Friday 26 September 2025
Tune of the Day: A Trip to Galway
Traditional Irish jig
The earliest appearances of this tune are as an untitled jig in P.W. Joyce's Ancient Irish Music (1873) and Elias Howe's 1000 Jigs and Reels (c. 1867). The title “A Trip to Galway” is first found in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883). P.W. Joyce writes: “This spirited tune has remained in my memory since I was a child [in the 1840s in County Limerick] and I could hardly help learning it, for it was a general favourite with fiddlers, pipers and dancers.”