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T:Tipperary Hills
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R:Slip Jig
S:O’Neill – Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 430
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
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Additional notes
Source for notated version : - "John Carey" [O'Neill]. John Carey was a native of Limerick who contributed tunes to the O'Neill collections at the start of the 20th century (see "Pipe on the Hob (1)", for example). He is not mentioned in O'Neill's Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1913), but receives recognition in Irish Folk Music, a Fascinating Hobby (1910), where O'Neill notes he was a fiddler, "long a resident of Chicago."
Born and grown to manhood in County Limerick and brought up in the midst of a community
where old ideas and customs prevailed, his memory was stored with traditional music.
He numbered among his relatives many pipers and fiddlers, and being quite an expert on
the violin himslef in his younger days before that arch-enemy of musicians--rheumatism--
stiffened his fingers, his settings were ideal. Gradually, from week to week, and
extending into years, his slumbering memory surrendered gems of melody unknown to this
generation, and not until within a few months of death did his contributions entirely
cease. Even Mrs. Carey's memory yielded up a fine reel, the "Absent-minded Woman," which
her husband did not play."
Printed sources : - Breathnach (Ceol Rince na hÉireann, vol. II), 1976; No. 103 (appears as untitled slip jig). Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland, vol. 4); No. 88 (appears as untitled slip jig). O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 83. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1148, p. 216. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 430, p. 84. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 109.
Recorded sources : - Folkways FW 6819, Michael Gorman - “Irish Jigs, Reels & Hornpipes” (1956).
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