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O'CONNELL'S WELCOME TO CLARE. AKA and see "Teetotaler's Fancy (The)," "Teetotaler's Reel." Irish, Jig. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed (according to Francis O'Neill) in 1828 by the famous Galway piper biography:Paddy Conneely (d. 1850), who was the source of many of the tunes of the Irish collectors Joyce and Petrie. O'Neill gives a substantial biographical sketch of Conneely in his Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1913, pp. 212-215). [File:conneely.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Paddy Conneely, from the Irish Penny Journal, 1840]]

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Printed sources: O'Neill (Irish Minstrels and Musicians), 1913; p. 215.

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