Annotation:Duke of Leinster (2) (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
DUKE OF LEINSTER [2], THE. Irish, Reel. G Major ('A' part) & A Dorian ('B' and 'C' parts). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'C (Carlin). Carlin's version comes from Michael Kennedy, a melodeon player from Covington, Kentucky, who was an elderly man in the mid-20th century. The liner notes to his 1977 June Appal album give:
Michael was born and raised on a farm near the village of Flaskagh, three miles northeast of Dunmore in North-East County Galway. Until emigrating to the U.S. he had never traveled beyond a ten mile radius of his home. At age 11, greatly inspired by the melodeon playing of two village girls, Maggie McGee and Winnie Dowd, Michael went to Dunmore and bought a melodeon for the equivalent of $1.50. He always played a one-row, ten-button melodeon in the key of G. Michael used to say, "There was never anybody as crazy for a melodeon as I was."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; p. 120, No. 202.
Recorded sources: Folkways 8847, Richard Carlin - "The Poppy Leaf" (1978. Learned from Grey Larsen)