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MICHAEL WIGGINS IN IRELAND. AKA - "Jig of the Twenties." English, Jig. C Major (Hardings): D Major (Merryweather & Seattle). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Hardings): AABBCC (Merryweather & Seattle). The melody was printed in Thomas Preston's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1801 (London, 1801, No. 9), John Paff’s Gentlemens Amusement No. 2 in New York c. 1812, and in Edward Riley’s Flute Melodies (New York, 1814). Perhaps the "...in Ireland" part of the title parallels the "Morgiana" tunes (e.g. "Morgiana" and "Morgiana in Ireland" with "Michael Wiggins" and "Michael Wiggins in Ireland." Instructions for a dance called Michael Wiggins in Ireland were printed in dancing master Thomas Wilson's The Treasures of Terpsichore; or, A companion for the ballroom (London, 1816). The tune appears in the music manuscript book of William Tildesley, Swinton, Lancashire, dating from the 1860's, and a similar tune likewise appears in John Clare's (Northants) manuscript under the title "Micheal Wiggens."

Cape Breton fiddlers Andrea and Kinnon Beaton recorded the tune as "Jig of the Twenties", in C Major, probably learned from a Harding's All-Round Collection reprint.

Source for notated version: an MS collection by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].

Printed sources: Harding's All-Round Collection, 1905; No. 19, p. 6. Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddle of Helperby), 1994; No. 71, p. 46. Preston (Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1801), 1801; No. 9.

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-'''MICHAEL WIGGINS IN IRELAND.''' AKA - "Jig of the Twenties." English, Jig. C Major (Hardings): D Major (Merryweather & Seattle). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Hardings): AABBCC (Merryweather & Seattle). The melody was printed in Thomas Preston's '''Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1801''' (London, 1801, No. 9), John Paff’s '''Gentlemens Amusement No. 2''' in New York c. 1812, and in Edward Riley’s '''Flute Melodies''' (New York, 1814). Perhaps the "...in Ireland" part of the title parallels the "Morgiana" tunes (e.g. "Morgiana" and "Morgiana in Ireland" with "Michael Wiggins" and "Michael Wiggins in Ireland." Instructions for a dance called Michael Wiggins in Ireland were printed in dancing master Thomas Wilson's '''The Treasures of Terpsichore; or, A companion for the ballroom''' (London, 1816). The tune appears in the music manuscript book of William Tildesley, Swinton, Lancashire, dating from the 1860's, and a similar tune likewise appears in John Clare's (Northants) manuscript under the title "Micheal Wiggens."
+'''MICHAEL WIGGINS IN IRELAND.''' AKA - "[[Jig of the Twenties]]." English, Jig. C Major (Hardings): D Major (Merryweather & Seattle). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Hardings): AABBCC (Merryweather & Seattle). The melody was printed in Thomas Preston's '''Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1801''' (London, 1801, No. 9), John Paff’s '''Gentlemens Amusement No. 2''' in New York c. 1812, and in Edward Riley’s '''Flute Melodies''' (New York, 1814). Perhaps the "...in Ireland" part of the title parallels the "Morgiana" tunes (e.g. "Morgiana" and "Morgiana in Ireland" with "Michael Wiggins" and "Michael Wiggins in Ireland." Instructions for a dance called Michael Wiggins in Ireland were printed in dancing master Thomas Wilson's '''The Treasures of Terpsichore; or, A companion for the ballroom''' (London, 1816). The tune appears in the music manuscript book of William Tildesley, Swinton, Lancashire, dating from the 1860's, and a similar tune likewise appears in John Clare's (Northants) manuscript under the title "Micheal Wiggens."
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