Annotation:Pink-Eyed Blossom (The)
X:1 T:Pink-Eyed Blossom M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection (c. 1909, Oriel B:region, south Ulster) K:Ador f|gded cAAc|GAEA GABd|gd...
PINK-EYED BLOSSOM, THE. Irish, Reel (cut time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The reel "Pink-Eyed Blossom" is contained in the music manuscript collection at one time in the possession of biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), a curate and fiddler in the Oriel region, south Ulster[1]. The title was also included in the tune list of piper Philip Goodman (c. 1831-1908), Carrickmacross, Ireland, who is variously described as "the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth", and also recorded as having been from Donaghmoyne, County Monaghan (all of which are places from the same area, and contiguous to the Donnellan's Oriel region).
Researchers Fr. John Quinn and Conor Ward find a major mode setting of the tune collected from Patrick Carew's ms. by George Petrie, under the title "Last Night's Funeral."
- ↑ 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.