Annotation:Eileen Deelish of Athenry

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 EILEEN DEELISH OF ATHENRY. Irish, Slow Air (4/4 time). D Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.  Source for notated version: blind fiddler Michael Daffy (Co. Clare, Ireland) [Darley & McCall]. Daffy was a teenager at the time this tune was collected, who had been taught music and to play the violin at a school for the blind in Dublin. He was originally from Tulla, and lost his sight at age nine when he and his twin brother were playing in the fields on their father's farm near Tulla. Unaccountably, both boys had their eyes poisoned by some substance (some locals maintained it was by malign fairies or other supernatural circumstances), and, while Michael survived his twin did not. [O'Neill, Irish Minstrels and Musicians, p. 402].  Printed sources: Darley & McCall (The Feis Ceóil Collection of Traditional Irish Music), 1914; No. 11, p. 5.  Recorded sources:

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