The Repeal Of The Union reel

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.

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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.

Submitted on June 26th 2006 by Maryland-Highlander.
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Altan’s version…

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

Claire Keville and Charlie Piggott playing this at a nice relaxed pace on concertina and box: https://youtu.be/FPhq9qsKQe8

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

Great version by Liam O’Connor from about 2:40 in this video, inspired by Tommie Potts: https://youtu.be/GdrRighOoyQ

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And it’s the second tune from John Doherty here: https://youtu.be/uYP5aFpCKHI

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