Annotation:Pride of Rathmore (The)

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PRIDE OF RATHMORE. AKA and see “Considine's Grove{s},” “Cronin of Kerry,” “Dinny Ryan's,” “Game of Love (The),” “Girls of Farranfore,” “Gneevguilla Reel (The),” “Kerryman's Daughter (2) (The),” “Miss Brady,” “Paddy Cronin's Reel (2),” “Rabbit's Burrow.” Irish, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The earliest version of the tune would see to be R.M. Levey's "Miss Brady," followed by O'Neill's "Consodine's Grove." Martin Mulvihill attributes the tune to fiddler Paddy Cronin, originally and latterly from County Kerry, but a resident of the Bronx for many years. The tune was called "Pride of Rathmore" on fiddler Máire O'Keeffe's 1994 recording, however, the “Rabbit’s Burrow” title for the tune is supposed to have come from fellow County Kerry fiddler Julia Clifford.

See also the related “Game of Love (The)”/Girls of Farranfore (The)" family of tunes; cognate, but distanced.

Source for notated version: Ann Sheehy {McAuliffe} (Castleisland, County Kerry) [Mulvihill]; fiddler Mrs. Murphy (Cork) [Breathnach].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 290, p. 147 (appears as “Gan ainm”). Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 189, p. 51.

Recorded sources: Copely EP, Paddy Cronin (c. 1950’s). Gael-Linn CEFCD 165, Maire O'Keeffe – “An Cóisir/House Party” (1994)

See also listings at:
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info [2]

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