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YOUNG FRANCIS MOONEY (Pransias/Proinseas Óg Ua Maenaig). Irish, Jig. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Bayard (1981) identifies this tune as a variant of "Lanigan's Ball." See also the related “Calendar (The),” “Finger the Shift.”

The title honors the first-born grandson of Chief Francis O'Neill (1848-1936). When he retired from office at the age of fifty-seven, there remained only four surviving daughters of his large family of five boys and five girls (three children succumbed to contagious diseases, the two eldest dying on the same day). O'Neill delighted in his grandchildren, however, his "stalwart grandsons, the Mooney brothers, Francis, James, William and Phillip, who have made their mark in the field of college althletics..."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 35. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 863, p. 160. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 123, p. 35.

Recorded sources: Shanachie 78017, Jerry O'Suillivan - "The Gift" (1998).

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