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|f_annotation=<meta charset="UTF-8"><span lang="EN-GB">'''TOM BILLY'S JIG [1]''' (Port Tom Billy). </span><span lang="EN-GB">AKA and see "[[</span><span><a href="file:///Users/andrewkuntz/Desktop/TTA%20Files/BAA_BAM.htm#BALL_OF_BALLYNAFEIDH"><span lang="EN-GB">Ball (Humours) of Ballynafeidh (The)]],</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">" "</span><span><a href="file:///Users/andrewkuntz/Desktop/TTA%20Files/BAN_BARM.htm#BANKS_OF_LOUGH_GOWNA"><span lang="EN-GB">The Banks of Lough Gowna,</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">" "</span><span><a href="file:///Users/andrewkuntz/Desktop/TTA%20Files/CIA_CNU.htm#CLARE_JIG_%5B1%5D"><span lang="EN-GB">The Clare Jig [1],</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">" "</span><span><a href="file:///Users/andrewkuntz/Desktop/TTA%20Files/DE_DEL.htm#DELANEY'S_DRUMMERS"><span lang="EN-GB">Delaney's Drummers,</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">" "The Kitten and the Frog," "</span><span><a href="file:///Users/andrewkuntz/Desktop/TTA%20Files/KISS_KY.htm#KITTY_IN_THE_FOG"><span lang="EN-GB">Kitty in the Fog,</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">" “</span><span><a href="file:///Users/andrewkuntz/Desktop/TTA%20Files/MT_MUI.htm#MUG_OF_BROWN_ALE_%5B2%5D"><span lang="EN-GB">The Mug of Brown Ale [2],</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">” “</span><span><a href="file:///Users/andrewkuntz/Desktop/TTA%20Files/OLDHA_OLDMRS.htm#OLD_MAN_DILLON"><span lang="EN-GB">Old Man Dillon,</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">” "</span><span><a href="file:///Users/andrewkuntz/Desktop/TTA%20Files/OM_OO.htm#ONE_BOTTLE_MORE_%5B2%5D"><span lang="EN-GB">One Bottle More [2]</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">," "[[</span><span><a href="file:///Users/andrewkuntz/Desktop/TTA%20Files/PAA_PAP.htm#PADDY_IN_LONDON_%5B2%5D"><span lang="EN-GB">Paddy in London (2)]]</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">, "[[</span><span><a href="file:///Users/andrewkuntz/Desktop/TTA%20Files/PAA_PAP.htm#PADDY_O'BRIEN'S_(JIG)_%5B3%5D"><span lang="EN-GB">Paddy O'Brien's Jig (3)]],</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">” “Paddy’s Jig (1),”“</span><span><a href="file:///Users/andrewkuntz/Desktop/TTA%20Files/RAA_RAJ.htm#RAFFLE_JIG"><span lang="EN-GB">The Raffle Jig,</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">” "</span><span><a href="file:///Users/andrewkuntz/Desktop/TTA%20Files/RAMBLER_FROM_CLARE_%5b1%5d"><span lang="EN-GB">The Rambler From Clare [1],</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">" "</span><span><a href="file:///Users/andrewkuntz/Desktop/TTA%20Files/STI_STO.htm#STONECUTTER'S_JIG"><span lang="EN-GB">The Stonecutter's Jig,</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">" “</span><span><a href="file:///Users/andrewkuntz/Desktop/TTA%20Files/WIN_WIZ.htm#WINTER_APPLES_%5B2%5D"><span lang="EN-GB">Winter Apples [2],</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">” "</span><span><a href="file:///Users/andrewkuntz/Desktop/TTA%20Files/YN_YZ.htm#YOUNG_TOM_ENNIS"><span lang="EN-GB">Young Tom Ennis.</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">" Irish, Jig (6/8 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'CC' (Breathnach, Mulvihill, Songer): AA’BB’C (Moylan). Tom Billy Murphy (1879-1944), a native of Ballydesmond, west Kerry, was an influential fiddler and teacher in the Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border during the early twentieth century, and was a contemporary of the great Kerry fiddler Padraig O’Keeffe. Tom Billy himself learned much of his repertoire from a blind fiddle player named Taidhgin an Asail (Tadhg O Buachalla/Tadeen the Fiddler). Source Johnny O’Leary played extensively with fiddler Denis Murphy who was known for his vast repertoire, much of it Tom Billy’s. O’Leary never heard Murphy play this particular tune until he recorded it however, “He kept tunes up his sleeve all the time that I usen’t get. I got the land of my life when I asked him for it and ‘I thought you had it’, he says, ‘I always had that after Tom Billy.’ But he knew well I hadn’t it.”</span><span></span>
|f_annotation='''TOM BILLY'S JIG [1]''' (Port Tom Billy). Irish, Jig (6/8 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'CC' (Breathnach, Mulvihill, Songer): AA’BB’C (Moylan). [[biography:Tom Billy Murphy|Tom Billy Murphy]] (1879-1944), a native of Ballydesmond, west Kerry, was an influential fiddler and teacher in the Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border during the early twentieth century, and was a contemporary of the great Kerry fiddler Pádraig O’Keeffe. Tom Billy himself learned much of his repertoire from a blind fiddle player named Taidhgin an Asail (Tadhg O Buachalla/Tadeen the Fiddler). Source Johnny O’Leary played extensively with fiddler Denis Murphy who was known for his vast repertoire, much of it Tom Billy’s. O’Leary never heard Murphy play this particular tune until he recorded it however, “He kept tunes up his sleeve all the time that I usen’t get. I got the land of my life when I asked him for it and ‘I thought you had it’, he says, ‘I always had that after Tom Billy.’ But he knew well I hadn’t it”<ref>Quoted in Terry Moylan's '''Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra''', 1994, p. 140.</ref>.
