Annie’s Favourite hornpipe

Transcribed from a Pat Kilbride album.

Great tune, jocklet. I knew it as “Dinny O’Brien’s” hornpipe some years before Pat Kilbride recorded it, and “De Danann” recorded it under that name too. Joe Burke regularly plays it under the name “The Shaskeen”, and it is easy to see the similarities between it and the reel.
P.S. - I put in “D O‘B’s” as an alternative title and it’s come up in about 6 recordings. Those sre more likely to be the reel of that name, and it might avoid confusion if you delete “D.O’B’s” as a title.. Sorry about that. Well done.

Source: Charlie Piggot & Gerry Hrrington - the new road
Transcription: gian marco pietrasanta

I think this tune has been posted previously.

https://thesession.org/tunes/3175

From Mick Mulvey’s cd, also known as The Gift and recorded by Bob Davenport and the Rakes as Greenwich Park.

It’s late, I’m tired, but isn’t this a match?https://thesession.org/tunes/4675

Similar but a different tune; the limitations of ABC are really apparent for that reason

Thanks Will, I didn’t think it would ever happen 🙂

And thanks Jeremy for sorting out my error with the #
I will be more careful in future.

I’ve added two other names for this tune. It appears on Paddy Keenan’s “Na Keen Affair” as Dinny O’Brien’s. Also on Tony Linnane & Patrick Sky’s album, “The Princess Royal”, as The Flowers in May.

I heard this on the Come West Along the Road DVD being lilted by Jimmy Sinnott. It was named “The Mullingar Races” but “The Mullingar Races” is more commonly known as a reel which is also to be found in the database.

I found this tune titled “Jim Dillon’s” in “The best of Irish jigs and reels vol.1” by Various Artists, coupled with “The peacock’s feather”, played by Jackie Small, Tony Small, Maurice Lennon, Garry O’Brian

Musicians in NYC used to call this Taylor’s, often playing it with an Fnat in the 2nd part, and various other fiddle-ish little runs here and there. It would be worth an entry in its own right.

From the piping of Tommy Kearney, Waterford, the transcription I guess was done by Pat Mitchell, it was included in the 1980 book Ceol An Piobaire. Kearney called it the Butchers of Bristol, his teacher Liam Walsh recorded it as the Mountain Groves: https://archive.org/details/LiamWalshTheMountainGrovesHigginsHornpipeTheCork

Thank you for the music and the comments. John Carty and his daughter Maggie just released it as the Shaskeen Hornpipe on their new cd Settle Out of Court.

As played by Seamus Creagh, Hammy Hamilton and Con O Drisceoil on It’s No Secret. They call it Dinny O’Brien’s and play it after Mick Doyle’s Favourite in D (An TSean Bhean Bhocht)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BGDM6-UaAo

play video

Fixed Lucy’s version X:3 where the first part is not doubled 8 bars and changed a few variations
very piperish!

Thank you SO MUCH for your beautiful music, brightening up my day on this cold and wet morning in London and in Lockdown.

I’m convinced I read somewhere on this site that this tune was attributed to the playing of London-based fluter Paddy Taylor and that the title ‘The Broadway’ referred to a public house where he played. Can anyone refer me back to that comment or is my memory playing tricks? At least Taylor’s is given above as one of the possible titles.