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I first heard this played by west Co. Clare fiddler John Kelly, whom I knew when I lived in Dublin. Later, when living in New York I again heard it played by fiddler Daniel Michael Collins, who gave it to me when I was in a needful state. The English translation of its Irish title is ‘The Ailing Boy.’
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