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Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?	Bars	8-bar phrase structure	Mode ?
Reel	32	AABB	B Minor

Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc.

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Year Recorded	Track #Tune?	[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
~1971	B.2#1	[SMcGJB] Sean McGuire and Joe Burke. Two Champions. Sean McGuire (fiddle), Joe Burke (accordion).
1975	9#1	[BB 1] The Bothy Band. 1975. The First Album. Paddy Keenan (pipes, whistle), Matt Molloy (flute, whistle), Tommy Peoples (fiddle), Donal Lunny (bouzouki, vocals), Tríona Ni Dhomhnaill (harpsichord, bodhrán, vocals), Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (guitar, vocals). For this tune: opens with Tommy Peoples (fiddle).
1976	1#1	[BB 6] The Bothy Band. Live in Concert. Kevin Burke (fiddle), Matt Molloy (flute), Paddy Keenan (pipes, whistle), Peter Browne (pipes), Dónal Lunny (bouzouki), Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (vocals, clavinet), Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (vocals, guitar). For this tune: 1st time Kevin Burke (fiddle).
~1976	4#2	[ST KCF] Séamus Tansey. King of the Concert Flute. Remastered. Séamus Tansey (flute).
~1977	B.3#2	[CronBrk] Johnny Cronin and Joe "Banjo" Burke. Cronin and Burke. Johnny Cronin (fiddle), Joe "Banjo" Burke (banjo).
~1978	1#1	[CmA 1] The Coleman Archive Vol. 1: The Living Tradition. Tommy "Clogs" Gallagher (fiddle).
~1981	5#2	[ApW] Brian Conway and Tony DeMarco. The Apple in Winter. Irish Music in New York. Brian Conway (fiddle), Tony DeMarco (fiddle). For this tune: Brian.
~1998	1.5#1	[ESL 1] An Evening in Sliabh Luachra. Volume One. A Collection of Traditional Music and Song from the Sliabh Luachra Area. Matt Cranitch (fiddle), Donal Murphy (accordion).
~1999	19#2	[MtRd] The Mountain Road. A Compilation of Tunes Popular in South Sligo. Philip Duffy (fiddle), with Kevin Brehony (piano).
~2002	12#1	[BCw 1] Brian Conway. First through the Gate. Brian Conway (fiddle). For this tune: with Pat M. (fiddle).
~2012	1#1	[MiMulc] Michelle Mulcahy. Suaimhneas. Michelle Mulcahy (harp).

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In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played after	On Albums
Martin Wynne's	ST KCF, MtRd
Drag Her around the Road	CronBrk
International	ApW

Played before	On Albums
Cup of Tea	SMcGJB, CmA 1
Longford Tinker	BB 1, BB 6
Martin Wynne's	ApW, BCw 1
Turnpike Gate	ESL 1
Humours of Lissadell	MiMulc

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune considering only the indexed books, listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are musical matches to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

Listing of published transcriptions of this tune.
On page 54 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. [available]
As tune #17 in volume 2 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As tune #49 in [LPF] Eithne and Brian Vallely. Learn to Play the Fiddle with Armagh Pipers Club. [available]
As reel #139 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
As tune #31 in [DM 1] Dave Mallinson. 100 Essential Irish Session Tunes. [available]
On page 437 of [CITM] Fintan Vallely. The Companion to Irish Traditional Music. [available]
As reel #197 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As tune #147 in [Raff] Lesl Harker. 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty. [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering only the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1971

Tune ID#1224 (Martin Wynne's)

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Bibliography