Category: Irish Set
Description:
Set by Pádraig & Róisín McEneany. Reproduced with permission.
“We composed this set for the dancers in our class in O’Shea’s Merchant Pub on Bridge Street in Dublin. We would like to dedicate the set to our dancers and to Ned O’Shea who has been a wonderful friend to us over the years. The feature of the set is that each couple will dance in first top’s position.
Suggestions are given for music which you may already have to dance the figures.”
See the Videos section for demonstrations by the Mc Eneany’s and a set called by Pat Murphy.
Videos:
In addition to the videos below, videos for each figure, called by Padraig, are available through the 
icon at the top of each figure.
Full dance called by Pat Murphy with instructions before each figure
Skip to 3:10 in the following video if the link doesn’t take you there
Merchant with music by Rise the Dust and calling by Syl Bell
Skip to 2:00 if the video doesn’t start there.
Figure 1: Cross over (Reel)
120 Bars + 8 bar lead-in
Music for the Caledonian figure 1 and Clare Plain figure 2 is suitable for this figure.
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| 1 | Everyone Circle advance and retire twice All take hands in a circle, advance and retire twice. |
8 |
| 2 | Swing In waltz hold | 8 |
| 3 | 1st Tops House House on the inside. |
8 |
| 4 | Everyone Advance and retire, cross over Everyone in waltz hold, tops turn left and sides turn right. All advance and retire once, then ladies cross right shoulder and gents cross left shoulder. |
8 |
| 5 | Swing In waltz hold | 8 |
| 6 | 2nd Couple House inside House on the inside from first tops position. |
8 |
| 7 | Everyone Advance and retire, cross over New leading couple turn right and sides turn left. All advance and retire once, then ladies cross right shoulder and gents cross left shoulder. |
8 |
| 8 | Swing In waltz hold | 8 |
| 9 | Repeat 3 to 8 With third and fourth couples housing on the inside from first tops position. | 48 |
| 10 | House | 8 |
Figure 2: The square (Reel)
184 Bars + 8 bar lead-in
Music for the Caledonian figure 3 and Clare Plain figure 6 is suitable for this figure.
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| 1 | Everyone Circle advance and retire twice All take hands in a circle, advance and retire twice. |
8 |
| 2 | Swing In waltz hold. | 8 |
| 3 | 1st Tops House House on the inside. |
8 |
| 4 | Dance the square First couple take right hand in right, dance forward, face their partner (2b), gent pulls the lady’s hand and turns the lady counter-clockwise, both change places to face out (2b), dance forward again (2b), gent turns the lady CCW as before and they change places to face in (2b). | 8 |
| 5 | Tops Swing in four Swing in four, with hands around the waist, after six bars tops break to the right into lines in sides’ position. While tops are swinging sides take a step to their right and after the swing tops break to the right of sides to form two lines. |
8 |
| 6 | Everyone Advance and retire and circle right All advance and retire, advance again and take hands in a circle and everyone retires moving one place to the right. |
8 |
| 7 | Swing In waltz hold. | 8 |
| 8 | Repeat 3 to 7 With second, third and fourth couple housing on the inside from first top’s position | 120 |
| 9 | House | 8 |
Figure 3: The Star (Reel)
120 Bars + 8 bar lead-in
Music for the Caledonian figure 1 and Clare Plain figure 2 is suitable for this figure.
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| 1 | Everyone Circle advance and retire twice All take hands in a circle, advance and retire twice. |
8 |
| 2 | Swing In waltz hold. | 8 |
| 3 | 1st Tops House House on the inside. |
8 |
| 4 | Gents Gents star left and ladies dance to the left All face their partners, gents put left hands in and dance around 1 ¼ ways to the position on the right. Ladies all face to the left, they dance two bars in place and then dance around on the outside ¾ of the way to meet their own partners. |
8 |
| 5 | Everyone Swing In waltz hold. |
8 |
| 6 | Sides Dance 3 to 5 Second, third and fourth couples housing on the inside from first top’s position. |
72 |
| 7 | Everyone House |
8 |
Figure 4: Sevens (Hornpipe)
136 Bars + 8 bar lead-in
Music for the Port Fairy figure 2 is suitable for this figure.
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| 1 | Everyone Circle advance and retire twice All take hands in a circle, advance and retire twice. |
8 |
| 2 | Swing In waltz hold. | 8 |
| 3 | 1st Tops House House on the inside. |
8 |
| 4 | Turn the lady First tops take right hand in right, gents turns the lady four times clockwise in front of him as they move around counter-clockwise on the inside of the set. | 8 |
| 5 | Everyone Sevens and dance around All couples take waltz hold, tops turn left, sides turn right. All dance seven forward and seven back then dance around in waltz turning twice to change places. |
8 |
| 6 | Repeat 3 to 5 With second, third and fourth couples housing on the inside from first top’s position. When the second and fourth couples are dancing the new tops will turn right for the sevens. (Couples that start as sides always face right and progress CCW around the set. Those starting as tops face left, even in side positions, and progress CW around the set.) | 72 |
| 7 | Circle advance and retire twice All take hands in a circle, advance and retire twice. | 8 |
| 8 | Swing In waltz hold. | 8 |
| 9 | House | 8 |
Added on 2014-01-28 19:38:05.
Modified on 2017-10-16 18:37:38.
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