Annotation:Freedom for Ireland

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X:1 T:Freedom for Ireland M:2/4 L:1/8 R:March S:O'Neill - Music of Ireland (1903), No. 1815 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:A E>F EC | E>F AB | ce Bc/B/ | AF F/A/G/F/ | E>F EC | E>F AB | ce Bc/B/ | A>B Az :| || ce e>c | df fz | ce Bc/B/ | AF FE | ce e>c | df f>g | af ge | f2 ff/g/ | af ge | f/g/f/e/ cB | ce Bc/B/ |AF F/A/G/F/ | E>F EC | E>F AB | ce Bc/B/ | A>B Az ||

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FREEDOM FOR IRELAND (Saorsacd na n-Eirinn). AKA and see "Banks of Inverness, "Nights of Gladness (5)." Irish, March (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The march "Freedom for Ireland" is an Irish derivative setting of the Scots tune family "Banks of Inverness," which includes a number of melodies, broadly related. Paul de Grae finds cognate tunes in O'Neill's collections as "Croppies' March (The)" and, set as a reel, "Cunningham's Fancy," "Molly what Ails You?," and "You're right my love". He notes that O'Neill made a cylinder recording of piper Patsy Touhey, playing the tune (see "Croppie's March (The)."

See also related the Irish hornpipe "Boys of Bluehill (The)" and the American "Sally Ann Johnson."