Annotation:Jolly Tinker's (4) (The)
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JOLLY TINKER'S [4], THE. AKA and see "'Jackson's Watering Tooth," "Round the World (2)." Irish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This version of the reel differs from O'Neill's "Jolly Tinker" in that O'Neill prints the second part of the Ryan/Cole version as the first strain of the tune, and the Ryan/Cole first part is not included at all. County Cork Church of Ireland cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman entered a version of the tune in vol. 4 of his mid-19th century music manuscript collection. The reel was also collected in the Slieve Gullion region of south County Armagh by the Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), a rector at Dromintee, who published a collection of over 100 tunes, mostly reels, in 1909 in an article entitled "Oriel Songs and Dances" in The Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society (vol. II, No. 2). Oriel [1] (now Oirialla), or Airgíalla, and Anglicizations, Oriel, Uriel, Orgiall, or Orgialla, was the name of an ancient Irish federation or kingdom largely in what is now the County Armagh, in the north of Ireland. Donnellan was enthusiastic about P.W. Joyce's then recently published Old Irish Music and Songs (1909), but found Irish music rather rare in his area.
The old people of Dromintee will tell you of the number and the skill of musicians who used to come to [nearby] Forkhill fair. I was told there used to be as many as thirty playing at it. They display an extensive knowledge of the names of songs and dance tunes, but cannot sing them. The reel known as “Black Haired Lass (2) (The)” No. 66 inf., seems to have been a great favourite with everyone. These facts point to a vanishing and disappearing musical culture.
Forkhill Fair, held on Michaelmas Day (Sept. 29th) was once the great horse and cattle fair, and festival of the area (St. Michael is the patron saint of horsemen).
Conor Ward and Fr. John Quinn find cognate tunes in Rev. Luke Donnellan's "Jackson's Watering Tooth" and Tommy Gunn's "Round the World (2)," and compare also with Goodman's "Tinker's Frolic (The)."
