Annotation:Caisideach Bán (An)

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 CAISIDEACH BÁN, AN (Fair Cassidy). Irish, Air (3/4 time). D Mixolydian/Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The song was composed by Tomás Ó Casaide, an Irish friar, soldier, and poet, around 1773. Dismissed from a friary for having married, Casaide (known as An Caisideach Bán) became a soldier and traveler in Ireland, Britain and on the Continent. He served in the armies of Hanoverian Britain (The Duke of Berwick's Regiment) and Frederick the Great.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Ó Canainn (Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland), 1995; No. 11, p. 17.  Recorded sources:

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