Okay, so after going into the site www.boysandgirlfromcountyclare.com clicking on the picture, a menu pops up and after the menu finishes loading a tune plays…can anyone recognize that tune for me?
Thanks! 
~Kerry
The second jig is Gillan’s Apples. I can’t seem to find the first one, though it’s very familiar (perhaps from having seen the movie recently or from listening to the website track a bunch of times).
Great, thanks a lot!
Have finally just seen this film! Never mind the bad scripting, the bloopers etc.. Had great fun looking up lots of details all over the Chiff and finding that the geezer in the beginning of the film is Ptarmigan, and about all the actual musicians who did the soundtrack work.
Oddly I thought at 2 separate times in the film, the geezer-looking flute players seemed to be actually playing, but surely they were not Paul McGrattan and Harry Bradley in disguise as geezers. ok..
Paddy Glackin - Band leader/fiddle
Seamus Glackin - Fiddle
Paul McGrattan - Flute/Whistles
Harry Bradley - Flute/Whistles
Mary Corcoran - Piano
John Regan - Button Accordion
Seamus Meehan - Piano Accordion
Noel Bridgeman - Drums
Pádraic Mac Mathúna - Pipes
Kieran Hanrahan - Banjo
Hugh Webb - Celtic Harp
Fiachra Trench - Solo Piano
Philip Begley - Guitar
Recorded at Beechpark Studios, Rathcoole, Co. Dublin
I’d thought this thread would have a listing of all the tunes in the film. Had trouble remembering titles as we heard them go by..
- Humours of Trim (The Rolling Waves)
and then..?
Happy New Year folks,
Lesl
I made a quick stab at this a few years ago. I haven’t revisited the list to fill in the gaps, but it is what it is. The numbers are time markers in the DVD version of the movie.
The Rolling Wave
The Crooked Road to Dublin
The Millpond / Gillian’s Apples
Egan’s Polka |fABA fABA|d2ef edBA|
0:12:35 The Trip We Took Over The Mountain
0:19:15 ???
0:22:50 ???
0:23:15 ???
0:27:20 George White’s Favourite
0:27:50 Planxty Fanny Power
0:29:50 The Old Bush
0:32:50 ???
0:33:30 Polka |Ac EF|A2 Af|ec BA|e/f/e/d BA|
0:34:50 ???
0:35:28 Rights of Man
0:35:50 Drowsy Maggie
0:36:00 My Darling Asleep
0:36:05 Harp tune ???
0:36:20 Whistle tune ???
0:36:30 Nice fiddle tune!
0:38:15 Egan’s Polka
0:38:50 Irish Washerwoman
0:40:00 The Millpond / Gillian’s Apples
0:41:20 Ballyfin Polka |Bd G>A|Bd GB|AB/A/ FD|
0:42:20 Flute tune ???
0:44:25 Crooked Road to Dublin
0:45:00 Drag Her Round the Road
0:45:20 Humours of Glendart
0:46:20 Kesh Jig
0:50:00 The Wild Rover (song)
0:50:40 Sally Gardens
1:00:00 Hardiman the Fiddler
1:03:50 Tune ???
1:09:00 Sally Gardens / Skylark
1:11:30 ???
1:12:50 Rolling Wave
1:24:00 Sally Gardens
1:25:00 Fred Finn’s
End Credits Whiskey in the Jar
1:30 Sean Nós song
I go to the site and can’t seem to locate any music, or a picture to click on.
Michael
The original post was from April 2005. The film’s website has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has passed on. It’s a stiff. Joined the bleedin’ choir invisible. It is an ex-website.
The flute-playing “geezers” were Les Bingham, Tara’s dad, and Brendan O’Hare from Belfast, or thereabouts. Both very accomplished players.
Great MTG, when we re-watch it I’ll add to the list if any familiar titles “resurface” in my mind.
The flute-playing “geezers” were Les Bingham, Tara’s dad, and Brendan O’Hare from Belfast, or thereabouts.
Thanks Kenny. I saw their names on the IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337631/fullcredits#cast
and wondered were they the very same ones, but of course there’s no information there if you click on their names (and I don’t know their faces).
