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|f_annotation='''PRETTY GIRLS OF OUR TOWN.'''  Irish, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. <span>"Pretty Girls of Our Town" is contained in the music manuscript collection of curate and fiddler [[biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan]] (1878-1952), Oriel region, south Ulster<ref>Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.</ref>. Compare with "Crossmolina Lasses"??</span><span></span>
|f_annotation='''PRETTY GIRLS OF OUR TOWN.'''  Irish, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. <span>"Pretty Girls of Our Town" is contained in the music manuscript collection of curate and fiddler [[biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan]] (1878-1952), Oriel region, south Ulster<ref>Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.</ref>. The title was included in the tune list of piper Philip Goodman (c. 1831-1908), Carrickmacross, Ireland, who is variously described as "the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth", and also recorded as having been from Donaghmoyne, County Monaghan (all of which are places from the same area, and contiguous to Donnellan's Oriel region).    Compare with "Crossmolina Lasses"??</span><span></span>
|f_source_for_notated_version=Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection [O'Connor].
|f_source_for_notated_version=Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection [O'Connor].
|f_printed_sources=Gerry O'Connor ('''The Rose in the Gap'''), 2018; No. 147, p. 82.
|f_printed_sources=Gerry O'Connor ('''The Rose in the Gap'''), 2018; No. 147, p. 82.
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PRETTY GIRLS OF OUR TOWN. Irish, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Pretty Girls of Our Town" is contained in the music manuscript collection of curate and fiddler biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), Oriel region, south Ulster[1]. The title was included in the tune list of piper Philip Goodman (c. 1831-1908), Carrickmacross, Ireland, who is variously described as "the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth", and also recorded as having been from Donaghmoyne, County Monaghan (all of which are places from the same area, and contiguous to Donnellan's Oriel region). Compare with "Crossmolina Lasses"??


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection [O'Connor].

Printed sources : - Gerry O'Connor (The Rose in the Gap), 2018; No. 147, p. 82.






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  1. Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.