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UNION HORNPIPE [2]. AKA and see “Bantry Bay Hornpipe.” Irish, Hornpipe. A Major (Roche): G Major (O’Neill). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The earliest appearance of the tune in print is in Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman’s mid-19th century music manuscripts. Goodman (1828-1896) was an uilleann piper, and an Irish speaker who collected locally in County Cork and elsewhere in Munster. He also obtained tunes from manuscripts and printed collections.

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Printed sources : - O’Neill (O’Neill’s Irish Music), 1915; No. 309, p. 153. Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol 2), 1912; No. 219, p. 13. Shields/Goodman (Tunes of the Munster Pipers), 1998; No. 502, p. 194.

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