At my local session, where I play with a group of fiddle players, we recently learned a Polka set:
Egan’s Polka
Ballydesmond
Peggie Ryan
Ger the Rigging
Lovely tunes, and especially suited to the flute. It’s made me become interested in Polkas now, and I wonder if anyone has any particular favorites? Or good recordings of Polkas?
Thanks,
Pamela 
Most musicians from Sliabh Luachra will play a lot of polkas - try The Monks of the Screw, Sliabh Notes, Seamus Creagh, Maire O’Keeffe… there are loads out there!
Deirdre
Our group likes to play Peg Ryan’s and Sean Ryan’s together (ladies first, of course! 
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Here’s a couple I got from Seamus Creagh when he was through here last year. Unfortunately I don’t have a name for either but they are both lovely tunes!
T:#1
R:polka
M:2/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=160
K:D
|D3/2E/2 FA|Bc d2|BA FA|BA FA|D3/2E/2 FA|Bc d2|BA FE|D2 D2:|
|d3/2c/2 BA|Bc d2|BA FA|BA FA|d3/2c/2 BA|Bc d2|BA FE|D2 D2:|
T:#2
R:polka
M:2/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=160
K:D
|D3/2 D1/2 DB|AF FB|AF DE|FE EF|
|D3/2 D1/2 DB|AF FB|AF EF|D2 DD:|
|d2 cd|BA FA|d2 cd|B2 Bc|
|d2 cd|BA FB|AF EF|D2 D2:|
|d2 e2|f2 fe|dc Bc|d2 dA|
|B c1/2 B1/2 AF|B c1/2 B1/2 AF|AF EF|D2 D2:|
All the best,
Wes
My teacher and I play this set of polkas:
Dan Coakley’s/Jer the Rigger (I imagine it’s the same one as Ger the Rigging)/As I Went Out upon the Ice/Jim Keefe’s no. 1
We especially like the last one, which has a nice bleating piper sound to it.
Carol
I shall try them / search them out - thanks very much.
Pamela
Somehow I missed the query about recordings of polkas. This is one of my favorite tracks from my whistle teacher’s harmonica CD, called Mouth Box. Good fun with polkas.
http://home.attbi.com/~Mouth_Box/Ballydesmond.mp3
Carol
A great player in our area for polkas is Bill Black. He’s wild for them. Check out his Web site at:
http://www.qmcorp.net/zouki/
He’s got loads of trad tunes there, including lots of polkas. Along with the trad stuff, Bill is also a prolific composer of original tunes.
There’s also a fair bit of humor on the site. Bill is the IRTRAD list’s resident satirist and it carries over onto his own site. Fun stuff!
Enjoy,
John Harvey
I like the following very much:
T:Tralee Gaol
R:polka
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:Amix
eA AB/d/|e>d Bd|eA AB/A/|G>A Bd|
eA AB/d/|e>d Bd|ed gB|A2 A2:|
ea ag/a/|b>a ge|dB gB|d/c/B/A/ GE|
ea ag/a/|b>a ge|ed gB|A2 A2:|
On the Chieftains first album is a lovely set:
Saint Mary’s / Church Street
The abc’s are on Henrik Norbeck’s polka file hnp0.abc
http://home.swipnet.se/hnorbeck/abc.htm
loads of polkas there!
Enjoy! 
Hans
What great web sites!
Thanks, John and Hans, and everyone else for suggestions. That should be enough polkas to last me a while!
Funny - I never liked polkas when I was younger - they seemed very “ditsy” and a bit hackneyed - lots of bad, messed about recordings or television with people in lederhosen . But they seem particularly suited for wooden flutesk and I’ve really changed my mind…
Did anyone else have a similar experience?
lots of love,
Pamela
A great idea. I’m starting to weary of the usual stuff. Not because I don’t like it but because I’ve been practacing the same jigs/reels/hornpipes for months and would like to expand the styles.
Well you inspired me to record some polkas. They are two of my favorite:
http://www.tinwhistletunes.com/clipssnip/non.html
Sometimes polkas get a bad name as being tweedly but there are quite a few that are a blast to play.