Annotation:Green Meadows (2)

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 GREEN MEADOW [2], THE (An Moinfeur Glas). AKA and see "Geabha sa bPortach (Na)," "Bob Thompson's Favourite," "Coravat Jig (1)," "Geese in the Bog (1)," "Humors of Glin (5)," "Humors of Limerick (2) (The)," "Jackson's Walk to Limerick," "Jackson's Trip to Limerick," "Jackson's Coola," "Lark's March (The)," "Mist on the Meadow," "Morrison's Fancy," "Mountain Lark (5)(The)," "Piper's Frolic (The)," "Tom Broderick's Jig," "Tuhy's Frolic," "Twice Tricked," "Wiseman's Favourite." Irish, Double Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'.  Source for notated version: "O'Reilly" [O'Neill]. O'Reilly is perhaps blind piper Marin O'Reilly, a contemporary of O'Neill's who won first prize in the pipers' competition at the annual Feis in Dublin in 1901. A half-tone picture of him taken by Father James Fielding was inserted as a frontispiece in O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland (1907) and reproduced in Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1922, p. 241).  Printed sources: O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 63. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1062, p. 200. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 266, p. 59.  Recorded sources:  See also listings at: Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources Alan Ng's Irishtune.info

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