Annotation:Round about the Fireside

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X:1 T:Round about the Fireside M:C L:1/8 R:Reel N:The key of 'D' is what is indicated in the original ms., however, N:Gerry O'Connor removed the accidentals in the signature, placing N:the same music in the key of 'C'. S:Rev. Luke Donnellan – “Oriel Songs and Dances", S:Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society (vol. II, No. 2, 1909; No. 60) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D g|edgd edcd|edeg abag|edgd edcA|GAcd e2 dc| edgd edcd|edeg abag|abga egde|cBcd e2 dc|| |:(3ABc Gc Addc|(3ABc Gc EGGc|(3ABc Gc AddB|cGAG E2D2:|

ROUND ABOUT THE FIRESIDE. Irish, Reel (cut time). D Major (Donnellan): C Major (O'Connor). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Round about the Fireside" was contained in the large ms. collection in the possession of Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), a priest and fiddler from South Armagh. The key signature in the ms. is two sharps, but Gerry O'Connor removed the accidentals in his edited version, placing the same music in the key of 'C'.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Rev. Luke Donnellan ms.^[1] (late 19th century, Ulster) [O'Connor].

Printed sources : - Rev. Luke Donnellan, “Oriel Songs and Dances" (Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society), vol. II, No. 2, 1909; No. 60. O'Connor (The Rose in the Gap), 2018; No. 20, p. 35.

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↑ Gerry O'Connor believes the ms. was not original with Donnellan, but rather was the work of an unknown but able fiddler who worked on it over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. It later came into the possession of Donnellan.

[1] Gerry O'Connor believes the ms. was not original with Donnellan, but rather was the work of an unknown but able fiddler who worked on it over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. It later came into the possession of Donnellan.

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