Willie Clancy
About the artist
Willie Clancy (1918-1973) was an Irish uilleann piper. Clancy was born into a musical family on 24th December 1918 in Miltown Malbay, County Clare. His parents both sang and played concertina, and his father, who had been heavily influenced by local blind piper Garret Barry, also played the flute. Clancy started playing the whistle at the age of five, and later took up the flute. He first saw a set of pipes in 1936 when he saw Johnny Doran playing locally.
Top songs
- Air: An Páistín Fionn
- Caoineadh an Spailpín (The Spalpeen's Lament)
- The Song Of The Riddles
- Erin's Lovely Lea
- Erin's Lovely Lee
- The Dear Irish Boy
- Langstern Pony
- The Legacy Jig
- Reels: The West Wind, Seán Reid's Fancy
- Trip O'er The Mountain
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- Hornpipe: Harvest Home
- Reels: The Connaught Heifers, Corney is Coming
- Jig: The Frieze Britches
- The Templehouse / Over The Moor To Maggie
- Jigs: Down the Back Lane, Sergeant Early's
- Jig: A Chailleach, do Mharais Mé
- Air: The Bold Trainer O
- Reels: The Old Brush
- Hornpipes: The Faithful Friend, The Plains of Boyle
- Reels: An Bhean Tincéara, The Ravelled Hank of Yarn
- The Flogging Reel
- Fling: Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Fair
- The Pipe On The Hob
- Air: Dark Lochnagar
- Reels: The Steampacket, Rakish Paddy
- Slip Jigs: Give Us A Drink Of Water, Hardiman The Fiddler, Will You Come Down To Limerick?
- Single Jig and Slip Jig: Fraher's, An Phis Fhliuch
- Reels: Jenny Picking Cockles, My Love is in America
- The Family Ointment
- Air: The Trip over the Mountain
- Jig: I Buried my Wife and Danced on Top of Her
- Jig: An Ghaoth Aniar Aneas
- Bruachna Carraige Báine (The Brink of the White Rock)
- The Killavel Fancy / The Dogs Among The Bushes
- Air: The Rocks of Bawn
- The Gander
- Double Jig: The Rolling Wave
- Reel: Rakish Paddy
- The Choice Wife
- Set Dance: Seán Ó Duibhir a' Ghleanna
- Single Jig: Title Unknown - No 70 in DMWC
- Fling: Caisleán Dhún Guaire
- Mazurka: Garret Barry's
- Spailpín a Rúin (Spalpeen, My Love)
- Air: The Little Red Lark
- Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore
- Reel: The Milliner's Daughter
- Jig: Tatter Jack Walsh
- Air: Sliabh na mBan
- Air: Casadh an tSúgáin
- Set Dance: Mount Phoebus Hunt
- Jig: Páidín Ó Raifeartaigh
- Air: Róisín Dubh
- Jig: Banish Misfortune
- Air: 'Sé Fáth mo Bhuartha
- Air: Ar Éirinn Ní Neosfainn Cé hí
- Hornpipe:Chief O'Neill's
- Reel: Patsy Touhey's
- Fling: The Fowler on the Moor
- Air: An Chúilfhionn
- Hornpipe: The Groves
- Reel: Jenny's Welcome to Charlie
- Jig: The Gold Ring
- Air: The Bonny Bunch of Roses
- Jig: The Yellow Wattle
- Jig: The Humours of Ballyloughlin
- Air: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
- Reel: The Bunch of Keys
- Trip O’er the Mountain
- Reels: Garret Barry's, Kitty Gone A-Milking
- Jigs: Garret Barry's, Old Tipperary, The Lark in the Corn
- Reel: The Colliers
- Jig: Nóra Chríonna
- Hornpipe: The Plains of Boyle
- Reels: The Green Gates, The Satin Slipper, The London Lasses
- Air: The Dear Irish Boy
- Air: The Bright Lady
- Jigs: Coppers and Brass, & The Humours of Ennistymon
- Air: My Lagan Love
- Air & Reel: Purty Molly Brallaghan, The Green Fields of America
- Air & Hornpipe Annie Dear, The High Level
- Jigs: The Gander in the Pratie Hole, Bímís ag Ól
- an phis fhliuch [slip jig]
- Fling: Easter Snow
- Old Hag, You Have Killed Me / Old Tipperary (Jigs)
- Rowsome's Slip Jig
- Kitty Got A Clinking Coming From The Fair
- I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her
- An Ghoath Aniar-Aneas (double jig)
- The Rocks Of Bawn
- The Old Bush
- The Bold Trainer O
- The Song Of Riddles
- The Rolling Wave
- Táimse im Chodladh
- Clancy's Jig
- Rakish Paddy
- Taimse Im Chodlach
- The Bright Lady
- The Rolling Wave (slip jig)
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