Hi,
Except for buying every Guitar book out there; where is the best
place on the net for finding the Guitar chords for all the tons of Celtic
tunes out there? JC’s Tune Finder has them occasionally; but not for
every tune in the big O’Neill book. There are a few I REALLY need
to have chords with, so people will want to play them with me.
Thanks,
Lolly
May I suggest a trawl through Google, starting with “Guitar chords-Irish music”.
It’s all out there.
Slan,
D.
Lolly, it might be easier if you posted the tune names that you wanted. I have been searching Google for you but alas everything is scattered all over the place. Since I don’t play the guitar, I haven’t gone searching much for chords.
MarkB
I just found the SlowPlayers they have gif files that give the chords.
http://www.slowplayers.org/Slowplayers_Music_List.html
Also: http://www.uptospeed.net/hoi/ the section; Sunday Morning Class Sheet music, click on Airs, Reels etc. the chords are there for most tunes.
HI,
That slow-players sight is really cool; but I had most of them that I need.
I am looking for:
“A Tent at the Fair " (I thought that would be a perfect for someone
selling CD’s at a fair!!!)
“Mollie McCarthy”
" Davey Davey Nick-Nack”
“Peggy on the Settle”
at the moment; but I always need more.
Lolly
I have my best luck at JC’s by downloading the MIDI of the tune if it is available. You can often hear chords being played even when the ABC file contains no chords. After listening a few times, I can usually suss out the chords.
Gee, glass blower, you are lucky to be able to do that.
I don’t strum or know a thing about picking out chords;
I’m a blower, and I hire my strummers…but they tend to only want
to play the tunes where I give them the chords; hense the request.
I guess I will just have to put off recording some tunes until I
“run into” the chords by accident.
Lolly
Give the MIDIs to your strummers. Trad shouldn’t be rocket science to them! 
Lolly, with a little training and practice you can easily work out a very basic chordal structure simply by inspecting the contour of a melody and looking for arpeggios and tell-tale notes that indicate resolutions. It helps of course if you have a chordal instrument handy to check your guesses.
Given even the most basic start, any guitarist worth his or her salt should be able to hear where the bare bones need a bit of fleshing out or finessing. They should be able to make adjustments and improvements first or second run through. If a guitarist can’t do this, I’d question how sensitive their accompaniment is going to be even if you could spoon feed them.
Try the online guitar archive (OLGA)
Ultimate Guitar Tabs has a lot too… I was going to be a smart ass and say the best place to find guitar cords is:
A: Hooked between the Guitar and the Amp
B: Somewhere between the 1st and 21st fret (my axe has 25)
C: Above the staff On the line marked “chords” usually written A, B, C, D, E aug5th Dim 3rd that sort of thing…
D: In a Big Orange Covered Book Titled “5000 Guitar Chords” (i have this one) SOme are like playing twister with your fingers 
Hey, Lolly! Hit any decent music store and look for the books by Mel Bay (there are a bunch!). Locating a shop that specializes in guitars in just about any major city, isn’t hard, either, and I’ve seen tons of chord books on the racks of places like Massachusetts Street Music in Lawrence, KS, Mountain Music Shoppe in Shawnee KS, and Antioch Music in North Kansas City, MO. Too many to mention them all - these are just the ones I frequent.
WAITAMINIT! Here’s one for you right here!
http://www.guitarnotes.com/guitar/notes2/ultimate11.shtml
Have fun!
Bill Whedon
Serpent Music
…The book that I’m currently using to learn tin whistle tunes also includes guitar chords (in the form of letters, i.e. A, G, D, etc) for all of the songs. It’s called “Ireland’s Best 110 Tin Whistle Tunes”. There are also several more books in the “Ireland’s Best” series such as Slow Airs, Session Tunes, etc. I’m pretty sure that they also include guitar chords. The publisher is Walton. Good luck! If I lived closer, I’d be happy to lay down some guitar work for you!
Oh BTW if someone would like to hear a original song or two (without words) that I wrote on my guitar and Mixed with my computer (multi-track) PM me and I’ll email one… or two… I must warn you They aren’t celtic music, but I have gotten complements on the one titled “Here I am” I named it that because it has a repeating series of notes that sound slike someone singing “Here I am…” The other one I wrote on Sept 12 2001 and it is entitled “White feathers” I wrote it while I kept seeing broadcasts of the Trade Center Bombings.. From a distance all the office paper falling from the Sky looks like white Dove feathers…
I just found this place as I was looking for pipe settings.
What’s that word that starts with and S and means something about happy chance meetings?
Baglady,
Serendipity?