Litrichean Rioghail is making me crazy. The melody that starts at ~0:55, is more prominent at 1:36, and finally ends at 2:12 is so familiar and yet so far away. It sounds like it could be video game music or more likely a folk tune originating in the British Isles. I know exactly what it is though, I just can't remember and it makes me so crazy. And at 2:55, there's a bit of Explore in there until around 3:30. Then, that maddeningly familiar tune returns until the end of the song. Please help me out :u
I think I know what you're talking about. I didn't know the name until just now, but if I'm hearing the same thing you are, then I think you're hearing a song called
The Irish Washerwoman. Kinda hard to tell at because of the difference in pitch and abundance of extraneous notes and speed, but switch between the two every few seconds and you'll hear the resemblance. Or at least I did, anyway, though I'm still not sure because the notes in the Youtube link sound kinda off. But who knows, maybe they're just at a different chord or something; I don't study music so I'm not able to detect stuff like that.
All that being said, if anyone finds something closer-sounding to Litrichean Rioghail than The Irish Washerwoman (or the latter song in a more similar pitch or whatever to the former), then I'd like to hear it because as far as I'm concerned, this isn't a definitive answer so much as it is an answer I can settle on.
Addendum: If anyone does go on a hunt for a more fitting song, then I suggest searching things like "stereotypical irish music" or something, since that tune is pretty well known and all mostly for its Irishness.