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A superb collection of jigs, reels and hornpipes, with accompanying audio featuring the virtuoso playing of Sean Keane. The book contains all the melodies, transcribed note-for-note from the audio, plus tips on rolls and ornamentation. The CD includes the music for all 50 solos. Contents: The Lough Gill * The Steampacket * The Star of Munster * The Mullingar Lea * Drowsey Maggie * The Humours of Ennistymon * The Flowers of Spring * The Kildare Fancy * The Legacy * The Crib of Perches * The Boys of the Lough * The Tongs by the Fire * Dever the Dancer * Molloy's * Master Crowley's * The Connacht Heifer * The Wind That Shakes the Barley * An Cora Donn * My Darling Asleep * The Monaghan Jig * Throw It Across the Road * The High Reel * Music in the Glen * The Gander in the Pratie Hole * The Wild Irishman * Michael Coleman's * Old Man Dillon * O'Dowd's * The Cabin Hunter * The High Road to Dublin * Peadar Clancy's * The Cuckoo's Nest * The Frost Is All Over * Hardiman the Fiddler * Murphy's Hornpipe * McFadden's * Miss McDonald's * The Portarlington Jig * Imelda Roland * Dunmore Lassies * The Fairy Queen * Tim the Turncoat * Tom Ward's Downfall * The Geese in the Bog * The Litrim Fancy * The West Clare * The Scholar * Spike Island Lassies * Johnny Doherty's * The Black Rogue.