I can’t get over how just a tiny bit of camera editing could have handled the non-playing actors. But aside from being thrown ‘out of the film’ by all the goofs, it was fun to watch.
There are also a few other familiar-looking names listed on IMDB who I thought were musicians, but not sure which ones. Have to go back and look at the film credits as they roll by, hopefully they’re credited.
I made another pass through the DVD, filled in the gaps, and tightened up the timings. The 3 cues with question marks are too much in the background or too short to get a good fix on them. And the cues with no instrument indicated are played by either a band or a session group. Enjoy!
Menu: Whiskey in the Jar [song]
0:00:40 The Rolling Wave [fiddle]
0:03:04 The Crooked Road to Dublin
0:04:48 The Crooked Road to Dublin
0:05:32 The Millpond / Gillian’s Apples
0:07:15 Egan’s Polka [box]
0:07:42 Hang on Sloopy [radio]
0:12:35 The Trip We Took Over The Mountain [Bb whistle]
0:19:03 The All Ireland
0:22:42 ???
0:23:10 The Berry Bush Polka?
0:27:11 George White’s Favourite
0:27:43 Planxty Fanny Power
0:29:40 The Old Bush
0:32:40 The Job of Journeywork? [box]
0:33:30 Wren’s Polka [box]
0:34:50 Come West Along the Road [flute]
0:35:22 The Rights of Man [fiddle]
0:35:53 Drowsy Maggie [fiddle]
0:35:58 My Darling Asleep [fiddle]
0:36:05 Three Little Drummers [harp]
0:36:18 Gander in the Pratie Hole [whistle]
0:36:26 Humours of Castlefin [fiddle]
0:38:11 Egan’s Polka
0:38:50 The Irish Washerwoman
0:40:00 The Millpond / Gillian’s Apples
0:41:20 St. Mary’s Polka
0:42:20 Come West Along the Road [flute]
0:44:20 The Crooked Road to Dublin
0:44:56 Drag Her Round the Road
0:45:18 The Humours of Glendart
0:46:18 Kesh Jig
0:50:00 The Wild Rover [song]
0:50:36 Sally Gardens
1:00:00 Hardiman the Fiddler
1:03:50 Come West Along the Road [flute]
1:09:00 Sally Gardens / Skylark
1:11:27 A Visit to Ireland
1:12:50 The Rolling Wave [fiddles]
1:24:00 Improv / Sally Gardens [whistle]
1:25:00 Fred Finn’s
1:26:32 End Credits: Whiskey in the Jar [song]
1:29:48 Sean Nós song [song]
Cool. Couldn’t remember the name of Gander, but that’s it! And never have names for polkas, so that’s great. We did spot Come West, and also somewhere around that same section before Hardiman, heard a snippet of Down the Back Lane (the jig - maybe that’s aka Kesh).
CDUniverse has this title new for $10 and change. I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of same.
There are a couple of clever cues, too. When the band is asleep on the ferry from Liverpool, the tune is “The Trip We Took (Over the Mountain)”. And when they arrive, you see a street banner announcing something like “All Ireland Fleadh”, and the cue is an obscure tune “The All Ireland”. It would have been fun if the filmmakers had done more to correlate tune titles with the on-screen story, as a sop to music geeks like us.
I really like The Humours of Castlefin, when the fiddler is playing with the gypsies in the car park. It’s a new tune to me that’s going in my repertoire!
Glad they squeezed this one in. Nothing epitomizes ITM like the McCoys. 
I’ll be darned, Jumper, that’s it. The film’s website is now here:
http://www.firstlookmedia.com/films/boysandgirlfromcountyclare/
As well as pipers messing with reeds
Thanks for all the research!!!
I just loved this movie! Some nice inside jokes for us ITM people, like that band that has an uilleann piper, but you hardly ever hear him play, because he’s always mucking with his pipes.
The surprise ending is hilarious.
I think the moment that best sticks in my mind is the part where they’re stuck without a bus and run into the hippies who say, “We all play the bad-ron” to which John Joe responds, “And I’ll bet you know all the tunes”
Great little movie! Thanks for the insights into the little subtleties… made it even more fun than it would have been without them.