Annotation:Duncormick Mummer's Jig

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DUNCORMICK MUMMERS' JIG. Irish, Single Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Duncormick is a village in the Barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford. An account of the Rathangan, Duncormick, mummers appears in the Dublin and London Magazine (vol. 1, No. 10, Dec. 1825, p. 447) written by one Mon Stafford, remembering the appearance of the mummers in his youth, some forty years prior. It reads, in part:

My father's house was the first they usually visited; and, on this occasion, the ould black oak table 'groaned with the weight of the feast'. Whiskey flowed in goblets brimming full, and the rich ales sparkled even through the opacity of the earthen bowls. But eating and drinking gave me little care; my time was always sufficiently occupied in laughing at the wit of Darby and Joan...(The Twelve Days of Christmas) was devoted to mumming, hurling and dancing. Every door stood open, and every table was covered with abundance."

Patrick J. McCall (co-author of the Feis Ceóil Collection) wrote a poem called "The Mummers of Bargy," describing the mummers visit:

Source for notated version: flutist and farm laborer John Ferguson (Rathangan, Co. Wexford) [Darley & McCall].

Printed sources: Daley & McCall (Feis Ceóil Collection of Irish Airs), 1914; No. 73, p. 33.

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