Maybe some sort of stickied thread for this kind of thing should be made? A lot of these threads floating around these days…
Anyhow. Picked this one up at a session a few weeks back. I just can’t find the name of the bloody thing. Does anybody know? The recording was made only for reference, and nothing fancy, so the playing is shoddy, but who cares?
I have that polka as Mulvihill’s, only in D major (all C’s are sharp). Bet that’s real helpful, huh? Anyway, the recording I’ve got it on is Diarmuid O’Brien’s “Cairde Cairdin,” if that’s any use.
I like that banjo playing just fine.
Aha! I also just found it as “The Gullane” on Dennis Doody’s “Kerry Music.” Again, D major all the way through.
Pretty sure it’s also called the Gullane on Billy and Julia Clifford’s recording. Or rather one of the Gullane polkas. No idea of the key.
Edit: After listening, I don’t think it’s actually in that set of polkas. So I’m not sure where I’ve heard it.
I don’t have to listen to the clip to know the answer. It’s called: Polka. 
Also, Norbeck has it as “Jim Keeffe’s Polka”.
Well, it does help. At least now I’ve got a potential name for it. Thanks a bunch, Cathy!
Well, that’s because I saved the mp3 as such, you wisecracking froggy, you! 
Well, polkas seem especially prone to eponymous titles: So-and-so’s Polka. Where So-and-so is the person who played it last night at the pub. So they’re effectively Gan Ainm, and it’s hard to put consistent names to them. I always wondered if this attitude about names is a Cork/Kerry thing, more than elsewhere?
Actually, it seems more often than not the naming isn’t merely arbitrary, but that they’re respecting where they got it from. There are a lot of Denis Murphy’s etc, but there are also a lot of tunes named after the generation before that. Names forgotten, but the importance of where it came from pre-eminent. It works with the locale names, too, as it is no doubt seen that where it came from is just as important as who.
Just a theory, though.
I concur. Besides all the Learys’, Ryans’ and Murphys’ there seem to be shedloads of Ballydesmonds, Knocknabouls, Tuar Mhors, etc.
Funny, the way the polkas themselves are fairly easy to remember but their names … fffft! Half the time they never even get into my head.