The Old Stage slide

This is the third slide from Jackie Daly on Patrick Street’s ‘Made In Cork’ CD:

The Midnight Ramble https://thesession.org/tunes/9831
The Bogman https://thesession.org/tunes/9834
The Old Stage

This tune is extremely like John Kelly’s Slide (https://thesession.org/tunes/2130) in the A part, but the B part is quite different.

Just been looking throuigh the excellent book "300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty’ by Lesl Harker, and came across a slide called "Ta Mo Mhadra", which is another version of "The Old Stage". An alternative title is given as "Poor Nancy Died".

On the Seamus Begley and Stephen Cooney album, "Meiteal," there’s a vocal part (in Irish) for the A section — very nice.

Similar first part (though down in Em/G), different second part.

…and it’s called here Billy O’Rourke is the Buachaill.

A version in Bminor, the key that this is played in by The Gloaming in The Opening Set.

https://thesession.org/tunes/4839
The only difference being whether it’s considered to be a jig or a slide. I thing that in the Hayes’ album (The Shored of Lough Graney) it’s meant to be a jig. They call it "Billy O’Rourke is the Buachaill".

Irish Tune Info gives a bit more information on alternate names and recordings. Apparently the oldest recording they know of is from 1933:
https://www.irishtune.info/tune/3382/

And here’s a Newfoundland variant, called Up The Southern Shore:
https://thesession.org/tunes/15546