Annotation:Miners of Wicklow (The)

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MINERS OF WICKLOW, THE ("Na Tocalaide Ua Cill-Mantain" or "Mianairea Cille Meanntain"). AKA and see "Lassie of Gowrie (The)," "Paddy O'Flynn," "Wicklow's March (The)," "Nolan the Soldier." Irish, Double Jig. D Major (O'Neill, Huntingdon): F Major (Bunting). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Bunting includes the tune as an air in his third volume, The Ancient Music of Ireland (1840), but it was first published in Glasgow by James Aird, in his first volume of Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs (1782).

Source for notated version: the playing partners of Chicago police Sergeant James Early and John McFadden, a piper and fiddler from adjoining counties in the province of Connaght [O'Neill]; the Irish collector Edward Bunting obtained the melody from "Macdonnell, piper in 1797."

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English and Irish Airs, vol. 1), 1782; No. 23, p. 9. Feldman, p. 231 (2nd tune, untitled). Bunting (Ancient Music of Ireland), 1840; p. 76. Holden (Old Established...), p. 6. Hughes (Gems from the Emerald Isles), London, 1867, No. 1, p. 2. Huntingdon (William Littens), 1977; p. 29. Levey (Dance Music of Ireland), volume I, 1840; p. 10. McGown (Repository of Scots and Irish Airs), c. 1800. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 50. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 995, p. 185. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1986; No. 210, p. 49. O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 102, pp. 148-149. Robbins, 1933; p. 56.

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