Tom Billy’s
Also known as
Bill Harte'sDonegal Jig No. 2First Cousin Of The Gallant Tipperary BoysPadraic O'Keeffe'sPadraig O'KeefesPádraig O'Keeffe'sPatrick O'Keefe'sPort Uí Chaoimh
Key
A Mixolydian
Type
Jig
Level
BIA
Instrument
Tin Whistle
About this tune
The jig takes its name from Tom Billy Murphy (1875–1943), a fiddler and teacher from Glencollins Upper, Ballydesmond, on the Cork–Kerry border, who worked the Sliabh Luachra country in the same generation as Pádraig O'Keeffe, whose name the tune also carries — one of several it answers to. Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford brought it into wider circulation when they recorded it on The Star Above the Garter (Claddagh, 1969); Murphy, an O'Keeffe pupil, said he had always had the tune "after Tom Billy."
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Lesson segments
- 2:11
- 12:30
- 1:31
- 10:55
- 1:12
- 8:03
- 0:31
Heard on these recordings
Adam Agee & Jon SousaCeol na gCarad
Aoife GranvilleSáimhín Só
Boys Of The LoughIn The Tradition
Boys Of The LoughLive At Carnegie Hall
DaimhThe Hebridean Sessions
Denis Murphy And Julia CliffordThe Star Above The Garter
Donal MurphyHappy Hour
Donncha O'BriainCeol Ar an bhFeadóg Stáin
Donncha O'BriainDonncha O'Briain
Howie MacDonaldThe Dance Last Night
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Part of a set·Tune 1 of 2
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