Modify tune annotations: Annotation:O'Connell's Welcome to Clare (1)

You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason:

The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users.

Tune annotations form

Here you can enter annotations, comments, discussion topics, anectodes, provenance, examples of associated lyrics and miscellaneous information regarding this melody

Tune Annotations

Tune Annotations:	'''O'CONNELL'S WELCOME TO CLARE [1].''' AKA and see "[[Teetotaler's Fancy (The)]]," "[[Teetotaller's Reel]]." Irish, Jig (6/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed (according to Francis O'Neill) in 1828 by the famous Galway piper [[biography:Paddy Conneely\|Paddy Conneely]] (d. 1850), who was the source of many of the tunes of the Irish collectors Joyce and Petrie. O'Neill gives a substantial biographical sketch of Conneely in his '''Irish Minstrels and Musicians''' (1913, pp. 212-215). The tune was published in '''The Dublin Magazine''' (April, 1842, No. 13). [[File:conneely.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|left\|Paddy Conneely, from the '''Irish Penny Journal''', 1840]] Conneely was much admired as a convivial musical companion in his hey-day, although he died in reduced circumstances during the Great Famine years. O'Neill remarks: <blockquote> ''Although he had a wonderful repertory of Irish music, instead of firing away with some lively reel or still more animated'' ''Irish jig, he pestered [Irish collector George] Petrie, in spite of his intensely Irish nationality, with a set of quadrilles'' ''or a gallope such as he was called on to play by the ladies and gentlemen at the balls in Galway.'' </blockquote> The tune was also entered in volume one (p. 170) of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper [[wikipedia:James Goodman (musicologist)\|James Goodman]]. <br> <br> Words to the tune, printed in the '''Dublin Monthly Magazine''' (April, 1842), are sung to the 1st and 2nd measures and 7th and 8th measures of the first strain: <blockquote> ''Long life to O'Connell, long life to O'Connell''<br> ''Long life to O'Connell, the Member from Clare.''<br> <br> ''Success to O'Connell, success to O'Connell''<br> ''Success to O'Connell, the Member from Clare.''<br> <br> ''Hurra for O'Connell, hurra for O'Connell''<br> ''Hurra for O'Connell, the Member from Clare.''<br> </blockquote>
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:	Machen ('''The Dublin Monthly Magazine'''), April, 1842; No. 13, p. 39. O'Neill ('''Irish Minstrels and Musicians'''), 1913; p. 215.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:

Summary:

This is a minor edit

Watch this page

Cancel