Come Back to Erin

 COME BACK TO ERIN (Tar ar Ais Go Eirinn). Irish, Slow Air (4/4 time). D Major (Roche): C Major (O'Neill). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by Claribel (Roche). O'Neill gives credit to collaborator and fiddler James O'Neill for the version he prints in Music of Ireland. The title appears in a list of tunes in the repertoire brought by Philip Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997). While mostly traditional in his store of tunes, Goodman regularly played several novelty or 'popular' tunes. Source for notated version: Chicago Police Sergeant James O'Neill, a fidder originally from County Down and Francis O'Neill's collaborator [O'Neill]. Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 194, p. 34. Roche Collection, 1913; vol. 1, p. 32, No. 68.

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