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JACK O'REILLY. AKA - "John O'Reilly." Irish, Air (4/4 time). A Dorian/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. This pleasing air slides between dorian and mixolydian modes.

Source for notated version: "From Mr. MacDowell, March, 1859" [Stanford/Petrie]. Patrick MacDowell [1] was a famous sculptor and a lover of Irish music.

Printed sources: Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 351, p. 89.

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