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DUKE GORDON. AKA and see "Lord Gordon's Reel," "Tiarna Gordon," "Duke of Gordon's Favourite (2) (The)," "Duke of Gordon's Rant (The)," "Waterloo Reel (3) (The)," "Rocks of Antiluce (The)," "Pride of Kildare (3) (The)," "My Heart with Love is Breaking," "Scotch Rose (The)," "Scotch Patriot's Reel (The)," "Rakes of Drumlish (The)." Scottish, Irish, Reel. The melody was published in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1778 as "The Duke of Gordon's Rant," however, an older title is "Bod 'Na Sheasamh/Bohd na Hesudh," published more than twenty years earlier by Scottish cellist-composer James Oswald. Uilleann piper Seamus Ennis played a version of the tune, says Neil Mulligan, which he had from his father, who learned it from the famous piper and reed-maker, Pat Ward of the Black Bill, Drogheda.

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Recorded sources: CCE Néillidh Mulligan - "The Leitrim Thrush."

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