Annotation:Mary O'Neill (1)
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MARY O'NEILL [1]. AKA - "Planxty Mary O'Neill." AKA and see "Carolan's Favorite Jig," "Horse in the Pound (The)," "Humors of Dublin (2) (The)," "Rutland Jig (The)." Irish, Air (6/8 time). D Mixolydian (Complete Collection): D Major/Mixolydian (Stanford/Petrie). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. Composed by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). The tune appears in the James Goodman manuscript (vol. IV, p. 1) as "[[Horse in the Pound (The)," and as "Carolan's Favourite Jig" in Stanford/Petrie (1905). Breathnach (1996) gives a County Leitrim title as "Rutland Jig (The)." Further afield the melody was printed by the Gows in their Complete Repository (1799, vol. 1, 36) under the title "[[Humors of Dublin (2) (The)."
Source for notated version: John Mulholland - "Collection of Irish Airs" (1810) [O'Sullivan].
Printed sources: Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 137, p. 97. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 981, p. 250 (appears as "Carolan's Favorite Jig"). Sullivan (Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper), 1958; No. 137, p. 175.
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