Bhíosa Lá I bPort Láirge

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Theme code Index	1H5H 5H3H 1H2H 3H2H
Also known as	Dainty Besom Maker (The), Forgive the muse that slumbered, Gimlet (The), I'd mourn the hopes that leave me, Johnny's Grey Breeks (2), Old Lea Rigg (The), Little Mary Cullenan, Little Sheila Connellan, Maureen from Giberland, Port Láirge, Rose Tree (1) (The), Rose Tree in Full Bearing (The)
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Polka
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History	IRELAND(Munster)
Structure	AA'BB'
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Terry Moylan
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Johnny O'Leary
Tune and/or Page number	p. 32
Year of publication/Date of MS	1994
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BHÍOSA LÁ I bPORT LÁIRGE. AKA and see "The Dainty Besom Maker," "Forgive the muse that slumbered," "The Gimlet," "I'd mourn the hopes that leave me," "Johnny's Grey Breeks [2]," "The Old Lea Rigg," "Little Mary Cullenan," "Little Sheila Connellan," "Maureen from Giberland," "Port Láirge," "The Rose Tree [1]", "The Rose Tree in Full Bearing." Irish, Polka. Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. A tune with a long history in the tradition in country dance and air forms, here rendered as a Sliabh Luachra polka. Moylan's source, accordion player O'Leary, thought that fiddler Denis Murphy had the English words to this tune, before he died.

Source for notated version: Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra region), recorded in recital at Na Píobairí Uileann, February, 1981 [Moylan].

Printed source: Moylan (Johnny O'Leary), 1994; No. 55, p. 32. Tubridy (Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1), 1999; p. 9.

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