Coffin Ships (The)

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Composer/Core Source	Biography:Tommy Peoples
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	3 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	3/4
History
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Editor/Compiler
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Year of publication/Date of MS
Artist	Biography:Tommy Peoples
Title of recording	Quiet Glen (The), Gleann Ciúin (An)
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Tommy Peoples TPCD 001
Year recorded	1998
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COFFIN SHIPS, THE. Irish, Slow Air. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). Composed by Donegal fiddler Tommy Peoples. The title refers to the decrepit, often barely seaworthy, vessels that traversed the Atlantic during the Irish Potato Famine of the mid 19the century bringing refuges to North America. They were termed 'coffin ships' because of the wretched, overcrowded and unsanitary conditions that bred illness among those herded passengers already weakened by hunger. Tommy Peoples - "The Quiet Glen."

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R:Slow Air
M:3/4
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