Annotation:Pride of Rathmore (The)
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PRIDE OF RATHMORE. AKA and see “Considine's Grove{s},” “Cronin of Kerry,” “Dinny Ryan's,” “Game of Love (The),” “Girls of Farranfore,” “Gneevguilla Reel (The),” “Kerryman's Daughter (2) (The),” “Miss Brady,” “Paddy Cronin's Reel (2),” “Rabbit's Burrow.” Irish, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Martin Mulvihill attributes the tune to one-time Bronx fiddler Paddy Cronin, originally and lately from County Kerry. See also the related “Game of Love (The)”/Girls of Farranfore (The)" family of tunes; cognate, but distanced. The tune was called "Pride of Rathmore" on fiddler Máire O'Keeffe's 1994 recording.
Source for notated version: Ann Sheehy {McAuliffe} (Castleisland, County Kerry) [Mulvihill]; fiddler Mrs. Murphy (Cork) [Breathnach].
Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 290, p. 147 (appears as “Gan ainm”). Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 189, p. 51.
Recorded sources: Copely EP, Paddy Cronin (c. 1950’s). Gael-Linn CEFCD 165, Maire O'Keeffe – “An Cóisir/House Party” (1994)
See also listings at:
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info [2]