Annotation:John Carey's Daughter
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JOHN CAREY'S DAUGHTER (Ingean Sean/Seagain Ui Ciarda). Irish, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Carey was a native of Limerick who contributed a few tunes to the O'Neill collections at the start of the 20th century (see "Pipe on the Hob (1)", for example). However, he is not mentioned in O'Neill's Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1913).
Source for notated version: "J. O'Neill" [O'Neill]. Chicago Police Sergeant James O'Neill was a fiddler originally from County Down. He had formal musical training and a large store of tunes, and served as Francis O'Neill's transcriber and collaborator on his early volumes.
Printed sources: O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; pg. 211. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1757, p. 327. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 929, p. 159.
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