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    List of Vincent Broderick Compositions

    A list of 135 Vincent Broderick compositions in alphabetical order.  The list is compiled from both the published books and the Vincent Broderick tapes, and includes songs and recitations as well as instrumental music.

    • A frog in the pond [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 9
    • A tribute to Kathleen Harrington [comp. Vincent Broderick], recitation — Tape 10, Side A
    • A tribute to Peter Broderick [comp. Vincent Broderick], song — Tape 10, Side B
    • Aisling O’Neill [comp. Vincent Broderick], planxty — Tape 3
    • An exile alone [comp. Vincent Broderick], song — Tape 10, Side B
    • Anna Livia [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 3
    • Around the fairy fort [comp. Vincent Broderick], barn dance — Tape 2, Side A & Tape 10, Side B
    • Cockstep in the dunghill [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 2, Side A
    • Cregg Castle [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Not on the tapes
    • Cruising on the Rhine [comp. Vincent Broderick], barn dance — Tape 5, Side B
    • Down the old boreen [comp. Vincent Broderick], barn dance — Tape 5, Side B
    • Down the rushy glen [comp. Vincent Broderick], polka — Tape 2, Side A
    • Falling leaves [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 8
    • Halley’s Comet [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side B
    • Horan’s airport [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side B
    • Hunter’s moon [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Not on the tapes
    • Lambay Island [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 9
    • Lord Dunsandle [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 5, Side B
    • Love is a myth [comp. Vincent Broderick], recitation — Tape 10, Side B
    • Lynch’s Castle [comp. Vincent Broderick], hornpipe — Tape 2, Side A
    • Memories [comp. Vincent Broderick], recitation — Tape 10, Side B
    • Memories [comp. Vincent Broderick], song — Tape 2, Side B
    • Midsummer’s night [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side A
    • Mount Fuji [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 5, Side B
    • My home in Sweet Loughrea [comp. Vincent Broderick], song — Tape 2, Side B & Tape 10, Side B
    • Newland’s cross [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 5, Side A & Tape 8
    • Old grandfather clock [comp. Vincent Broderick], hornpipe — Tape 2, Side A
    • Old woman in the glen [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side B
    • Orion belt [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side B
    • Plasterer’s dream [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 1, Side A & Tape 10, Side B
    • Seven noble men [comp. Vincent Broderick], march — Tape 2, Side A
    • Song of the birds [comp. Vincent Broderick], air — Tape 2, Side A
    • Strangers in town [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 5, Side B
    • The angler’s rock [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 5, Side B & Tape 6
    • The Ballyarra [comp. Vincent Broderick], polka — Tape 2, Side A
    • The Ballydugan barn dance [comp. Vincent Broderick] — Tape 9
    • The banshee’s wail [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 1, Side A
    • The Benmore slide [comp. Vincent Broderick] — Tape 9
    • The Big Red Rooster Cock [comp. Vincent Broderick], song — Tape 10, Side A
    • The Boyne Valley jig [comp. Vincent Broderick] — Tape 5, Side A & Tape 8
    • The brothers [comp. Vincent Broderick], recitation — Tape 10, Side B
    • The Bullaun slide [comp. Vincent Broderick] — Not on the tapes
    • The bus to Mullahoran [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Not on the tapes
    • The Carramore [comp. Vincent Broderick], polka — Tape 2, Side A
    • The Christmas candle [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 10, Side A
    • The coachman’s whip [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side B
    • The Connemara hornpipe [comp. Vincent Broderick] — Tape 5, Side A & Tape 8
    • The crock of gold [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side A & Tape 10, Side B
    • The Derrybrien slide [comp. Vincent Broderick] — Tape 5, Side A & Tape 8
    • The dragon fly [comp. Vincent Broderick], slip jig — Tape 2, Side A
    • The Éamonn Ceannt march [comp. Vincent Broderick] — Tape 5, Side A & Tape 8
    • The enchanted lake [comp. Vincent Broderick], polka — Tape 1, Side B
    • The final score [comp. Vincent Broderick], hornpipe — Tape 5, Side B & Tape 7
    • The flagstone of memories [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side B
    • The four winds [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side B
    • The fox on the prowl [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side B
    • The gambling man [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 5, Side B
    • The goat’s path [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side B
    • The halfpenny bridge [comp. Vincent Broderick], hornpipe — Tape 5, Side B
    • The harbour bar [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 8
    • The haunted house [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 1, Side A
    • The hedgehog [comp. Vincent Broderick], slip jig — Tape 5, Side A & Tape 8
    • The Hellfire Club [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel  — Tape 2, Side A
    • The Home Where I was Born [comp. Vincent Broderick], song — Tape 2, Side B & Tape 10, Side A
    • The honey bee [comp. Vincent Broderick], slip jig — Tape 2, Side A
    • The last straw [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Not on the tapes
    • The last train from Loughrea [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 1, Side A
    • The leaping trout [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 5, Side B
