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NELL SULLIVAN'S. Irish, Jig. Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.

Source for notated version: Nell Sullivan (Mrs. Spillane) via accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra region)--"That one I got from an old woman, Mrs. Spillane, mother to John Spillane, the fiddle-player in England. She used to play the concertina" [Moylan]. Nell Sullivan/Mrs. Spillane was a sister of Sliabh Luachra musician Thadelo Sullivan.

Printed sources: Moylan (Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra), 1994; No. 89, p. 51.

Recorded sources: Topic 12T357, Johnny O'Leary - "Music for the Set" (1977).




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