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X:1 T:Hand Me Down the Tacklings [2] M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection (c. 1909, Oriel region, B:south Ulster K:A G|EAAB c2 BA|GFEF GFED|EA....

HAND ME DOWN THE TACKLINGS [2]. AKA and see "Bring her to the Shelter." Irish, Reel (cut time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Hand Me Down the Tacklings [2]" is contained in the music manuscript collection of curate and fiddler Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), Oriel region, south Ulster^[1]. The same tune and title can also be found in the c. 1865 music manuscript collection of John Gunn of County Fermanagh. 19th century County Leitrim musician Stephen Grier's "Bring her to the Shelter" is the same tune, albeit set in the key of A Minor. The first strain of Donnellan's reel is cognate with the first strains of Frank Roche's "Greenwood Lasses" and Philip Carolan's "Rise the Wind," but the second strains are different. Ed Reavy's 20th century composition "Glen Reel (The)" is similar sounding.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Rev. Luke Donnellan's music manuscript collection [O'Connor].

Printed sources : - Gerry O'Connor (The Rose in the Gap), 2018; No. 159, p. 87.

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↑ Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.

[1] Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.

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