Sunday 29 March 2026
Tune of the Day: Get Up Old Woman and Shake Yourself
Traditional Irish jig
This jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection Dance Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1907. It is one of the earliest tunes that O'Neill remembered hearing from his boyhood in County Cork, Ireland.
Probably the oldest appearance of this jig is in Alday's Pocket Volume of Airs, Duets, Songs, Marches, etc. (Dublin, 1800), where it is listed under the title “Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself”, although that is also the name of a different 18th-century British tune.