Annotation:Humors of Ballinamult (The)

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 HUMOURS OF BALLINAMULT, THE. AKA and see "Irish Pelt," "Jackson's Sport," "Prátaí Dearga is Bláthach." Irish, Jig. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Ballinamult is in County Waterford, near the border with County Tipperary and the town of "Cluain Meala" (Clonmel). The alternate title "Jackson's Sport," a county Leitrim title for the tune unearthed by Brendan Breathnach (1996), refers to the 18th century Irish gentleman-composer Walker "Piper" Jackson, of the townland of Lisdaun, parish of Ballingarry, Aughrim, County Limerick. The tune was first printed as "The Humour of Ballinamult" in O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes (vol. I, p. 54), c. 1805, along with other tunes with County Waterford names and associations. The Scots publisher James Aird, however, had previously published it in Glasgow at the end of the 18th century under the title "Irish Pelt" in his Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs (vol. 3, 1788). Goodman printed a version called "Prátaí Darga is Bláthach."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Kennedy (Jigs & Quicksteps, Trips & Humours), 1997; No. 61, p. 16. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. 1), c. 1805; p. 54.  Recorded sources: Jerry O'Sullivan - "O'Sullivan Meets O'Farrell" (2005).

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