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=Folk+dance+music--Ireland&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CIdentifier&sort_dir=d&page=2&output=atom <![CDATA[The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music]]> 2024-03-28T09:22:57-07:00 Omeka https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/532 <![CDATA[Port an Deoraí]]> Rogha, Geraldine Cotter's Choice.]]> 2016-10-12T08:08:56-07:00

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This lovely and unusual slip jig is played here by Geraldine Cotter. It may also be found in her collection of fifty traditional Irish tunes called Rogha, Geraldine Cotter's Choice.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/682 <![CDATA[Achonry Lassies]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:20-07:00

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Yet another great old tune that was given to me by Chicago fiddle player Johnny McGreevy. The young fiddle player Tina Lech, one of my favourite musicians, plays the tune for us on this track.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/681 <![CDATA[Figuring it Out]]>
P.S. It has come to our attention that this tune is a composition of Leitrim fiddle player and multi-instrumentalist Joe Liddy. He titled the tune "The Sweat House."]]>
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I tried as best I could to learn this tune from a tape made in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paddy Gavin in Balbriggan, County Dublin, almost forty years ago. The tape was damaged a little but one could hear a great session of music played that night by the Gavin family and Jimmy Keane from Chicago. At one point on the tape, someone sat down at the piano and begin to pick out the melody of the reel heard on this track, as though composing, reading, or trying to remember it. I loved the tune and what I could make out of it, so I reconstructed it in my own way, whilst trying my utmost to remain faithful to what I could decipher of the original version. After all that and years later, I spoke to Kathleen Gavin, who recalls being at the piano that night sight-reading the tune from a piece of manuscript paper. The tune's origins remain a mystery. Its composer may not like my reconstruction, or how I played it on this track, nor the title that Kathleen has suggested. Please know though, whoever you may be, that we certainly like your tune or composition, and we thank you for it.

P.S. It has come to our attention that this tune is a composition of Leitrim fiddle player and multi-instrumentalist Joe Liddy. He titled the tune "The Sweat House."

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/696 <![CDATA[For Denis Moynihan]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:22-07:00

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Dancing master Denis Moynihan, as he was known before he officially changed his name to its Irish version, Donncha Ó Muineacháin, was a popular teacher of Irish dance. He was known throughout Ireland for his choreography and repertoire of older steps. Some of these were passed down to Donncha from the County Cork dancing masters Joe O'Donovan and Cormac O'Keeffe, and we mustn't forget his own dance teacher, the Grand Lady of Irish Dance, Peggy McTaggart. The set dance played on this track by Séamus McGuire and Garry O'Briain was learned from a recording of Larry Redican who introduced the tune as 'For Denis Moynihan'; this perhaps implies that Redican composed the tune.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/680 <![CDATA[One-Horned Buck, The]]> 'Cathal's Reel').]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:20-07:00

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Another tune from the legendary Cathal McConnell. He gave me this tune, and the others in this collection, during that visit to Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, over thirty years ago (see 'Cathal's Reel').

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/679 <![CDATA[Paddy Cronin's Reel]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:20-07:00

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Paddy Cronin was always very eager to learn new tunes. Paddy loved 'going through the books' with his fiddle in hand. He had a vast store of old tunes and an amazing repertoire, including this reel, played here for us by the lovely ladies of music, Liz and Yvonne, the wonderful Kane sisters from County Galway.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/678 <![CDATA[Edenderry, The]]> O'Neill's 1001 collection, the same version that was played by Larry so long ago. Lar, I still have that tape. Thanks for the memories.]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:20-07:00

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Larry Gavin sent this tune to me on a tape over thirty years ago. Getting a tape of music from Ireland, and more especially from Larry, was always special. I was always assured of getting a new tune or two from my good friend. On this track we hear Joanie Madden playing the version found in O'Neill's 1001 collection, the same version that was played by Larry so long ago. Lar, I still have that tape. Thanks for the memories.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/677 <![CDATA[Old Schoolmaster, The]]> O'Neill's 1001 collection.]]> 2019-05-10T10:05:59-07:00

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'Maestro' Seán Maguire played this tune in the key of A major at a concert in Kilfenora, County Clare, many years ago. My friend Sally K. Sommers Smith Wells reminded me that it somehow was like the song 'Love Will You Marry Me?' Brendan Bulger from Boston plays the tune, a version of which may be found in O'Neill's 1001 collection.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/571 <![CDATA[Magic Slipper, The]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:04-07:00

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Flutist Nicole Rabata joins me to play 'The Magic Slipper', a polka I learned from Boston accordionist Billy Caples. Mr. Caples was a well-known musician who had his own orchestra during the Dudley Street era of music and dancing.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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Some transcriptions are based on historical source recordings. More info.
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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/676 <![CDATA[Tulla Lodge]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:20-07:00

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Martin Hayes, the great fiddle player from East Clare, gives us this beautiful rendition of a tune I have given the title 'Tulla Lodge'. This tune was given to me by Larry Gavin.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/733 <![CDATA[Grover Jones' Waltz]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:28-07:00

