I am in the process of a long overdue update of these pages. The music on all of the pages now plays.
Updated pages (noted with an asterix) have a control panel. If you right click on the control panel you can loop or download the music.
Other pages have a link to play/download the music. The music will open in a separate window to play where you can also download the music.
These are songs that were popular in Ireland, arranged in chronological order. I have put them in APPROXIMATE/BEST GUESS date order base on information available at the time I uploaded the file. If you have a correction, please let me know.
Also, be advised that for the early ballads, the century may not be the date the tune AND words were known. The date I have used is for the original ballad or air to which the song can be linked. The tunes and words here are modern variants of the originals.
Broadsides and folksongs of the 17th Century
Please note these words and tunes are not authentic to the time period. These are later variants of the broadsides.
