Ways to use this book
The basic layout is an easy-to-intermediate (approximately grades 4 to 5) guitar version, designed to be usable also for keyboard, instrumental duet or larger groups.
The chord names above the music give simplified accompaniments that can be played instead of or in addition to the full bass lines. The chords can be used for second guitar parts, for keyboard chord vamping or for accompaniment—single note or chord—on any other instrument.
For musicians less used to reading low leger lines, every chord name matches the bass note given at the that point in the full notation. Where a secondary note is indicated after the chord name, for example D/F#, the second note is the one that actually appears in the bass line. Chord accompanists can play or ignore these extra notes.
There is a modest amount of fingering and other information to help solo guitarists. Apart from that, these are flexible arrangements, leaving space for different kinds of filling-out according to the instruments used. There are no ‘official’ harmonies to Carolan’s tunes.
 
Contents
 
Blind Mary
Bridget Cruise, third air
Captain O’Kane
Carolan’s Draught
Carolan’s Dream
Carolan’s Farewell to Music
Carolan’s Quarrel with the Landlady
Clergy’s Lamentation, The
Cremonea
Dolly McDonough
Dr John Stafford or Carolan’s Receipt
Edward Corcoran
Eleanor Plunkett
Fanny Power
Frank Palmer
Henry MacDermott Roe
Hewlett
Hugh Kelly
Hugh O’Donnell
James Plunkett
John Drury, first air
John Drury, second air
John O’Connor
Kean O’Hara, first air
Kean O’Hara, third air
Kitty Magennis
Lamentation of Owen Roe O’Neill, The
Lament for Owen O’Rourke
Lament for Terence MacDonough
Lord Inchiquin
Mabel Kelly
Mervyn Pratt
Michael O’Connor, second air
Miss MacMurray
Morgan Magan
Mr Malone
Mrs Anne MacDermott Roe
Mrs Bermingham, first air
Mrs O’Neill of Carlane
Mrs Power or Carolan’s Concerto
Ode to Whiskey
One Bottle More
O’Reilly of Athcarne
O’Rourkes’ Feast, The
Planxty Burke
Planxty Crilly
Planxty Irwin
Planxty Sweeney
Planxty Wilkinson
Separation of Soul and Body
Sheebeg and Sheemore
Sir Arthur Shaen
Sir Ulrick Burke
Squire Wood’s Lamentation
Thomas Burke