Annotation:Maidens of Tir Eoghain (The)
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MAIDENS OF TIR EOGHAIN, THE. AKA and see "Big Ship Come Over the Bay (The)," "Bouchaleen Buidhe (The)," "Kitty's Wedding (2)," "McArdle's Favorite," "Off to Donnybrook," "Out on the Ocean (2)," "Paddy the Dandy (1)," "Pride of Leinster," "Ships in Full Sail," "Three Little Drummers (2) (The)." Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). Ireland, County Donegal. A Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. The melody was collected by Padraig Mac Aodh O'Neill in 1903 from the playing of Fawans, Kilmacrennan, Donegal, farmer and schoolmaster Proinseas Mac Suibhne, who learned it from Antoine Mac Suibhne of Bearnas Gap. It appears in Mac Aodh O'Neill's Song of Uladh (1904).
Source for notated version: "from Prosineas mac Suibhne, who had it from Antoine mac Suibhne, a young fiddler of the parish of Tearmann, who lived near Bearnas Gap" [P. Mac Aodh O'Neill].
Printed sources: Padraig Mac Aodh O'Neill (Songs of Uladh), 1904; p. 27.
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