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MAURICE MANLEY'S (SLIDE). Irish, Slide (12/8 time). Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. A slide version of "Maurice Manley's Polka" and "Ballydesmond Polka (2)." See also a related untitled jig in Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 83.
Source for notated version: Bill 'the Weaver' Murphy via accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra), the latter recorded by Breandan Breathnach in Kerry, November, 1970 [Moylan].
Printed sources: Moylan (Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra), 1994; No. 9, pp. 6-7.
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