Annotation:Jackson's Maid at the Fair (1)

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 JACKSON'S MAID AT THE FAIR [1]. AKA and see "Ghaoith ó ndeas (A)," "Maid at the Fair," "Peter Inagh," "Why should not poor folk." Irish, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (O'Neill): AABBCC (Kennedy, O'Farrell). The title refers to the 18th century Irish gentleman-composer Walker "Piper" Jackson, of the townland of Lisdaun, parish of Ballingarry, Aughrim, County Limerick. The tune appears first in print under this title in O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes (vol. 1, p. 71), published c. 1811, although Bunting gave it earlier as "A Ghaoith ó ndeas" in his General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland in 1809. Dates for the O'Farrell publication vary, however. In a later publication, The Ancient Music of Ireland (1840) Bunting printed a version as "Why should not poor folk" (see note for that melody). The alternate title "Peter Inagh" Breathnach finds in a manuscript collection by John O'Daly, in the National Library in Dublin.  Source for notated version: copied from O'Farrell's Pocket Companion (c. 1805) [O'Neill].  Printed sources: Kennedy (Jigs & Quicksteps, Trips & Humours), 1997; No. 84, p. 21. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. 1); c. 1805; p. 71. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 148.  Recorded sources:

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