Below is a list of songs and tunes I use in different situations and as memory serves; a work in progress.

Songs – Irish – with a chorus

Star of the County Down
Marie’s Wedding
The Waxie’s Dargle
Cunla
Finnegan’s Wake
Molloy Mallone
I’ll Tell Me Ma
Will You Go Lassie Go
Beyond At McCreddan’s
The Jolly Tinker
Irish Heartbeat ( Van Morrison )
Whiskey In The Jar

Songs – Irish

Be Thou My Vision
Cliffs of Dooneen
All Messed Up ( Pierce Turner )
Homes of Donegal
A Stór Mo Chroi
Sullivan’s John ( Pecker Dunne )
Raglin Road
She Moved Through The Fair ( Colum )
The Rose of Tralee ( C. Spencer, C. Glover )
Danny Boy
Cooler At The Edge
My Lagan Love
The Curragh of Kildare
The Minstral Boy ( Thom Moore )
Oft In The Stilly Night ( Thom Moore )
The Sally Gardens
The Last Rose of Summer
On The Banks of Red Roses
The Flower of Sweet Strabane
The Hills of Granemore
McAlpine’s Fusileers ( Dominick Behan )
The Banks of Red Roses

Songs – Traditional – General

Barbara Allen
Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willie
Bunker Hill
Willie O’ Winsbury
The Dark-Eyed Sailor
Sally Brown ( Sea Shanty )
South Australia ( Sea Shanty )
Sally Free And Easy

Songs – World

Strange Boat ( Mike Scott – Waterboys )
How Can You Keep On Movin’ ( Agnes Cunningham )
My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight ( John Prine )
The Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Us All
Billy The Kid
Do Re Mi ( Woody Guthrie )
Side By Side
The Way We Make A Broken Heart ( John Hiatt )
Money Honey (Jesse Stone )
Let It Be
Goin' To The End Of The Line ( Travellin' Wilburys )

Lullaby

When I Go To Bed At Night

Van Morrison Songs

Crazy Love
Enlightenment
Irish Heart Beat
Why Must I Always Explain

Bob Dylan Songs

Forever Young
Tom Payne
Ring Them Bells
Only A Hobo
Girl of the North Country
You’re A Big Girl Now
Make You Feel My Love
To Ramona
She Belongs To Me
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
Tell Me That It Is’nt True
The Drifter’s Escape

Neil Young Songs

Hangin’ On A Limb

Tunes

Reels

Lucy Campbell, The Mountain Road, Dr.Gilbert, Christmas Eve, Donegal Reel, Paddy Fahy’s, Sally Gardens, Silver Spear, Sligo Maid, McMahon’s, Temperance Reel, Miss McLeod’s, The Concertina, The Earl’s Chair, The High Part of the Road, The Drunken Landlady, The Boy in the Gap, Sporting Paddy, The Longford Collector, The Wise Maid, Sheehan’s, The Dunmore Lasses, Mulvihill’s, The Hunter’s Purse, Cooley’s, The Cottage in the Grove, The Nine Points of Roguery

Jigs

The Rolling Waves (Máirséal Mhic Uidhir, Maguire’s March )
The Market Town
Scatter The Mud
Banish Misfortune, Gillian’s Apples
Paddy Fahy’s, The Cliffs of Moher
The Kesh, Morrison’s
The Road to Lisdoonvarna, The Burnt Old Man
The Blarney Pilgrim, The Lark in the Morning
The Gold Ring
The Walls of Liscarroll
Trip to Sligo, Tripping Up The Stairs
The Irish Washerwoman, Father Ó’ Flynn
Legacy Jig
Garrett Barry’s ( Favourite )

Slides

John Kelly’s, Dennis Murphy’s
Dan Ó’ Keefe’s, 1&2, Dingle Regatta

Polkas

Ballydesmond Set
Kerry Polka(s)
Ryan’s Polka
Britches Full of Stitches
St. Mary’s Polka, Church Street
Out on the Ice

Slip Jigs

The Kid on the Mountain
The Boys of Ballisodare, The Butterfly
The Foxhunter’s
The Choice Wife
The High Road to Dublin
The Exile’s Jig, Comb Your Hair and Curl It

Hornpipes

The Rights of Man,
The Brown Chest,
The Boys of Ballycastle
The Stack of Barley
The Blackbird Mazurka

Sonny’s Mazurka

Ancient

Give Me Your Hand, Sunday Morning, The Hawk of Ballyshannon, Little Molly Ó, The Wild Geese, The Dark-Eyed Slender Boy, Carolan’s Farewell To Music, Cailín na Gruaige Doinne, An Londubh ‘s an Chéirseach, Carraig Áonair

March

The Eagle’s Whistle,
Ó’Neill’s March
Máirséal Finnghall ( The Fingal March )

Ó’Carolan

Mr. Ó’Connor, Eleanor Plunkett, Sí Beag Sí Mor, Planxty Brown, Carolan’s Receipt, Carolan’s Farewell To Music, George Brabazon, Lord Inchiquin, Planxty Irwin, Father Brian McDermot Roe, Planxty Drury, Fanny Power, Blind Mary,

Misc.

The Blackbird Set Dance, Ó’Neill’s Cavalcade, Rodney’s Glory, Give Me Your Hand, The South Wind, The Song of the Chanter, The Muster Cloak, Buachaill Ón Ēireann, Ar Ēirinn Ní Níosfainn Cé Hí, The Old Resting Chair, A Finnish Tune, The King of the Fairies, Madame Bonaparte, Rare Bird, Dark-Eyed Sailor,

The Céili

"The Céili is …a literary entertainment, where stories and tales, poems and ballads are rehearsed and recited, songs are sung, connundrums put, proverbs quoted and many other philosophical, literary or otherwise relevent matters are related and discussed…"
a slight paraphrasing of Alexander Carmichael, (Edinburgh 1900), from the book ' The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries ' by Evens-Wentz who, interestingly enough, after finishing ' Fairy Faith ', ended up in Tibet translating the ' Tibetan Book Of The Dead ' along with a few other such like heavy tomes. Also interesting to note too is that apparently it was Yeats who was responsible for stimulating Evens-Wentz's interest in Irish mysticism and his consequent arrival in Ireland and later Scotland and Wales to complete the research for the aforementioned 'Fairy Faith'.