I’ve run across a few of these on this board and in “The Low Whistle Book”. Examples:
The Plague of Boils (The Plains of Boyle)
She Begs for More (Si Beag, Si Mor)
The Scary Monster (The Star of Munster)
Black Hairy Possum (Blackberry Blossom)
Does anyone know any others?
Roscommon international Airport (The Planes of Boyle)
Kinnegad Flashers
The Maids of Fecal
Best wishes.
Steve
the whore in the corner (18th century)
Hardly a pun in that one is there? Next someone will probably post Cock up your beaver for the umpteenth time. (or 'My Darling’s a Sheep’ for that matter, some of these really are getting old).
That said, I found ‘The Black Stripper’ in the (19th c.) Goodman collection years ago. It left me wondering until I eventually found that referred to a type of cow. Quite different to the image the title evokes in the modern mind.
The Whore in the Corner: ‘whore’ is pronounced ‘hure’ in Scotland, and it’s an 18th version of The Hare in the Corn. It’s in one of Pete Stewart’s books of smallpipes tunes.
Jig of Slugs
Jenny Bang the Weaver
I must be dense. What is “The Maids of Fecal”. (Waiting for rimshot …)
A “black stripper” is a mining implement. I think that’s what the tune title relates to. Or is it a type of cow as well?
Merrily kick the quaker('s wife)
Cuffs of Mohair
and (dare i mention)
Polish my foreskin
A local session leader has a liking for school-boy humour
Actual name of the reel is “The Maids of Feakle”. Feakle is a village in County Clare. Fecal is, well, something else…
Best wishes.
Steve
Ah. I didn’t know the real name.
A “black stripper” is a mining implement. I think that’s what the tune title relates to. Or is it a type of cow as well?
I found the ‘cow’ thing in a book of North Kerry music Paul de Grae gave me. Paul wrote the notes and is usually accurate he wrote that the title ‘in this context refers to either a cow or a poitín still’.
I’ll throw the mining thing his way and see what he thinks.
I’ll be interested in the answer.
It’s a funny thing, but I didn’t really get the answer to the question when I just typed “black stripper” into Google just now …
Looking up “irish cow stripper” gets lots of hits. The stripping is the milk produced near the end of a lactation period, and is less good quality. A stripper is a cow near the end of its lactation period (or possibly even near the end of its life… I’m not 100% sure).
Oh I got lots of hits with my Google search too. Just not terribly pertinent. Still, I suppose I should investigate …
Pertinent hits is what that search returns 
Marquee on the Lawn (Marquis of Lorne)
Fanny Power. Our guitar man calls it Fanny Batter, for no reason other than he once forgot its real name, so that’s what we call it now.
Banish Misfortune=Banish this torture
Wind that Shakes the Barley = The chick that rides my Harley 
There’s a Celtic band in Japan, The Butter Dogs (don’t google!), that has a tune called Funny Power on their CD.