Other Sources

Here’s some other sources of tunes you might find useful. If you look at nothing else make sure you check out Charlie Montomery’s tunes on this website.

Charlie Montgomery:

• Charlie Montomery playing his own compositions and some old favourites

Paddy Fahey tunes:

• Paddy Fahey tunes compiled by Maria Holohan (PDF - 3M) (just the tunes)
• The Tune Compositions of Paddy Fahey, Maria Holohon, MA Thesis, 1995 (PDF - 33M)

The Northern Fiddler - Music and Musicians of Donegal and Tyrone:

• The Northern Fiddler - Online
• The Northern Fiddler (PDF - 11M)- just the tunes!
• The Northern Fiddler, Allen Feldman & Eamonn O’Doherty (PDF - 34M) - complete book

Inishowen Traditional Music Project - Music from the Inishowen Peninsula, Donegal:

• Interactive Music Archive 2021

Sets of tunes put together by Paddy O’Brien:

• O’Brien Tunes - Online
• Tune Sets Arranged by Paddy O’Brien, Co. Tipperary (PDF) - local copy
• Tune Sets Arranged by Paddy O’Brien, Co. Tipperary (PDF) - original

Tommy Potts:

• Audio of a set of twelve video clips of Tommie Potts being interview by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin

Dunedin Fiddle Orchestra:

• Details and website

Sean Manning’s Sets (Dunedin):

• seansSetBook1704.pdf

Begged Borrowed and Stolen:

• bbs.pdf

Some other tunebooks from early days of ABC i.e. the 1990s:

• reavy.pdf
• session1.pdf
• session2.pdf

You can also get copies of the ABC files that were used to generate some of these PDFs:

• obrien.abc
• seansSetBook1704.abc
• reavy.abc
• session1.abc
• session2.abc

Tunebooks for this site

We’ve decided to stop producing PDF versions of tunebooks for this site as it was difficult for us to maintain and we felt it led to people printing copies which meant trees were being cut down.

You can download a file containing all the ABCs used on this site. There are a number of tools you can use to read this file and print copies of tunes from it. We’ve used EasyABC in the past.