New Post Office (1)

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X:1 T:New Post Office [1], The M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel N:Reidy gave the key signature as one sharp; it should be one flat. S:Daniel Darby Kelleher, Castleisland, Co. Kerry S:P.D. Reidy music manuscript collection, London, 1890’s (No. 36) N:”Professor” Patrick Reidy of Castleisland was a dancing N:master engaged by the Gaelic League in London to teach N:dance classes. He introduced “Siege of Ennis” and “Walls N:of Limerick” ceili dances and wrote a treatise on dancing. N:Reidy's source, Daniel Kelleher, was variously said to have been N:from Castleisland, Sliabh Luachra region, County Kerry, or from N:the native-Irish speaking region of Achadh Bolg, Múscraigh, in N:County Cork. Reg Hall (2017) also found a reference to Kelleher N:as one of the soloists who accompanied step dancing exhibitions N:at Gaelic League events in London between 1897 and 1901. According N:to Hall, Kelleher was a young fiddle player active within the N:Gaelic League. His name is attached to thirteen tunes in Reidy’s N:collection. F: http://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/digital/bookreader/MSE_1434-1/#page/1/mode/1up Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Dmin (cF) F2 cAdB|cFFG (AG) G2|(cF) F2 cAdc|ABAG (FD) D2:| f2 (fg) a2 ag|fefg afde|fefg abag|fdec (Ad) d2| fefg abag|fefg afde|faef dfed|cAGc (AD) D2||

X: 1 T: New Post Office [1] S: Treoir M: 4/4 L: 1/8 Q: 350 Z: Transcribed by Bill Black [1] R: reel K:Dmix DFEF D2 dB | cAGD EFGE | DFEF D2 dB | cAGE AD D2 | DFEF D2 dB | cAGF EFGB | Bdd^c dfed | cAGE ED D2 || f2 fe fage | fdge afde | f2 fe fage | fgec Adde | f2 fe fage | fdge afge | fage dfed | dcAG EFGE ||

X: 1 T:New Post Office Reel [1], The R:reel H:Also in Dmix, #300 D:Dervish: The Boys of Sligo Z:id:hn-reel-698 M:C| F:http://norbeck.nu/abc/i/hnr6.abc K:Dmix DFEF D2dB|cAAG EFGE|DFEF D2dB|cAGE EDDE| DFEF D2Ad|cAAG EFGB|Ad~d2 fded|cAGE ED~D2:| |:~f3e fage|fefg afde|~f3e fage|fdec Adde| ~f3e fage|fefg afde|fage dfed|cAAG EFGE:|