<![CDATA[The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Clifford%2C+Julia+68527492&output=rss2 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:31:47 -0700 burnsref@bc.edu (The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music) Boston College Libraries Zend_Feed http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Old Torn Petticoat ]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/572

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I believe it is important to feature master fiddle player Julia Clifford and her son Billy playing the first dance tune in this collection. It was the first reel that they recorded for me that night in Tralee over fifty years ago, when Julia invited me to record herself and Billy playing tunes she thought I might not have. When they played a tune I admitted to never having heard, she would ask me in surprise, 'You don't have it, do you?'

As I look back now, I realise that it was an act of musical generosity to a young musician, which perhaps contained within it the inspiration not only for this project, but also for how I, throughout my life as a musician and teacher, have been driven and encouraged to do my utmost in passing along to others this incredible and astonishing oral and aural tradition. For that I say, 'Thank you, Julia; thank you, Billy'. Little did you both realise fifty years ago when you made that tape for me how much influence your music would have on today's musicians and students alike.

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Séamus Connolly
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01-02_Old_Torn_Petticoat-Reel.pdf
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<![CDATA[Freddy Kimmel's]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/429

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As the howling winds from the Atlantic Ocean blew into Kinvara Harbour, Máire O'Keeffe continued to play her fiddle into the night without interruption (see 'Maurice O'Keeffe's'). The tune that she plays here was learned from the playing of Julia Clifford and her husband John.

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02-25_Freddy_Kimmels-Hornpipe.pdf
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<![CDATA[Jackson's]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/593

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Nicky McAuliffe gave me the name for this tune. It may be attributed to the eighteenth-century piper Walker 'Piper' Jackson from County Limerick. This is another of the tunes played for me fifty years ago in Tralee, County Kerry, by Julia Clifford and her son Billy Clifford (see 'Old Torn Petticoat').

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries
03-01_Jacksons-Reel.pdf
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<![CDATA[Grandfather's Thought]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/435

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This hornpipe from Julia, John, and Billy Clifford is played here for us by Shannon Heaton on flute. The tune may be found on an LP that the Cliffords recorded during their years in London, England, entitled The Star of Munster Trio, Music from Sliabh Luachra, Volume 2.

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04-28_Grandfathers_Thought-Hornpipe.pdf
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<![CDATA[Flee as a Bird]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/437

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A two-part version of 'Flee as a Bird' is another tune which I recorded from Julia Clifford and her son Billy in the early 1960s. It can be heard elsewhere in the collection. Here, a longer setting of the tune, which can be found in Ryan's Mammoth Collection, is performed by the wonderfully talented Kimberley Fraser from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Kimberley spent a few days with Sandy and me in our home in Maine, and we had lots of laughs and great music.

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<![CDATA[Johnny's Welcome Home]]> https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/646

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Billy Clifford recorded this tune for me that night long ago in Tralee, County Kerry. The memories of that evening remain with me always, especially delightful when I listen to the tape Billy and his mother made for me that evening so long ago. What generosity. A version of 'Johnny's Welcome Home' appears in O'Neill's 1001.

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07-16_Johnnys_Welcome_Home-Reel.pdf
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