Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Flute music--Ireland]]> Doyle, Mike]]> Shepherd, Devin (fiddle) (composer)]]> Gavin, Sean (flute)]]> Miller, Brian (guitar) 265750111]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Hardy, Will]]> Sweeney, Beth]]> Sweeney, Beth (fiddle, piano) (composer)]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Flute music--Ireland]]> Moloney, Eddie]]> Madden, Joanie (flute) 38423903]]> Donohue, Gabriel (piano) 103020997]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Celtic harp music--Ireland]]> Guilday, Kathleen]]> ‘The First Slip’).

When Kathleen did arrive in Maine, guess what happened? Yes, my machine would not record. I was so upset, especially because she had driven over 150 miles for nothing. Well, that's not true: we turned the day into something special by having dinner and a nice bottle of wine while reminiscing about friends in Boston and our musical exploits together around New England. Kathleen did eventually get to record the slip jig, this time in her own home and with her own equipment. I ask myself if there was a jinx on this tune. Maybe it had something to do with its title. I'm puzzled. Anyhow I am grateful to you, Kathleen. Thank you, my friend. I think we beat the odds.]]>
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> unfortunate experience. I first heard the tune in the 1950s played by the Tulla Céilí Band from County Clare. A version of this tune with the above title may be found in O'Neill's 1001 collection. At the very least, it is a close relative!]]> Connolly, Séamus (fiddle) 33682623]]> Connolly, Karl (piano)]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Flynn, Eamon]]> Down by the Glenside. Courtesy of Eamon and Helen, I give you 'The Vermont Jig'.]]> Flynn, Eamon (fiddle) (composer)]]> Kisiel, Helen (piano) 76033885]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Reilly, Thomas]]> Quinn, John]]> Grier, Stephen]]> The Mulvey Manuscript. Stephen Grier wrote it out on the twenty-fifth of May, 1883. Father John has supplied me with many tunes from his part of the country over the last thirty years, for which I am most grateful.

I am grateful also to the wonderful fiddle player Martin Hayes for taking time from his busy schedule to record this tune for me. Martin's playing, as always, has depth of soul, with an understanding of the tune's beauty and simplicity. Beautifully played with feeling and emotion. Up the Banner, Martin!]]>
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Power, Thomas]]> 'Thomas Power's Polka').]]> Keegan, Josephine (fiddle) 72741909]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Donnelly, Maeve (fiddle) 63623960]]> Murdoch, Matilda (composer)]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Flute music--Ireland]]> Moloney, Eddie]]> The Roche Collection, but I first heard it played by Eddie Moloney from Ballinakill, County Galway. Eddie, Tommy Mulhaire, and his son Brendan were among those who travelled on a number of occasions in the 1960s with Mulhaire's Céilí Band to perform in different towns around County Kerry. These performances were part of a series of concerts and music weekends organised by Diarmuid Ó Catháin, who was later to become president of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. I was thrilled when Joanie Madden, daughter of yet another Galway musician, Joe Madden, recorded the tune for me. Thanks, Joanie – keep up the great work that you and Cherish the Ladies do. We cherish you! Sláinte to you all!]]> Madden, Joanie (flute) 38423903]]> Donohue, Gabriel (piano) 103020997]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Lewis, Liam]]> The Roche Collection. This tune was a favourite of flute player Eddie Moloney from Ballinakill, County Galway.]]> Martin, Laurel (fiddle) 31936123]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Flute music--Ireland]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Mahony, Francis 71293686]]>
'With deep affection
And recollection
I often think of
Those Shandon Bells
Whose sounds so wild would,
In the days of childhood,
Fling round my cradle
Their magic spells.
On this I ponder
Where'er I wander,
And thus grow fonder,
Sweet Cork, of thee.
With thy bells of Shandon,
That sound so grand on
The pleasant waters
Of the river Lee.'

The grand old jig 'Shandon Bells', the first in O'Neill's The Dance Music of Ireland, 1001 Gems, is played on this track by Nicole Rabata on flute and myself on fiddle. We play it as a four-part tune. I played it many times as a two-part jig in the city by the River Lee. I first heard the two extra parts played by David Curry and his orchestra. They are two parts well worth hearing and preserving for posterity.]]>
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Flynn, Sarah]]> Flynn, Eamon]]> Down by the Glenside, which he recorded with our mutual friend Helen Kisiel playing piano.]]> Flynn, Eamon (fiddle) (composer)]]> Kisiel, Helen (piano) 76033885]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> Walter, Chrysandra]]>
I had forgotten completely about the tune and did not remember any of it when years later we came across the videotape and watched it together. She said as we watched it, 'See I told you, I knew you wouldn't remember it'. How right she was! That was Sandy. Always thinking and a step ahead. The tune is more complete now as I give it my best shot on this track. Another transcription of the jig is to be found in A Drop in the Ocean, a book of Irish traditional tunes compiled by my friend Josephine Keegan.]]>
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> McConnell, Cathal 65520190]]> Carroll, Liz 60417993]]> A Friend Indeed. Liz informed us in the liner notes of the recording that Armin Barnett and David Molk composed the tune while driving to Durham, New York. Liz called this smashing tune 'The Ride to Durham', and her playing is a delight to listen to. The lovely fiddle playing of John Daly from County Cork is heard on this track as he remains true to the version from the tape of Cathal McConnell's flute playing. John's fiddle playing is also a delight to hear.]]> Daly, John (fiddle)]]> Brehony, Kevin (piano)]]> Barnett, Armin (composer)]]> Molk, David (composer)]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Uilleann pipe music--Ireland]]> Brusoe, Leizime 305021104]]> Wells, Paul]]> O'Sullivan, Jerry (uilleann pipes) 31619251]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Flute music--Ireland]]> Accordion music--Ireland]]> Neary, Eleanor Kane 61343934]]> Nugent, Sean]]> McGreevy, Johnny]]> Noonan, Jimmy (flute) 78436746]]> Gurney, Dan (accordion)]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Penny whistle music]]> Rogha, Geraldine Cotter's Choice.]]> Cotter, Geraldine (whistle) 33569581]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Piano music--Ireland]]> Eid-Reiner, Eric (piano) (composer)]]> Creative Commons License
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Folk dance music--Ireland]]> Jigs]]> Fiddle tunes--Ireland]]> O'Lynn, Bryan]]> Collins, Elizabeth]]> 'The Planting Stick' is a variant of the venerable jig 'Bryan O'Lynn', a tune I first learned from my grandmother, Elizabeth Collins (née Rochford). A number of versions of 'Bryan O'Lynn' are to be found in this collection. The tune appears in Patrick W. Joyce's collection Ancient Irish Music as 'The Planting Stick'. However, the first time I heard the version which Maeve Donnelly plays for us on this track was on a cassette tape recorded in New York in the 1950s, played by an unknown fiddle player. Paddy Canny from Tulla in County Clare was in the company in New York that same evening, and he played yet another version of 'Bryan O'Lynn'.

 
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