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|f_annotation='''BILL MALLEY'S BARNDANCE'''. AKA and see "[[Ballina Barndance]]." Irish, Barndance. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Bill Malley (b. 1907?) was a farmer and fiddler from lower Glandree, County Clare. The name is sometimes given as "Bill O'Malley". He was a regular playing partner of concertina player John Naughton<span size="-1">(1911 – 1997) concertina, and flute player Joe Bane, also from Glandree.</span>
|f_annotation='''BILL MALLEY'S BARNDANCE'''. AKA and see "[[Ballina Barndance]]." Irish, Barndance. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Bill Malley (b. 1907?) was a farmer and fiddler from lower Glandree, County Clare. The name is sometimes given as "Bill O'Malley". He was a regular playing partner of concertina player John Naughton (1911 – 1997) concertina, and flute player Joe Bane, also from Glandree. This passage, quoted by Helen O’Shea<ref>Helen O’Shea, “Foreign Bodies in the River of Sound”, Doctoral Thesis, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Victoria University of Technology, 2005, p. 83 </ref>, mentions (O’)Malley.  The ‘speaker’ is fiddler Paddy Canny’s brother Jack, who recalled both spontaneous and planned dances in East Clare in the 1920’s:
|f_recorded_sources=Green Linnett GLCD 1155, Martin Hayes - "Under the Moon" (1995).<span>Shanachie 78048, Jimmy Keane, Sean Cleland, Pat Broaders - "Bohala" (2002. Untitled barndance).</span>
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In the winter, on cold frosty nights, there was a fiddle-player called O’Malley, and we’d talk
nice to him and we’d ask him to play for a set, and we’d dance a Clare Set to get the frost
off our bones […] They used to have relations back from the States and we had a big party—
sometimes they called it a hooley—which means that all the locals are invited and they take
out all the furniture from the main room and it’s turned into a dancehall. And as soon as the
musicians come in, they start playing and all the young people start dancing. The older people
are in the back room, talking about different things, about the weather and politics and
whatever, and all the local gossip.  And all the younger ones, the young teenagers, they’d be
all out dancing the sets and waltzes, and all the different dances that they could handle.
</blockquote>
 
|f_recorded_sources=Green Linnett GLCD 1155, Martin Hayes - "Under the Moon" (1995).<span>Shanachie 78048, Jimmy Keane, Sean Cleland, Pat Broaders - "Bohala" (2002. Untitled barndance).  
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BILL MALLEY'S BARNDANCE. AKA and see "Ballina Barndance." Irish, Barndance. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Bill Malley (b. 1907?) was a farmer and fiddler from lower Glandree, County Clare. The name is sometimes given as "Bill O'Malley". He was a regular playing partner of concertina player John Naughton (1911 – 1997) concertina, and flute player Joe Bane, also from Glandree. This passage, quoted by Helen O’Shea[1], mentions (O’)Malley. The ‘speaker’ is fiddler Paddy Canny’s brother Jack, who recalled both spontaneous and planned dances in East Clare in the 1920’s:

In the winter, on cold frosty nights, there was a fiddle-player called O’Malley, and we’d talk nice to him and we’d ask him to play for a set, and we’d dance a Clare Set to get the frost off our bones […] They used to have relations back from the States and we had a big party— sometimes they called it a hooley—which means that all the locals are invited and they take out all the furniture from the main room and it’s turned into a dancehall. And as soon as the musicians come in, they start playing and all the young people start dancing. The older people are in the back room, talking about different things, about the weather and politics and whatever, and all the local gossip. And all the younger ones, the young teenagers, they’d be all out dancing the sets and waltzes, and all the different dances that they could handle.


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Recorded sources : - Green Linnett GLCD 1155, Martin Hayes - "Under the Moon" (1995).Shanachie 78048, Jimmy Keane, Sean Cleland, Pat Broaders - "Bohala" (2002. Untitled barndance).

See also listing at :
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]



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  1. Helen O’Shea, “Foreign Bodies in the River of Sound”, Doctoral Thesis, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Victoria University of Technology, 2005, p. 83