Annotation:Dwyer's Hornpipe (1)

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DWYER'S HORNPIPE [1]. AKA and see "Corney Drew's Hornpipe," "Fitzgerald's Hornpipe (2)," "Teresa Halpin's Reel." Irish, Hornpipe (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. "This was a great favourite as a dance tune, and I learned it in boyhood from pipers and fiddlers" (Joyce). Joyce was born in 1827 in Glenosheen, Limerick, near the Cork border. O'Neill prints a variant under the title "Corney Drew's Hornpipe" and another variant can be found as "Teresa Halpin's Reel" in Frank Roche's first collection of traditional Irish music.

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Printed sources : - Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 40, pp. 22-23.

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