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PAITI LEARY’S. AKA - "Peaití O'Leary's Jig." Irish, Jig. Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Paiti O’Leary was an uncle of source Johnny O’Leary, not remembered very fondly as he perpetrated excessive corporal punishment when a very young O’Leary transgressed and played the older man’s squeezebox when he was away.

Source for notated version: accordion player Johnny O’Leary (Slaibh Luachra region) [Moylan].

Printed sources: Moylan (Johnny O’Leary of Sliabh Luachra), 1994; No. 117, pp. 67-68.

Recorded sources: Gael-Linn CEF132, Johnny O’Leary - “An Calmfhear/The Trooper” (1989).