The group Old Blind Dogs has a version of "Tatties and Herring" on their album "Fit?" (Available via their website, www.oldblinddogs.demo.co.uk also from www.greenlinnet.com, a terrific resource for Celtic music). This discussion of how the Queen kent that the convicts would work harder on this best faring is delightful.

As for my native Cape Breton Island, "Herrin' and Potatoes" appears in "The Cape Breton Songbook" as having lyrics by Winnifred Protheroe and the air of the old song "Mo Nighean Donn Bhoidheach," sometimes known as "Ho Ro Mo Nighean Donn Bhoideach," or (in English) "My Nut-Brown Maiden."

"Ho Ro" is usually sung quite briskly, though the Rankins have a version sung in a slow, poignant style.