Paddy Fahey's Jig No. 1 - irishtune.info

Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?	Bars	8-bar phrase structure	Mode ?
Double jig	32	AABB	G Dorian

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).
1967	2#1	[PitS] Paddy in the Smoke. Martin Byrnes (fiddle).
1970	1.12#1	[MByrnes2] Máirtín Byrnes. The Inimitable Máirtín Byrnes. Máirtín Byrnes (fiddle, vocal).
~1972	12#2	[BHCMoher] Sean Ryan, Kathleen Ryan, Pat Lyons. Back Home to the Cliffs of Mohir [sic]. Sean Ryan (fiddle), Pat Lyons (accordion), Kathleen Ryan (piano).
~1973	A.9#1	[AClareSn] Willy Clancy and various. A Clare Session with Willy Clancy and Friends. Willy Clancy (pipes), presumably with Peadar O'Loughlin (flute), Jimmy Ward (banjo), Martin Talty, and others.
~1975	4#1	[PCt] Paddy Carty. Traditional Irish Music. Paddy Carty (flute).
~1978	4#1	[KB Cap] Kevin Burke. If the Cap Fits. Kevin Burke (fiddle).
1984	2.21#1	[MByrnes2] Máirtín Byrnes. The Inimitable Máirtín Byrnes. Máirtín Byrnes (fiddle, vocal).
~1989	9#1 (0:43)	[PMrphy] Paddy Murphy. In Good Hands. Field Recordings from a Pioneer of the Irish Concertina. Paddy Murphy (concertina).
~1991	11#1	[THayes] Tommy Hayes. An Rás. Tommy Hayes (bodhrán, percussion). For this tune: 1st time Mícheal Ó Súilleabháin (piano), then with Brian Dunning (flute).
1992	2#1	[MH 1] Martin Hayes. Martin Hayes. Martin Hayes (fiddle).
~1996	7#2	[ECottr 1] Eamonn Cotter. Traditional Irish Music from County Clare. Eamonn Cotter (flute).
~1997	5#1	[GL1] The Dance Music of Ireland. Jigs and Reels. Martin Hayes (fiddle).
2001	14#1	[LFJW] Liam Farrell and Joe Whelan. They Sailed Away from Dublin Bay. Liam Farrell (banjo), Joe Whelan (accordion).
2013	11#1	[LWard] Lisa Ward. Black Swan. Lisa Ward (fiddle).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played after	On Albums
Paddy Fahy's	BHCMoher
I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her	ECottr 1

Played before	On Albums
Castle Jig	MH 1, GL1
Whelan's Jig	PCt
Cliffs of Moher	KB Cap
Rakes of Clonmel	LFJW
Sliabh Bloom	LWard

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.
As tune #46 in volume 2 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As jig #17 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
On page 276 of [FaheyMH] Maria Holohan. The Tune Compositions of Paddy Fahey.
On page 299 of [FaheyMH] Maria Holohan. The Tune Compositions of Paddy Fahey.
As jig #97 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As jig #56 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan.

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): 1967

Tune ID#1505 (Paddy Fahey's Jig No. 1)

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Bibliography