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Annotation:Gallagher's Frolic (1)
X:1 T:Untitled Jig N:Identified by Goodman as "Gallagher's Jig." M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig S:James Goodman (1828─1896) music manuscript collection, S:vol. 2, p. 120. Mid-19th century, County Cork N:See also Goodman's "The soup of good drink" and N:"An brísdín bréide" (Hugh & Lisa Shields) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D D2E F2G|A2d cAG|ABA A2G|F2D GED| D2E F2G|A2d cAG|F2D GEC|DED D3:| |:d2e =fed|fed cAG|ABA A2G|F2D GED| d2e fed|dg/=f/e/d/ cAG|F2D GEC|1 DED D3:|2 EFE D2E||
GALLAGHER'S FROLIC [1]. AKA and see "Frieze Breeches (1)," "Gallagher's Jig (3)," "Gallagher's Lament," "Golliher's Frolic," "O'Gallagher's Frolics." Irish, Jig (6/8 time). D Minor/Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BBCCDDE. A variant of the well-known jig "Frieze Breeches (1)." "I have several settings of this fine tune (though not published), but none so good as this and the following version, which were both written by the same hand in the MS." (Joyce). O'Neill (Irish Folk Music) finds a third variant, a single jig setting, in Joyce's collection under the title "Breestheen Mira." Darley & McCall print a slow-air version in their Feis Ceoil Collection of Irish Airs (1914) as "Gallagher's Lament."
The tune was entered (as "Gallagher's Jig") in the c. 1890's music manuscript collection [1] of London dancing master Patrick D. Reidy, originally from Castleisland, Sliabh Luachara region, County Kerry. It is an imperfectly transcribed tune, which Reidy acknowledges in his copybook.
