Names of jigs anyone?

I play in this performance but does anyone have the names of the tunes? Thanks. Enda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sS2EwUsP9g

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The first one is played by Paul O’Shaughnessy & Harry Bradley on “Born for Sport”, they call it “Baitheadh Bhrioclais” (can a friendly Irish speaker tell us what that means please?)

Sorry, don’t know the second one.

Cheers!

I don’t have the name for the second, but heard it played by Liz Doherty and Martin McGinley at NAFCO in Aberdeen 2 years ago, which might indicate its’ origin in Donegal. Sure sounds Galician when I hear it again though. I’d be interested to know a title for it too.

‘Baitheadh Bhrioclais’ is a pretty odd title. ‘Baitheadh’ is the old spelling of ‘bádh’, meaning ‘drowned’. ‘Bhrioclais’ is an equally archaic word meaning ‘den, cave or hollow’. So the title probably means something like ‘flooded cave’.

I don’t think it has anything to do with the village of Bruckless in southwest Donegal (‘An Bhrioclais’ in Irish), but I could be wrong.

A jig entitled Báitheadh Bhruclais also appears here:

https://thesession.org/recordings/3022

with the sleeve notes saying that it commemorates the Bruckless (in south west Donegal) drowning of 11/12 February 1813; over 80 people lost their lives when a sudden storm arose (sometimes blamed on a local witch).

I haven’t yet checked that it’s the same tune as being discussed here, but as soon as the title was mentioned I knew I’d read about it somewhere, and rather to my surprise managed to work out where!

SMS, thanks for that.

It’s also here, in an Anglicized version - https://thesession.org/recordings/3696.

Ah, nice to have some more info about this rather fun jig!

Fun to play, I mean, not so much fun for those involved in the actual event…

A version of the second tune appears in Nigel Gatherer’s collection, helpfully titled “Irish Jig”. http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/abc/tb01/0050 . His transcription comes from a 78 recording of Scottish melodeon player Peter Wyper. It doesn’t sound like an ‘Irish jig’ to me - perhaps English or border Scots. I’ve certainly never heard it in an Irish session or on any recording of Irish music up to now.

A version was also recorded by English country dance revivalists The Old Swan Band as “Sally Sloane’s”. Here’s another transcription (source not cited), called, for some reason, “Sally Sloane’s Barndance”. http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=dl.dropbox.com/u/420691/all_the_tunes/0389
There’s another tune, apparently unrelated, posted in thesession.org’s database as “Sally Sloane’s”.

I hope this helps.

The Old Swan Band sleeve notes say (amongst other things) that Sally Sloane’s appears as “Trip to Cottingham” in Lawrence Leadley’s handwritten manuscript of around 1840 (Yorkshire) and was previously published as “Le Nouvelle Fantasie” by a John Simpson (but that the French name is probably an “English fashionable construct”).

Thanks, David50. I don’t own the record, and couldn’t find any info online.

Tunes by that name here:http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/abc/browne13.abc and here: http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/abc/spencer.abc (search for Cottingham)

Browne family,c1825,Lake District
George Spencer m/s, Leeds,1831

(Google searches into that site turn up fascinating stuff)