This is a clip of Jerry O’Sullivan performing in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia:
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=U5q5fFVAnGs&feature=related
Can anyone name the tunes he plays?
The Slipper (#1596, ONMI) is the name of the first, dunno about the second. Sounds like another tune from literature. Jerry’s quite the bookworm. 
Thanks for that! Though judging from his in medias res shoe-removal, I think it should be called The Sock. 
No clue on the second one’s title, but I wouldn’t mind finding out – it might be fun on the whistle.
Jerry’s got a good sense for choosing and playing hornpipes, at least I think so. I like how he pairs up his hornpipes and how he develops the playing of each one, starting simple and getting more elaborate as he goes on. His reg accompaniment is great and follows a nice progression. He tends to start on the bass reg alone and then get a little more elaborate. Marvellous stuff.
While you are at it, can someone name these hornpipes, please?
http://www.gnipc.org/tionol/tionol2003.html
…the second clip from the left.
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No, sorry, but what a great set of pipes he’s playing. Is that the Taylor set he got from the nun?
Yup, that’s the one. From the GNIPC website:
“…Billy had his famous Taylor set with him; the history behind this set is phenomenal. While playing his old set of pipes one day in Dublin, an American nun approached Billy and asked him his name. As it turns out, her grandfather, who was also named Billy McCormick, had played the pipes in Chicago during the early 1900s. She asked Billy if he would like to have the pipes her grandfather played; he did, of course, and soon received the set from America. After examining the pipes Billy found out that this set was none other than a William Taylor set made for “Kid” Eddie Joyce. After Joyce died in 1897, the “other” Billy McCormick had bought them and the rest is history. Francis O’Neill wrote an in-depth biography of “Kid” Eddie Joyce in his book Irish Minstrels and Musicians. Billy is currently playing his set with a Taylor-style chanter crafted by pipemaker Cillian O’Briain based in Dingle, Co. Kerry.”
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The first one seems to be known as “Deirdre Shannon’s” out on the net. E.g., #55 here: http://www.ceolas.org/pub/tunes/abc.tunes/Book1.abc
The other one I can’t pin down.