Irish Traditional Dancing from Cork, Ireland

These set dances were taught by Maureen McTeggart-Hall, ADCRG, at the McTeggart School in Lexington, Kentucky, over the course of three days in July 2013. The sets were filmed during the workshop.
The last three sets in this series ("Long" Blackbird, Garden of Daisies, and King of the Fairies) were Mr. O'Keefe's, a famous teacher from Cork who also taught in many places in Ireland.
The order:
1. Job of Journeywork
2. Jockey to the Fair
3. St. Patrick's Day
4. Three Sea Captains
5. Blackbird #1
6. "Long" Blackbird (Cormac O'Keefe)
7. Garden of Daisies (Cormac O'Keefe)
8. King of the Fairies (Cormac O'Keefe)

[@nyssasistic]

Just for my own convenience, maybe it'll help others too: Job of Journeywork: 0:45 Jockey to The Fair: 1:57 St Patrick's Day-1: 2:52 St Patrick's Day- 2: 3:46 Three Sea Captains: 4:37 The Blackbird: 5:43 Long Blackbird: 6:48 Garden of Daisies: 7:56 King of The Fairies: 9:09

[@mayraalejandratisalema3238]

nyssasistic thank you

[@karenann8222]

I must say that," Garden of Daisies ", is my favorite. It looks so lighthearted and fun!

[@karenann8222]

Also, "Job of Journeywork", is delightful. It sounds just like hammers tapping. Nice!

[@SJ-vc6bx]

I sure wish that Maureen would take this and market an instructional DVD so that we didn't have to rely on Olive Hurley's versions. This is fabulous!

[@brittnicolew3292]

I used to do some Irish dance at McTeggart a long time ago. Should've stuck with it, it's super fun! Lovely job

[@MisterBeaucoup]

So happy to finally see dancers without the wigs!! That is my pet peeve. I don't understand the incredibly curly wigs.

[@emmamanross9825]

I've been Irish dancing for almost 7 years now we use wigs for dance competitions !! Since they were practicing they most limitless didn't want to go through the pain and annoyance of putting on the wigs. From my experience they take a long time and MANY bobby pins😂😂

[@ramywiles]

The curly hair comes from the tradition of the Sunday best -- you would dress to dance as you would to go to church, and usually that meant curling your hair. For myself, to get the same effect as the wig takes five and a half hours of putting my hair in rollers, sleeping on it overnight, keeping it in the rollers until right before the performance, and then taking it out/spraying the crap out of it/making adjustments as needed. And even then, it STILL falls out. (I have very long, very thick hair, though, so... grain of salt.) So I'm very grateful for the wigs.

[@smatias83]

Wow!! Wonderful!

[@errittsmith4536]

I love the dresses very beautiful young women keep up the great work

[@josephdeneka666]

wow a video of irish dancing with irish people. amazing.

[@superminkymomo3408]

I'm a ballet dancer..and I live Irish dance so bad!!! But I think it's really hard job! Beautiful!

[@lafayette4160]

Super MinkyMomo FINALLY A BALERINA THAT DOSEN’T THINK BALLET IS THE ONLY HARD FORM OF DANCE TYSM

[@dundalklouth6820]

I go irish dancing and Im irish and I love I,loved this video

[@TR-nf8mo]

I'm am from cork and there is people in cork do it a different way for the st paddys day , you do the step ( left and right ) than the set right than on the left leg too and then we do a another step called the hurry home

[@olenabyelkina709]

Could you please give the names of the steps? I'm gathering information about solo tradsets. Thank you!

[@theseacowdiaries]

You gals articulate your sounds so nicely. (: There's a beautiful flow! Good job! ^.^

[@alienextraterrestrial113]

I just realized how popular my grandma maureen was iam so sad she passed away she was so nice I remember he teaching me irish dancing if you don't think she was my grandma ask me a question I will answer it

[@carolyngamache6595]

She was the absolute best!

[@denig2000able]

Very good dancing but I notice some differences in Job of J works and Blackbird

[@lindadardis7711]

My name is Demi too lol

[@cumhurberat8297]

Lovely 🌹🧡🌹🧡

[@olenabyelkina709]

@Allison Duvall, could you please tell, whose version of the Three Sea Captains is danced in this video, so, it's not O'Keefe's, if I'm getting it right. Thank you for any information!

[@seanroche2358]

This was so great so appreciate.The best teachers are Rita&Lisa O'Shea

[@tomhopgood9579]

sea n roche

[@moiraruff3292]

Bit puzzled. Danced in London in 1950s-rarly 1960s & Peggy McTaggert from Cork was a wonderful & regular adjudicator - and I thought Cormac O'Keefe was too, but my memory isn't that good &; that doesn't seem to fit your dates! He, Peggy & John Cullinane were great at helping to preserve these older dances and steps learnt first hand from the earlier dancing masters, such as Murray. . Peggy's pupil & later lecturer & course director at the Irish World Music centre at Limerick University, Dr Catherine Foley, learnt these traditional dances from Peggy and did further research into North Kerry dancing and others. There are videos of her dancing them on KZbin. Danced here perfectly in the correct style. Well done to everyone involved. PS I think Margaret was Peggy's daughter?

[@moiraruff3292]

Sorry, Maureen.

[@MotionPictureMuse]

There are variations in the trad sets between different dancing organizations. Perhaps that's what's going on... ?

[@jdgrahamo]

Thanks for this -- it is very useful.

[@GraNaRince28]

There are some introductory slides at the start of the video which answer your questions

[@denig2000able]

Some of the steps are different to the way I was taught them.

[@SJVelasquez]

This is wonderful! I've been trying to teach myself all the trad sets, but I know they're are so many variations on tradition. I learned an almost identical "Three Sea Captains" over in Ireland. My version of "King of the Fairies" is quite different, but I can tell where the similarities occur. Where did you learn these versions? Who passed them down to you from their original choreographers/dance masters? Very exciting :)

[@brigidrode]

Do you still own this studio or have you moved? It's been 3 years since I've been dancing there

[@MacaoPL]

Awesome, i'd love to learn it :)

[@qtscorpkid]

always wanted to learn blackbird

[@Lovedove61119]

It’s hard 😅

[@NQBN]

amazingggggggggggggggggg!!!1

[@kennedyireland8288]

i do Irish dance ballet tap and preforming group. if you can guess Irish is my favorite

[@valenti5595]

But if U lived in Ireland U have to learn Irish weather U like or not

[@matildearreola8755]

Very good girls

[@gilliangalueva4958]

l do set dancing and this dancing too.😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😉😉

[@Ienzo0]

I wonder why there are 31 peoples dislike this video.

[@lafayette4160]

Job of journeywork is nothing like that I’m not trying to hate but I think that’s the wrong dance

[@arkansasasmr780]

Irish dance for life #dancer Some dance schools have different variations and steps for traditional sets. For example Blackbird is way different to what I do. Just keep doing your thing cause this video was just to assist people with the same steps as them. 👍

[@tinavu1812]

6:00 blackbird

[@itzjustjordan2508]

Well just to say this im not irish, and you can teach me this a thousand time and i would fail.

[@xxvickyxx8121]

Blackbird is kind of wrong too

[@thomasmckenna5372]

I Agree great to see no wig's