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|f_annotation='''MANY'S A WILD NIGHT.''' AKA and see "[[Maggie Scollard's Polka]]," "[[Pa Keane's]]." Irish, Polka (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCD. The tune comes from the itinerant fiddler and schoolmaster from Sliabh Luachra (the Cork/Kerry border region), Pádraig O'Keeffe [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padraig_O%27Keeffe] (1887-1963). A four-part version of the tune was plated by Sliabh Luachra accordion player Johnny O'Leary" as "[[Pa Keane's]]." 
[[File:o'keeffe.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Pádraig O'Keeffe]]
The tune is the 5th figure of Frank Roche's quadrille "[[Off to Skelligs--5th Figure]]", and as the 2nd part of his long dance "[[Waves of Torey (The)]]." 
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''Source for notated version'': 
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''Printed sources'': Roche ('''Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 2'''), 1912; No. 296, p. 41 (appears as 5th figure of quadrille "Off to Skelligs"). Roche ('''Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 3'''), 1927; No. 136, p. 42 (as 2nd part of "The Waves of Torey"). 
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Gael Linn CEF 176, Jackie Daly - "Many's a Wild Night" (1995. According to Paul de Grae, Daly had the tune from a collection of tunes written out by Padraig O'Keeffe for his fiddle pupil Paddy O'Connell, of Cordal, County Kerry). Ossian OSSCD 114, Sliabh Notes - "Gleanntán" (1999).</font>
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See also listing at:<br>
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/3117/]<br>
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