Donegal Fiddle MusicCití Sheáin’s
Dermot McLaughlin learned this tune from the late Cití Sheáin Bean Uí Chunneagáin of Teileann who remembered it from the local fiddlers of her youth.
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Gan Ainm No. 2
This is a version of Gan Ainm 1 set in two sharps. See also Jim McBride’s No. 2 for a related version. This is also a version of…
Connolly’s
Connolly’s. John Doherty associated this tune with the Connolly family of Strabane who had a popular family band around east Donegal.
Castles in the Air
Castles in the Air. This tune was very common amongst the older Donegal fiddlers. It has associations with the children’s rhyme Wee Willie Winkie. It was sometimes played as a strathspey.
- East Donegal Fiddlers
- Tommy Peoples (1948-2018)
- Séamus Gibson
- Bob Peoples (1900-1973)
- George Peoples (1908-1988)
- Joe Douglas (1892 – 1978)
- Paddy Douglas (1927 – 1995)
- John Douglas (1957 – )
- Kathleen McGinley (1931-2011)
- Josie McIntyre
- Johnny Crampsie (1915-1988)
- Eithne Vallely (1945-)
- Mick Doherty (1924 – 2014)
- Hugh Gillespie (1906-1986)
- Frank Kelly (1936-)
- Bríd Harper
- Jimmy Houston (1920-1995)
- Charlie Patton (1932 – 2002)
- Charlie Joe Gordon
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