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The Set - Four: Music for Four Complete Sets

By Various Artists


  1. The Misty Covered Mountain
    Dan Collins’ Father’s
  2. If Sick Is It Tae You Want?
    Nora Criona
    Rose Wood
  3. Jackson’s
    The Tar Road To Sligo
    Paddy Clancy’s
  4. Out With The Boys
    When The Cock Crows It Is Day
    When The Cock Crows It Is Day
  5. The Meelick Team
    The Pride Of Erin
    Clancy The Scotsman
    Out In The Ocean
  6. The Hare In The Corn
    Echoes Of Killarney
  7. Josie McDermot’s
    The Trip To Durrow
    The Teetotaler
  8. Sweeney’s
    The Maids Of Ardagh
  9. Johnny I Do Miss You
    The Ballyvourney
  10. Tom Sullivan’s
    Brúigh Isteach Liom, A Shiobháinín
  11. Sean McGovern’s
    Oh Nelly, Nelly
  12. Tom Mhic’s No. 2
    Flop Eared Mule
  13. The Moving Bog
    The Flowers Of The Red Mill
    The Pretty Girls Of Mayo
  14. The Shaskeen
    The Colliers’
  15. The Boys Of Ballinahinch
    The Curragh Races
  16. The Flax In Bloom
    Miss Johnson
  17. Fred Finn’s
    The Laurel Tree
  18. Dawley’s Delight
  19. The Lonesome Road To Dingle
  20. Where Is The Cat?
    Donal O’Connor’s
  21. The Toormore
    Paudy Scully’s
  22. This Is My Love, Do You Like Her?
  23. The Little Diamond
    Mrs. Crowley’s
    The Rambling Sailor
    The Rambling Sailor

Three comments

“The Set Four: Music for Four Complete Sets” ~ CD & booklet

Ossian Publications Ltd., Cork, Ireland, 2002
Series edited by William Hammond ~ this being the fourth of four
The CD comes with a booklet with notes to help with dancing the four sets of quadrilles:

“The Televara Jig Set / Taille Mhara” ~ tracks 1 - 7
Musicians: Pat Sullivan, Vince Milne, & Mick Daly

“The Ardgroom Polka Set” ~ tracks 8 - 12
Musicians: Timmy McCarthy, William Hammond, & Ciaran Daly

“The Clare Lancers Set” ~ tracks 13 - 17
Musicians: Neiligh Mulligan, Paul O’Shaughnessy, & Frank Hogan

“The Mealagh Valley Jig Set” / “The West Cork Quadrilles/Plain Set” ~ tracks 18 - 23
Musicians: Pat Sullivan & Vince Milne

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Tracks 1 - 12 & 18 - 23 were first part of this cassette & booklet:
“Call The Set - III”
https://thesession.org/recordings/5713

The Televara Jig Set ~ tracks 1 - 7 = 1 - 7 above
The Ardgroom Polka Set ~ tracks 11 - 15 = 8 - 12 above
The Mealagh Valley Jig Set ~ tracks 19 - 24 = 18 - 23 above

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“The Clare Lancers” tracks are from the DVD/cassette series:
“The Magic of Irish Set Dancing - And Its Music, Volume 9” - tracks 1 - 5
This set of nine instructional DVDs were first released as:
“Come Dance With Me In Ireland - Volumes 1 - 9”

NOT DVDs! ~ sadly 🙁

As far as I’m aware these were only ever released as VHS video cassettes, and the music as cassette tapes, , except for some extracts on the four “The Set” CDs.

CDs: The Set - One / Two / Three: Music for ~ Sets

Sadly these three recordings, with booklets that give the dance description for each set, lack tune lists. I had plans to remedy that with close listening, along with at least half a dozen other recordings like this, but I haven’t yet - numerous distractions good & bad, including currently being computerless… 🙁 I accept some of the fault, in part procrastinating over building a new PC…

The Set - One - OSSCD 126
The Set - Two - OSSCD 127
The Set - Three - OSSCD 128
The Set - Four - OSSCD 129
Ossian Publications Ltd., 2002