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The great Appalachian fiddle player Alan Jabbour recorded this tune for me with Ken Perlman on banjo and Pete Sutherland at the piano. Alan told me that Grover Jones loved to play this tune on his fiddle, and even when in the company of other musicians without his fiddle he would always request this waltz. Although Mr. Jones did not compose the tune, it was because of his enthusiasm, love, and eagerness to hear it that his name automatically became associated with it. Dr. Jabbour also told me that he learned the waltz from the legendary West Virginia fiddle player Henry Reed. Listen to the beautiful, sensitive, and refined music of Alan Jabbour. Alan, I have listened to this track many times and every time a little happy tear runs down my face. Lonesome music, my friend.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/675 <![CDATA[Killaloe Reel, The]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:20-07:00

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My nephew Damien Connolly plays a reel of his own composition. In his words he tells us about his native Killaloe: 'I am very proud of my hometown of Killaloe, County Clare. I lived there for twelve years before moving to Ennis. Killaloe is my first love, as it were. Every morning I would open the window and look out on the hills of the surrounding countryside and breathe in the fresh air. I have so many fond childhood memories from that old town. It's situated right on the river Shannon, so it's a beautiful place indeed... A couple of years ago, I purchased a bouzouki off eBay, tuned it up, and this is the tune that fell right out.'

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/414 <![CDATA[Quinn Family, The]]> Music from the Glens. The album featured the talented Quinn family from New York, hence the title I've given the tune to honour this musical clan led by Mister Louis Quinn of County Armagh.]]> 2016-10-12T08:08:40-07:00

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Shannon and Matt Heaton give vibrant life to a barndance which I first heard on the long-playing record Music from the Glens. The album featured the talented Quinn family from New York, hence the title I've given the tune to honour this musical clan led by Mister Louis Quinn of County Armagh.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/451 <![CDATA[McDonnell-Garvey Hornpipe, The]]> 2016-10-12T08:08:46-07:00

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On this track we once again hear Josephine Keegan performing one of her compositions. The tune is dedicated to her friend, the late Máire McDonnell-Garvey, who was a fiddle player and the author of a number of books about her native province of Connacht.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/531 <![CDATA[Pádraig O'Keeffe's]]> 2019-05-10T10:05:44-07:00

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I first heard this tune played by Nicky McAuliffe and Connie O'Connell on two fiddles. They played it at a concert in Miltown Malbay at the Willie Clancy Summer School in 1988. They learned the tune from a Pádraig O'Keeffe manuscript. Here we listen to fiddle player Kevin Burke playing the jig in his unmistakable lilting style.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/530 <![CDATA[Gallant Tipperary Boys, The]]> O'Neill's Music of Ireland collection under the title 'Gallant Tipperary'. It also appears in The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music in the 'Airs' section of that book. The tune, played here by Laurel Martin, was popular in Boston in the 1930s and 1940s.]]> 2016-10-12T08:08:56-07:00

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This tune may be found in the O'Neill's Music of Ireland collection under the title 'Gallant Tipperary'. It also appears in The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music in the 'Airs' section of that book. The tune, played here by Laurel Martin, was popular in Boston in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/674 <![CDATA[Mist on the Ocean]]> In a Creative Mood, which he recorded in his native West Cork looking out to sea and the mist on the ocean. Richie is again joined by Micheál O'Rourke on piano.]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:19-07:00

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This reel comes to us by kind permission of my good friend Richard 'Richie' Dwyer, its composer. It is taken from his CD In a Creative Mood, which he recorded in his native West Cork looking out to sea and the mist on the ocean. Richie is again joined by Micheál O'Rourke on piano.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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Some transcriptions are based on historical source recordings. More info.
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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/673 <![CDATA[Linda Ray's]]> The Sligo Indian, I fell in love with it instantly. Tony was so gracious when I asked him if he would record it for this collection. 'Consider it done,' he said. Tony, the reel brings a smile to my face. It is a wonderful tune, so happy and full of love.]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:19-07:00

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The great fiddle player from New York City, Mr. Tony De Marco, composed this reel for his friend Linda Hickman, herself a lovely flute player. When I heard this reel performed by Tony and Charlie Lennon on Tony's CD The Sligo Indian, I fell in love with it instantly. Tony was so gracious when I asked him if he would record it for this collection. 'Consider it done,' he said. Tony, the reel brings a smile to my face. It is a wonderful tune, so happy and full of love.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/672 <![CDATA[Emmet's Double]]> his own tune in this collection). The young Nugent twins are well-placed to carry on the great family legacy of Irish music.]]> 2016-10-12T08:09:19-07:00

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Emmet is Seán Óg Nugent's twin brother, and their father Larry Nugent composed this tune (Seán has his own tune in this collection). The young Nugent twins are well-placed to carry on the great family legacy of Irish music.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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https://connollymusiccollection.bc.edu/document/450 <![CDATA[G. Craig and Maureen Sullivan]]> 2016-10-12T08:08:46-07:00

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Brian Hebert plays a hornpipe he wrote to honour my special friends Craig and Maureen Sullivan. I will forever be grateful to them for their benevolent generosity to me, to Boston College, and to the world of Gaelic music and song. It is through their kindness that I have been able to turn the inspiration for this collection into a reality.

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Séamus Connolly
Boston College Libraries

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