Mice in the Cupboard

This lesson calls the jig "Mice in the Cupboard," but at most sessions it goes by "Willie Coleman's," named for a fiddler from Killavil in County Sligo, the same Coleman Country that produced Michael Coleman. Willie Coleman played in the Glenview Céilí Band alongside Peter Horan, Fred Finn and Dick Brennan. The Traditional Tune Archive tells the story that when his headstone was unveiled, with "Willie Coleman's Jig" carved on it, the fiddler Martin Wynne leaned over to Sonny McDonagh and whispered that he had actually written the tune himself, so who composed it is more anecdote than settled fact. It was printed in Breathnach's Ceol Rince na hÉireann.