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Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?	Bars	8-bar phrase structure	Mode ?
Double jig	32	AABB	E 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).
1939	15#1	[HG] Hugh Gillespie. Classic Recordings of Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. Hugh Gillespie (fiddle).
1978	2#1	[KKgn] Kevin Keegan. The Music of Kevin Keegan. Kevin Keegan (accordion). For this tune: with (banjo).
1987	28#1	[WmSullvn] William Sullivan. Traditional Irish Music. William Sullivan (accordion).
~1989	11#2	[PMrphy] Paddy Murphy. In Good Hands. Field Recordings from a Pioneer of the Irish Concertina. Paddy Murphy (concertina).
1994	2#2	[JDr 1] Joe Derrane with Felix Dolan. Give Us Another. Joe Derrane (accordion), Felix Dolan (piano).
2001	4#2	[IrHvst] Joe Derrane, Frankie Gavin, Brian McGrath. Ireland's Harvest. Joe Derrane (accordion), Frankie Gavin (fiddle), Brian McGrath (piano).
~2002	4#2	[BCw 1] Brian Conway. First through the Gate. Brian Conway (fiddle).
~2002	9#2	[BRny 2] Brian Rooney. Leitrim to London. Brian Rooney (fiddle, accordion). For this tune: (accordion).
~2002	12#2	[Fns] Feenish. Rabharta. P.J. Hernon (accordion), Marcus Hernon (flute, whistle), Don Stiffe (vocals, guitar, whistle).
2011	2#1	[DGrny 1] Dan Gurney. Traditional Irish Music on the Button Accordion. Dan Gurney (accordion).
2013	13#1	[Friel1] The Friel Sisters. The Friel Sisters. Anna Friel (flute, whistle, vocals), Sheila Friel (pipes, flute, whistle, vocals), Clare Friel (fiddle, whistle, mouth organ, vocals). For this tune: (D whistles).
~2014	2#2	[ECrn 1] Éilís Crean. The Lonesome Fiddler. Celebrating the Music of Eddie Kelly and the East Galway Irish Music Tradition. Éilís Crean (fiddle).

Goes Well with . . .

In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played after	On Albums
Apples in Winter	PMrphy
Knocknagow	JDr 1
Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part	IrHvst
Young Tom Ennis	BRny 2
House in the Glen	Fns
Up Sligo	BCw 1
Paddy Fahey's Jig No. 10	ECrn 1

Played before	On Albums
East at Glendart	HG
Cat in the Corner	KKgn
Paddy in London	WmSullvn
Butcher's March	IrHvst
Blooming Meadows	Fns
Jerry's Beaver Hat	BRny 2
Scotsman over the Border	BCw 1
Tay in the Bog	DGrny 1
Headwood Crossing	Friel1
Bríd Harper's Jig	ECrn 1

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 jig #9 in [Ng] Alan Ng. Alan Ng's Transcriptions. [available]
As jig #75 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.

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): 1939

Tune ID#384 (Contentment Is Wealth)

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