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. The earliest version of the tune would see to be R.M. Levey's "Miss Brady," followed by O'Neill's "Martin Mulvihill attributes the tune to one-time Bronx fiddler Paddy Cronin, originally and lately from County Kerry. The tune was called "Pride of Rathmore" on fiddler Máire O'Keeffe's 1994 recording.
See also the related “Game of Love (The)”/Girls of Farranfore (The)" family of tunes; cognate, but distanced.
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]