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Goodbye To Ireland

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on August 14th 2005 by banjobabe.

This tune has been added to 41 tunebooks.

Also known as Austin Tierney's, Farewell To Erin, London Lassies.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

40th Anniversary 1946 - 1986 by The Tulla Ceili Band
Afterhours by The Bothy Band
As Long As You're Enjoying Yourself by John Brennan And John McGillian
Briary Lads by Aidan Crossey
Bruscar Bán by The Culchies
Cathal Hayden by Cathal Hayden
Cornerstone by Celtic Spring
Croch Suas E by Frankie Gavin
Culann's Hounds by Culann's Hounds
De Danann by De Danann
Dear Old Erin's Isle: Irish Traditional Music From America by Various Artists
Dísirt Tola : Traditional Music From Clare And Dublin by Various Artists
Echoes Of Sliabh Luachra by Billy Clifford
Équinoxe by Celtic Fiddle Festival
Exile by Doolin'
Farewell To Lissycasey: The Traditional Music Of County Clare by Various Artists
Festival Of Traditional Irish Music by Various Artists
Fiddle Fair: Declan McCarthy's Baltimore by Various Artists
Fidil 3 by Fidil
Foinn Seisiun 3 by Ennis/Dublin Session Group
Frankie Gavin And Alec Finn by Frankie Gavin And Alec Finn
Gusty's Frolicks by Sean Keane
In The Footsteps Of Coleman by Various Artists
Irish Fiddles And Pipes by Liam Rowsome
Irish Piping Tradition by Gay McKeon
Last Night's Fun by John Carty
Like The Wind (Ar Nos Na Gaoithe) by John Wynne
Live At Trinity Hall by Trinity Hall Session Players
Live In Concert by The Bothy Band
Live In Lisdoonvarna by The Kilfenora Ceili Band
Manhattan Island Sessions by Caitlin Warbelow And Friends
Memories Of Ireland by Matt Cunningham
Music In The Glen by Heather Breeze
Music Of Sligo by Peter Horan And Fred Finn
My Love Is In America by Various Artists
No Doubt by Six Mile Bridge
Old Hag You Have Killed Me by The Bothy Band
Out Of The Woods by Randal Bays
Paddy In The Smoke by Various Artists
Paddy Keenan by Paddy Keenan
Passing Time by Mary And Jim Coogan
Past Masters Of Irish Dance Music by Various Artists
Past Masters Of Irish Fiddle Music by Various Artists
Raise The Rafters by Raise The Rafters
Roaming by Jeremy Kittel
Sean Potts by Sean Potts And Paddy Moloney
Shame The Devil by Turlach Boylan
Shaskeen Irish Pub Session by Shaskeen
Sheila Maguire by Sheila Maguire
Short Stories by Grainne Murphy
Slainte Mhath by Slainte Mhath
So Far by Eileen Ivers
Songs, Jigs, Reels by Glenside And Kilfenora Ceili Bands
Storm The Kettle by Eamonn Dillon
Temple House 2 by Temple House Ceili Band
The Best Of Traditional Irish Music From Ireland's Number One Céilí Band by The Kilfenora Ceili Band
The Collection by Stockton's Wing
The Cook In The Kitchen by John Brosnan
The Crooked Road by William Coulter
The Fertile Rock by Chris Droney
The First Month Of Summer by Buttons And Bows
The Friday Night Sessions: Traditional Music From Glasgow by Various Artists
The Michael Sexton Ceili Band by The Michael Sexton Ceili Band
The Tocane Concerts by Various Artists
The Twisted Oak by Elizabeth Clark
Traditional Irish Dance Music by Various Artists
Traditional Irish Fiddle Music by The Kilfenora Fiddle Ceili Band
Traditional Music On Fiddle, Banjo, And Harp by Oisin MacDiarmada, Brian Fitzgerald, And Michael O Ruanaigh
Unleashed by Wolfstone
Up Against The Flatirons by Eliot Grasso
Viking Farewell by Various Artists
Yeh, That's All It Is by John Carty

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Goodbye to Ireland in D

This tune is NOT the popular Farewell to Ireland in AMix as posted by Jeremy. This tune is the first cut off the Cathal Hayden CD.

I've supplied the basic framework, but Hayden provides additional variations and ornamentation that one would benefit from a listen. The entire CD is worth owning and I vow to learn all the tunes!

# Posted on August 14th 2005 by banjobabe

Austin Tierney's

I and everyone else I play with know this one as Austin Tierney's. There's another version of it here: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/846. The version I know is closer to this one. I know Farewell/Goodbye/Whatever To Ireland as a different but very similar sounding tune, also in D: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4403.

# Posted on August 15th 2005 by Dr. Dow

Revision

I wrote this tune up in ABC shortly while I was learning it and found a couple of places where I could have written it out more accurately, therefor I am submitting my updated version:

T:Goodbye to Ireland
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:2/4=120
S:Cathal Hayden CD
R:Reel
K:D
D2(3FED ADFD|Addc def2D2(3FED ADFA|B2AF EDB,A,|!
D2(3FED ADFD|Addc def2|dBBA BdAd|1 B2AF EDCE:|2 B2AF Egfe||!
d2Bd AF~F2|DFAF BFAF|G2Bd AF~F2|DEED EABc|!
d2cd B2 dB|AAFA ABde|f2ec dBcA|BdAF Egfe|!
d2Bd AF~F2|DFAF BFAF|G2Bd AF~F2|DEED EABc|!
dcBA B2 cB|AAFA ABde|f2ec dBcA|B2AF E2FE||!

% ABC2Win Version 2.1 8/18/2005

And, thanks, Dow, for that bit of information. Interesting how two totally different tunes can have the same name. I wonder if Austin Tierney recorded it, wrote it, or???

# Posted on August 18th 2005 by banjobabe

The Flying Column is another name I've seen for this. See a 3rd transcription of it here http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5462.

# Posted on April 11th 2007 by Dr. Dow

Older sources

This tune already appears in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) as 'Farewell to Erin'. From there it was (presumably) picked up by O'Neill, without even bothering to change the title, as was his usual practice. It shows up twenty years later in the Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music (vol. 3, #73) as 'The Flying Column' and made it from there to Bulmer and Sharpley's book from the 1970's under that title. You could call this a well-travelled tune, I suppose.

# Posted on April 16th 2011 by rwwt

Austin Tierney's/Farewell To Eireann duplicate?

I reckon this might also be the same tune http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5097

# Posted on October 1st 2011 by Martin_BC