ABSTRACT
Song or slip jig “Ni slaitin bhog bhaeth, na geag don chuilenn chas chuar” - Eoghan Rua O’ Suilleabhain - ’Twas no soft silly switch, nor a twig of knobb’d holly so short” Ch7 a b1 b2 a 22 See 1241
6717 TA MO GRADHSA AR AN ABHAINN My love is upon the river 38 James Fogarty (C), Tibroghney, Co. Kilkenny
Song “Ta mo ghradh-sa ar an abhainn” - “ My love is upon the river’ G7v or C7v a a || b a 20
6719 MAIRE NI MHACEADHA [Maire Nie Aodha] Molly Hewson 40 Betty Skillin (S), Blessington, Co. Wicklow, c. 1815
Song “Molly’s mild, modest, kind, chaste, divine, - a beauteous maid” Ah7 a1 a2 II b a2 JOIFMS 670
6718 LADY WRIXON - A Planxty by O’Carolan 39
_ — Carolan Planxty G7v or C7v a1 a2 || b ca2 12a DOSC169: SP 876
6720 LAN BHEODHA All alive 41 MS, c. 1750
Double jig A a b :||: c cb 18d8 See 1126
6721 COIS CUAIN MHUGHDHORNA Along the Moume shore [Co. Down] 42 Joseph Hughes (S), Co. Cavan
Vocal tune G7v a b :|| c d a b a :|| b a 118
6722 AS TRUAGH GAN PEATA AN MHAOIR AGAM I wish the shepherd’s pet were mine 43 Teige Mac Mahon (S), Co. Clare, 1853
Song or reel “As truagh gan peata ’n mhaoir agam” - “ I wish the shepherd’s pet were mine” C a a b b 11 JOIFMS 426 (I wish I had the shepherd’s lamb); HRSII 64
6723 d ’iMTHIGH MO GHRADH - TA MO CHROIDHE TEINN My lover has gone - my heart is sore 44 P. J. O’Reilly (C), Westport, Co. Mayo
Vocal tune C5v a1 b :||: a2 cb 14c8 MM1257 (There are flowers in the valley; Young Kate of Kilcummer)
6724 AN CAILÌN BAN The fair girl Patrick Coneely (S), Galway, 1839
6725 D’lMTHIGH SE ’g US D’lMTHIGH SE He’s gone, he’s gone 48 Dungiven, Co. Londonderry, 1837
Song “He’s gone, he’s gone, young Jamie’s gone” G(h6) a1b1b2a2 22 See Hugh Shields’ article: The history of “The Lass of Aughrim” in Irish Musical Studies ed. Gerard Gillen and Harry White (Dublin, 1990) cf. The lass of Aughrim in James Joyce’s story The Dead
Song “Seacht fichit bo bhaine gan amharus” - “ Seven score milchers, without doubt” C a b :|| c1 c2 a b (3-bar phrases) a :|| b a 208
Vocal tune C a a || b a 20 See 4142 cf. 2767
6726 CAILÌN A TIGHE MHÓIR The girl of the great house 51
Double jig C7v a1 a2 :||: b ca2 12a8
6727 BFHEARR LIOMSA AINNIR GAN GUNA I would rather have a maiden without a gown 52 Michael Joyce (S), Glenasheen, Co. Limerick
6728 Ö BHEAN AN TIGHE, NACH SUAIRC ESIN O woman of the house, is not that pleasant! 55a Teige Mac Mahon (S), Co. Clare
Song “Do chualasa sgeal a n-iar ’sa n-deas” - “ I have heard news from the West and the South” C7v a b e d a (23 )5 MM 1 25 cf. 6729
6729 6 *BHEAN AN TIGHE, NACH SUAIRC ESIN O woman of the house, is not that pleasant! 55b William Forde (C), Connaught 1846-7
Vocal tune C7v a b c dea (19)5 cf. 6728
6730 SUIGH ANNSO, A MÚIRNÍN LÁIMH LIOM Sit here, 0 Mumeen near me 56 Teige Mac Mahon (S), Co. Clare
Vocal tune G ab 3 cf. S P 1481
6731 NAME UNKNOWN [Derry air] 57 Jane Ross (C), Newtown, Limavady, Co. Derry
6732 LOCH AILLINNE Lough Allen [Co. Leitrim] 58 Itinerant Fiddler, Co. Leitrim
Vocal tune C5v(h4) a1 a2 || b ca3 12a RCTIM130 cf. 3330 See Anne Gilchrist “A new light upon the Londonderry Air”, JEFDSSI No. 3 pp 115-121; Hugh Shields “New dates for old songs, 1766-1803”, Long Room XVIII-XIX (Dublin, 1979) p.38, and Intro.
