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Fiddler Sean Ryan gave me this one in 1967. He claimed to have gotten it from Junior Crehan of Co. Clare. I haven’t heard anyone else play it except on an old reel-to-reel of accordion player Charlie Mulvihill with his son Tommy on fiddle and daughter Kathleen on piano accompaniment.
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