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Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?	Bars	8-bar phrase structure	Mode ?
Hornpipe	32	AABB	D Major

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).
~1972	10#2	[NaF 3] Na Filí. 3. Tomas O Canainn [Tomás Ó Canainn] (pipes, accordion, vocals), Matt Cranitch (fiddle), Tom Barry (whistle).
~1976	12#1	[KClns 1] Kathleen Collins. Traditional Music of Ireland. Kathleen Collins (fiddle).
~1976	11#2	[MMulc 1] Mick Mulcahy. Mick Mulcahy. Mick Mulcahy (accordion).
~1979	4#2	[DncOBrn] Donncha Ó Briain. Ceol ar an bhFeadóg Stáin. Irish Traditional Music On Tin Whistle. Donncha Ó Briain (whistle).
~1993	10#2	[JCnly 1] Johnny Connolly. An tOileán Aerach. Johnny Connolly (melodeon). For this tune: (D melodeon).
~1999	3#1	[JOH 1] John O'Halloran. "But Why, Johnny?". John O'Halloran (accordion). For this tune: (D melodeon), with Dermot Byrne (accordion).
2000	16#2	[NR] Charlie Piggott and Gerry Harrington. The New Road. Charlie Piggott (accordion), Gerry Harrington (fiddle).
2000	7#1	[MOR 1] Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh. The Nervous Man. Traditional Irish Music on Concertina. Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh (concertina).
~2007	13#1	[CAdz 1] Charlene Adzima. The Initiation. Charlene Adzima (fiddle, viola, vocals).
2008	11#2	[RedW] The Red Wellies. The Red Wellies. Claudine "Beanie" Odell (fiddle), Duncan Wickel (fiddle, pipes), Vincent Fogarty (bouzouki).
2008	14#1	[MSHtn 4] Matt and Shannon Heaton. Lovers' Well. Shannon Heaton (vocals, flute, whistle), Matt Heaton (vocals, guitar, bouzouki, bodhrán). For this tune: Shannon (flute), Dan (accordion).
2008	13#1	[RBys 3] Randal Bays. Dig with It. Randal Bays (fiddle, guitar, harp).
~2008	2#1	[BMcGrth] Brian McGrath. Pure Banjo. Brian McGrath (banjo, guitar, keyboards).
~2010	5#2	[GMrphy] Gráinne Murphy. Short Stories. Gráinne Murphy (fiddle).
~2010	4#1	[SODwyer] Seán O'Dwyer. Irish Trad Concertina from Beara. Seán O'Dwyer (concertina). For this tune: (G/D concertina).
~2013	5#2	[DPower 3] David Power. The Eighteen Moloney. David Power (B pipes).

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In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played after	On Albums
Leitrim Fancy	NaF 3
Scully Casey's	MMulc 1
Echo	JCnly 1
Mullingar Races	NR
Thomond Bridge	DncOBrn
McGlinchey's Hornpipe	RedW
Bill Flanagan's Birthday	GMrphy
Garden of Daisies	DPower 3

Played before	On Albums
Hogan's Pass	KClns 1
Walls of Liscarroll	JOH 1
Flowers of Edinburgh	MOR 1
Alexander's	CAdz 1
Poll Ha'penny	MSHtn 4
Rights of Man	RBys 3
Blackthorn Stick	BMcGrth
Madame Bonaparte	GMrphy
Fisher's Hornpipe	SODwyer

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 #207 in [CRE 1] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 1. [available]
As other #8 in [Ng] Alan Ng. Alan Ng's Transcriptions. [available]
As hp #4 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
As hp #5 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan. [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): 1963

Tune ID#2274 (Blackbird)

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Bibliography