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LAME DERMOT (Diarmuid Bacach). Irish, Air (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Obtained from historian, collector and writer P.W. Joyce [1] (1827-1914) from the collection of a contemporary, John Edward Pigot (1822-1871), who assembled some 2,000 airs.

Patrick Weston Joyce



Source for notated version: "...copied from a MS. collection lent to Mr. Pigot by James Hardiman, the historina of Galway and editor of Hardiman's Irish Minstrels" (Joyce).

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 760, p. 374.

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