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HUMOURS OF AYLE HOUSE, THE (Pleireaca Caislean Na h-Aille). AKA and see "Boring the Leather (1)," "Come with Me Now," "Connaughtman (The)," "Down the Back Lane," "Kilfinane Jig (The)," "Shoemaker's Fancy (The)," "Tolladh an Leathair," "When You Go Home." Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). D Major/A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The "Connaughtman (The)," "Down the Back Lane," "Shoemaker's Fancy (The)", "Kilfinane Jig (The)", "Jimmy Doyle's Favourite Jig" and "Hills of Larraga (The)" are related tunes. See also related "Gan ainm" jig in Breathnach's Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. II (1976, No. 6). The tune, set in 'D' mixolydian mode, is also contained in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon James Goodman (vol. iii, p. 99) [1]. See also three untitled jigs collected by George Petrie [Stanford/Petrie, Nos. 964/6][1]. The index in O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland (1907) gives "Connachtman/Connaughtman (The)" as a supplementary title.[2].


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - The untitled jigs in Petrie's collection were obtained from another collector, Patrick Weston Joyce (1827-1914), who had one from a County Limerick piper, James Buckley, and another "from D. Cleary, Kilfinane"[3].

Printed sources : - O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 261, p. 58. Charles Villiers Stanford (Complete Collection of Petrie's Irish Music), 1905; No. 964, p. 245 & No. 966, p. 246.





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  1. ↑ Paul de Grae, "Notes on Sources of Tunes in the O'Neill Collections", 2017.
  2. ↑ ibid
  3. ↑ Denis Cleary was a fiddler from Kilfinane, County Limerick, from whom P.W. Joyce collected several tunes. Joyce himself played the fife, at least in his youth at school in County Limerick, and remarked, "I was the delight and joy of that school; for I generally carried in my pocket a little fife for which I could roll off jigs, reels, hornpipes, hop-jigs, song tunes &c., without limit" [P.W. Joyce, English as We Speak It, p. 158.
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