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'''LORD, SEND THE FRENCH WITHOUT DELAY''' (Gan Maill a Tigearna Cuir na Francaide). Irish, Slow Air (4/4 time). D Major (O'Neill): E Flat Major (Stanford/Petrie). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Neill): AAB (Stanford/Petrie). Identified by Stanford (1902) as a "'98 song," a reference to the rebellion of 1798 when Irish rebels sought the help of France in their fight against the British forces under Lord Cornwallis [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exp%C3%A9dition_d%27Irlande].  
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[[File:conneely.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Patrick 'Paddy' Conneely]]
''Source for notated version'': blind professional union or uilleann piper Paddy Conneely, who lived in the city of Galway on the west coast of Ireland [Stanford/Petrie]. 
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''Printed sources'': O'Neill ('''Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies'''), 1903; No. 432, p. 76. Stanford/Petre ('''Complete Collection'''), 1905; Nos. 313 & 314, p. 78.
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