Annotation:Dooney Rock
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DOONEY ROCK. AKA and see "Seán Ryan's Jig (2)." Irish, Jig. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by fiddle and whistle player Seán Ryan (1919-1985) of Nenagh, County Tipperary. Ryan won the All-Ireland senior fiddle championship in 1955 and 1956. Dooney Rock is a limestone height in County Sligo overlooking the southern shore of Lough Gill, and is the setting for Yeat's poem "The Fiddler of Dooney." Breathnach's version is printed with two sharps which is probably a mistake, since the tune makes much more sense in the Dorian mode (one sharp). Breathnach attributes composer credits to Seán Ryan, and it appears in the book of his compositions issued by Brian Ryan called The Hidden Ireland, under Seán’s title for the melody, “Dooney Rock.”