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Grainne's

jig

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.

This tune has been added to 19 tunebooks.

Also known as The Bridge, Kearney's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Fiddler's Fancy by Tommy Peoples
Ready For The Storm by Déanta
The Flooded Bridge by Patricia Clark And Simon Bacon
The One-Horned Cow by The Suffering Gaels
The Quiet Glen by Tommy Peoples
Traditional Irish Music In America: The East Coast by Various Artists
Tune For The Road by Laura Byrne

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Looks very like "Grainne's Jig" composed by Tommy Peoples but I'm not fully sure of this until Jeremy puts up the dots! This is one of the best jigs of all time!

# Posted on January 26th 2004 by Bannerman

I'd have to agree that this is Grainne's Jig by TommyP. And likewise, 'Bannerman', I would have to say this is one of my favourite jigs of all time.
See abc file from Norbeck - id = hn jig 284

# Posted on January 26th 2004 by Donough

Kearney's Jig

I recorded this at a session and was told that it was composed by the fiddler Sean Nugent,and named for the poet Felix Kearney.

# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd

Grainne's Jig

Thanks O'Dono for confirmation on the title. It's included on Tommy's CD "The Quiet Glen" (see http://homepage.tinet.ie/~logo/track.htm#t10) where he states that he named it after his youngest daughter. I originally got it from his "Fifty Irish Fiddle Tunes" book and accompanying tape many years ago - I believe Comhaltas still hold some of these in Monkstown. In deference to Tommy it would be nice to re-title this jig if possible.

# Posted on January 26th 2004 by Bannerman

Grainne's Jig

I've re-titled it.

# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd

Go raibh m�le maith agat Jocklet!

# Posted on January 27th 2004 by Bannerman

Grainne's Jig

It just goes to show that you can't always rely on what people tell you at sessions.

# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd

Duplicated here: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/488.

# Posted on March 1st 2006 by Dow

Ah...but who did compose it ? A third suspect...

Now here’s a wee dilemma. This jig is generally credited to Tommy Peoples, and indeed that was the name given to the tune when Kieran Crehan played it on the first LP recording by “The Reel Union” ,“Broken Hearted I’ll Wander”. It later became known as “Graine’s” jig, composed, allegedly, by Tommy Peoples. [ see above ].
The problem is this - Joe Derrane plays the first two parts of this jig on his “Return To Inis Mor” CD, and claims he wrote it in the 1950s.
According to the sleeve notes : “Back in the early to middle 1950s, I wrote the first jig on piano-accordion. Although untitled and never officially recorded, it was taped at a few local house parties and sessions. Imagine my surprise then, when I visited the home of “Moving Cloud” fiddler Manus Maguire in Scarriff, East Clare, popped a dub of this album into his tape deck , and heard him and Maeve Donnelly humming along to what they called “a great old jig”. Now named “Papa’s Joy”, it’s for my grandchildren : Ashley, Joey, Matthew and Robbie”.

So, who did compose it ? I do not believe that Peoples would ever deliberately claim composition of a tune he didn’t write, but is it possible that he inadvertently remembered Joe’s tune [ composed - allegedly - in the 1950s, remember ], and added a third part ?

# Posted on May 21st 2008 by Kenny