Annotation:Eagle's Whistle (2) (The)
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EAGLE'S WHISTLE [2], THE (Fead an Iolair). AKA and see "O'Donovan's/O'Donovan's March." Irish, Air or March (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. P.W. Joyce (Ancient Irish Music, 1873) notes: "This was the marching tune of the family of the O'Donovans, who were anciently chiefs of the territory of Hy Fidhgheinte, a district lying west of the river Maigue in the county Limerick." Also see "Eagle's Whistle (3) (The)" and "Gol na mBan san Ár."
Source for notated version: "Taken down from the whistling of James Quain and of Michael Dinneen, both of Coolfree [Joyce]; piper and folklorist Seamus Ennis [Heymann].
Printed sources:
Heymann (Secrets of the Gaelic Harp), 1988; pg. 109.
Joyce (Ancient Irish Music), 1890; No. 53, p. 53.
Stanford/Petrie (The Complete Collection of Irish Music), 1905; No. 1424.
Recorded sources: Shanachie 78012, Joe & Antoinette McKenna – "The Best of..."