# What is the name of this stereotypical Irish music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-stereotypical-irish-music/556839 "2010-10-11T23:30:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-stereotypical-irish-music/556839/21 "2010-10-13T05:20:47Z")
No, Molly Malone is an original work. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-stereotypical-irish-music/556839/22 "2010-10-13T12:33:21Z")
No doubt you’ll hear it in _The Quiet Man_. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-stereotypical-irish-music/556839/23 "2010-10-13T16:06:37Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > > [@An\_Gadai](#): > > > > Nope, the air I’m thinking of is in jig time I think, CECECEGFE would be the sequence I think. Usually played on a fiddle. > > “The Rakes of Mallow”? (arrangement by Leroy Anderson): [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKfQtqNDlFA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKfQtqNDlFA) Yes!!! That’s it. Thank you. I’ve been hearing it all my life without knowing what the hell it was. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-stereotypical-irish-music/556839/24 "2010-10-13T16:07:43Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > > [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > > > That’s the same song as “Londonderry Air.” > > Really? I thought that “Londonderry Air” was the other name for “Molly Malone” “Molly Malone”'s alternative names include “In Dublin’s Fair City” and “Cockles and Mussels”. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-stereotypical-irish-music/556839/25 "2010-10-13T16:44:26Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > > [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > > > Really? I thought that “Londonderry Air” was the other name for “Molly Malone” > > “Molly Malone”'s alternative names include “In Dublin’s Fair City” and “Cockles and Mussels”. Don’t forget to ask me to play my Irish folk music for you in 3 weeks. If you want to watch me squirm. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-stereotypical-irish-music/556839/26 "2010-10-13T16:52:46Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > Don’t forget to ask me to play my Irish folk music for you in 3 weeks. If you want to watch me squirm. :eek: You played it for me before I think, hammered dulcimer? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-stereotypical-irish-music/556839/27 "2010-10-13T17:15:31Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > > [@BMalion](#): > > > > Don’t forget to ask me to play my Irish folk music for you in 3 weeks. If you want to watch me squirm. :eek: > > You played it for me before I think, hammered dulcimer? Hammered and Irish usually go together. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-stereotypical-irish-music/556839/28 "2010-10-13T17:35:15Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > > [@BMalion](#): > > > > Don’t forget to ask me to play my Irish folk music for you in 3 weeks. If you want to watch me squirm. :eek: > > You played it for me before I think, hammered dulcimer? Mountain dulcimer, good memory. > [@Wile E.](#): > > Hammered and Irish usually go together. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-stereotypical-irish-music/556839/29 "2010-10-13T17:55:55Z")
_Tabhair Dom Do Lamh_ is also spelled incorrectly on the inlay Bmalion IIRC. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-stereotypical-irish-music/556839/30 "2010-10-13T19:28:33Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > > [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > > > That’s the same song as “Londonderry Air.” > > So Danny was looking for some hot English butt? Mmmm … Keira Knightley … _drool_ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-stereotypical-irish-music/556839/31 "2010-10-13T19:35:53Z")
_Old McTavish is dead and his brother don’t know it His brother is dead and McTavish don’t know it Both of them dead in the very same bed But neither one knows that the other is dead_ (I’ve always been fond of “The Black Velvet Band” myself) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-stereotypical-irish-music/556839.md?page=1)