Leslie asked:
> ...My library includes O'Neill's. Would anyone want to suggest some
> neat Scottish tunes from that book...
There are many tunes of Scots origin or association which have been
absorbed into the Irish tradition. You say O'Neill's - which one?
Looking at Dance Music of Ireland, here's a start (an intellectual
exercise).
Name in O'Neill's (name of Scots original/associated tune)
DOUBLE JIGS
Money in Both Pockets (this was certainly known in Scotland, but I
don't know its origin)
The Jolly Corkonian (Hills of Glenorchy)
The Tailor's Thimble (Banks of the Allan)
The Highlander (Highland Pibroch or Auld Wattie)
The Cat In the Corner (Lady Charlotte Murray's Fav)
The Victor's Return (Lord MacDonald's March to Harlaw)
The Jolly Old Man (Brisk Young Lad)
Black Donald the Piper (Pibroch of Donal Dhu)
The Market Town (Peter Baillie's Wife)
The Thief of Lough Erne (Thief of Lochaber)
O'Mahoney's Frolicks (Lady Charlotte Murray's Fav)
The Gallowglass (Niel Gow's Lament for his Brother)
The Laccarue Boys (Bonnie Dundee)
The Absent-Minded Man (Hare In the Corn)
Blue Bonnets Jig
Take It Easy (Hey Jenny Come Down to Jock)
The Black Rogue (Johnny McGill's)
The Lads of Dunse
The Lasses of Dunse
Portpatrick
SINGLE JIGS
Behind the Bush In the Garden (Wha'll be King But Charley?)
The Runaway Jig
HIP OR SLIP JIGS
My Mind Will Never Be Aisy (Woo'd And Merrit An' A')
Tipperary Hills (Andrew Carey)
Up and Down Again (Brose and Butter)
Open the Door For Three
I Have a Wife Of My Own (I Hae a Wife O My Ain)
REELS
Paddy Ryan's Dream (Miss Lyall)
The Flogging Reel (The Flagon)
The New Demesne (Miss Corbett's)
Johnny's Wedding (Johnny's Made a Waddin O't)
The Youngest Daughter (Sweet Molly or Hopetoun House)
The Ewe reel (The Ewie Wi the Crookit Horn)
The Boyne Hunt (The Perth Hunt)
Colonel Fraser (...of Knocky)
The Clock In the Steeple (Kilwinning's Steeple)
Dogs Among the Bushes (Athole Brose, or Brandlings)
Bonnie Kate (Bonnie Lass of Fisherrow)
Jim Kennedy's Favourite (The Lowlands of Scotland)
More Luck To Us (The Smith's a Gallant Fireman)
Roll Her On the Mountain (Roll Her On the Hill)
MacLean's Favourite (John Roy Stewart)
The Mason's Apron
Kitty Got a Clinking (High Road to Linton)
The Money Musk (Monymusk)
Molly Put the Kettle On (Jenny's Bawbee)
An Ugly Customer (Duchess of Athole's Slipper)
Miss Johnson (Miss Johnstone)
Jerry Hayes (Dunkeld Bridge)
The Flax In Bloom (Marquis of Huntly's Highland Fling)
On the Sly (Lochiel's Rant)
Col. McBain (Colonel MacBean)
Lord McDonald's Reel
Tady's Waddle (Torryburn Lasses)
Miss McLeod's Reel (Mrs McLeod of Raasay)
Push About the Jorum
Sleepy Maggie
Green Groves of Erin (Miss Stewart, Grantully)
Lord Gordon's Reel (Duke of Gordon's Favourite)
The Bonnie Boy (Because He was a Bonnie Lad)
The Reel of Bogie
Comely Jane Downing (Torryburn Lasses)
Bill Clancy's Delight (Pretty Peggy)
Jolly Seven (Highlandman Kissed his Mother)
Captain Byng
Wind That Shakes the Barley
Paddy Murphy's Wife (Mr Menzies of Culdares)
Rakish Paddy (Caber Feidh)
The Queen's Shilling (Lady Mary Ramsay)
Little Kate Kearney (Alister McAlister)
The Watchmaker (Niel Gow's Wife)
Kiss Your Partners (Braes of Dunblane)
Flowers of Limerick (Ewie Wi the Crookit Horn)
Cooleen Bridge (Tarbolton Lodge or Hatton Burn)
Maids of Tulla (Marquis of Tullibardine)
Boil the Breakfast Early (The Lasses Fashion)
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Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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