Annotation:O'Connell's Welcome to Clare (1)
X:1 T:O'Connell's Welcome to Clare [1] C:Paddy Conneely (d. 1850), "The Galway Piper" M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:O'Neill - Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1913, p. 215) K:C E/F/|GEG G<cE/F/|GEG G<cA|GcA Gfe|edd dE/F/| GEG G<cE/F/|GEG G<cd|efe dcd|ecc c2:| |:e/f|geg c'ba|g/>a/g/f/e/d/ ecA|GcA Gfe|edd d2 e/f/| geg c'ba|g/>a/g/f/e/d/ ecA|Gfe dcd|ecc c2:|]
O'CONNELL'S WELCOME TO CLARE [1]. AKA and see "Teetotaler's Fancy (The)," "Teetotaller's Reel." Irish, Jig (6/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed (according to Francis O'Neill) in 1828 by the famous Galway piper Paddy Conneely (d. 1850), who was the source of many of the tunes of the Irish collectors Joyce and Petrie. O'Neill gives a substantial biographical sketch of Conneely in his Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1913, pp. 212-215). The tune was published in The Dublin Magazine (April, 1842, No. 13).
Conneely was much admired as a convivial musical companion in his hey-day, although he died in reduced circumstances during the Great Famine years. O'Neill remarks:
Although he had a wonderful repertory of Irish music, instead of firing away with some lively reel or still more animated Irish jig, he pestered [Irish collector George] Petrie, in spite of his intensely Irish nationality, with a set of quadrilles or a gallope such as he was called on to play by the ladies and gentlemen at the balls in Galway.
The tune was also entered in volume one (p. 170) of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman.
Words to the tune, printed in the Dublin Monthly Magazine (April, 1842), are sung to the 1st and 2nd measures and 7th and 8th measures of the first strain:
Long life to O'Connell, long life to O'Connell
Long life to O'Connell, the Member from Clare.
Success to O'Connell, success to O'Connell
Success to O'Connell, the Member from Clare.
Hurra for O'Connell, hurra for O'Connell
Hurra for O'Connell, the Member from Clare.
