Hill 60

reel

Key signature: Dmixolydian

Submitted on September 11th 2006 by 52Paddy.

This tune has been added to 19 tunebooks.

Also known as Hill 16.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Another Time by Gavin Whelan
• Festival Of Traditional Irish Music by Various Artists
• Irish Heritage: Ireland's Musical Tradition (CD 1) by Various Artists
• Irish Traditional Accordion Session With Four Champions by Joe Burke, Kevin Loughlin, Finbarr Dwyer And John Whelan
• Kitty's Rambles by Finbarr Dwyer
• O' Bheal Go Beal by Marcas O'Murchu
• Pure Traditional Irish Accordion Music by Finbarr Dwyer
• Seisiún Ceoil Bhéal Feirste by Various Artists
• The Sound Of Ireland CD3 by Various Artists

X: 1
T: Hill 60
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmix
|:fd ~d2 Adfd|ec ~c2 Gcec|~d2 fd Adfd|ecdB cAGc|
dafa gefd|~c2 Gc gceg|af(3gfe fd^cd|eaag fd d2:|
|:~d2 ef gefd|eage d^cAG|Adef ~g2 fg|eaag fd d2|
~f2 dA FAEA|~D2 fd gefg|af(3gfe fd^cd| eaag fd d2:|

From Finbarr Dwyer: Pure Irish Trad music on Button Accordion

I got this tune fron Finbarr Dwyer's album "Pure Irish Trad Music on Button Accordion". It's in a stange key which I don't think it technically Dmix but it's fairly close, I think. It definitley sounds like a Finbarr Dwyer composition but have no confirmation of that, although I wouldn't be surprised to find out that it is.

Well, I like the tune anyway. Enjoy!

# Posted on September 11th 2006 by 52Paddy

60 or 16?

Marcas O'Murchu recorded this as Hill 16, which seems to be a typo.

# Posted on September 13th 2006 by slainte

Finbarr Dwyer Composition

I found an article on the net which gives info about the tunes that Gavin Whelan plays on his album "Another Time". He says simply "Hill 16 is a composition of Finbar Dwyer". No other information is given but that's cleared something up that's been in my mind for a while.

# Posted on January 3rd 2007 by 52Paddy

fair play to you paddy for adding this tune! up the dubs!

# Posted on July 28th 2008 by lilyot

Hill 16

On Upper Gardiner street, Dublin, there lies a pub called 'Hill 16', in the entrance hall thereof is displayed an article printed in the Sunday Independent 24/4/94. Quotes it:
'Hill 16: [...] named after a section of the terracing at the nearby gaelic games stadium, Croke Park [...] also commemorates an episode in Ireland's struggle for independance [...] Jack Charlton a regular' there Colin Malam writes.

# Posted on December 17th 2009 by birlibirdie

Also...

http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/1957
I suppose it's possible that the misprint was "Hill 60" on the Finbarr Dwyer LP. "Sixty"/"Sixteen" - an easy mistake to be made.

# Posted on December 18th 2009 by Kenny

Does a Hill 60 actually exist? If so, I'll leave it as is for the time being.

# Posted on December 23rd 2009 by 52Paddy

War

Hill 60 has to do with the WW I battles round Ypres, there is a museum there with the name Hill 62.

# Posted on February 11th 2010 by Henk Bos

Hill 62

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/ypres-salient/museum-sanctuary-wood.htm

# Posted on February 11th 2010 by Henk Bos

Hill 60/16

I have a friend who grew up in Dublin who gave me this story re: Hill 60. birlibirdie's comment is closest to the crux of this matter. Originally the mound at Croke Park was called Hill 60, apparently because it was a mound 60 meters in size, according to Wikipedia. Wickipedia goes on to say that the name changed to Hill 16 when they enlarged it with the rubble of the 1916 Easter Uprising. (Probably a sugar coated version of the story). But my friend Sean O'Farrell says that actually there was a massacre that occured in 1916 on that Hill during a soccer game, and that's why they changed the name to Hill 16.

# Posted on October 15th 2010 by Kowanaman

Aye, but......

Did the person who put that information on Wikipedia know what they were talking about ?

# Posted on October 16th 2010 by Kenny