Paddy The Piper jig

I came across this unusual jig recently and it’s not on the site under this name, so I thought I’d share it. The last part goes into 9/8 which I couldn’t notate properly (though the code works on Easy ABC, so it could just need a tweek). Anybody heard it before?

Tell us more, where did you come across it?

It’s in ‘Sean Craig’s Tunebook’, a collection of session tunes based on recordings by Sean Craig at various Fleadhanna. Sean is a native of Antrim but has lived in the Isle of Man since the 1960’s and is a lover of Irish music.

The first edition was compiled by the late Tony Hopson and published in 1998. It’s impossible to get hold of now so I am transcribing it for a second edition which will include some tunes that didn’t make the first edition that Sean has given to me.

Because of these circumstances, I don’t know where this particular tune came from but will try to find more information on it.

The first two parts of this tune are published in “Riley’s Second Sett [sic] of Cotillions, Arranged for the Piano Forte”. Put out by Edward Riley (music publisher and purveyor of musical instruments) at 29 Chatham Street, NY in 1824. Riley adds a third part, still in 6/8, that is labelled MINORE and is in nominal Fmaj.

Source is from the Johns Hopkins library sheet music collection at https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/collection-pdfs/levy-015-114.pdf