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X:1 T:John McGuire M:3/8 L:1/8 R:Air Q:"Moderato" B:J. Clinton – Gems of Ireland:200 Airs (1841, No. 108, p. 54) N:Irish-born John Clinton was a flute player and teacher at the N:Royal Conservatory, London. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G (B/c/)|(d>e).d|(dB).g|e2 (d/B/)|(A2G)|G2||(3d/e/f/|(g>f).g| (ef).g|(af).d|(e2d)|d2||(3d/e/f/|(g>f).g|(ef).g|(af).d| .e2.f|g2||(B/c/)|(d>e).d|(dB).g|.e2 (d/B/)|{B}(A2G)|G2||



JOHN McGUIRE. AKA - "John MacGuire." AKA and see "James My Thousand Treasures (1)," "McGuires Lament," "Táiliúir an mhagaig/Mocking Tailor (The)." Irish, Air (3/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. The air (as "John MacGuire") was also entered into Book 2 of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork uilleann piper and Church of Ireland cleric wikipedia:James_Goodman_(musicologist). Hugh and Lisa Shields[1] note that the air is one of the airs commonly used for the song “Siubhán Ní Dhuibhir,” and they find a cognate melody as "McGuires Lament" in O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes, vol. 4' (p. 100). The Shields also find cognate tunes in “Mártan na glóire" and O'Neill's "James My Thousand Treasures (1)"/"Séamus mo mhíle stór" (Music of Ireland, 1903, No. 442)


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Printed sources : - J. Clinton (Gems of Ireland: 200 Airs), 1841; No. 108, p. 54. Smollet Holden (Collection of favourite Irish Airs), London, c. 1841; p. 1.






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  1. Hugh & Lisa Shields, "Annotated index of All four volumes of the Goodman collection in the order of the manuscripts", ITMA [1]