Jack O’Neill’s Fancy hornpipe

This tune appears in O’Neill’s Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody, 1922, no. 335.

How long have you been playing it? Do they play it at your local session? Are we going to get the whole book? Why?

No, Nigel, you’re not going to get the whole book, although I don’t think a lot of people have it. I just select tunes I find interesting to post here. I do like traditional music very much, and that’s a way to share tunes.

If anyone does want the whole book it’s available here in ABC

(Intro) http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/oneills/waifs/Intro.html

(Listed by number) http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/oneills/waifs/X/

(Listed by title) http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/oneills/waifs/T/

Apologies, moxhe and the session.org; I’d had a hard day and I had no right to question anyone’s reason for posting a tune. You are, of course, entitled to post anything, and long may we benefit from your passion. I too love traditional music, and old dusty books, and I live in hope that one day we may meet and play music together.

OK, Nigel, thanks. Apologies accepted. Unfortunately, I don’t plan to go to Scotland at the moment.

From Brian Conway and Tony DeMarco’s “The Apple in Winter.” According to another thread, Jim Coleman was Michael’s brother, and a flute player.

An Scuabaire from CRE3.216, which is a very different setting but essentially the same tune. (It translates as The Sweep’s, but that name is attached to another H/P.)
Hugh Gillespie played (and likely named) Parker’s Fancy. His setting was closer to O’Neill’s. I have heard other recordings of this tune, but where? So I suspect this tune may already be here despite my checks.

See https://thesession.org/tunes/14970 for another setting

The Traditional Tune Archive entry for this tune shows what they say is an authenticated photo of Jim Coleman:

https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Jim_Coleman%27s_(5))

I had to add the extra parenthesis to the link for it to work.