|f_source_for_notated_version=<meta charset="UTF-8"><span lang="EN-GB">fiddlers Julia Clifford</span><span lang="EN-GB">& Denis Murphy (west Kerry, Ireland) [Breathnach]; accordion player Johnny O’Leary (Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border) [Moylan]; fiddler Brendan Mulvihill (Baltimore, Md.) [Mulvihill]; Kevin Burke (Portland, Oregon) [Songer]. </span><span></span>
|f_source_for_notated_version=fiddlers Julia Clifford & Denis Murphy (west Kerry, Ireland) [Breathnach]; accordion player Johnny O’Leary (Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border) [Moylan]; fiddler Brendan Mulvihill (Baltimore, Md.) [Mulvihill]; Kevin Burke (Portland, Oregon) [Songer].
|f_printed_sources=<meta charset="UTF-8"><span lang="EN-GB"><meta charset="UTF-8"><span>Breathnach (</span>'''CRÉ II'''), 1976'';''<span>No. 48, p. 27 (appears untitled). </span>Breathnach ('''CR<meta charset="UTF-8"><strong>É''' III</strong>), 1985; No. 13, p. 7. Bulmer & Sharpley ('''Music from Ireland, vol. 3'''), 1976; No. 68. Moylan ('''Johnny O’Leary of Sliabh Luachra'''), 1994; No. 241, pp. 139-140. Mulvihill ('''1<sup>st</sup>Collection'''), 1986; No. 88, p. 83. Songer ('''Portland Collection'''), 1997; p. 194. Vallely ('''Learn Tin Whistle with the Armagh Pipers Club'''), vol. 3, 5.</span><span></span>
|f_printed_sources=Breathnach ('''Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. II'''), 1976; No. 48, p. 27 (appears untitled). Breathnach ('''Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol.  III'''), 1985; No. 13, p. 7. Bulmer & Sharpley ('''Music from Ireland, vol. 3'''), 1976; No. 68. Moylan ('''Johnny O’Leary of Sliabh Luachra'''), 1994; No. 241, pp. 139-140. Mulvihill ('''1st Collection'''), 1986; No. 88, p. 83. Songer ('''Portland Collection'''), 1997; p. 194. Vallely ('''Learn Tin Whistle with the Armagh Pipers Club'''), vol. 3, 5.
|f_recorded_sources=Claddagh Records CC5/Shanachie 34002, Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford ‑ "The Star above the Garter" (1969). Co. Donegal fiddler Tommy Peoples has recorded as "Paddy O'Brien's" on his Ovation album "Tommy Peoples: Master Irish Fiddle Player."RCA 09026-60916-2, The Chieftains - "An Irish Evening" (1991. Appears as “Paddy’s Jig”).
|f_recorded_sources=Claddagh Records CC5/Shanachie 34002, Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford ‑ "The Star above the Garter" (1969). Co. Donegal fiddler Tommy Peoples has recorded as "Paddy O'Brien's" on his Ovation album "Tommy Peoples: Master Irish Fiddle Player."RCA 09026-60916-2, The Chieftains - "An Irish Evening" (1991. Appears as “Paddy’s Jig”).
|f_see_also_listing=<meta charset="UTF-8"><span lang="EN-GB">Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info [https://www.irishtune.info/tune/1921/]</span><span></span>
|f_see_also_listing=Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info [https://www.irishtune.info/tune/1921/]<br />
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TOM BILLY'S JIG [1] (Port Tom Billy). Irish, Jig (6/8 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'CC' (Breathnach, Mulvihill, Songer): AA’BB’C (Moylan). Tom Billy Murphy (1879-1944), a native of Ballydesmond, west Kerry, was an influential fiddler and teacher in the Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border during the early twentieth century, and was a contemporary of the great Kerry fiddler Pádraig O’Keeffe. Tom Billy himself learned much of his repertoire from a blind fiddle player named Taidhgin an Asail (Tadhg O Buachalla/Tadeen the Fiddler). Source Johnny O’Leary played extensively with fiddler Denis Murphy who was known for his vast repertoire, much of it Tom Billy’s. O’Leary never heard Murphy play this particular tune until he recorded it however, “He kept tunes up his sleeve all the time that I usen’t get. I got the land of my life when I asked him for it and ‘I thought you had it’, he says, ‘I always had that after Tom Billy.’ But he knew well I hadn’t it”[1].


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - fiddlers Julia Clifford & Denis Murphy (west Kerry, Ireland) [Breathnach]; accordion player Johnny O’Leary (Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border) [Moylan]; fiddler Brendan Mulvihill (Baltimore, Md.) [Mulvihill]; Kevin Burke (Portland, Oregon) [Songer].

Printed sources : - Breathnach (Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. II), 1976; No. 48, p. 27 (appears untitled). Breathnach (Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. III), 1985; No. 13, p. 7. Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland, vol. 3), 1976; No. 68. Moylan (Johnny O’Leary of Sliabh Luachra), 1994; No. 241, pp. 139-140. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 88, p. 83. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 194. Vallely (Learn Tin Whistle with the Armagh Pipers Club), vol. 3, 5.

Recorded sources : - Claddagh Records CC5/Shanachie 34002, Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford ‑ "The Star above the Garter" (1969). Co. Donegal fiddler Tommy Peoples has recorded as "Paddy O'Brien's" on his Ovation album "Tommy Peoples: Master Irish Fiddle Player."RCA 09026-60916-2, The Chieftains - "An Irish Evening" (1991. Appears as “Paddy’s Jig”).

See also listing at :
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  1. Quoted in Terry Moylan's Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra, 1994, p. 140.