What's New

*10/28/2001
Added a bunch of marches: The Battle of Aughrim (with mp3), The Boys of Belfast, Brian Boru's March, The Chanter's Tune (in D and G), Crucaharan's Cross, The Green Cockade, The Halting March, Lord Mayo (Tiarna Mhaigh Eo), O'Donnell's March, O'Neill's March, Return from Fingal, and Saint Patrick's Day.

*10/22/2001
We're now over 500 songs!
Added these hornpipes: The Scent of the Bog, The Stack of Barley, Soldier's Joy, The Smoky Chimney, The Showman's Fancy, The Little Stack of Wheat (AKA Bantry Bay or The Union Hornpipe), Walsh's Hornpipe, Tomorrow Morning, The Tailor's Twist, and The Trumpet Hornpipe.
Added these mazurkas (a tune type I've never added before!): Vincent Campbell's Mazurka #1, Sonny Brogan's Mazurka, Shoe the Donkey #2 (Varsovienne), Shoe the Donkey #1, Kitty's Fancy (Phroinsias Ui Mhaonaigh's Mazurka #1), The Kilcar Mazurka, John Doherty's Mazurka (in G Major and A Major), James Byrne's Mazurka and Jackie Donnan's Mazurka.

*10/13/2001
Added these 25 hornpipes: The 40th Birthday Hornpipe, Bobby Casey's Hornpipe, Caislean Na Nor, Chief O'Neill's, Dance of the Honeybees, The First of May, Galway Bay, Her Golden Hair Hanging Down Her Back, The Hills of Coor, The Humours of Tuamgraney, The Humours of Tullycreen, Macnamara's Hornpipe, Mickey Callaghan's Fancy, Miss Galvin, Mulqueeny's Hornipipe, Murphy's Hornpipe, Mysterious Number One, Napoleon Crossing the Rhine, Paddy Fahy's Hornpipe, The Peacock's Feather, Petronella, The Pride of Petravore, Princess Royal (Dinny O'Brien's), Proudlock's Hornpipe, and The Redhaired Boy.

*10/8/2001
Added these strathspeys: Bog An Lochain, The Iron Man, Jimmy Lyons', The Laird of Drumblair, and Mister Webster.
Added these O'Carolan tunes: Blind Mary, Charles O'Connor, Lord Inchiquin, O'Carolan's Draught, O'Carolan's Quarrell With the Landlady, O'Carolan's Ramble to Cashel, Planxty Fanny Powers, Planxty George Brabazon and also updated Planxty Hewlett to a version more like we play in the local sessions.
Added these Jigs: The Blackthorn Stick, The Brides' Favorite, Bryan O'Lynn's Jig, Jackson's Bottle of Brandy, an alternate version of The Road to Lisdoonvarna, The Maid at the Spinning Wheel, Munster Buttermilk, Scatter the Mud #1 and #2, Tell Her I Am, Tom Ward's Jig, The Walls of Liscarroll, and updated King's Jig.
Added recordings to Blarney Pilgrim, Boys of Blue Hill, Dan O'Keefe's Slide, Foggy Dew (which will show up when the sheet music goes online next week!), Kesh Jig, both versions of the Road to Lisdoonvarna, and Silver Spear.

*10/5/2001
The site came really close to coming down for good this week. A couple of weeks ago, after the nimda and code red internet worms hit, several cable-modem/internet companies announced they were going to start filtering their service to block inbound web traffic. This meant that the worms could be substantially slowed because all of the 150,000 or so people running web servers at home would suddenly be unable to transmit the worm. Unfortunately, that also meant that they'd be unable to serve web pages. AT&T and Excite@Home said they were going to do this, and Verizon's already been doing it for their DSL service. I didn't worry, because in the news article I read, RoadRunner said they had "no plans to filter the port" (or something along those lines..I couldn't find the article again). A few days later, at 11:04pm, all of my internet traffic ceased.
Reading my terms of service, I found I wasn't entitled to run a web server on RoadRunner anyway, so I didn't bother to call and complain. What I did was find an excellent, affordable hosting service. It took a while, because my needs are very special. I need ASP and over 300 megs of space, and ODBC database support. Generally, these things are only required by commercial sites, and can cost anywhere from $50.00 to $150.00 a month. For a free site that doesn't make me a single dime, that was just too much to spend. Luckily, I'm stubborn, and searched until I ran across ReadyHosting.com. For $99.00/year (that's 8.25/month!) all of my needs are met, and the site's came back online yesterday when the new site's DNS propagated enough to allow me to access it from home. Their service was easy to implement, and though I had to wait 10 minutes on hold for tech support (my site gave a 403-forbidden error for some reason), the technician was intelligent and had me fixed up inside of 5 minutes. Not bad at all for small-company tech support..I've gotten much worse support from Dell and Microsoft. I'd recommend readyhosting.com to anyone wanting to host a website…that's a recommendation, not an advertisement; I wasn't paid or asked to mention it.

Song update: In any case, I do have 25 tunes to add to the archive, as well as 8 recordings, but I'll be in and out at the Texas Renaissance Festival this weekend, so the music update will have to wait until Monday evening. Sorry folks! But I'm very glad the site's back up and will be in business at least another year!