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Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?	Bars	8-bar phrase structure	Mode ?
Reel	32	AABB	A 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).
1929	20#1	[BFair] Ballinasloe Fair. Early Recordings of Irish Music in America. Neil Nolan (banjo).
1947	2#1	[GD] From Galway to Dublin. Early Recordings of Traditional Irish Music. Leo Rowsome (pipes).
~1949	26#2	[TaisLFid] Taisce Luachmhar (Valuable Treasure) - The Fiddle Album. Paddy Killoran (fiddle).
~1949	6#1	[TaisLFid] Taisce Luachmhar (Valuable Treasure) - The Fiddle Album. Patrick O'Sullivan (fiddle), Sean O'Sullivan (fiddle).
~1956	18#1	[POB] Paddy O'Brien. 1922-1991. Paddy O'Brien (accordion).
1961	2.21#1	[SltSdt] Seoltaí Séidte. Setting Sail. Joe Burke (accordion).
~1962	10#1	[JC] Joe Cooley. Cooley. Joe Cooley (accordion).
~1977	5#2	[DODnl 2] Danny O'Donnell. Ón tSean-Am Anall. Danny O'Donnell (fiddle).
~1979	2.14#1	[AWhyte] Aggie Whyte. Aggie Whyte. Aggie Whyte (fiddle). For this tune: with Peadar Ó Lochlainn (fiddle).
~1983	3#2	[JMcKllp] Jim McKillop, Josephine Keegan. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. Jim McKillop (fiddle), Josephine Keegan (piano).
~1989	17#1	[PMrphy] Paddy Murphy. In Good Hands. Field Recordings from a Pioneer of the Irish Concertina. Paddy Murphy (concertina).
~1993	5#3	[JKn 3] James Keane. That's the Spirit. James Keane (accordion).
~2002	5#3	[BCw 1] Brian Conway. First through the Gate. Brian Conway (fiddle). For this tune: with Andy (fiddle), Pat M. (fiddle).
~2005	16#3	[CDrny 4] Chris Droney. Down from Bell Harbour. Chris Droney (concertina).
~2008	4#3	[KBoyle] Kathleen Boyle. An Cailín Rua. Kathleen Boyle (piano accordion, piano).
~2009	10#1	[JWynn 2] John Wynne. Ar nós na Gaoithe. Like the Wind. John Wynne (flute). For this tune: (Eb flute).
2014	6#1	[LWard] Lisa Ward. Black Swan. Lisa Ward (fiddle).

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In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played after	On Albums
Master's Return	TaisLFid
Wise Maid	DODnl 2
Paddy Fahey's Reel No. 2	JMcKllp
Old Torn Petticoat	JKn 3
Silver Spire	BCw 1
Come West along the Road	CDrny 4
Ciaran O Raghallaigh	KBoyle

Played before	On Albums
High Reel	BFair
Maid of Mount Kisco	TaisLFid
Music in the Glen	GD
Moving Cloud	SltSdt
Twilight in Portroe	AWhyte
Navvy on the Line	JWynn 2
Journey by Train	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 #52 in volume 1 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
On page 189 of [FF] David Brody. The Fiddler's Fakebook. [available]
As reel #29 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
On page 15 of [M] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. 3rd Edition.
On page 20 of [M2] Phil Rubenzer. Midwestern Irish Session Tunes. Millennium Edition.

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): 1929

Tune ID#474 (Dawn)

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