I think people should know that one of the finest recordings of Irish music is available on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=307&item=4736084355&rd=1
It’s a rare one too. Go for it.
Tommy
Is that Seamus McMahon on flute?
Kevin Krell
Both Seamus and his brother John mcMahon were in Fisher Street, Seamus playing both fiddle and flute.
Last time I saw him he was playing the flute in the Ceili band of An Garda Siochana. 
Well, his track for “Wooden Flute Obsession 2” is late .
Kevin Krell
that’s one of my all time favourite recordings of Irish music.plenty of great tunes played with true passion.go for it!
seamus plays mostly fiddle nowadays,he was a great flute player but
had a very bad jaw injury (if i remember correctly in a car accident)
and now he can’t play flute for more than 20 minutes or so…
beside that he’s also Co.Clare police chief!
There are some great tunes on there as well. I heard Catherine McEvoy play that opening reel, John Brady’s, a few years ago and thought, “what a great reel…I’ve heard that before, but where?” Then when I listened to Fisherstreet again about six months later, there it was.
I’m surprised that more pipers don’t play Helvic Head…it’s a brilliant piping jig. Debbie Quigley is the only piper I’ve heard play it, and I never hear it in sessions. Maybe it got too popular when that Fisherstreet recording came out and people gave it a rest? In any case, it’s due for a resurrection, it’s a great piece of music.
Tommy Keane plays Helvic Head (or used to). Debbie no doubt got it off him. I used to play it too, suppose I still could if I thought of it.
The tune was resurrected by Fisherstreet from O’Neill’s Waifs and Strays. Where it is called Melvin Head. The tune they play with it is on the opposite page. John MacMahon moved to Waterford, probably the reason for renaming the tune after the far end of the Ring gaeltacht.
Helvic Head is also to be found on one of US piper Todd Denman’s recordings. The tune is rarely, if ever played in my area so I tend to forget about it. Love the tune, though.
Yes, Debbie got Ceann Helbhic from Tommy Keane on one of her trips home. He’s never recorded it, so that’s the only way you can pick up a tune like this in a piper’s format.
I bought this CD on eBay per the recommendation of those here. I’d better like it! 
djm
The tune was resurrected by Fisherstreet from O’Neill’s Waifs and Strays. Where it is called Melvin Head. The tune they play with it is on the opposite page
Both tunes are to be found in the reprints of the O’Farrell collections too. Helvic Head is in ONeills 1850 collection as “Walk it out Hogan”.
Great tunes!!
Tommy