:12
  • 1:59

Heard on these recordings

Bobby CaseyBBC Archive Recordings
Bobby GardinerThe Best Of Bobby Gardiner
Boxing BanjoRound #1
Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich/Brendan Begley, Seamus Glackin, Mick O'Brien, Mary Corcoran, Mick GaynorRiver Reel
Carmel GunningCathair Shligigh
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Part of a set·Tune 3 of 3

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