Seán Ó Coinn’s fifty-one comments

This is practically the same setting as the setting in the Petrie collection of “The Moving Bog”, a version of “Rachel Rae” more…

This is taken from Roche, volume 1, page 1, where it is called “Éamonn an Chnuic (2nd setting)” more…

Duplication: https://thesession.org/tunes/9275: “Seán Dwyer’s” more…

Nobody has answered your question, Tim, in twelve long years, and I am afraid I cannot answer it either! This lady was Margot Jackson, according to the Wade MS, Co. more…

Different key, how are you! This is just a transposition up one tone of Joe Liddy’s composition, “Dawn of Hope Bridge” (Leitrim Fiddler, 2, 23) more…

Great to hear that, Brian. more…

This is one of many tunes that I got in manuscript form from the late Frank McCollam of Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, many years ago. more…

This is “Ca’ the strirks frae out the corn”: https://thesession.org/tunes/14700/33012?print=true more…

The Glen Collection has this reel as “Mrs. Crawfurd of Donside”, and gives J. Riddell as the composer more…

“I nGar do Shuí Finn” means “near to Seefin”. There are half a dozen Seefins in Ireland, several of them mountains. The two words in the Gaelic form of the place name mean “the seat of Finn (Mac Cumhail)”. So there you have it. more…