Annotation:Green Flag is Flying (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
GREEN FLAG (IS) FLYING, THE. AKA - "Green Flag (The)," "Green Flag Flying Before Us (The)." Irish, March (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Shields/Goodman, Stanford/Petrie): AABB (Cole, O'Neill). O'Neill (1913) lists this as one of the "splendid martial airs" of Irish music. The earliest appearance of the tune in print is in Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman's mid-19th century music manuscripts. Goodman (1828-1896) was an uilleann piper, and an Irish speaker who collected locally in County Cork and elsewhere in Munster. He also obtained tunes from manuscripts and printed collections.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 34 (listed as a reel). O'Neill (O'Neill's Irish Music), 1915; No. 97, p. 54 (March). O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1804, p. 339. Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 2), 1912, vol. 2; No. 348, p. 62 (listed as a March) {appears as "The Green Flag"}. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 60. Shields/Goodman (Tunes of the Munster Pipers), 1998; No. 251, p. 101 (appears as "The Green Flag"). Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 576, p. 145 {appears as "The Green Flag"}.
Recorded sources:
See also listings at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2]