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Ireland in olden days was a great exporter of newly ordained Catholic priests, who were sent to particular parishes or missions overseas. I suppose it was inevitable that some of the young men were followers of Irish traditional music and in some cases were players of the fiddle or flute. Priests like Father O’Flynn or Father Fielding are remembered with tunes. The jig here is an example and also a very well known tune from the early 1900s. It was collected by Francis O’Neill, who was a contemporary of Father O’Flynn.
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