Cuckoo's Nest (14) (The)
X:1 % T:Cuckoo’s Nest [14], The M:C L:1/8 R:Hornpipe S:D. Darby Kelleher S:P.D. Reidy music manuscript collection, London, 1890’s (No. 34) N:”Professor” Patrick Reidy of Castleisland was a dancing N:master engaged by the Gaelic League in London to teach N:dance classes. He introduced “Siege of Ennis” and “Walls N:of Limerick” ceili dances and wrote a treatise on dancing. N:Reidy's source, Daniel Kelleher, was variously said to have been N:from Castleisland, Sliabh Luachra region, County Kerry, or from N:the native-Irish speaking region of Achadh Bolg, Múscraigh, in N:County Cork. Reg Hall (2017) also found a reference to Kelleher N:as one of the soloists who accompanied step dancing exhibitions N:at Gaelic League events in London between 1897 and 1901. According N:to Hall, Kelleher was a young fiddle player active within the N:Gaelic League. His name is attached to thirteen tunes in Reidy's collection. F: http://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/digital/bookreader/MSE_1434-1/#page/1/mode/1up Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Dmix (FG)|Addc defe|dcAG A2 (AB)|cBcA cdfe|dcAF G2 (AG)| FGFE DAFA|dcAF GBAG|FAFD EFGE|F2 D2 D2:| |:(FG)|AFDF AFDF|AGFE D2 (EF)|GFEF GFEF|GFED [C2c2] (AG)| FGFE DGFA|dcAF GBAG|FAFD EFGE|F2 D2D2:|]
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