Seamus Cooley’s jig

You’ll find this in a set with the Hole in the Hedge on Martin Hayes’s cd Under the Moon. Nice easy jigs, well-suited for beginners but fun for anyone to play. Also a good lesson in not over ornamenting a melody….

This one follows the Morning Lark as played by Noel Hill and Tony McMahon. At our session we always add on Tom Billy’s at the end which makes for a nice threesome.

Great tune. I learned this from Noel Hill as Cooley’s jig. Noel and Tony Linnane finish off their live album with this one, and a rousing one it is, too!

Move this down to G and it seems to be the same tune as the Seamus Cooley’s that Martin Hayes plays on Under the Moon.

this tune in the blue cd is a reel played with drowsey maggie,however here it is a jig is there a mistake some where…

This is Joe Cooley’s Delight, or the Bohola jig, in G instead of D. Huh!

Don’t blame Will but Martin Hayes: he often records many tunes in weird keys.

No, it is not a mistake. Cooley’s Reel (super-common Em tune) is a DIFFERENT TUNE than Cooley’s Jig (slightly less-common D tune).

Compare with the Angry Peeler / Flowers Of The Burren.

anyone play a set with seamus cooley’s jig in there?

i’d love some suggestions.

thanks.

Tulla Ceili Band used to pair this with House in the Glen, or with Hole in the Hedge and the Kerfunteun.

Also goes well with Out on the Ocean, Geese in the Bog, or Joe Derrane’s.

We play it with Hole In The Hedge as well.

Noel Hill and Tony Linnane play it after the Morning Lark which makes for a nice pair.

Anybody have any suggestions for sets with joe cooleys jig in them
https://thesession.org/tunes/2061

Was thinking of following it with the ten penny bit for a bit of a lift…..

This seems to be known as Leg of the Duck around Carlow.

T:Foster’s Favourite
M:6/8
S:Abbey ceili band - bruach an tsulain
R:jig
Z:gian marco pietrasanta
K:D
f3 d2B|ABA ABd|efe edB|efe ede|
f3 d2B|ABA ABd|efe edB|dfe d2e:|
f3 afd|fef afd|efe edB|efe ede|
f3 afd|fef afd|efe edB|dfe d2e|
f3 afd|fef afd|efe edB|ede a2g|
f3 d2B|ABA ABd|efe edB|dfe d3|

The second part of this tunes defntly makes a slide of it.

I believe that there is a jig called the Bohola but the tune listed here is Cooleys as per Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann == the organization promoting Irish trad, music in Ireland Book 1 page 31

Here is the link to the similar The Angry Peeler, as pointed out by Dr Dow above
https://thesession.org/tunes/4899

Played by Lucy Farr on Heart and Home as ‘John Naughton’s’. Lucy taught me this tune many years ago, and said she had it from Tony Smith

My take

I was looking for the jig which is played in the first part of “The Seagull Jigs” on the “Momentum” album of CrossCurrent (very nice album by the way). It is referred to as Lucy Farr’s, but if you Google that, you will find most of all her barndance, which seems to be very popular, and a few jigs which are sometimes titles Lucy Farr’s jig #1 and Lucy Farr’s jig #2, but which are not the one I was looking for. During my seach I also came accross a jig that I couldn’t find on The Session, but that probably can be found here under another name. I found it on http://www.vashonceltictunes.net/irish/. If it already is on The Session, but with another name, I can probably suppress this post, and have a look at that other entry.

The first note of bars 3 & 7 of the B part should be G2, surely?

I would be 99.9% certain that this is here already. Can’t place it at the moment.

Kenny, you are correct. Seamus Cooley’s: https://thesession.org/tunes/414

Thanks for the comments. Apologies for the mistake. I wrote to Jeremy asking him whether he could add it to Seamus Cooley’s. I corrected the mistake of the first note of bars 3 & 7 of the B part.