The Repeal Of The Union reel

Also known as Aisġair An Aontas, Aisghairm An Aontachta, The Hen And Her Brood, Millstone, The Millstone, Repeal The Union.

There are 41 recordings of this tune.
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The Repeal Of The Union appears in 5 other tune collections.

The Repeal Of The Union has been added to 24 tune sets.

The Repeal Of The Union has been added to 216 tunebooks.

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The Hen and Her Brood?

The Repeal of the Union appears on The Best of the Chieftains - I don’t know which album it originally came from. It’s a real piping tune. Those D-E-D groups in bars 1 and 4 of the first part can be played as D-crans, or the E-D can be made into an F#-E-D triplet.

I’ve never come across it under any other name before. There is quite a different tune called The Hen and Her Brood, which I posted in The Session a few months ago.

F’s

This is also sometimes played with F naturals.

The Chieftains played The Repeal of the Union as the second tune of track 6 (No. 6 The Coombe) on The Chieftains 7.

“The Repeal of the Union”

K: D Mixolydian
|: c |
AD (3DDD AD (3FED | GEcE dEcE | AD (3FED ADFD | GEcE EDD :|
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Ad-de fdec | A2 (3cBA dBcB | Adde (3fed ed | GEcE DcBc |
Ad (3ddd fd e2 | A>BcA dB (3cBA | a2 (3gfe fdec | GEcE D3 ||

Re: The Repeal Of The Union

Ímar play this in their live sets followed by Riverton Road although this set is as yet unrecorded by the band.