    • The Liffey valley [comp. Vincent Broderick], march — Not on the tapes
    • The lighthouse in the bog [comp. Vincent Broderick], song — Tape 10 Side B
    • The lighthouse in the bog [comp. Vincent Broderick], air — Tape 2, Side A
    • The little ray of sunshine [comp. Vincent Broderick], barn dance — Tape 8
    • The lonely hills of Aughrim [comp. Vincent Broderick], air — Tape 1, Side B
    • The Loughrea [comp. Vincent Broderick], polka — Tape 1, Side B
    • The lumberjack [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side B
    • The mad cow roundabout [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 8
    • The march hare [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 5, Side B & Tape 6
    • The matchmaker Dan [comp. Vincent Broderick], recitation — Tape 10, Side A
    • The midnight owl [comp. Vincent Broderick], hornpipe — Not on the tapes
    • The Milky Way [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side A
    • The millennium reel [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 3
    • The mountain ash [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 3
    • The mountain stream [comp. Vincent Broderick], barn dance — Tape 5, Side B & Tape 6
    • The new broom [comp. Vincent Broderick], barn dance — Tape 10 Side B
    • The night of the big wind [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Not on the tapes
    • The nine-mile stone [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 5, Side B & Tape 7
    • The old flail [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 2, Side A
    • The old schoolhouse [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Not on the tapes
    • The old station house [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 1, Side A
    • The old tin whistler [comp. Vincent Broderick], song — Tape 10, Side A
    • The old wooden bridge [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side A
    • The Pearse’s march to the G.P.O. [comp. Vincent Broderick], march — Tape 2, Side A
    • The pigeon house [comp. Vincent Broderick], polka — Tape 2, Side A
    • The piper from Ballina [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 2, Side A
    • The poor little hares are dead [comp. Vincent Broderick], song — Tape 10, Side B
    • The Pope in the Park [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side B
    • The pucha’s bush [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 1, Side A
    • The rainbow’s end [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side A & Tape 10, Side B
    • The red bog [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 8
    • The ring around the moon [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side A
    • The rising sun [comp. Vincent Broderick], barn dance — Tape 5, Side B
    • The river Liffey [comp. Vincent Broderick], march — Tape 7
    • The rookery [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side B
    • The Sally Gap [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 5, Side A & Tape 6 & Tape 8
    • The salmon weir bridge [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side B
    • The seven springs [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 3
    • The soldier’s lament [comp. Vincent Broderick], slow air — Tape 5, Side A & Tape 8
    • The Spanish arch [comp. Vincent Broderick], hornpipe — Tape 1, Side B
    • The spider’s web [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 1, Side A
    • The stone mason [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Not on the tapes
    • The stoney Brennan [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side B
    • The story of the tin whistle [comp. Vincent Broderick], song — Tape 2, Side B
    • The Sugarloaf mountain [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 9
    • The swan’s nest [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 5, Side B & Tape 10, Side A
    • The tale of the lonesome fox [comp. Vincent Broderick], song — Tape 2, Side B
    • The tattie hokers [comp. Vincent Broderick], hornpipe — Tape 1, Side B
    • The Three Rock mountain [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 5, Side B
    • The thrush in the bush [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 5, Side A & Tape 8
    • The tinker’s daughter [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 1, Side A
    • The Tokyo ramblers [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 5, Side B
    • The Turoe stone [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 1, Side A & Tape 10, Side B
    • The twin towers [comp. Vincent Broderick], slow air — Tape 5, Side B
    • The ultra-modern woman [comp. Vincent Broderick], recitation — Tape 2, Side B & Tape 10, Side B
    • The valley of Glencree [comp. Vincent Broderick], song — Tape 2, Side B
    • The village wit [comp. Vincent Broderick], recitation — Tape 10, Side B
    • The waterfall [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 6
    • The weeping willow [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 5, Side B & Tape 7
    • The Wexford mayfly [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 5, Side B & Tape 6
    • The whistler at the wake [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 1, Side A
    • The white stone [comp. Vincent Broderick], jig — Tape 1, Side A
    • The wild bird’s nest [comp. Vincent Broderick], reel — Tape 5, Side B & Tape 6
    • The wind through the rafters [comp. Vincent Broderick], hornpipe — Tape 1, Side B
    • The winding road [comp. Vincent Broderick], hornpipe — Tape 5, Side B & Tape 7
    • The wishing well [comp. Vincent Broderick], hornpipe — Tape 5, Side A & Tape 8
    • Ward’s eviction suite [comp. Vincent Broderick], descriptive piece — Tape 6

    With thanks to TY student Cliodhna Ní Chuilinn for her help in compiling this list.

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