An Phis Fluich
The Old Torn Garter
Repeal the Union
Lark In the Morning
Kid On the Mountain
Cuihmne an Phiobaire
Somewhere, Over the Rainbow
If I only Had a Brain
…There are so many tunes which I like to play, but currently these are on the top of the list.
Tim Britton has a killer verson on The Pied Piper’s Call, which is only available on cassette. Terrific album all around.
How can anyone even mention the tune without thinking of Micho Russell? Donncha O Briain recorded a half decent take on it too 
The Rolling Waves
Rolling in the Ryegrass
Gander in the Pratie Hole (can’t beat the name!)
I love when we do a thread like this. I always find two or three new tunes to try out, at least.
The Road to Buggleskelly
The Milky Way
The Hop of the Rabbit
Ross’ Reel No.4
Cooley’s Reel
The Wedding Reel
Lord Mayo
Carolan’s Draught
Swallowtail Jig
Stolen Apples
The Snowy Path
Cronin’s Hornpipe
Tommy Kochel
www.tommyswirled.com
www.gladlyplaye.com
www.knotwork.info
This is really great hearing what people are playing as well as getting some tunes to check out. -(getting up there with the biscuits and gravy thread!) Another tune I’ve been playing is The Merry Blacksmith (Collin’s Reel) but my favorite version so far is out of a mandolin book by Steve Kaufmann. – Another non-whistle version I like is of Greencastle Hornpipe. The one I like best is on a Norman Blake mandolin video. It’s probably done more old time style but I like this version best of those I’ve heard.
Wow! Thanks for all the Sean sa Ceo recommendations! I’m always amazed by the helpfulness of people here. 
Justine
tunes I’m working on and/or play regularly -
Ships are Sailing
White Petticoat
O’Keefe’s Slide
Maid of Mt. Cisco
Ballydesmond Polkas (I,II & III)
Mist on the Mountain
Shores of Lough Gowna
Young Tom Ennis
Bobby Casey’s aka Humours of Tullycrine
King of the Fairies
Autumn Child
Crested Hens
An Buachaillin Ban
Aisling Gheal
et al…
Curently learning – Doctor O’Neill and Take the Bull by the Horns.
Currently playing a lot just because I like playing them – The Diplodocus; Blackthorne Stick/Morrison’s Jig; Liz Kelly/Off She Goes/Dingle Regatta; Gallagher’s Frolics/Jig of Slurs.
I’m also working on a catchy little tune called Gan Ainm (the jig, not the reel) that goes kind of nice after the Diplodocus, but I can’t find the sheetmusic, and on a the air from the Curly Howard version of the Alphabet Song, although I’m having a little trouble with the key change at R.
Someday I may learn a reel.
Gonzo,
There are hundreds of tunes called Gan Ainm.
In Gaelic it means Name unknown.
Slan,
D.
there seems to be an awful lot of poems that are “author unknown” as well. I used to think that Author Unknown was the poet’s actual name, and was stunned to see how many poems he (or she) had penned But that was quite some time ago that I believed that 
Oops, sorry. Looks like I’m guilty of threadjacking again
The Strayaway Child and the Blarney Pilgrim at the moment. Also I love playing “Gift of Love” from my hymnal (I think that the melody for it is based of The Water is Wide… not sure though)
Oh man, tell me about it. You guys got more of those that we got blues songs about my woman what done me wrong.
The one I’m looking for goes:
“Dum, Deedily deedily deedily deedily, deedily, didily, dodally dodally,
Deedily deedily deedily deedily, deedily, didily, dodally dum.”
It’s track number 4 on "One More Time " (McComiskey, Mulvihill and McCleod) – http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display.php/255 .
Do not confuse it with the other three tunes of the same name on this CD. They are hormpipes.
The CD (see http://www.culkinschool.com/music.htm ) uses the tune’s American name – Jig: Name Unknown (Feis speed 120) – so it’s easy to tell it from the hornpipes, which are all named Hornpipe: Name Unknown.
As a side note, this CD is a good one for learning by ear. It’s produced by the Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance, and the tunes are slowed down for dancers to practice with. Even the fastest ones are still slower than show-off warp speed, so they are easy to learn from.
gonzo
Eanach Dhuin (So Beautiful! Can anyone recommend similar airs?)
Tam Lin (Hardest song I’ve Learned so far, one been play for 2-3 months)
Aaron Boat (Another nice slow song)
Wow, you might be interested to know, then again, you may not, that I know Sean Culkin, the founder of this dance school. When I still lived in D.C., we worked at the same law firm. It’s because of Sean that my wife and I got involved in Irish set dancing, and how my wife also got involved in step dancing.
Sean moved on from the firm where we worked in order to set up the school and teach on a full-time basis. As you can see from his website, he seems to be very successful. Sean is a great dancer and very enthusiastic about all thing Irish, particularly dance.
All the Best, Tom
Current Favorites:
Current In Development:
Starting to Refresh (Carols).
Wish list of tunes next to be learned:
Here it is. I was going to suggest doing a search but when I did it came up with 4500 matches, none of them seeming to be about tunes! -mike
I don’t have any to choose from. The one tune that I can play in a pretty sprightly way is a Scottish song called The Haughs of Cromdale. And I do like it very, very much.
Cliche all the way!
Kesh
Blackthorn Stick
Fermoy Lassies
Chief O’Neill’s
Swallow’s Tail (reel)
Rolling in the Ryegrass
Spancil Hill (!!!)
Kid on the Mountain
Longford Collector
Dingle Regatta