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DONEGAL BOYS. AKA and see "Eileen Curran's (2)," "Groves of Mt. Talbot (The)," "I Wish I Never Saw You," "Magic Slipper (1)," "Maud Millar (2)," "Maude Millar (2),"Montua (The)," "Morrison's Reel (2)," "Mrs. Smullen's," "My Love is Fair and Handsome (1)," "Paddy McFadden's (1)." Irish, Reel. The name Donegal is Gaelic for 'castle of the strangers.' Printed in Ryan's Mammoth Collection of 1050 Reels and Jigs, (p. 51) 1883, but dropped when the edition metamorphasized into Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes, 1940. Appears in The Devil's Box, vol. 21, No. 4, Winter 1987, p. 48.

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Printed sources: Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 51.

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