Annotation:Lady O'Brien's Reel (2)
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LADY O'BRIEN'S REEL [2]. AKA and see "Honeymoon Reel (2) (The)," "Maid Who Left the Country (1)." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody appears in Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman's mid-19th century music manuscripts. Goodman (1828-1896) was an uilleann piper, and an Irish speaker who collected locally in County Cork and elsewhere in Munster. He also obtained tunes from manuscripts and printed collections.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Shields/Goodman (Tunes of the Munster Pipers), 1998; No. 96, p. 41.
Recorded sources:
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