Annotation:O'Mahoney's Hornpipe

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O'MAHONEY'S HORNPIPE (Cornphíopa Uí Mhathúna). AKA - "O'Mahony's." AKA and see "Callaghan's," "Clareman's Hornpipe," "Fáilte go h-Éirinn," "Hatter's Hornpipe," "Peter Wyper's (2)," "Prendiville's Hornpipe." Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.

Sources for notated versions: fiddlers Julia Clifford & Denis Murphy (Country Kerry, Ireland) [Breathnach, Bulmer & Sharpley]; set dance music recorded at Na Píobairí Uilleann, in the 1980's [Taylor].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ III), 1985; No. 225, p. 102. Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland, vol. 1), 1974, No. 68. Cotter (Traditional Irish Tin Whistle Tutor), 1989; 78 (as “The Clareman”). Taylor (Music for the Sets: Yellow Book), 1995; p. 14 (appears as "O'Mahony's").

Recorded sources: Claddagh Records CC5, Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford - "The Star above the Garter" (1969).